skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article has several ideas that are fundamentally flawed - but here's the most easily falsifiable one:

"What’s worse, a weak password, or a password that sits on your desk?"

Contrary to what is said in the article, a weak password is worse - no question. A password that sits on my desk is only available to people who break into my home. If they do that, they probably have access to other documents of some importance.

A password that is weak can allow anyone access to my account, from anywhere.
Mentally folding sections of code is easier with multiple returns- the code that satisfies the conditions established by the early return is just the rest of the function, rather than until the denesting point you have to look for.

RAII, GC, and/or try/finally solve the "error-proneness" of early returns, and in a language like C you can simulate that with a simple (good use of) goto.
Try doing a stochastic spread of the rays sent through each pixel, with attenuation based upon differences in the surfaces reached by the rays. I was able to create an adaptive raytracer with 4 test rays per pixel and up to 56 when adaptively needed. The speed gain is quite significant, with visual clarity equal to simpler renders requiring much more time.
What about joelonsoftware.com?
NYC - Live Entertainment Technology Industry

Hiring talented front end dev. Medium size company building startup esque apps, very closely knit dev team (about 6 of us). Informal, laid back yet fast paced, you can rock jeans to work.

Javascript, jQuery, CSS, HTML, Controller-to-View with a scripting language (Pref Perl) Some DB (NoSQL) and an aesthetic sense.

We're doing some pretty cool stuff. You'll be working along side some very cool people entrenched in both the startup and respective technology communities.

Email (in profile) with interest.
Yes, because IBD knows all there is about cool.

(starting with naming their news outlet the same initials as "Inflammatory Bowel Disease").
you must be thinking of the original filevault that encrypted each user's home directory separately.

filevault 2 in lion is true full-disk encryption, and the passphrase must be entered at boot. once it is decrypted, no application should even be able to detect (or rather, care about) the presence of encryption.
I'm running Linux everywhere, and Snow Leopard on my MacBook. I find the MacBook a bit slow at time (mostly because of the 2GB RAM I guess). I still use an ancient Athlon64 single core with 1GB as my main desktop, though :)
If the blackhole pulls harder on the earth than the basketball pulls the earth, the earth also pulls harder on the blackhole than the basketball
Essentially, it was hardly ever a business model, unless you consider not making any money at all an actual business.
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One day all conferences will be made like this. Until then, Steve and Allan are the top boys.
Nice promo video ... LessConf is enjoyable because it really does focus on making sure that all attendees have a memorable time. Besides learning a ton from speakers, you make a lot of great friends and feel really taken care of.

It is the only conference that I have attended where I was sad it was coming to a close.

Give it a go ... it is hosted at a great location and worth much more than the small amount of money it costs to attend. Steve and Allan do a great job.
How many days in a row do you tend to fast for or is it something you just do now? I have started doing it and have found it not to be as difficult as I thought it would be.

For me, trying to eat 5-7 small meals a day is like asking an alcoholic to go to a bar 5-7 times a day but only order Pepsi. Also, people were always telling me that I should eat a good breakfast and lunch so that I wouldn't be as hungry at dinner time but that's not how it turned out for me. I ate the same amount at night regardless of what I ate before.

From a compliance stand point it has worked well; even though I don't eat during the day, I don't eat any more than usual at night. I do get some hunger pangs around 11 but they go away after a little while. It also feels good to be able to exert some control over a part of my life that I have struggled with.
Is there an option to turn it on by default for every comment thread?

You could build this into something resembling the Reddit Enhancement Suite for Chrome...
I'm giving away my project - do you wanna have it?
In illustrated fashion: http://xkcd.com/936/
Fair enough, I didn't really think that comment through.
I have the european Galaxy Nexus and the battery consumption is disastrous. We are lucky that Ice Cream Sandwich provides somewhat detailed battery usage logging. Thanks to it, the native Facebook app was the first thing I deleted, because it was running battery-expensive background services even with all notifications turned off. Also what's up with the horribly jittery scrolling in some Android apps, one of them being the native Google Reader? I'm coming from iPhone 3GS and I never had issues with battery nor scrolling. That said, Galaxy Nexus is still better.
I would suggest MongoDB
> FDE is going to be a much smaller hit than say anti-virus software.

But I don't run any anti-virus, this is even one of the good reasons why I stopped using windows aeons ago. I tried LUKS with AES a few years ago, and though the performance was good it comes with a really significant hit.
ah yes I agree
We use all kinds of cool tools (maybe we should put them all on the site somewhere?), but we use python mostly. We love python!
I think that's the same as StackOverflow Careers.
I wonder if they even noticed a bump in donations after they spoke out against SOPA (with the reddit donation thread and all)
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New law requires all restaurants in Malaysian city to provide Wi-Fi
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Sorry, but I have to disagree with many of your suggestions.

