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'plain text' here includes encrypted non-hashed formats. Passwords should always be stored hashed so the original site (or any attacker who gets them) can get access to the password.

And if it's possible to automatically reverse the encryption, then it's not far off plain text.
I emphasize it because Git changed a lot my workflow since I use it. Before that I was a SVN user and I commit only once I finished a feature (or sometimes several features...) and I almost never did any branching either.
Perhaps that saying DVCS instead of Git would have been better.
Visa has the "visa verify" and it is a web service that basically asks extra security questions during authorization. That works online only. Relies on the merchant to provide the extra security.

Another thing is temporary one-use credit card numbers. My Discover card as that feature. Of course then it also relies on me to assess the risk of a merchant and go through the steps of getting that number.
That's true. Of course they could obfuscate to some extent but that might not be effective.

My point more is that if the government felt draconian enough they could easily hijack anything, if it's literally illegal to use a computer without government approved spyware installed then the best meaning license in the world can't help you.

They could also embed this in hardware device firmware instead.
What about those SOPA articles?
At first I wasn't sure what was going on, all I could see what blue. Turns out it defaults to 0͏° lattitude and 0͏° longitude. You should choose a more sensible default.
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Excellent knowledge of one of the dynamic object-oriented programming languages (Python, Ruby)

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You can make your point without resorting to insults. I was pointing that it can set the wrong expectation, as I understood it, having seen things such as the game disussed on http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2582457, which is in fact CSS only. Like I said, I think it's is an awesome demo. Out.
Had a similar experience with Dreamhost about 2 years ago. I sent them an email pointing out the insecurity of sending passwords in an unencrypted email, but they seemed to feel that their customers "appreciated" the ease of password recovery over security.
Reversible does not mean the same thing that symmetric does. Encryption, by definition, is reversible. If your algorithm is not symmetric, you will not be able to decrypt it with the same key as you used to encrypt it, but it would still be reversible. If it wasn't reversible, it would be data destruction (ie, Unix shred) or hashing (ie, SHA). "Reversible encryption" is a pleonasm.
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You are getting a lot of good advice here. I'd use it. The advice that is. As for the site, you know what worked, what hasn't and there's plenty of other holidays you can try to monetize. Letters to the Easter Bunny, perhaps?
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Not true in practice. The select statement is often tacked on to some other database query. To intercept login form responses would require the ability to run "real code" rather than just ask the database things.

The reality is that most programmers do not call eval("code from the user") but they often call sql_query("code from the user").
I agree a lot with the light/dark metaphor. I think a lot of these conversations, weather on HN or tv talk shows, are just bullshit being thrown back and forth to make everyone feel good. The elephant in the room is that Beauty is beauty because it's rare. If everyone where beautiful (consensus wise) it wouldn't be beautiful anymore. We would all normalize to it. Everyone is not beautiful. It doesn't mean they should be treated bad or different, but everyone's face isn't geometrically symmetrical, everyone doesn't have good lines, good skin, good body proportions, nice thick hair.

We call everyone beautiful despite most people being unattractive, because we ourselves, being imperfect, would like someone else to call us beautiful. Its the lie that keeps on giving.

Deep inside everyone sees someone else as ugly or unattractive but we don't want the world to see us as judgmental assholes so we bullshit each other and act like no one on earth is ugly. I always get a good laugh at the audience on Oprah who clap and cheer like crazy during before and after makeovers, and weight loss stories. "You look so beautiful Kelly! You look so much better Jennifer!" But then comfort other women who feel unattractive with "you're beautiful just the way you are"... I'm sitting there eating pizza laughing my ass off thinking, "Really?! You've all got 30 minutes of makeup on your face and you're telling her she's beautiful just the way she is.?! Had she walked out of the room, got a makeover, lost 40 pounds and walked back in, you'd all be cheering your asses off and teller her how much better she looks."... Tsk tsk Humans and their lies...
That's correct, but nitpicking.

For all I care (and I guess the down-voters in your case think similar) that's just the same thing, really.
If you can reproduce the plaintext in any way you're guilty of storing plaintext passwords. Arguing about the terms doesn't change the problem nor the perception in this humble author's opinion. The article is ~correct~, good enough, works for me.
Basically the answer to all of these questions is that it's easier to decode in the browser. A UTFGrid is just plain JSON, so we can just run it through JSON.parse(). PNG uses zlib compression, so we can get that benefit for free when sending gzip over HTTP. Here's some more design rationale: http://developmentseed.org/blog/2011/09/21/how-interactivity...
The title of the article is erroneous. The article talks nothing about "why placebos work". It merely reports a bunch of studies to highlight that they are effective.

I expected it to report the results of a study/studies that explain the physiological/psychological changes that occur in the brain that enable a placebo.
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This significantly understates the numbers because it doesn't include secondary transactions, which are increasingly common for founders and early investors.

