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> The worst thing that can happen here is that somebody connects to your wifi.

No, the worst thing that can happen is that someone you trust uses the same password for this service and their google account, then the attacker who hates you uses their latitude access to find where your kids are and kidnaps them for money.

Sorry... went to far. A more sane version is: someone uses the same password for their {online retailer} account. Attacker uses that to login and buy themselves a $X000 present using your saved CC details.
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It's not his definition. Pure means "Not mixed or adulterated with any other substance or material". Here there is JS mixed, hence it isn't pure.
> Now, how do I lend you a book for which I have no dead-tree copy? I can't give you such a piece of dead-tree (and naturally lose it for myself).

Why can't you lend it to me on the good faith I'll return to it you when I'm done?

Edit: Aha, I misread your comment! I think because in the proceeding paragraph you mention the case of having a dead-tree book but preferring e-ink. Of course, if you don't have it you can't lend it (assuming DRM prevents you).
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The point. You are missing it.

He or she uses CSS for a job for which usually images are used. Hence his or her use of CSS is pure in that sense and it’s also written down that way. It’s not misleading in any way, shape or form.

HN. A community of whiny know it alls.
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if your application can access the password, there is a very high chance so can somebody that has application level access to your machine can just do whatever your application does, you cannot hand wave that away with "smart cards", "encryption" and "firewalls".

Having a stored password in any format except for one way hashing is a massive and _unnecessary_ liability.

Before you take the time to reply with another convoluted shell game of keep the password away from the hacker, consider the actual necessity and value of a recoverable password. Does it really outweigh the massive security problems?
Love this. It's almost a list of things you should set as priorities for your startup.

How do we get started on development? How do we get to launch? How do we get blogged about? How do we get a paying customer?
Interesting how the developers of Windows 3.1 were forced to use relatively low end computers.

The hardware & bandwidth of your average HN reader is likely much better than your users' setups.

Does anyone here keep low end computers on hand for testing? With the proliferation of client-side Javascript processing, hardware is becoming more important. What about testing over dial-up or slow DSL?

Anyone know of an easy way to simulate a slow bandwidth connection? Perhaps tether your MacBook to your iPhone and turn off 3G, to test at Edge speed.

Lowest I go is testing on IE8 in a VM on my MacBook Pro. That's probably not good enough (or... bad enough, technically).

I'd like to see a discussion about this topic. Testing with low end hardware & bandwidth, etc.
I understand what you're saying. I don't agree with it.

Not that I have any problem with it being pure or not, just with your reply to okal.
Freemium is the dominant model among online games for a reason. Dropbox is another example. Anything addictive that has the potential of hooking a customer long term. Noone is going to shelve out until they've put x amount of hours into it.

Christmas cards is the worst product imaginable. It's a one-off thing with no addictive potential and lots of free alternatives.
>The Finnish schools are equal in the sense that socio-economic background has a smaller effect on study outcomes than elsewhere

Wouldn't Finland's flatter income distribution be a potential confounding variable in this case? When the difference between the 25th and 75th percentile in income means less in absolute terms, there are probably a whole lot of things that are associated with income in the US that show less of an association in Finland. For example, high-IQ types might be less likely to strive for high-income occupations in Finland than in the US, lessening the correlation between income and IQ. With child IQ being strongly correlated to parental IQ, it's easy to see how this could lessen the correlation between school performance and economic background.

Of course, you may have been comparing Finland to other countries with similarly flat income distributions, which would make my above point moot. Even then though, it's not clear that Finland's education system is necessarily "more equal" than other countries -- it could just be more effective. If the school system in, say, Norway is less effective than in Finland, higher-income students are likely to see less of a drop in scores because they have more educational resources outside of the system.
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""""Now, how do I lend you a book for which I have no dead-tree copy? I can't give you such a piece of dead-tree (and naturally lose it for myself). All I can do is make a copy and give it to you. And then I'm a publisher. And then what I'm doing is forbidden. And then I can't even lend you my book."""

So the "dystopia" is the artificial disability to lend books?