1. Log in from the home page: This would require the bank to serve its home page from https, including a redirect from http for every visitor, in case he or she wants to log in.

2. 4-digit passcodes: You're missing the key point about your ATM login -- it's only secure because it combines something you have (your ATM card) with something you know (your PIN). If everyone's login is a 4-digit number, then if I have a list of 10,000 users of your system, it would be trivial for me to compromise at least one account (not of my choosing) without even resorting to multiple login attempts.

3. Setting all login ID's to users' email addresses: This just removes more entropy from the login security process, since I now know that logins come from the set of valid email addresses. For any individual user, I now know their login with a high degree of certainty.

4. API: Do you think that banks really want to circumvent their security measures by allowing third parties to hold keys to the front door, even if the proverbial vault is locked?

All that said, I do agree that there are things that could be improved: making the login button front-and-center, so I don't have to guess where to find it; giving better choices for exporting financial data. But, you've got to realize that banks (online and offline) are prime targets for criminals, and that in some ways user experience has to take a back seat to protecting assets.
I am so sick and tired of all of these misinformed blog articles and comments about clean food versus unhealthy food. Good calories versus bad calories. Do these writers even know what a calorie is? It isn't intrinsically good or bad.

If you're eating 6,500 calories per day in lean meats, fish, nuts, vegetables and fruit, I absolutely guarantee you will become fat without rigorous physical activity.

Calories in/calories out is what matters when it comes to weight. If your concern is cholesterol or blood sugar, on the other hand, your diet and genetics play a huge role in that.

Let's not forget about the teacher who ate nothing but Twinkies and cupcakes for several weeks and lost a tremendous amount of weight and lowered his cholesterol.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/11/08/twinkie.diet.professor/...

Now, I'm not suggesting that anyone go on a Twinkie diet, but the biggest takeaway from what that professor did is that the amount of calories you consume is important when it comes to weight loss, and subsequently lowering cholesterol.
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The view of the customer is the one that counts. Don't get me wrong, I really like what you've all done here. I'm just trying to understand it better thats all. All the downvotes imply to me that I'm not communicating well this morning ;-)
Another suicide?
He mentioned login attempts in the article. Someone tries the wrong password more then a few times and the account gets locked. That should thwart any and all dictionary/brute force/you name it attacks. So which is more secure, an impossible to accomplish remote attack, or a password sitting on your desk?

Bank password polices are retarded. I currently have one that requires 6 characters. No more, no less. This may be the worst offense I've seen but it doesn't excuse the other bullshit that passes as secure or acceptable in the banking arena. These guys need help.
changed color scheme... tightened up the design... can you tell me your specific issues with the design?
It's not reliable. Think /tmp (deleted temp file data can be recovered), hibernate/swap, log files, and so on. And OS can be more easily tampered with undetected (rootkits/keyloggers etc).
If only, if only! Well good news for you, 99% of the work has been done by others, by decades of validating or falsifying theories and suspicions, measuring anything from calories to hormonal changes, all the combinations of various exercise levels and diet etc. and so on and so forth.

Now all you have to do is decide whether the quality-of-life for your next few decades is worth the trouble of doing a bit of reading, such as half an hour a day for a few weeks or so... and trying the game challenge of seeing if and how much you can affect change in your home-grown lifestyle habits, you know, just for kicks.
Python can't become static with optional invokedynamic; static typing has to be built from the start. For example, the % operator can't be typed. Optional typing I've seen in Perl, and again it seems like boilerplate for no benefit.
How not Supporting IE7, is actually Supporting IE7
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Debian (and thus Ubuntu I assume) still uses static linking of haskell. I hope this will change though. I think the issue is finding a way to avoid breaking binaries when haskell libraries are upgraded, since they don't have sonames like regular libraries do.
Launch to who? To press? To end users? You should ideally not have anything called a "launch" at all. Start showing the prototype as early as possible to potential users and refine it along the way. There is no golden launch season. It's a process, not an event.
And I'm picking nits now, but the door hanging copy:
"Please hang on your bedroom door so I know which room is yours when I visit on Christmas Eve!" - Santa [Giant Scary Bearded Man]

The stockings are hung by the chimney... why exactly do you need to know where I sleep? :p
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I think that if it is less than $600 per person per year, you can just give cash and there is no record keeping necessary.

But for something like this to work, you'd need to have some type of centrally administered place. I'm not sure what the issues would be with giving someone food for work.
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Does anyone have any thoughts on Apple's File Vault? I assume the crypto is perfectly fine, but I worry about bugs destroying my data.
I do agree with your general premise. Most health advice is too complex, and it can all be boiled down to: eat whole foods, mostly veggies. If you must eat processed, the less ingredients the better.