This was most interesting: the median acquisition price is now $71M (up 77%) with 5.3 years to liquidity. Takes lots of time but potentially incredibly lucrative

The original release has better data: http://www.dowjones.com/pressroom/releases/2011/01032012-VCE...
What? I'm sorry, but what? The point of profilers is to find memory leaks and performance bottlenecks while disregarding the performance of the app with the profiler running.

Who cares if the profiler is making the app run slower. You aren't going to run it all the time in production!

If you can't find the memory leak or performance bottleneck, either you are doing something wrong or the profiler is not giving enough information. Getting a stack trace of where those byte[]'s are being created would be a good start.
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From the article: """That a person can unequivocally declare every other web framework in the world as failures – is just precious.""""

That a person cannot fathom that it's entirely possible that "we're (all) doing it wrong" is just priceless.

How about the CGI era? Should we have all stuck with that, still using CGI interfaces in whatever language? Yeah, all or almost all solutions at the time were DOING IT WRONG.

It's not even that uncommon. Take Java EE for another example. Almost all frameworks circa 2003-2006 were this bloated mess. Not only the official Sun EE frameworks but tons of libraries and additional third-party stuff was using the same bloated, messy, XML-laden, inefficient style. And they found out they were all DOING IT WRONG, and changed course.

In general, the response article is mostly smart-assy ill attempts at humor.
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> In all described cases only instructions in "Getting started" or demo video were followed, as every newcomer would do. It is quite possible, that there are some more advanced techniques, which lead to more satisfying results.

From experience in other languages, profilers are perfectly capable of pointing the source of leaks. It's what they're for. They can do so by displaying a weighted object graph (drilling from byte[], in this example, using back references), and by taking stack snapshots of some percentage of allocations.
I switched to Galaxy Nexus (from iPhone 3GS), where I ended up using Web apps over native apps. This is not only because the native apps tend to install costly background services that keep the phone awake, or because their Java UI without exception consumes more battery than their WebKit based equivalent, but also due to the really crappy user interface the native apps provide. The biggest trouble is with scrolling, which is jittery. I did not know about Android WebView, let's hope that native apps will start to use it for more fluid web interfaces, which, coming from Java myself, I'd say will also be easier to make (based on proper templates and libraries, e.g. Bootstrap, Modernizr, etc.).
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A lot of your life is supported by technology, small computers that run some software. If you don't have any control over those devices (e.g. like the iPhone), then a lot of your life is controlled by their creators. Some things you will not notice, like when your phone recommends you a restaurant. Some things might hurt you, like being monitored by a government (w/o the voluntary support from corporations controlling your device) in order to detain you if you speak against it.

Free software, as visioned by Stallman, is just a line of defense for your general freedom rights. And I disagree with you, the article is pretty clear on the matter.
This was my thought as well. While memory profilers tend to be fairly useless in my experience, disregarding them simply because they degrade the performance of your application (and really, 3-4x in the case of YourKit is astoundingly good) is silly. Heavy use of a debugger will also degrade the performance of your application -- should we not use debuggers, even when they're the right tool for the job?
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It uses a stereographic projection: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereographic_projection

I think what you're referring to is also known as stereoscopy.
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You say it's _unnecessary_ and "there's high chance of someone accessing the password". Under that premises, obviously, it's foolish not to use one-way hashing. Mine is that may provide value and there are sensible ways of mitigating the risk, miles away from accessing the data directly from your application, by using software and hardware designed and implemented by security professionals. That's all.
Reddit AMA with a software developer who has Tourette Syndrome
Article focuses on Android and Java ME trading places, but graph suggests an iOS vs Java ME tradeoff in October '11. Measurement error?
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What about the notion of using men to sell violence? Wrestling toys for kids, GI Joy action figures etc... This goes both ways. Both men and women are stereotyped.
It doesn't seem to be about software development mainly, but he mentions that he does development for a living, and posted a little about how his co-morbid ADHD plays a factor into things.

Thought it might be an interesting read for those in the community with similar issues.
You don't have to know only the tools to use, but to know how to use them. Looking only at histograms only tells you what fills the memory, not how it does it. Exploring the object tree in the heap dump and thread dumps are way more useful.

Last month we used VisualVM to get rid of the OutOfMemory errors and to decrease the run time of an application from >110 hours to 40 hours. We found that a big 3rd party library was keeping some kind of undocumented "undo history" of every action, that could not be flushed.
That's a compromised password for all intents and purposes.
#screwcable
CIA doesn't want people to know what code profiling is. I learned it in a supercomputing class. I was shocked Ticketmaster didn't do it at all.

I don't use the word "profiling" for heap issues.

Ticketmaster did do many performance monitoring things. This was 20 years ago.
It doesn't have to be extracted. It can be emailed prior to DB storage. That would actually be the straightforward way to do what FON is doing.
Did you really just say that 5.3 years is a long time?
"""In programming, pragmatism always beats dogma."""