How about the counter-balance that millions of books are now available everywhere with an internet connection, instantly obtainable, with no real trees sacrificed and much cheaper than print editions (that one could get better, though). And you can even get 1-2 chapters for free to check if you want to buy the book (in Amazon kindle at least). Plus, everyone can become his own publisher for his own work (no copyright problem in this case) with easy worldwide distribution and no mediators.

So, yeah, you can't lend your book (almost, see below). But you can lend your ebook reader to others in the family. And how common is dead-tree book lending anyway? How about your friend buys a digital copy for himself (possibly after downloading the free sample chapters?).

"""(One could imagine laws/DRM that would erase the copy I own if I ever give another copy to someone else. However, I don't think the IP Lords would want even that. They'd say it harms their revenue.)"""

One doesn't have to imagine. iTunes store allows you to share your songs (haven't checked about books) with 5 other accounts.

And Kindle permits you to lend books to others for 14 days:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=2...
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I always thought it was related to MSDOS compatibility.

If I recall correctly cli, sti, in, out, ... are privileged operations in WinNT, but not in Win95. Why? Because these instructions can't work in virtual-8086 mode and need to be handled by the OS, and that was really expensive for early 32bits machines. Win95 required legacy DOS programs to work with a reasonable performance, so the solution was to ignore the problem and allow the privileged operations... and I can't provide more details because I don't remember them :)

So yes, it was a hw limitation thing.

EDIT: typo fixed.
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"""I've never heard this "tip" from anyone. Ever."""

And you're the golden standard of iPhone-related tips awareness, because?
> Does anyone here keep low end computers on hand for testing?

My main work desktop is a 2005 vintage machine (Athlon64 3000+, 1GB RAM, Geforce MX4000) and it's still quite sufficient as a dev machine. Of course, I have a whole bunch of Opteron servers to run CPU-heavy stuff when necessary.
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Really? Really?!

It’s correct. In almost all cases when you press the home button the app quits (i.e. gets suspended). End of story.
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Any chance to give the tracks a specific license, eg a Creative Commons one?

Random 5 minute website critic:

Website is very wide. Stretches to full width even on wiiiiide screens ruining readability.

Signature is cut off on 1050px desktop height for me. The text itself seems to be many fancy words with no content. I had to force myself to read it. There were not instant eye catchers or a visible structure.

The photo looks kinda sad and negative.

"Hi I'm" should be "Hi, I'm" I think?

No idea what "busking" is.

"please feel free to get in touch" -> "please feel welcome to get in touch".

Buy button is greyed out and "invisible", the paypal image next to it is much more visible.

Remove that "Artist Statement" headline, it's clutter.

Definitely add a Facebook page.

You definitely want to add in-browser streaming for those demo tracks.
I don't know Kevin. But there's a video: http://vimeo.com/23828318

I think they have to enroll the locations first and then they play your ads on the locations you selected.
"""That would be a difficult law to enforce without declaring martial law."""

I seriously doubt that.

There are current laws in practice that would have needed martial law declared to be enforced (or even passed) a century of even a few decades ago.

And we're talking about "detain anyone for any period" and such laws, so in comparison the general public could care less about an "only run state-sponsored non Open Source software" law.
Maybe not entirely on topic, but after some googling I could not find this: what is the easiest way to have this interface (or Google Maps, etc) towards a huge picture (so not maps/GIS). A gigantic panorama picture so that the end user can pan and zoom?
Maybe it's because I haven't slept all night. But is it just me or is there really no one trying to sell me anything. I feel like I'm reading a bear bones feature list. No descriptions. No upsells. It's almost a "Here it is. Take it or leave it.".
Anyone know of an easy way to simulate a slow bandwidth connection?

There was some talk a while ago about an app called slowy that does just this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3294687
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> Everyone here implies that passwords are stored in just another table of the database.

Because if you send back passwords in plaintext, they usually are...
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I guess I wouldn't call this stereographic, as in there is not a separate image for the right and left eye, nor does it produce a 3D effect. It does, however, provide the nice fisheye source view from Google Maps.
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> What do you mean by secure encryption algorithms which are reversible?

AES-256 symmetric encryption (as one example) is designed to be reversible while a SHA-512 hash is not. What does reversible mean you ask? It means that plaintext can be made into ciphertext and then back to plaintext again. It's designed to be undone/reversed by the party that holds the key/password.
> Just curious, what is the mashup you're working on?

