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Cool. I hope it doesn't turn into an OpenCoffee mirror/spam board for events/etc. Bookmarked :)
Can you store password safe and still send it to your users in cleartext?
Hi hackers

Just a question i have, which I think i have the answer to but I would like to hear your opinion!

Can you store the users password in a safe way and still be able to send it to your users, if they use a "forgot password" function?

I am asking this because a danish company send it to me in clear text, and when i confronted them that they should hash password, they said in a rude way that they did that, but had a kode when they decrypt it.

First of all I know that you can not decrypt a hash, that is the whole purpose that it is a one-way, right?

Second, i can see that you can not use the password for anything if you find a way to fish the passwords out of the mysql db, but what are the chance that not already have the files already?

Thanks for your help!

I will use this as a prove, because i have not found any other pages that can prove what they say is bullshit.

Happy weekend, hackers!
Great initiative. Dealing with timezone is a pain and I totally agree with you that storing universal time is the way to go. It's a little bit like the 'validating input problem': Strongly validating and converting input/output so that the entire application can be safe. I.e. it's not to the sqrt function to validate its parameters. (Although it'd throw an exception if it fails.)
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From the linked wiki, here's some more reading:

http://wikirota.org/en/Production_of_an_Aircraft_Insensible_...
"This time next year we'll be millionaires"!
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You might want to read a bit about the Federal Reserve Bank system: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Reserve_System

To quote: "The U.S. Government receives all of the system's annual profits, after a statutory dividend of 6% on member banks' capital investment is paid, and an account surplus is maintained"

I kinda feel sorry that every time this kind of opinion is brought up, it's brought up by people that have absolutely no knowledge of how economics works. Financial system isn't perfect, I'll give you that, but there's a stretch between a broken system and the "illuminati" controlling the banks...

Financial Tyranny: I cannot believe _someone_ on HN would think that because some legislation makes the federal reserve a private corporation means that automatically it "controls" everyone and everything.
Oh come on. Is this pseudoscience crap really appropriate on HN? Flagged.
Bookmarked and registered in.
There have always been cranks. Just downvote, flag and move on.
Bookmarked, lets see if it goes well.
One advice, give the page some border on the sides, its pretty bad at least for me to have to look to the edge of the monitor.
The seriousness of that information warrants it to be posted absolutely everywhere. This is way beyond the point where I care what people think about me. People need to know how deceived they were, and still are. This has to end, and it will end.
the question is, is unity usable already? will it ever?
One thing that always bugs me is that modern languages that ship with fairly strong datetime libraries still make it a pain to deal with just dates. My db can handle just a date why does my language need to treat date as some hack on datetime?

I want 12/01/1980 not 12/01/1980 00:00:00 -5
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>...his state of harmony depends entirely on his harmony with his surroundings

That's how I read the parent article though - not that you should float around in a happy bubble, oblivious to the outer world, but rather that you should 'greet each new day with a smile'; that is, good and bad stuff will happen regardless of what you do, but your reaction to it is what determines how you feel about it. This is not to say that the individual is completely self-sufficient, but rather that one can strive to maintain ones mental balance regardless of what's going on.
They are talking bullshit.

Here's an interesting article about password security:
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2007/09/youre-probably-stor...

Even better is the linked article from matasano.com, but the link at codinghorror.com is broken. This should work:
http://chargen.matasano.com/chargen/2007/9/7/enough-with-the...

To quote from that article: "We learned that the correct choice [to store passwords] is Bcrypt." (which is definitely one way)
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Let me start off by saying that this is a great idea, and maybe we do need more HN-like sites as HN currently has a usefulness monopoly as far as my news browsing habits are concerned.

On a more constructive note: please implement an RSS feed.
I am honestly not sure, because the author is using some serious fuzzy math, but I don't think that's what the article is saying. 100 dud 25k investments means a loss of $2.5 million. I think it is saying that if one company you invest in sells for $25million and you have a 10% stake you have covered your $2.5 million loss on 100 bad investments. That's clearly missing the point that a 25k investment is pretty much never going to grant you 10% of a startup these days... When you factor in dilution/etc... the risk/reward ratio gets a little less obvious.
Have you tried http://www.navicat.com/en/products/navicat_pgsql/pgsql_detai...