Yes, but also computer science theory --which is mostly infallible domain specific mathematics--, always beats idiotic industry practices and ignorant dismissal of theory.

Pragmatism is: "2 + 2.0000000000001 = 4, for my purposes".

It's not: "2 + 2 = 5, theoretical dogma be damned"
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I think you're clutching at straws. 90% of scientific papers are published in English anyway, plus the study never said it excluded non-English papers. And the figures show that America dominates the most cited papers - it shows England, Canada and Australia doing fairly well but not really better than non-English-speaking countries. Sure you could remove some bias if you really tried... But we could also look at other metrics such as, say, what investors put their money in: like how the iShares ETF based on the S&P Global Technology Index concentrates a massive 77% of its holdings on US companies http://us.ishares.com/product_info/fund/overview/IXN.htm . Or basically just pay attention to the breakthroughs that get reported by the press: top ten discoveries of the decade, http://news.discovery.com/human/discoveries-of-the-decade.ht..., almost all American researchers; best inventions of the decade, http://www.inventhelp.com/Newsletter/2009_12/time-magazine-b... , mostly american companies; or look at pharmaceutical companies by country http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Pharmaceutical_compani... ; I mean I'm just picking the first such articles that pop up. You'll probably say that these are biased to Americans... but really, if you just pay attention to what gets reported in something like New Scientist (British publication) you'll see how much America contributes.

Plus, the counter points that people cite tend to be lone inventors who either left their home nation to set up shop in the US (or UK when it was the leader), or whose inventions/discoveries were not capitalised upon. Whereas America is full of not just great research, but the rise of entire industries that other nations can then participate in.
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buzziness, i like that :)
way too much buzziness in all IT fields nowadays
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Password issues aside, Fon is a scam by a con artist. Just stop using it...
As someone who worked in the systems division throughout the 90s, I've often found Raymond's history a bit odd.

"Windows 95" was originally "Windows 93" and explicitly wasn't going to have a new user interface. They wanted to maximize revenue and not force people to re-train. It slipped and slipped and slipped...

The UI was actually prototyped and built not on Windows NT, but Cairo -- the thing that was supposed to come after Windows NT 3.1. It also slipped and slipped and slipped...

Paul Maritz (now of VMware) thought it was a great idea to have lots of teams, under competing vice presidents, build overlapping systems technology that needed to remain compatible at the legendary Windows level.

So. Stupid.

It basically took until Windows 7 to get the mess he created straightened out.

The key shuffle had the Cairo UI developers -- but not the designers -- move from under VP Jim Allchin to VP Brad Silverberg's group. Design was managed by Joe Belfiore, a very junior guy with no design or UI design experience. Nobody wanted the job (interface was not respected then) and he manned up and took it. He's now VP over Windows Phone.

But this engineering team was sort of -- uh -- let's just say Allchin didn't really fight to keep them. The types of guys who never quite realize width is (x2 - x1 PLUS 1) resulting in everything from blurry icons to blurry images/faxes for a decade. Who then refuse to fix the bugs because they "don't see it and it would add risk to our ship date."

After Windows 95, these devs went on to build the first IE. Yet again in a mad "must ship" panic, again led by people with no visual or design experience, again under Silverberg. So that's where all the box model madness and "things just don't line up" nonsense started.
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I spent about a month in Sao Paulo on short notice so I spoke basically no Portuguese. Consequently, I found the city extremely difficult to navigate- both in terms of finding specific destinations and in the hunter/gatherer sense. I imagine big signs would have been of benefit to me since I understand pictures, logos, and studied Latin so I can comprehend way more in writing than in speech. Even large, indoor shopping centers are not obvious for someone in my position... how can you tell a shopping center from an office building when people aren't making huge purchases? I should also mention I didn't have a smart phone with me. I'm sure this move could not have been a net positive for business. Whether the trade off is worth it for locals is another matter entirely.
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OK, I understand.

As a side note, I send my PNG when needed in JSON (larger, with base64 encoding, I didn't try to make a comparison with ASCII art format) and I find that with getImageData getting the indexed colors is fast and easy. I was referring to bidirectional compression because PNG filter (applied before the deflate) uses the fact that pixels are often similar on both axes.

Of course, without a few tests and comparisons, I can't be sure I really gain in size, but I like to use the fact that my map is an image (faster to draw on the screen at some resolutions and image manipulation server side - my zero indexes are simply mapped to the transparent "color" as is common in most color palettes).

I have different constraints trough, as my map contains 3200x1600 pixels and not 64x64, so that I really need those compressions for instant display.
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You don't even need a stack trace per se, the profiler should show you where everything is rooted in memory, or you should at least be able to track it back item-by-item to see where they are being held for enough instances to get a general picture of where memory consumption is occurring.
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Which browsers does this work in? It's not loading at all in Firefox (3.6.24), and in Chrome (16.0.912.63), I get a vertical blue stripe on the page, with a few map controls that don't work (zooming out is broken). (Ubuntu for both browsers).