Putting on the map the villages of Wallachia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallachia), a historic Romanian province, by order of when they were first documented in the official archives. The project sits here: http://sate.maglina.ro/ , it's based on Django+Solr (there's a "Filter" menu at the top right), it's in Romanian, of course, but it's more or less self-explanatory.

I also created a couple of (I'd say cool :) ) heatmaps based on the data, which you can see here: http://sate.maglina.ro/heatmaps/ , giving a general idea where the early medieval settlements had a greater density. (for the heatmaps I used gheat, of course, http://code.google.com/p/gheat/ , which is a very, very cool project).

> I've often wished that Google Maps natively supported a 4th dimension so that changes over time could be recorded.

I feel you on that :) But, I'll have to admit, it could turn into a very controversial thing. For example, one of the reasons for which I started this small project of mine is that lots of historians (Hungarians and Romanians, mostly) have debated whether present-day Wallachia was inhabited by Romanians continuously (as the Romanian historians insist that it happened) or if said Romanians emigrated to Wallachia from South of the Danube somewhere around 1100-1200 or later (the Hungarians' view on the whole story). I was hoping that by putting on a map the Wallachian villages by order of them being officially mentioned it could clear up some things, at least for me :)
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I wonder whether this post views as stereotypical to you guys, like it's said in the comments @geek.com?

I personally don't think so, as I haven't seen a job ad stating that kind of performance threshold.
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This makes me wonder why NT's minimum requirements were six times those of Windows 3.1's. Both 3.1 and NT 3.1 had essentially the same front-end, to my knowledge, so was NT's back-end just that vastly more inefficient than DOS?
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If you have a data set that distinguishes between different flavors of European, or somehow controls for attitudes towards education, I'd love to see it.

In the meantime, I'll control for the factors I have data on, while recognizing that even more of the variation than I can see might be caused by non-school system factors.

...you might take note of the fact that the current Finnish results are the result of change to the system while holding demographics relatively constant.

This is incorrect. Because the Finns don't do standardized tests (according to the article), and because PISA is relatively recent, we don't know how good or bad the Finns did before these changes.
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No, there are lots of authors who do that and still have a following.

1. As an advocate, RMS scores own goals far too often.

RMS seems to go out of his way to present himself as an eccentric who has no comprehension of social norms.

I've also seen an entire roomful of people who were ready to eviscerate a new Microsoft technology (this was back when trusted computing was being introduced) suddenly flip around to sympathy with the Microsoft guy when Stallman weighed in.

2. Being RMS' friend is almost as bad as being his enemy.

He will condemn someone who has a slightly different position, or has made compromises, with equal vituperation as someone who is directly opposed.

I also know someone who got into trouble with his own repressive government due to RMS being unable to keep his mouth shut on issues he didn't understand. (Please don't ask for details.)

It's sad because, like the OP, I think RMS is fundamentally right about these issues.
Why do you emphasize Git in the HN link? It seems you use several key technologies for the demo - Backbone, Coffeescript, etc. Git is just a VCS, so why did you feel it necessary to emphasize it?
The article says he used a computer to draw the map. Does anyone know what software he used? Is it something specialized or just Photoshop? I couldn't find it in the article.
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It's true. The weighting is not in their favor. You really should be able to find your own citation via Google but here's one[1][2].

[1] http://jacquesmattheij.com/The+Unofficial+HN+FAQ#selfposts

[2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1076633
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Argh I'm so looking forward to the production version getting released.

I wish they didn't post so many of these updates as it's making me sad that I probably won't be able to buy one for at least a year
My guess: OP saw the link in Kevin Ko's blog post on "Startup - one year in" (also on HN front page), where Kevin Ko mentions the geek.com article in a Yammer post he did.
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Vastly more advanced. The NT kernel was designed by Dave Cutler (of VMS fame). When work on NT started, it was simply beyond what PCs could do: the design included every high-profile buzzword from the minicomputer world, as well as portability across CPU architectures and a hardware abstraction layer. (Originally NT was supposed to be OS/2 3.0.)

