skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It reduces it from ~64^password_length to ~3^password_length, and that assumes that the password is a random jumble of letters. If it's a long phrase, like "I know the entropy of English words isn't terribly high, but a lot of them make a better password than what people typically choose", the effect is even stronger.
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It's actually a wake-up call to blog more: it helps realizing you can't be blogging once a month and expect any amount of traffic. To find what works with your audience you have to keep writing.

Somewhat related: I've recently purchased the technical blogging book from Antonio Cangiano (http://technicalblogging.com/book), and I recommend it if you want to get serious about blogging.
It blows my mind that there's a SNES game out there that shipped with an ARMv3 core inside it. I wonder how much that ate into their margins?
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WoW is extremely easy to exploit, because there are so few players in the market and so many important items. I made artificial scarcities before raids started, it did this over a few months or so until somebody made bets against me and from this point we attacked each others strategies. It was just fun for me, i had no financial involvement. It was probably similar to old days on the wall street, when you get too many savvy players it get's difficult. I thought about trading algorithms, but feared Blizzard will close my account if they find out.
That reduces the problem to brute-forcing the first four characters...
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proper music player

I can understand the browser - I use a graphical one too - but except for CD covers there's really no content a music player needs images for.

Ncmpcpp has a clear, nice interface with features like automated lyrics downloading, database management, tags editor, playlists, etc. And the advantage is that since it's only an MPD frontend, you can still use mpc to script stuff.
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Is Senseg the touch secret of Apple's new iPad?
s/left-to-right/right-to-left/ of course
Pictos http://pictos.cc/server/ lets you build an icon font using only the icons you need also
Related, a great list of them: http://jaredandcoralee.com/CLIapps.html
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Thanks. Concept of Operations, I think I can deduce from the context what it means - but what's an 'Operational Detachment Alpha'?
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FBI Special Agent and Counterterrorism Expert Criticizes the TSA
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> Again, what I care about is not the syntax but the functionality.

Issue here is that you're talking about this using syntax for something which has absolutely no relation. Which is a tad confusing.

No, what you want does not work in CSS, you can't make a selector conditional on a second completely unrelated selector (you probably can in XPath, although I'm sure your colleagues will soon look to end your life if you do)
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Oh, right, I only considered photos of the last pattern, not of all of them.
errr.. SSL still connects to IP's

and there isn't really such a thing as a 'VPN without encryption'
> Seems inconsistent with the rest of CSS.

Not really, although it's a bit weird the `//` operator is a relation (like the space, or `>`). It "just" works sideways (and potentially upwards) instead of selecting strictly downwards.
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Thanks for the book referral. It looks pretty cool.
It didn't - at least I don't remember them being relevant. It's just for distraction.
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What really blows my mind is that Bin Laden pulled 911 off with about $400,000 - about the price of about two porno scanners.
Man, look at the games that shipped with an SA-1. Its an independent (not slaved to the system CPU) 10mhz C5C816 with its own scratch RAM and can DMA to main system RAM; the CPU of the SNES itself is a 3.58 mhz C5C816 (technically a 5A22, Richoh's clone of the 65C816), and the scratch RAM (something like 256kb of it) is faster than system RAM.

Remember how Super Mario RPG was really expensive when it came out? Thats why. Quite a few other games used this chip, but it seems to be all Japan only except for Kirby Super Star and Kirby's Dream Land 3, neither of which were particularly exceptional games.
I don't understand what problem this solves. Can anyone explain?
There seems to be a lot of discussion here about Android v. iOS, but I feel like people are neglecting to discuss a key part of the article:

> what's wrong with Android from the perspective of someone planning a long-term 1:1 deployment in a school

There's nothing wrong with Android. The problem is that you're trying to throw expensive toys at school students in the hope that you'll win the award for "Digital Curriculum Innovator". As a student and 1:1 program participant, the notion that tablets are even remotely useful as educational tools makes me incredibly frustrated. These devices are designed for light web browsing and viewing images and videos, not the sort of tasks that students actually need portable devices for like writing down notes, typing up assignments in class and communicating with their instructors via email.

> My question was then, and remains this: where are the apps to challenge iMovie, GarageBand, Keynote, OmniFocus, OmniGraffle, Soulver, Flipboard, iThoughts, Noteshelf, Collabracam, The Elements, Brushes and ArtRage?