A lot of the confusion also has to do with people treating their diet as religion. Also, there's a lot of misinformation from the government (the normal Food Pyramid is the worst thing to follow if you need to lose weight), and as a result lots of conflict with popular wisdom. As such, when someone gives advice that is different from the norm, people immediately shoot it down as just a fad.
I went to UNT as well (not for music) and I'm still in Denton and work remote from here, not because it's a great tech hub but because of the music scene and culture I want to raise my kids in.

A good number of the best coders I work with right now are fantastic musicians, including Chad Fowler who is a phenomenal sax player, and another senior dev on my team who is a superb UNT-trained jass pianist. We talk about this all the time -- so many good coders are also musicians.

Great story about Knuth, I was never aware of that quote!
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Apparently FileVault has been much improved in OS X Lion: http://www.maclife.com/article/howtos/how_use_filevault_and_...
The obligatory XKCD quote: "These are your father's parentheses." http://xkcd.com/297/ ;)
Try the Startup Guild

http://startupguild.net/
"How many days in a row do you tend to fast for or is it something you just do now?" -- have been doing this on a daily basis since 2nd October 2011 (so exactly 3 months now), never broke the fasting pattern I described above so far. I went from 5-7-meals-a-day frequent-feeding to intermittent fasting "cold-turkey" -- although the only real change is how your meals are timed. Do you spread them over the course of 16 hours ("normal" eating) or 4-6 hours (intermittent fasting) per day.

Note this is not a health hazard as long as daily nutrient and caloric needs are met every day.

Working out daily in a fasted state, starting the feasting-phase as soon as possible after the work-outs.
I definitely would like to try this. Can you send me a link to it? vzhou218@gmail.com
I see. I never have that problem because when I C-S-<Backspace> and put my cursor at the beginning of the line I want to paste it retains indentation level fine.

edit: What version of emacs are you using? Are you using python.el or python-mode.el for editing Python? python.el handles try/except, if/else, etc., etc., indentation pretty marvelously.

edit2: If you'd rather talk about this out-of-band I'm on freenode as mdeboard or my email address is in my profile.
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I think you've missed the point.

It's not sufficient to let the user decide how much security they should have. It won't protect the banks from the expectations of security placed on them by others, however unreasonable that might seem.
I would add in the forrst job board as well
Given 28 and male it is equally likely he died of road fatality, suicide, poisoning or a violent act. They are all pretty close and then it just drops off to very rare stuff. So it is probably not wise to speculate at all.
Do you really not enjoy it when you have a case? I have no such regrets.
How to Build an NFT Hydroponic System 
The NFT systems are said to be one of the most productive hydroponic systems. It is not a system for beginners, and you should try experimenting with the other types of systems first before you jump into building an NFT hydroponics system.
"I have an opt-out link on that policy page, and I included one in the email I sent right at the top, at the bottom and in the body of the email."

I count four at that point, 3 being in the mail. While I'm with you on the first part of your response and like the final paragraph, the comment on unsubscribing was the result of bad skimming and is - unnecessary.
instead of voting for someone why would you not just follow them on github. that is essentially a vote.
Apple also has a Framework called PDFKit.

http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Graphi...
Most British banks require two-factor authentication. My bank (Barclays) allows me to login without sending a password over the wire. I insert my debit card into a reader and enter my normal PIN, which generates a one-time password. The scheme is remarkably well-designed and defeats all of the usual attacks[1].

Crucially, I must generate a different one-time password using a different procedure if I wish to transfer money to someone I haven't previously paid. This essentially puts paid to phishing and man-in-the-middle, as an authenticated session isn't enough to do anything malicious; To steal my money, you would have to either completely break the cryptosystem, or convince me to enter your account number into my card reader to generate the necessary one-time password.

[1] http://www.barclays.co.uk/Helpsupport/IntroducingPINsentryfo...
It's interesting that linguistic co-ordination is being used to determine "pecking order". Maybe so, but I observe things a bit differently.

I grew up in a part of the country that was mostly rural, toward the midwest/southeast part of the US. I was raised believing that "y'all" was a label for referencing a group of people.

I no longer live in this part of the country, but return from time to time for family. Re-connecting with family and friends, my wife will notice that I start to sound like everyone with whom we're surrounded (she kindly refers to this as my "inner hick".)

If this is true (I assume it is), it is completely sub-conscious. If there is anything I'm consciously doing, it is attempting to bridge any perceived gap in communication.

In terms of pecking order, it may be the case that I'm conforming to my surroundings. I tend to think of it more as "when in Rome".