NT was one of Microsoft's most brilliant long-term investments. It delivered the true Unix competitor they needed in the '90s, and the kernel is still there in Windows 8 with no urgent need to replace it.
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What's up with the "well-capitalized start-up" part? I vaguely remember Bezos working in finance and using funds from that. Who else financed Amazon?
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I've occasionally seen GMail ask “do you want us to unsubscribe you as well” when flagging stuff as spam (I refuse, because I don't want to confirm my address to spammers). Perhaps some provider has come up with a way to differentiate “mark as spam” from plain “unsubscribe”, but I do find it surprising.

Most likely there's some indirect, aggregate feedback as well.
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If someone can execute a "SELECT * FROM user" query, it's highly likely that they can also intercept login form responses to retrieve plain text passwords.
"forced" and "unwilling to do so" seem at odds to me.

[edit] I don't get the downvote, but this discussion is getting so emotional for so many, I guess I should have expected it. My point is, I agree with his point, up until he starts redefining words to mean completely opposite what they normally mean. Forced being used to describe "too poor to move" - fine, but being used to describe "don't want to", that's just tailoring language to fit your preconceived notion.
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When you are talking about the present or the future and you imagine something that is untrue or unlikely, use the past tense (‘lived’) in the if clause (NOT would): ‘If I knew her address, I’d send her a gift.’ ‘If I won a lot of money, I’d buy a new car.’
When you are talking about the past and you imagine something that is impossible, use the past perfect tense (‘had caught’) in the if clause (NOT would have): ‘If he hadn’t got on the plane, he would still be alive.’
When you are talking about the present or the future and you imagine something that is possible but unlikely, use if … should (NOT if … would): ‘If anyone should need me, I’ll be back in half an hour.’
When developing Javascript-enabled interfaces, developers need to worry about older or incompatible browsers, paranoid users with JS disabled and crawlers. Therefore, depending on the browser's capabilities, it makes sense to enable/disable certain features and have the interface still work.

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- progressive enhancements, in which you start from a purely static interface (or the least common denominator you can start from) and progressively add more and more advanced features

- graceful degradation, in which you start from the featurefull interface and gradually disable features / make fixes to have the interface still work

"progressive enhancements" is not a buzzword as the 2 approaches mentioned above WILL yield different results. Interfaces developed with progressive enhancements will tend to be featurefull on the common denominator, while interfaces developed with graceful degradation will tend to be very rich (GMail style), but barely usable on browsers with not enough capabilities and less accessible by classic crawlers.
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Agreed. The copy does not excite a need to do anything, even stay on the site.
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Let's look at the quote you present:

"26% of all searches found drugs"

I think everything afterwards goes downhill:

- 'cheapish test to detect _BOMBS_'

How did we end up with bombs now? A second ago we were talking about (recreational?) drugs. Are you pulling the 'War on Terror' card here?

- '_cheapish_'

Backed up by what? What are the costs of training and keeping (feeding, medical treatment, housing) the dogs? Bringing the officers to search in the first place? What are the costs of the individuals being searched, who probably had to stop right there for quite a while and to sit back and wait.

- 'a _few_ innocents would be unjustly searched'

74 out of 100. 740 out of 1000. 7400 out of 10000. If 3/4 are 'few', where's 'half' and 'most' located on that scale?
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>coming from Europe

Well, coming from Europe, _anything_ would make more sense. We lived in Brussels for two years and after six months we bought a TomTom in order to preserve the marriage.

Roads change names every 100 yards, signs are waaay up on the corner of a building, and street maps are mostly useless.

Most cities in the U.S. (outside of the 'old' north-east -- Boston, Lower Manhattan) are laid out on a grid. Numbering systems in major cities are laid out in conjunction with the streets (eg: "3200 N." on every street is at Belmont Avenue).

When we moved back, the TomTom became a neglected device at the bottom of the glovebox.
I know, still it makes quite a difference to simply storing the passwords in plain text outright. Dont know why i get downvoted for this, i know that its not best practice but we simply cant assume they save the passwords in plain-text based on this info, which is what the articles main point is.
The problem with that I feel is that it really asks more about your perception of your abilities rather than your abilities.

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