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> IRC operates passwords in plaintext format

Only if you don't have an SSL connection (which most IRC networks do support).
I built this site as a weekend project to teach myself Django. It turned out to be a pretty interesting way to visually view how stories rise and fall on HN over the course of the day.

I am planning to do some more analysis of the data soon and add more features to the site. Any suggestions of useful metrics would be helpful.
Ah, I knew I was missing a few more things. Yes, as much as the slow-moving regulatory world may raise a lot of well-deserved, techno-libertarian ire, I think we can all agree what you're describing is good red tape.

Licensure, state registration, federally-mandated commercial drone manufacturing standards, and liability insurance may sound like a damper on the future, but by ensuring a baseline of safety and reliability, it will ultimately open up the market to all sorts of innovation.
its simply understanding your client`s pain point(s) and providing a solution.

Thing is there`s 2 users here

1) facebook user. demanding inappropriate access to their personal life is invasive - todays memo... check.

2) employer/potential employer. Understanding the character of the candidate. Facebook offers a premium service e.g. say $10k/seat that offers more in-depth access. similar to LinkedIn`s premium account.. yet users dont feel violated.

Todays note address 1) maybe 2) will be addressed in the future. Im sure that would be quite the cash cow.
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That's the passive-aggressive way.

If you're not ideally suited to something, refer someone who is. I've wasted alot of time dealing with vendors who played these sorts of stupid games -- it's really frustrating, and lowers my overall opinion of the vendor.
Good for Facebook for standing up against this sort of thing.

I have mixed feelings about the whole account access thing though.

On the one hand, I do think it's entirely unreasonable for your employer to have your password. There are certain exceptions to this (eg anything requiring Top Secret clearance?).

On the other hand, my personal view is nothing on the Internet is truly private. If you want it to remain private, you shouldn't put it on the Internet in any form, otherwise it's just a privacy policy change or a security breach or a bug away from being exposed.
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Software is only a part of it. I deal every day with software that doesn't randomly fail -- we write damn good code -- but the hardware it controls has failure modes that can't always be predicted, or are so unlikely that no one thought of it.

Realize here that we're not talking about software running on a server in a nice temperature controlled room. This is software controlling hardware that is under constant vibration, will get sticky, or bend, or break, or ice up under variable conditions - hot, dry, rainy, wind gusts as it goes from behind a building to crossing an intersection. There is a mind boggling number of things that can go wrong when you're controlling a device in the 'real world.'

Even if the software is perfect there is still a large number of variables to account for and most of them can't be controlled. There's a case for UAVs and I would love to get involved with them, but building a reliable UAV and properly maintaining it would almost certainly cost too much to have it deliver tacos. Unless you're willing to spend $250 to avoid walking a few blocks.
No, the graph shows markets for entire product categories. Individual products might have faster initial growth (because previous iterations for that market would be ignored), on the other hand they are fast to be discontinued.
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The cynic in me says that facebook is doing this because the employers didn't go through the proper channels (i.e. pay facebook for that kind of access) and it's a message: If you want that kind of data, you have to pay for it.

I hope this isn't the case, but facebook doesn't really have a great record when it comes to privacy.
I do a combination of design and coding work. For design, screen real estate is essential.
Really looking forward to Loren's documentary. His no-nonsense delivery is really grabbing. I don't mean to use a buzz word here in this part for its own sake, but it's rather apropos: Loren likes to disrupt the general flow and consensus on a lot of topics, the least of which being social media. This -will- be a fantastic thing for you to peep, so if you're interested in seeing it happen, check out the Kickstarter and maybe toss him a few bones.
The list of articles/ideas/drafts? The full screen editing mode? Which part?

I'll grant him the UI is new, but in essence, it's a skin over existing concepts. And, to be clear, when I say UI, I'm referring to the the colors and graphics. Sort of like someone coming up with a new theme for Firefox. You still have the form of a browser, just with different colors, padding, and images.

So again, I pose my question, where is the new, unique, non-obvious innovation here? You seem to have some interest in defending this idea, so maybe you can answer this.

I'm not a designer, so clearly, I might be missing something.

Edit: Just to be clear here, for one example, was when I saw his distraction free writing screen, it reminded me of the countless other implementations I've seen for other blogging platforms, not to mention what's built into Word and Pages (with Word's being far more elegant).
Real Estate has proven profitable for me. Look for cheap multi-family units. You could live in one-side rent the other for tax benefits, or rent both sides.

Stocks, bonds. 80% stocks, 20% bonds given your age and the fact you are already saving for retirement.

If you own a home, pay extra on your mortgage. Depending on how much extra, you could pay off your home in 5-10 years versus a standard 30.

Or you could use it for advancing freelance/etc. For instance, I pick up freelance web-dev jobs and do some advertising consulting with my background in the printing industry.

One last thing, still have fun with it. It gets easy to become so focused on investing that you are living for 10 years from now, and missing living-in-the-moment.
I've recently turned to a password manager site. I know that won't work for common users, as the thought of signing into a second site takes waaay too long... But is there any reason a more tech savvy person wouldn't?
I got that, my concern isn't about the privacy, but about micro-managing your kid's life. The fact that this is in the intro video makes it appear to me as an essential feature. No "oh, by the way, if you really want to you can check what your kid did today", but having it as a prominent feature of your web management platform.

My worries isn't "should parents be allowed to know that", but "should parents care to check that all the time".
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I am not aware of a single automotive subsystem controller (or any other embedded system for that matter) that reboots as a preventative mechanism. For handling an unrecoverable error, yes, that's standard practice. But rebooting in an attempt to prevent errors? That screams bad design.

Can you offer more details?
Actually, it would be a breaking news for people who subscribe to mind-matter dualism. There are quite a lot of them, for instance followers of many Christian religions.
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I was looking forward to learning nginx, until I read this...

It's very nicely written and explains things well, but it doesn't so much teach nginx as it does point out all the contradictory and unexpected behaviors. That doesn't look fun to learn (or work with) at all.

Edit: I just looked in to agentzh's other project OpenResty, and I take everything back. It may be difficult, but it's extremely powerful, and seemingly worth dealing with the 'gotchas'.
Also, more advanced technology is going to be much more expensive when it first hits market than simpler refinements on existing technology.

The boom box was a significant price reduction from the standard hi-fi setup of the 70s. Cell phones, on the other hand, were prohibitively expensive for many years after their initial introduction.
Facebook may sue under 18 USC § 1030(g) for unauthorized access to its computer systems if the employer obtains another person's password and then accesses that person's account using said password.

It may also sue under state law for tortious interference for inducing users to breach their contract with Facebook. (It is against Facebook's TOS to share one's password.)
Generalizing from a single case doesn't work that well. I work much better with an external keyboard, external mouse and external 22" monitor. My editor takes 100% vertical space and 70-100% horizontal space.
"Sadly there is no reasonable path to doing this legally."

There is, and that's to get "everyone" to do it. I recall the recent HN-linked article [1], which called for a large number of people to demand a trial, rather than take a plea deal, because that would collapse the system. Or, if everyone carried a gun, openly, and without a permit, the government couldn't stop the practice because it wouldn't have the resources to disarm an entire, determined population. The same is true for these tiny flying machines. The main problem, though, is the expense, as it would be a lot easier for any given person to acquire a gun than to acquire one of these, but the principle is the same. That leads to the observation that the expense is there because of lack of innovation in the field, and said lack exists due to laws restricting the use of anything which could be built. The answer is to simply ignore the laws, while pursuing the best technical answers, such as, for example, applying the recently-developed techniques of self-assembly, from the creators of the Harvard Monolithic Bee [2], in an effort to drive down costs and democratize the process of construction and ownership of tiny copters, so that, in fact, pretty much everyone who wanted to could possess one.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3690481

[2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3606394
There's some of us who work on JGit (http://eclipse.org/jgit/) which is used by many folks to get cross-platform Git support. The .NET community took things a step further by cross-compiling to C# via NGit (https://github.com/mono/ngit) to get solid Git support.

Stepping back, it's a bit crazy to see these two different communities working together :)
Well that works fine until you're the one that's killed because of a failure. People after you are protected by the legislation passed, but you're SOL!
I discovered LÖVE sometime around this february. We have a Game-making group at university, so I wanted to show them too. All went well until we looked at the libraries :/
Roth IRAs are about $105k/yr limit. (it fades out up to $125k)

You can do a 401k rollover to Roth without any income limit.