This sounds an awful lot like the sort of thing you would use a laptop for. Perhaps a more useful question would be:

> Where are the apps to challenge Geogebra, Mathematica, CMap, AutoCAD, Photoshop and Office?

or

> How am I going to interface my expensive light sensors or CNC machine with a tablet?

The applications mentioned in the article give me the impression that there isn't much serious work being done on these things. Students need technology skills which will be useful in the workforce, which usually means using the same hardware and software which you are likely to encounter in the workforce. Nowadays you have relatively advanced topics like robotics and video editing being taught to 4th-graders, meaning that by the time they are twelve they have already started learning how to use music composition software (think Sibelius) and commercial CNC machines. Tablets and smartphones just aren't capable enough.

Sorry if this sounds a bit harsh, but sometimes I feel like educators need to spend more time educating and less time reinventing the wheel.
>Meanwhile, 50 million people could care less what's inside an iPad.

I assume you mean 'couldn't care less'. [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om7O0MFkmpw
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It's still garbage collected.

Dalvik does fix the startup issue with better class files, yes.
Maybe I'm crazy, but why is it bad to release a phone with 2.3 and update it to 4.0 a month or two later?

Apart from the blog reviewers and the early adopters who actually even gets to see the old version? Would they really be served by delaying the hardware? Just to satisfy some neat-freak OCD tendency? How is this different from someone buying an iPhone a few months before the new one comes out with an iOS bump? Is that a horrifying experience too?
Was Jobs the last great product innovator of our lifetime?
I always thought that the purpose of the scanners was to catch currency entering and leaving the country, not to catch terrorists.
> the crazy stuff that goes on in virtual economies like this has always interested me.

If you want crazy, you should check Eve Online's economy, it's on a wholly different level and scale.

Especially as CCP (the game developer) takes a cut of real-world to in-game money conversions: you can buy PLEX (1-month account extension) with real money, and it's an in-game item which you can exchange for virtual currency (by selling it to other players).
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I wouldn't suggest any smartphones for schools, I'd have them removed at the door and given back at the end of the day, but that's probably because I have a lot of sympathy with Cliff Stoll's views on computers in classrooms.
Yes. But. The trick is knowing other tools in sufficient depth to know when Excel is an anti-pattern.

Which is hard, b/c it's so flexible that it gets adapted to a lot of stuff it really shouldn't be. A big chunk of Corporate America uses Excel the way our foreprogrammers used Perl or Bash, adapting it to all manner of tasks because it's what they know. I admire their resourcefulness (and scorn their IT environment for limiting their access to better tools) but that handiness leads them into solutions that are fragile, unmaintainable, uncheckable and unscaleable.

The step from Excel to broader, more flexible tools is the move away from graphically delineated relationships to logically stated relationships. It's a very hard step, and one most people won't make unless they force themselves through a period of clumsiness while they orient themselves to a new approach.

Exercises like the OP are a great way to do just that: "I'm going to force myself in this direction by setting some simple but arbitrary obstacle that will build capabilities I can use elsewhere." Doing so on tasks that are well understood may help even more -- "I know how I would do this in Excel, how do I do it in Python?" -- because your knowledge of the problem frees you to learn the new things about this new sort of solution.

The OP isn't saying the CLI is the right tool for everything, he's saying this is a way to build the understanding that lets you move to it freely when it is the right.
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Poorly-written article. First of all, whenever you use "complete" in your headline you better make sure you deliver. On a topic such as comparing these two so very popular programming languages, such statement is overly ambitious and I personally read it with skepticism, hence (maybe) my criticism below. Moving on to the text. Focuses on syntax only which certainly isn't the complete picture. No examples provided, no references to support any of his statements. On top of it, some incorrect statements, too, as tgd pointed out. Definitely not "complete". And then there's the obvious fact it's subjectively written. The author tries hard to praise Java. Yes, some of this praise is reasonable (to me, at least) but without any examples and data, it just makes it a shallow argument and bets on the reader's personal experience. Other praise is just vague - how does eliminating pointers "makes Java programs more robust" ? I personally don't know so would have been great to learn this.
Ugh, I always find myself correcting people on that and I hate myself for letting it slip through.
World of Warcraft was designed from the beginning with casual in mind. You cannot lose anything and player A is better than B only because A spent more time on the game than B. They introduced bound items and made crafting more of a time-sink than a player-based economy. Years of WoW market dominance has warped the meaning of 'hardcore' somewhat though. I still wouldn't make it a function of how much time is spent on something; it would make Farmville full of 'hardcore gamers'.