I haven't, but they have a full suite of tools.
Uhm, why wouldn't they want to approach "the most ambitious, intelligent group" even without anti-poaching agreements?

As anti-competitive and illegal as the anti-poaching agreements are, they contain an important insight: These companies need to grow the total pool of people working for them to keep growing the sector. At the macro-level, it is perfectly in Googles interest that Apple grows, and vice-verse.
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Yes, RSS feed please. Pretty please. pleeeez!
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"a project that showcases my JavaScript skills"

Quick review of your JavaScript:

Your functions and variables are in a global namespace. That's not a good sign. Sure if you are absolutely sure this code will never run alongside existing code, that's okay. But if you are working with code from multiple places, that's perhaps not the wisest approach. I guess you have no long-term intentions of allowing third party plugins and modules?

You're being too-clever using commas effectively as statement separators (or maybe your JS compressor is), and boolean operators instead of if statements. Shows off that you know how to flex JavaScript, but probably concerns whether you'd be a good fit into an existing team of developers.

I wonder if concatanating chunks of strings interspersed with variables is the best course of action. I'm tempted to suggest to collate the big strings together as static text with replaceable tokens (or perhaps bring in an existing templating language like mustache).

I worry about <div class="clearDiv"> being used to clear floats. I'm surprised that blueprint forced you into that.

jQuery constructs like: $(a).parent().parent().attr("id") and $(a).parent().parent().prev are brittle, they assume/enforce a particular markup. Which means if you need that extra wrapper div, now you need to update each of those constructs.
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To minimize download times, though I do sort of think that 1GB might be better.
> That is absolutely not correct. When I enter the USA on the visa waiver program, it very, very clearly says I have no rights while in the USA. No right to a lawyer, no right to appeal, no right to anything.

No, it does not.

I've traveled to the US on the visa waiver program around 20 times or so, and your claim sounded bizarre, so I actually checked the form to see whether I could truly have misremembered it that badly.

The visa waiver - form I-94W contains no language even remotely as extreme as what you portray it as.

It does contain a waiver of rights that states that you waive any right to appeal or review a US CBP officials determination of whether or not to admit you, or to contest deportation other than on grounds of a request for asylum.

In other words, you only waive rights related to preventing them from refusing you entry and sending you back. Once you're in, you're still subject to most of the the same protections.
I swear I saw a comparison chart builder on HN recently
Did someone "Show HN" their web app that built/generated comparison charts easily, or was I hallucinating?
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A Hacker News for Europe would be great. A lot of the stories on HN are very USA-centric.
Currently it looks like Hackful focuses on the UK, especially London. Lets hope it expands to cover all of Europe.
It sounds like you've learned a rule that applies to you: to become productive again, go for a short walk.

These authors may seem to prescribe general rules since they write in an authoritative style, but we generally know to take them as considerations
So I've never sold, but I've just taken a college class with someone who has sold a few companies. This is adapted from a hypothetical discussion of selling or licensing a patent.

I think it'd be best to picture this as a normal sale of products, it's just a larger deal. The people you're selling to has a pain point, and your company somehow fits that pain.

Find out the pain and why your product (your company) fits that pain. Think of possible objections. For instance, it sounds like you're solving the problem of "I have this idea, and it can expand given sufficient resources!" But there could be other reasons like "It will let others perceive you as a better corporate citizen"

Do this for a while until you think you've exhausted the list, then go ask a friend or two for some more input.

Figure out the top 3 players in the market. #3 wants to be #2, and #2 wants to be #1, but #1 may not be as excited as #2 because they're already on top (depending how wide the gap is). Whomever you're selling to is banking on the idea that your assets will appreciate, but there's always knowledge that this won't pan out. #1 may not trust you can deliver as much as their own internal initiatives. The others may be more open to listening.
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This is a great initiative. Will follow for sure
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For some of us, it already is. We just don't rant about it every time someone mentions Ubuntu or Unity.
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What is on-topic on this board?
That's because ... frankly ... neither the black or the white guy belong there. Who cares about the differences between them.

The more information I find on this issue...the more I find myself agreeing with the Asians. Asians play basketball and football, and involve themselves in social projects. If you have differences like that between Asians and everyone else...it's legitimate to ask why are ... say ... non Jewish whites, or blacks, or hispanics getting into elite Universities at all?
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I'm missing an "about" section.
I doubt it'll work. HN doesn't work just because it's there, it works because it has a certain traction among a certain community. Building up such traction is very difficult, and I doubt doing so by adding a link to it from a non-Europe-focused site is going to help much.

Lamernews looked real cool the first 2 weeks as well, and then it mostly died out. How will Hackful be different?

I mean, I'd love it to be different, I'd love a site about hacker culture more focused on European issues, people and businesses. But I can't see why it'll work.
Will the source be available on github for pull requests?
Bad idea. HN is an international effort. No need to contextualize it by continent.

After all, we exist without skin color, without nationality, without religious bias...
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How much available space is there on a 1Gb flash drive when formatted using FAT32?
There are two Ubuntu using people in my office who've completely moved to unity and who are happy with it. But there's also third person who thinks it's crap and switched to Mint. Personally, I'm happy running Xubuntu and haven't looked too closely at the whole issue
It's a habit of at least some reporters/organisations. The BBC do the same when some aspect of the BBC makes headlines and they report on it.
The domain was registered 2 days ago, so great job in launching early. You really need a strategy to keep people coming, but all I can say is good luck, have an upvote.
A quick but of advice: give the site some personality - visually, I mean. It will make a difference. People will respond to it better and respect it more.

If it looks like an HN clone, that's how people will treat it. Differentiate.
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I personally find a little white noise helps me focus. Sounds of the seaside or rain work very well. Of course, YMMV

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=ask-the-bra...

Goran Soderlund, Sverker Sikstrom, Andrew Smart (2007) Listen to the noise: noise is beneficial for cognitive performance in ADHD Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 48 (8), 840-847

(writeup of above: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health/new-health/condit...)
The Stanford Prison Experiment seems to contradict your claim that normal people can't/won't be conditioned to develop hostility in "us vs them" scenarios.
The OP writes: "He was crucial in the development of radar, so he doesn’t seem to be a crackpot worthy of obscurity."

While the linked http://wikirota.org/en/Main_Page site claims that he was "a pioneer in the development of the radar", the Wikipedia article (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_radar) doesn't even mention the name.

He does seem to be a crackpot worthy of obscurity.
Well less than 1024MB, but still a lot more than 750MB
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That's what it seems from the comment that as the noise increased, 66% of the zero error workers still found the level acceptable, while only 8% of the one more defect workers found the level acceptable.

I think it's less tolerance and more focus. Workers that can focus appropriately can store the requisite information to solve the problem in their mind. Those without focus will introduce defects as information not task related is encountered and processed.
I didn't mean to imply it wouldn't require a business visa (or employment visa and/or status, per patio11). When I said calling it "business training" was technically accurate, I meant just that. YC technically helps train you to create and run a business, but it's only part of the equation.

I certainly agree that he should have known better. How can you honestly say (or think) "I'm going to the states for a couple months to do business training, and yes those are documents to set up a US business, but no I'm not here on business."
I find this stream (stuffed through some Sennheiser HD25 SP headphones to block everything else out) improves my productivity considerably! http://bluemars.org/cryosleep.php

The noise of humans or machines doesn't however.
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"Illuminati" is nothing but a fancy name for an organized crime - under an oath of secrecy, breaking of which means a death penalty. Why it is so difficult to understand that if organized crime groups are allowed to exploit and subvert the system for long periods of time, they will eventually succeed?

And what did you expect to learn on Wikipedia? You obviously have no idea how systemic and elaborate the suppression really is. I really suggest you go through the article I posted a link to, and actually read it.
I agree with your final point.

Specifically, if you're going to use the word "hacker" in a context which mentions "testing the boundaries" shortly after widely-publicised boundary-breaching "hack attacks", people are going to connect the dots in their mind. Especially if their perception of you as an individual is largely based on a film portraying you as a wayward and unscrupulous genius with a penchant for pissing people off.

It's even more likely to get your position caricatured than starting a sentence with "As a classical liberal..."
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After looking at the data a bit, it came to me why coming up with a single coherent strategy is so hard for Microsoft - they have 4 equally important product lines. If you ask someone what Microsoft makes, they'll answer 4 different versions, each one incorrect, because none of them accounts for more than a third of the company revenue.

Apple has a much clearer picture - they are an iOS company that sells iOS devices and their accessories, such as the Macs that connect to them. It seems they have successfully invented the product that was to take "Apple Computer" out of business - and are selling vast numbers of them.