You can do a Traditional IRA without income limit, although deductibility DOES have an income limit (56k since you have a 401k). I'm not exactly sure how a non-deductible IRA rolls over into a Roth; I've only ever done 401k to Rollover IRA to Roth. I don't think you get taxed twice on the money.
There's a link to download the PDF on the bar on the right.
I think you could make an object like that, but you'd need to take a rectangular prism and bend it - the top and bottom of the I look like they are receding from you.
"You want my FB password? Sure, but please know that if anyone asks for my company computer account password I will comply with that as well."
Maybe some "flag this" concensus would work.
I assume this installs itself as a replacement launcher. In which case it'd be the first thing that come up every time the phone boots. I'm pretty sure the "login" step they show is just on initial install.
no, he means fleshlight ;) (nsfw)
jleader's tortious interference is a good candidate but given the fact that many "hackers" have been strung up on very flimsy charges I'm sure Facebook lawyers could find something.

"Computer hacking" laws are so bad and vague that touching any computer any way that someone somewhere doesn't like is basically illegal.
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Please be specific about what you're trying to fix/solve/accomplish. The more details you provide, the better I can help you out. I'll typically reciprocate the amount of effort/consideration that you've shown in your request. I'll accept any requests made before the end of today and will attempt to respond by the end of the weekend.

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I don't think Facebook would want to sell its data so obviously just offering users' profiles to any business that comes and pays. This would be too bold of a move.
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The privacy invasion is for the contacts who never consented to give Facebook their information.
Schools are breeding grounds for this sort of thing.

Combine psychotic parents, "cyber bullying" (a crisis de jure), morals clauses in contracts, "think of the children" attitude, and sometimes tyrannical administration, and you get crazy stuff like this.
This assumes you have a phone that isn't already SIM-locked, like most of them are when purchased from carriers.
Did I miss the sarcasm? How is that clear to you?

I thought asking for personal information like marital status , age, etc.. is illegal in the U.S.
I wish there were someone willing to stand up for us against employment-related credit checks and drug testing, too.

As a European working in the US, I find it astounding that these utter invasions of privacy are considered routine. I don't know whether they're legally acceptable in Europe, but they don't seem to be morally acceptable to most people.
What is the age-recommendation?
I found it pretty easy to use the left and right arrow keys, assuming you have a keyboard available to you.
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you dont need pwd to piggyback into a user's account. Since the userID/pwd validation is theirs, they can bypass the validation if they want based on some prefix or suffix in the userID field.
Productivity for hackers:

1. At least two large monitors tuned to an accurate and comfortable brightness/contrast ratio/colour balance.

2. Ergonomic high-end chair picked by the person using it, correct desk height, monitor height and other ergonomic configuration for prolonged sitting and typing.

3. Correct lighting to reduce eye strain.

4. Clear desk and plenty of space so there is no clutter in the way.

5. Silence and isolation from distraction. Social activities and team work can occur elsewhere in specifically designed areas.

6. Ergonomic high-end mouse and keyboard picked by the person using them. Spare no expense.

7. Flexibility for developers to change the tools and work environment on an individual basis as they discover their own preferences.

8. Ability for developers to walk away from a problem, do something completely unrelated to work and come back later in a better state of mind to continue. This is similar to (7) - maximum flexibility.

9. Tablet and/or laptop for portable use when a developer decides these tools are better suited for the current task. It can be more productive in the long run to sit outside in the sun or on a comfy couch reading part of a book or technical paper, listing ideas, drawing UI mockups, thinking or clearing the mind.

10. Quality fresh food of multiple varieties available at different proximities (10m, 100m, 1km).

11. An environment filled with smart people and a "hacker friendly culture".

12. Managers that understand their primary role as removing roadblocks rather than micromanaging the project through quantitative measures such as bugs found per line of code.

13. A blue space ship as deemed necessary.

Yes, this is a serious list.
I have accounts on around 200 sites. Would I need to list every single one?
I wrestled with the ETF vs. Index mutual fund debate too, but I realized that pretty much each Vanguard ETF has an index fund equivalent with the same expense ratio if you invest at least $10,000 to get Admiral Shares. For example, VFINX: https://personal.vanguard.com/us/FundsSnapshot?FundId=0040&#....

At this point, there are only two differences between the two:
1) You can't day trade index funds
2) You can't auto invest in ETFs

Auto investing was really important to me for dollar cost averaging, so I decided to go with index funds rather than ETFs in the end.

By the way, Vanguard does have index funds for REITs: https://personal.vanguard.com/us/funds/snapshot?FundId=0123&...
I've started putting more and more money into lendingclub. The returns have been great and you can scale how much you put in slowly. Would definitely suggest checking it out.