PS. The above statements are to be taken in context of MMOs with a player-based economy, such as EVE.
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no mention on how to implement tetris in sed either. ( which would be the end of the road in sed-fu )
If you enjoyed this article you might like to give "For the Win" by Cory Doctorow a read, it's a pretty fun book that asks questions with regards to game economies and how they might affect the real world.
As an app developer I miss the more real-life oriented icons that appears in Glyphish and Glyphicons. For example a train, meal, beer etc.
Can any MAME/MESS hackers tell us if we'll be seeing accuracy improvements now that this information is available. MESS is my console emulator of choice.
Things being normal does not mean they are a good idea. How will teaching a class of 30 be improved with the addition of 30 tablets or smartphones, apart from in the rare occasions that you are teaching how to program the things?
You realise that Google is constantly updating your phone via it's Apps (e.g. new Youtube, new Market), yes?

If so, why would you not feel you are missing out during the year between functionality updates for iOS and instead focus only on the OS version number? Is it simply that you don't want other people to have updates if you don't have them, rather than missing the actual functionality itself? Because you not having an update because it's in Apple's secret lab seems fairly similar to not having it because your phone hasn't yet update to the latest Android OS.

Would you prefer if Google kept all those updates to itself and then forced them on carriers once a year? I'm assuming you don't think iOS (or Android) is more than say 6 months ahead of the competition or you'd just have given that as a reason for switching rather than the manner in which you get the latest functionality.
I agree, you can't say they're equivalent acts, but its no surprise that lying happens after killing ..
Your assumption is that a 'clear abuse of the system' is unethical. Overflowing a char buffer to get control of EIP is also a 'clear abuse of the system', yet I have a hard time qualifying that (by itself) as unethical.
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Good hackers won't be caught, there is no training. If they do XYZ and don't leave any traces they can't be caught. It took a considerable amount of time and effort to catch these people and they left hundreds of logs.
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I do this. I live in the command line exclusively and have for over a decade, except for web browsing (Lynx is extremely useful though) with Firefox + pentadactyl, and PDF/image,video viewing/editing.

But then again I'm a little biased, since I work for a company that makes our own vi, perl, awk port of entire POSIX APIs for Windows and UNIX shells etc. And cross platform ALM suite of applications (Linux, Solaris, AIX, HPUX, Windows, Mac OS X). I can't imagine being a developer and not being in the CLI 99% of the time.
Why SPDY and similar techniques could succeed where coloring TOS bits failed
Mozilla worked too on visual hashing: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Identity/Watchdog/Visual_Hashing

Chrome extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/lkoelcpcjjehbjcchc...
When you enter your password in a password field, the characters are obscured, making it harder to tell when you've made a typo.

So, if your password is "Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall" and you accidentally type in "Humpty Dumpty sat on a ball" you would immediately realize your mistake, because the password's color signature would be different than what you're used to seeing.
Guy who prominently displays "Apple distinguished educator" proudly on his site doesn't like Android. Who would have thought?

There is nothing that they say that we haven't heard one thousand times before. Well the single and only thing that I might say is unique is the backup bit, though is this really such a problem? What are people backing up? My contacts are in the cloud. My email is in the cloud. My documents are in the cloud. Even my game save state is in the cloud. What's left? I'd rather that I don't have to backup anything, which is generally exactly how Android operates. I've jumped between six devices having never backed up or restored a thing, yet there it is.

Further it's interesting that the fragmentation discussion reaches its maximum volume shortly before the solution appears. Many tens of millions of devices will see 4.0 updates within the next 30 days (anyone want to take a wager?). What then?
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Of course, my preferred solution to this problem is to allow the user to toggle the password field, so that they can view the unobscured text if they wish.
How to start programming Android?
Android has a large community of developers writing applications (“apps”) that extend the functionality of the devices.http://codersky.com/how-to-develop-android-applications-212
Seems complicated. I always use four simple files:

settings.py
settings_development.py
settings_staging.py
settings_production.py

Where the first one has the defaults (usable for local development), and the others contain any overrides needed to run with Gunicorn on the corresponding dev/staging/production servers.
It's frustrating. I envy you.
Never ethical to assist law enforcement? Never??

Come on man.
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You are not Samsung's customer.