For Google, it's even clearer. They have one product - user attention. Still, that's a dangerous place to be in - they must invent the company that will wipe Google out before someone else does it.
+1 for that..
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But that doesn't immediately invalidate geography as a useful filter.
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I think the lawmakers know this already and like it that way. Maybe the large companies will someday realize this is a negative-sum game and put a stop to it.
I think this is entirely the point: How do you improve or change your environment so that it 'fits' you?

What does fit you? I hear many people say a certain level of salary would make them happy. Or that sportscar they always dreamt of. Just 5 more years of climbing the corporate ladder and then it's all wonderful from there. However, when you talk to them 5-10 years later, when some of them achieved those goals, they still do not seem to 'fit'; they have bigger and better goals now. Once they achieve those, they will be truly happy! It's a rat race.

My opinion, and since adopting it I see it everywhere, is that the outer does not change the inner, but rather it is the inner that changes the outer. Take, for example, this part of Jobs' famous Stanford Commencement Address: "[After being fired from Apple] I really didn’t know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down – that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. I was a very public failure, and I even thought about running away from the valley. But something slowly began to dawn on me — I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I had been rejected, but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over. I didn’t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me."

Notice what changes first; he did not start working on Pixar and NEXT from his feeling of failure nor from a need to change his environment to get his brainchild back. He changed his inner mental state first to accept reality, figure what is truly important, and follow his heart. The environment changed as a result. Once he saw the pure crushing failure of being fired from his own creation, as an positive opportunity to pursue the things he loved to do, it opened new paths unimagined by his negative self. The inner changed the outer.

Happy, for me, is a deep sense of belonging. It's about acceptance, perspective, creativity and finding interest and passion. The inside and outside will never disconnect; it's life, the one cannot exist without the other.
I don't know if he was a "crackpot" or not, but your criteria (Wikipedia mention) is invalid. Wikipedia is neither complete, nor unbiased, nor objective, nor free of controversy.

As a first step in improving your criteria, look at the argumentum e contrario: Do you think there are no crackpots worthy of obscurity who have a Wikipedia entry?
They rely on analysing your strokes. So images cannot be used .
I tend to agree. Given the number of Asians applying to these universities, you have to wonder how non Jewish whites, blacks, and Latinos are gaining admission to these schools at all? There HAS to be something going on to give them a leg up.
That has actually made my day!
nice, but can you fix editing comments please :)
Widely used journalistic convention, to promote the appearance of objectivity, or similarly to remove the writer (who is usually irrelevant) from the story.
Europe centric I think ?
From the article:

"Ubuntu 12.04 will be a Long Term Support (LTS) release that will be supported for five years on both the server edition and, for the first time, the desktop edition."

I was under the impression that previous LTS releases did include the desktop version. Is this article wrong or is my memory faulty?
I don't think that he was talking about Racket, but some of your points are mistaken.

You might not like the literal syntax for maps in Racket, but it certainly exists.

Typed Racket has lots of math-oriented types; we just wrote a paper about their design here: http://www.ccs.neu.edu/racket/pubs/padl12-stff.pdf

Comprehensions such as for/list and for/hash are polymorphic, in that they operate on arbitrary sequences, of whatever type. for/list constructs lists; for/hash constructs hashes. Clojure, a language that takes uniformity of interface much further than Racket, has similar operations.
This argument seems inline with the growth of job spec's for "Dev Ops + Developer" roles. As outlined in the first paragraph project managers perceive bug fixing and operational tasks as "what's slowing progress" when these tasks require the most intimate understanding of the codebase.

Interesting read, thanks Ash.
Or they could salt the password hash with the username. Rainbow tables would need to be based on the salt and therefore unlikely to exist.
I'm really, really tired of the line "You have no right to X if Y". That's false; somebody might not recognise your rights, but that doesn't mean you don't have them.

I personally believe everyone has a right to move across arbitrary lines written on some map by wealthy people in the past few centuries. I believe it is a natural right for every human being, as much as the right to participate in the organization of your community (e.g. voting), the right not to be unduly harassed without habeas corpus, the right to be treated with dignity etc etc.

The fact that some specific law of some specific land recognises some rights and not others does not mean we should resign to the fact that this is how it ought to be. Otherwise, we might as well roll back to theocracy or some other rubbish way of life.