skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think that Betty Williams or Mairead Maguire could be described as extremists, John Hume and David Trimble were not at the extreme end of their respective sides in the conflict either. 'Folk dancers', well if you feel happy about that comment thats up to you.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Williams_%28Nobel_laureat...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mairead_Maguire
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hume
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Trimble
The history of 1929 crash has shown that stimulus is the best medicine for financial turmoil.

Austerity was the first medicine prescribed by president Hoover and it failed. FDR initially provided stimulus but he had to abandon those due to political sentiments similar to the ones you echo. What finally ended the depression is the stimulus from the overwhelming spending on WW2.

Whether stimulus triggered by war or via the fed, its the only way to resolve financial turmoil. The time to address deficit/debt is when the economy is strong, as was done in the mid to late 90s.
As someone that penetration tests a lot of banks it does sometimes make it's way through. Larger and more established banks (at least in EMEA) sometimes tend to use highly distributed systems that all interoperate in very strange ways, which can sometimes lead to interesting results on web application penetration tests (e.g. there's no data store, so no SQL injection but there'll be some obscure pre-relational data store you can inject right into if you only know how to talk to it).

It's not that easy to get rid of either, the banks have to support internal applications that expect things in those formats, as well as all the unofficial apps that plug in via messaging systems and may not be aware of the other app from either end.
>That being said, I am glad that presentation ended up being wrong, just as I am glad the Cuban Missile Crisis did not turn into a full-blown nuclear war.

The presentation wasn't wrong it was dead on. It's just that the massive Federal Reserve intervention and US Government stimulus prevented the worst.

Similar to Y2K - lots of noise was made about it, while thousands of engineers worked around the clock fixing it, so that when it finally happened it was a nonevent.

In both cases, people who accuse the warners of crying wolf after the fact seem oblivious to the scope and nature of the problem and the effort it took to fix.

Though in the case of the financial crisis, it's not fixed. The trillions of non-performing debt has simply been shifted from private to sovereign balance sheets, and the crisis continues.

Some or all of it will default eventually, there's no way around that. It's only a question of whether it's a managed, orderly, gradual default, or an acute chain reaction collapse.
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"My favorite Ray Bradbury memory is the time he came to my school to talk about his books and ended up yelling at my English teach for trying to find hidden meaning that wasn't there just for the sake of busywork."

Also authors have a subconscious.
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Things still need to physically move, and money still needs to change hands. The bits of the economy that makes this happen aren't interested in bitcoins or karma. Coordinate all you like, but if oil tankers and container ships don't move, no-one moves.
I'm betting youtube is bigger than all of your sites combined, and they use python.
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there also was a leak around 5(!) years ago, didn't bother them to do something about it though :/

see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4083339
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I think you're setting the bar too high for tech journalists, lets aim for them knowing the difference between "md5" and "md5crypt" first.

But no, I don't think it is at all obvious why LinkedIn used unsalted SHA1.

LinkedIn went through an IPO, which implies that a number of companies have audited them from head to tail several times along the way.

If the commodity you buy is millions of user accounts, shouldn't you, as investor, at least check that there was a lock on the door to the warehouse ?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Chrome_OS#Shell_access
Well isn't it a special case of simulated reality [1]?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulated_reality#Arguments
Why would you assume that?

Persumably there should be no real reason why HASH(8_char_password) = 160_bit_hash should be less strong than HASH(160_bit_hash).

Not only that, but most hashing algorithms already do several iterations before returning the hash.
Stimulus has to go on stuff that has lasting value greater than the value of the stimulus. That is the mistake that Gordon Brown made - you can't just slosh money around. The WW2 stimulus worked because when the dust settled, there was an industry expert at mass production, a trained and disciplined workforce, and a pent-up demand for exports.

In other words, what is at least as important as how much. You can't just blindly spend your way out.
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Yes, most users wouldn't understand what this is. However, if some did, and they expected it to be there, that might be enough.

You're quite right that there'd be nothing stopping people from using this dishonestly, except their consciences and the fact they may have some explaining to do if a dump of MD5s of their passwords was released. That may or may not be enough.

In any case, I'm sure that this industry can do a bit better than it is at the moment. With big breaches of LinkedIn, Last.fm and eHarmony in the last 48 hours, surely something can be done.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nation_state

notice how a.) it's not even desirable to be a nation state, so untwist your knickers everybody:

"The most obvious impact of the nation state, as compared to its non-national predecessors, is the creation of a uniform national culture, through state policy. The model of the nation state implies that its population constitutes a nation, united by a common descent, a common language and many forms of shared culture. When the implied unity was absent, the nation state often tried to create it. It promoted a uniform national language, through language policy. The creation of national systems of compulsory primary education and a relatively uniform curriculum in secondary schools, was the most effective instrument in the spread of the national languages. The schools also taught the national history, often in a propagandistic and mythologised version, and (especially during conflicts) some nation states still teach this kind of history.[10]

Language and cultural policy was sometimes negative, aimed at the suppression of non-national elements. Language prohibitions were sometimes used to accelerate the adoption of national languages and the decline of minority languages (see Germanisation)."

Sure, when America was by and for white upper class males, it was a nation state, or something. Good for you, can we move to today now?

The clincher is the list of examples of nation states on that page. Read it. Notice how the USA isn't on the list. So you can blah blah blah all you want, the downvoted poster is correct, the rest is not. What a surprise ^^
This is stupid, especially since the author failed to note the demos of this software, or the fact that some of those things are already in the hands of consumers and are just leaving beta stages.

Not to mention that's not what FUD is, and currently day Google doesn't resemble Microsoft in any form. Who are the 7 people that thought this was HN material so far?
> