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To anyone who sees the above comment: this is a classic troll comment. The user 'tptacek' can't think of any flaws in this idea, but because it isn't his own, and because his inability to find any flaws causes him frustration, he feels the need to denigrate the idea by calling it "silly". It isn't particularly clear A) why the so-called "pepper" method would be inferior to some others and B) why it couldn't be combined with tptacek's suggestions.

Even in tptacek's follow-up comment further down, there is still not even a single reason given as to why one of these ideas is inferior to another. If you are comparing ideas X and Y, and you think X is inferior to Y, you cannot demonstrate that fact to others by saying "Y is a great idea" because X may be an equally great idea, even if you think it is "silly" and you "condescend" to it.

This is the difference between good writing and bad writing.

A bad writer will tell you how to fell ("John and Cindy sat outside, watched the amazing sunset, and felt happy to be together")

A good writer will make you feel something. Here is a cheesy example, this might work if you dig 90210, dubious in these parts, I admit. Or it just might induce nausea... ("John looked out at the sunset. Rays of light spilled through the clouds and over the rust-colored hills. A bird chirped twice in the distance by the lone birch tree before fluttering off. He could just barely make out a mark on on the tree. He turned to Cindy and asked 'Can you see it, where I carved our initials?' She looked out toward the tree and smiled. She looked over and cooed "Aww...", and then she snuggle-leaned into him.")

Good writing is a lot of work, but the alternative is to look like a jerk /Fezzik
If you have any legitimate criticisms of Peter Thiel, or the essay mentioned in that gawker article ( http://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/peter-thiel/the-educa... ), please consider elaborating on them in a new post. I'm sure many here would be interested.

But linking to gawker in the comments of an unrelated story probably isn't the best way to express your concerns.
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I like USAA's iPhone (or scanner) check deposit. You have to have a credit card or a loan with them, but when you submit a check, you instantly get the money. However, you also have to write a little note with your account number on the back of each check, which could be a pain if you had a stack of checks.
Agreed. I keep a Chase account just for the convenience of phone deposits. I have an ATM right across the street and have never used it.

Phone deposit has only failed me a couple of times but these seemed like back end type issues, tried again the next day and it worked fine.

What other banks allow for phone deposits ?
Not mocking. Definitely being a little sarcastic. But why do we have to get into a holy war over Stallman. You know as well as I do that what I said is true but unfortunately Stallman's cult following absolutely must punish anyone who points out the obvious. So I said what I needed to. I was actually being sincere, not trying to outright mock him for the sake of mocking him.
"Then that's your own fault". I think that is where we disagree.

With any other service when such changes are made you are required to opt-in. I tried to manage privacy via Facebook and just gave up as even the options to make certain areas private went away and I have lost track. I have just given up.

I agree with your point that IF you still want to be on Facebook this is a mandatory activity (& yet quite difficult as options just go away!).
I thought that at first too, but then I started reading blogs that were scraped and fed to my kindle. Now I find that it is much easier to read and take the time to comprehend content when the cost of following links (through the kindles ersatz browser)is so high. Since most of what I'm interested in reading centers on computers or general science, plain text formatting and lack of images isn't a problem.
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Isn't it more of a competitive advantage to have your competitor paying a good portion of their revenues to you?

If anything Amazon might start playing harder ball with Netflix. They don't seem to be a very vicious company though, so even that is unlikely.
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Here is a link to his notes from the first lecture in case if anyone is interested: http://blakemasters.tumblr.com/post/20400301508/cs183class1
I just started idly wondering from your comment what sort of restrictions Stallman would place on a sex robot.

Please don't inspire me to think of such things again.
Can someone help me understand what the purpose of this is:

I have several free web browsers on my laptop, but I generally do not look at web sites from my own machine, aside from a few sites operated for or by the GNU Project, FSF or me. I fetch web pages from other sites by sending mail to a program that fetches them, much like wget, and then mails them back to me.
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He does not want to be tracked.
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I guess you can contribute serialisisaion formats to the project.
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I think its because he always has higher priorities than browsing the net. Or may be he needs some information to take a decision or for something he needs to do later.

So he just puts it on a email queue. Later he can access that information from his mail box and take a look at that information.

Most important people, have better things to do than browsing site all day. Infact some people even ask me to mail them some stuff I tell them is interesting and then they go back to that at their convenience.
That's the thing. You said it. Not many will see his motivations unless he spells it out and the man is an awful communicator in that he can't go two words without putting someone off. Unfortunately he's a bit of an extremist. At least that's how he presents himself. So I doubt younger folks will get where he's coming from. I'm 25 and I've read about Stallmam for only the past five years and I can tell you that what he stands for sounds great in theory but unfortunately he's not too good at showing us how to reconcile that theory with reality. I don't think kids younger than me will ever get Stallmam. As far as I see he becomes more irrelevant in the eyes of each passing generation. Not that he's irrelevant, just that he's seen that way as you go younger.

And I'd totally be willing to try out the first sex robot.
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He sounds like a religious fundamentalist, or an Amish farmer. What a limiting worldview.
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I skimmed documentation of Python after people told me it was fundametally similar to Lisp. My conclusion is that that is not so. When you start Lisp, it does `read', `eval', and `print', all of which are missing in Python.

Lisp experts, what does this mean? As far as I can tell, Python has pretty good REPL facilities.
Well this page is specific to how he does his computing.
You just conflated "need" with "choose" to make what is either an obtuse or dishonest point for your own purposes. Which is it?
He is an extremist and puts many people off with what he says.

That is the point. He doesn't need to change his approach or principles. His actions are still in line with what he says.
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I am curious, would Ruby be a good fit in this case? With its irb and all.
Like most people, I find Stallman strange. His methods are quirky, and his language grating. He alienates his allies more often than his enemies. He picks fights at the wrong times. He stands behind principle in circumstances where it clearly hurts his cause.

But... he's right. Almost always, he's right. He's made a 40 year career now of being right: often decades before the rest of us figure it out. That's enough for me to cut him as much slack as he wants.

Nattering detractors like you have been around for almost as long as he has. I used to be one 15 years ago (when, damn it, I was sure he was going to tank the coming open source revolution; except he didn't, and he was right). He just draws that kind of attention.
This seems to suggest that you would get a more honest reply through email than either phone or face-to-face contact.
Does anyone have any idea what program he's using for this?

I would suspect that it's because he feels browsing web pages doesn't need to be instant, in a lot of cases, and he can just fetch pages via email and read them later at his leisure, and also have a convenient archive of them.
Is it possible that given time to think, the subjects decided that they probably couldn't get away with cheating, despite wanting to?
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It looks like he just misread this article, which is kind of a disaster itself -- it recommends storing MD5 hashes of passwords, maybe with a salt if you want to be extra secure.

http://www.skrenta.com/2007/08/md5_tutorial.html

Edit: Oh dear, there's a followup post:

http://www.skrenta.com/2007/08/crypto_vs_the_working_coder.h...
Several Lisp dialects like Scheme and Clojure are still going strong. It's a very useful language to learn even in 2012.
If I want to match multiple patterns at the same time, wouldn't it be more efficient to build a (possibly tagged) DFA from them? Then the performance would be independent from the number of patterns to match (modulo some startup cost to construct the DFA in the first place).
More than enough time for the profit margin of a startup's customers to walk off then.
Unfortunately, our app relies on the AWS APIs, so without your credentials there's not a lot you will be able to do. We combined the AWS and password forms because we were getting a lot of support requests from people not entering them, so we felt it was best to force it early on.
Mm, no, just from investors to startups. Startups don't invest in investors :)
His tone is so arrogant and condescending.

>I recommend all the ethical distros — namely, those that are 100% free software.

i.e.: Any distro that uses anything that I don't like, namely 100% free software, is unethical.

>If you don't know Lisp (or its variant, Scheme), you don't appreciate what a powerful language is.

If some random person on hacker news came out and said this, we'd call them a buffoon and say they need to get out more. When Richard Stallman says it, we lap up his words and marvel at his terse wit.
The one thing I get kind of annoyed with Stallman at is that he keeps mentioning this Leemote machine he has, which runs free software even in the BIOS. He might as well say that he runs Linux on a magical unicorn.

I have tried and never been able to get my hands on one of these things. I'd really like to see Stallman jump off his insistence on free for one second and maybe suggest something realistic for users who care about free software but aren't willing to work on an obscure, unavailable 7" netbook.
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Serious question. What exactly is he right about?
No, Ruby's implementation of it's interactive mode is similar to Python's - not via data structures, but via strings.
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No, that's not what you were getting at, at all.

You made nothing more than an ad hominem attack. First you wanted us to discount Stallman's argument because of...wait for it...the way he reads web pages.

Second you wanted us to discount Stallman's argument because "he's so far off the page from the vast bulk of humanity (in terms of how he communicates)".

Can't imagine how such a mess at communicating and someone so very far off the page keeps duping all those folks who keep inviting him to speak (as well as the folks who gave him the ACM Grace Hopper Award, a MacArthur Foundation fellowship, the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Pioneer award, the Takeda Award for Social/Economic Betterment, andseveral honorary doctorates):

http://www.fsf.org/events/rms-speeches.html

Mar 01, Madrid, Spain "Por una sociedad digital libre"
Mar 07, Sunnyvale, CA "Copyright vs. Community"
Mar 13, Republic of Singapore "Free Software and Your Freedom"
Mar 14, Republic of Singapore "For a Free Digital Society"
Mar 27, New York, NY "For a Free Digital Society"
Mar 29, West Lafayette, IN "The Free Software Movement"
Apr 03, Ashland, OR "Copyright vs. Community"
Apr 04, Ashland, OR "For a Free Digital Society"
Jul 10, Dresden, Germany "The Free Software Movement"

Some communicator.

Now. Do you actually have anything at all to say about Stallman's actual argument(s) in that thread? Did you even read them?
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I get it, you don't like RMS, but just because it's on the front page doesn't mean you have to read this story. The way HN works is people vote up stories they find interesting. Since different people find different things interesting very often there will be stories on the front page that you don't find interesting. Every time that happens you shouldn't write a comment complaining that the story is boring and the people who voted for it are dumb. Instead you should just ignore it and move on.
If you do not find it interesting, do not up-vote it. I find your opinion really boring. Interesting maybe for Bill Patriankos fanatics, but barely explained. Did people just see Patriankos and up vote? Come on.
I am amazed that this business works. I'm not saying it's a bad product, but rather that there doesn't appear to be much of a product market fit.

Here's why: the fields that would see value in creative resumes like these are creativity driven fields - specifically graphic design, web development, visual design, print design, frontend, etc. Creative resumes can be valuable in these fields because they are a means to showcase relavent skills. If I'm applying for a job as a graphic designer, I would be stupid not to take advantage of the blank canvas that is a resume.

Concurrently, non design related fields likely do not see much value in a well designed resume, simply because it is unimportant and irrelevant. Yeah, the resume stands out from the pack, but surely this does not influence hiring decisions? Surely whoever is reading these resumes is not impressed by a bit of color and typography? Though I am probably being naive here - every little bit helps, especially when there are hundreds or thousands of other resumes to compete against.

So with that, if one assumes the highest demand for creative resumes is in creative fields, then this is like selling ice to eskimos. Designers can - and should - design their own creative resumes to market themselves.

But clearly I am wrong. So I wonder how well these resumes will convert? Somebody should A/B test and report back :)
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He has a point though, lisp is unique thus you need to try it to understand it.
You make a good point. One should not decide what's important for civilization just because of what he likes or not.

Now, about your vision of privacy for the future, let's just say that you may have some people that agree with you at Girls Around Me. It also look like they thought privacy didn't matter to people.
Honestly, what the hell are you talking about? He spend his life explaining why non-free software is unethical and providing free software, what this has to do with liking or not liking and what is arrogant about that? There are objective criteria by which non-free software is unethical and he certainly has the right to state his opinions on this.
I don't understand his point. I'd be very sad if set myself so strict rules. Terminal is powerful, but this doesn't mean not to user X11. I like *nix and open source, but why souldn't I use Windows (which i find very nice system since Windows 7). He says Lisp is powerful, I agree. I prefer Scheme, but it's the same strengh. However it doesn't mean I use only C and scheme. I rather use a rule - match programming language to task you do. Somethimes it's C, sometimes scheme, sometimes perl, sometimes even C#. And so on...
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I've used the Chase app for depositing a multitude of checks and after the first two or three times I got down exactly how it wanted me to take the picture and it was extremely easy and convenient. I haven't had a check that wasn't accepted.

After that I've kept the checks in an envelope after writing (cashed) on the back so that I know they were deposited.

The convenience and ease of use is fantastic. I really wish my other bank (ING Direct) would support something similar.
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Alternative experience: I've deposited about 60 checks lifetime through the app over the last year or so, and literally had it fail twice the first few times I used it, then they updated it and it has only failed once since. So I mean, ~57/60 successes on first try, and 100% overall success ain't bad. I LOVE this app (and generally hate Chase otherwise...)
PayPal isn't a bank per-se.
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False equivalence. But do go ahead and give us your argument for how hypocrisy is more admirable.
rms is way ahead of the times.
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Only half?

(I wish I was joking.)
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Looks interesting, congrats on getting a product out. A bit of design advice- stick to 2 font styles on the frontpage. The 4 current styles are too much to process and take away from your message.

Best of luck!
I don't know what the grand-parent was talking about, but if you want to read something that he foresaw before everybody (AFAIK) check the Right to Read essay (http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html)
Just because someone is in a non-design field doesn't mean they don't appreciate design. Even though two resumes might say the same thing in text, the better designed one will convey important information more efficiently.

By standing out, you show your potential employer that you cared enough to spent some time (or money) on trying to impress them.
Don't waste time.
Agree USAA is awesome.

FWIW, you should always endorse your checks.
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It is not being imposed up on. If you are on FB, it is a system you are willing to participate in. You are not obligated to communicate either way.

An analogy that I can think of in the real world similar to what you are saying is, when I go to the mall, I like a hassle free shopping. Which means, I don't like to be bothered by sales/stores clerk. When I am at Macy's it is just a matter of time when a store clerk walks up to me to find out if I am finding everything allright. Now I can go ahead and be rude to that person considering he/she is intruding, or fake to be nice to quickly move on.

The point is going to the mall was my decision and I chose to go, very aware of what the system has.
You can't be bothered about what someone else thinks when you really don't care much about them. Ignoring a friend request is a valid option.
I remember seeing Xavier's talk at Strata 2012 (Santa Clara) on this, but not sure if it is up on the web.
Since you know how to program, I'd recommend picking up Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programming (aka SICP aka the wizard book), and reading/working through that. It does a great job of showing why lisp is awesome. Paul Graham wrote another awesome lisp book called 'on lisp', but i'd recommend SICP as a first read.
I completely disagree. I absolutely love digital deposits. Unfortunately I have Bank of America who is incredibly slow at implementing this but I use the same feature on the PayPal app as a way to get around not having it with BOA. I've seriously considered switching to Chase just for this feature. I hate going to the bank. PayPal limits you to $1,000 a month which is pretty annoying but is still way better than nothing. It's nice to have when you get checks for a few hundred dollars and it's not worth going to the bank for. I've never had one check rejected. I just really wish BOA would implement this already.
That's what I said, Objective-C is a superset of C. C is a subset of Obj-C.

You can simply do this (the actual FFI call might be wrong, it's been a while):

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You can literally code Obj-C straight into it.
Great read! Isn't this a bummer though? -- "On the topic of friends, we recently released our Facebook connect feature in 46 out of the 47 countries we operate – all but the US because of concerns with the VPPA law."

(I wonder to what extent it also constrains recommendations based on user similarity.)
I'm not at all clear on how I mocked Stallman.

But since you brought it up, the man has some very well documented personal eccentricities, beyond his choice in laptops. I'm sure anyone who would be interested in his email-reading procedures are equally interested in those other things too.
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