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SmartGIT is not bad either and it includes a decent three way merge tool.
I find that I tend to have at least two files open side by side when coding. Maybe it's an OOP thing, but I rarely focus on just one file. Even when coding web stuff, I'll hop between HTML, an associated CSS file, and a separate javascript file all open at the same time so that I can see the interrelationships. I find the cost of context-switching between files too high when I work on a laptop with only enough screen real estate to open 1 file comfortably.
> The SIM card, as a piece of plastic used to identify your phone number and mobile operator, is indeed pre-historic technology.

I highly doubt so. SIM cards are hardware tokens, which securely hold cryptographic keys — are those things obsolete or pre-historic?

They're holding a shared encryption key (so-called Ki) but never reveal it directly. This is the point of SIM cards.

SIM cards could (and, I believe, were) implemented in software, but such implementations reduce security, usability or both.

(Yes, nowadays, I believe, almost no operator would tell you what Ki is recorded on your SIM card, so you won't be able to clone the card. But that's a completely another issue.)
hahaha

I came here to post that... too late.
The difference is the purpose of the system. I the prior, the purpose is to simply multiplex the hardware into multiple logical systems performing different tasks. And the later the purpose is to build a single unified system. It has more co,
Mmunication between the systems, and duplication of work is minimized. Only one process has any FS drivers in it. Another only worries about display. And more importantaly, it's more fault tolerant, if the display process goes down, all the other processes are generally built to wait on it coming back up. Whereas you cannot have a microkernel go down and not take an application process, file system process, and a network process with it..
Yes but what was the reason behind it? They want your password so you can easily lookup who else from your contacts is using FB to simplify & accelerate your network connections' growth. Now, if they would do that AND at the same time make a copy of your emails OR use your emails content to "tag" you as someone who likes/dislikes certain brands/products/etc to better serve you ads now or in the future, that would be totally different jar of wax. AFAIK nothing like that transpired.
That's theoretically.

Practically though you first have to dispute fraudulent transactions and file chargebacks. For the most part it's easy, but for certain online transactions the bank will tell you to go and talk to the merchant directly. I had my credit card used to subscribe to the adult dating site. When I called the bank (Royal Bank of Canada, a very large, if not largest bank in Canada), they simply transferred my call to that company and I had to prove them that it wasn't me who subscribed with my credit card. They kept asking for my email address and the phone number "to compare to those on file", and the only thing that helped was actually yelling and swearing at them.

YMMV, but $50 in damages is only a part of the package.
The question then becomes, are you an accessory to a federal crime by enabling someone to gain unauthorized access to a computer system?
This is true, however if you treat everything on the Internet as public then that removes many possible uses for it.

The internet is fast becoming the only communication channel so not using it for anything private will rapidly become impossible.
If the one on the right was only sold to exclusive, vetted users, wouldn't you be hoping for someone to make the one on the left?
HOW can Facebook, or anyone else _successfully_ protect user data from government without breaking the law?
I think Blizzard vs. MDY suggests that inducing a user to break the TOS renders the inducer liable to claims of copyright infringement.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/MDY_Indus._LLC_v._Blizzard_En....

"The Court found that since the prohibition on botting was a prohibition related to Blizzard's copyright interest in WoW, users of Glider infringed Blizzard's copyright when played the game in violation of the license. The Court believed MDY to be encouraging and profiting from this copyright infringement, and therefore found MDY secondarily liable for the infringement"
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Little bit of a strawman argument here regarding early employees taking on equivalent risk - I don't know anyone who believes that, other than the situation where early employees are unpaid and the 'product' is just a slide deck.

As for how hard people work, I would expect people to work in proportion to their expected payout. Founders have the biggest upside, so naturally they work much harder. An early employee paid with salary and little equity doesn't have the same incentives to be working 20 hours/day.
hmm , sounds like a great opportunity for a startup!

Facebook Careers, Installing it allows you to jobsearch, be head hunted and fill in applications of course it also provides recruiters a huge amount of info about you.
14. An interesting and challenging problem to work on. I can have all the above but if the task at hand is the equivalent of shoveling dirt, I will procrastinate the day away in my fancy chair, clicking my fancy mouse, surfing the web on my triple 30" setup.
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Because of a typo, the feds need to keep your private data 10 times longer?
I agree that founders take on much more risk and stress than the early employees. I think the source of the discontent that some early employees (like me) express is that the rewards for a founder are worth it, while the rewards for an early employee generally aren't.

I wrote about this in more detail in a comment a few months back - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3490364

(Some day, I will write a blog post that goes into more detail. Really. I swear. I'm totally on it. Any day now.)