I don't care for the value judgment implied by the term "pecking order", as it denotes that someone is in control or holds more influence. Communication carries an underlying intent, a reason for the communication to occur in the first place. Linguistic analysis can measure syntax and output, but it doesn't measure intent. And intent is important to understanding the value of communication.

When the Google guys came up with PageRank, the assumption was that the intent of including a link was to point to a more credible source. As we now know, assuming the intent of a website to link to another as a means of assessing credibility is flawed.
The Linuxification of software development
Calories definitely do play a role, but when you gradually shift to a diet with mostly whole foods, and less processed foods, you start to feel the need to eat less. Most processed foods aren't filling and leave you wanting more. Also, they don't give you the nutrients you need. So it definitely does matter what type of calories you consume.
How the long tail cripples bonus content/multimedia
Config.{guess,sub} turns 20
Mineways turns your Minecraft creations into something you can hold
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The internet, information and what it means for your doctor
Give me a freaking API and all the other issues go away.

Also, stop restricting the data I can download to the most recent 30-90 days.

Paypal and Amazon both let me download my entire purchase history (>5 years for both) with a ton more detail than the bank.

If security is an issue give me a client SSL cert and force me to do 2 factor login (SSL cert + password) to grab a feed of data. This isn't rocket science - it's me wanting a simple "select * from checkingaccount" from your database on the other end of a HTTP request.
Sure, I like old facebook, but not so much as I would purposefully chose to use old IE.

Or IE for that matter.
Agreed, the real lessons learned here are:

1) Users don't read directions. They don't read the directions right on the form, never mind a separate FAQ.

2) Any unsolicited email is spam. Don't care what your terms of use are. Just don't do it. If you're going to send a "Thank you," do it in an acknowledgement email at the time of the transaction. Days later, the customer sees the email as something new, and flags it.
It’s not about how hard you try, but how hard you try to improve.
>My loose definition of science is that you observe, predict, experiment, and honestly report your results.

I would add one more thing: you become aware of others' efforts to do the same and build off of their work rather than "re-invent the wheel". (That doesn't mean you take it uncritically, just that you know what has been tried.)

That part is, AFAICT, what PhD programs most intensely focus on, i.e., make sure you understand the existing work well enough that you can build on it rather than just independently re-discover results in the field.

That part is also (usually) beyond the reach of five-year-olds.

Note: you can certainly still meet this requirement without an official PhD program, of course.
A group that can launch a satellite in orbit is also capable of launching a nuclear weapon in orbit. (That is the reason the US was so freak by Sputnik).

So presumably the US is smart enough not to mess with such groups (even if they don't actually have nuclear weapons they would still be able to do great damage with conventional explosions or even a piece of rock).
I'm not trying to say that bank password policies make sense. They do need help.

"Allow weaker passwords and limit login attempts" is not the solution either, because it gives an attacker who has discovered my user id but not my password the ability to lock my account.
Well, he could be a corrupt dictator or a honest one; which does not mean nice, just that he tries to treat his subjects fairly according to some rule or ideology. Lobbying exists in dictatorships too I just guess it is generally not as frequent as in western democracies.
> They'd be jailing you for refusing to give something that doesn't exist.

That doesn't sound like a desirable outcome.
It is way better than a protein shake. It is not for everyone and perhaps you can skip the pre-session milk but post-session it is great for recovery.
Like the non-terrorists subject to extraordinary rendition to Guantanomo bay so they could give the information about terrorism that they didn't have because they were not terrorists?
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Zipcar's all have remote kill functionality and the ignition is tied to the RFID Zipcard. It's likely not worth the effort to defeat the tech to get the end result. It would be for a $100k exotic.
Agreed. I should have elaborated more. The reason I found the gym demoralising is because I was overweight and was surrounded by these greek gods. Now that I am fit again I really enjoy going into the gym with the goal of improving my fitness for kitesurfing. I go to the gym with my physical performance instead of my physical appearance in mind.

That is the best reason to go.
The launch will be cheap as soon as we build that damn space elevator (which I believe is currently technologically feasible, correct?).
Frequent meals isn't gospel, though. Art de Vany, originator of Paleo, counters that if you're on a diet that satisfies your appetite, like Paleo, it's better to eat larger portions less frequently, to maximize the amount of time your metabolism can focus on processing the insulin and then fat already in your body. Constantly eating all day instead focuses your metabolism on digestion.

Of course, if your diet doesn't satisfy you and keeps you hungry between meals, then frequent healthy meals and snacks might be a better option to, as you say, reduce temptation to eat bad stuff. Try both, figure out what works.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/01/04/new-evoluti...
I felt exactly the same way. I don't know Python, but it's similar enough to Ruby that I could follow the post.

I was able to grok it, but I think the points could have been made better by sticking to one language.