I bought my i9100 full retail. I am most certainly their customer. Just got a major Kies update yesterday. Even for those people who get their device carrier subsidized -- which is the vast majority, including for Apple devices (where Apple sells the device to the carrier and not to the end user) -- Samsung is very interested in making their customer, the end-user, happy. The end result of their efforts is unprecedented, almost Apple-like interest in every leak about the Galaxy S III.

Same thing with HTC -- they suffered a down year because they didn't do well, so they're back and ready to delight customers again. The One is on my short list.

Android is merely a platform that allows Samsung to tailor their devices to the carrier's requirements...So how does Android 4 help Samsung better meet the demands of the carriers? It doesn't

Pick an argument and stick with it. That you have collapsed all of Android's many advantages into such a biased, nonsensical anti-Android growl is absurd enough, but keep some coherency in your argument.

Neither the carriers nor the manufacturers will spend a dime to rush out Android 4.

Yet the next 30 days will see tens of millions of devices updated. I'm curious what you'll say then. Oh I know what you'll say: Google is hard at work trying to push the next version of Android out, and then the next version after that, reaching a frantic pace, even if it provides ammunition for bores to declare fragmentation.
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The TSA is partly responsible for huge numbers of people refusing to visit the U.S. for business or recreation. Think of all the U.S. cities, counties, and states spending money to get people to visit, yet many people think, "Get on a plane and allow my daughter or wife to be molested? No thanks."

Touching another person's genitals without permission is sexual assault, and many people will not put themselves in that predicament.
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we have no good cause to question Osama's stated motives. When an organization repeatedly makes clear their motives through public statements; when that organization undertakes combat operations at such great risk and cost...

Let me ask everyone who believes OBL's stated motives: when GWB tells us repeatedly in public that we must invade Iraq because of the threat of WMD, and that the objectives have nothing to do with protecting oil supplies, should we take that statement at face value? I mean, the US through GWB has invested tons of resources, including the lives of its troops, into fighting that war, so surely the President's statements regarding the motivations can be accepted without question, right?

I'm not taking sides here. I'm trying to say that nobody ever truly knows the motivations of another person; in fact, frequently we don't truly understand the roots of our own motivations. See, for example, discussion in Mises' Human Action.
There's nothing wrong with that. The problem is that Sony Ericsson (and others) have made many promises on upgrades that they have been unable to keep. If Apple released the iPhone 5 running iOS 3 while promising to update it to iOS 5 later, at the very least people would be thinking that Apple could use some improvement in their development process.

If Google had been more open in their development of Android, all members of the OHA would have had repository access before release of a new version, and manufacturers would outside of the launch partner would have been able to develop their new hardware on the latest OS release.
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Even with a deficiency you would probably be able to distinguish between different colours, right?
Is DevOps killing the Operations team?
You never played Vanilla. Raids were almost impossible for over 90% of the players in the beginning. There are professional WoW players today, who are sponsored. It was designed for hardcore and casual players. With the Addons it got more and more casual friendly.

Soulbound items did exactly the opposite, materials were still traded and when it was crafted there was no resell value. That meant the demand stayed high. The economy was also influenced trough expensive mounts and auction taxes. It may be not as complex as EVE, but big because everyone participated in it.
> lynx has more options and is more powerful in general, but elinks has a better rendering and looks.

I've never understood why lynx gets so much more love and respect than elinks. Elinks has tabs, lynx doesn't. Elinks supports some EMCAscript, lynx does not. What are these special features that only lynx has?
So basically weinre + auto reloading, but for some reason not supporting Linux.
Whether or not he's talented is irrelevant. He's an idiot for the same reason the thread OP stated he's an idiot: their actions cause more damage to their supposedly good-natured charities than the victims they stole money from. Not to mention the braggadocio, carelessness, lack of regard for his fellow "footsoldiers", and the haphazard way he conducts his attacks (be they physical or virtual) as to not even be effective at achieving any real results.

You want to smash the state? You want to end the tyrrany of capitalism? You want "freedom" ? Running around the streets in bandannas disabling vehicles and "fucking shit up" ain't gonna get you there buddy. Neither is stealing money from the majority of the people who used a service as a better-filtered newswire in the name of some hokey idea that the "security state" needs to be brought down.

He's a bully and a closed-minded bigot and he's too radical to ever be able to introduce any real change other than making the police remove more of our rights in order to combat people like him. He's a terrorist. And an idiot.

But that's just my opinion.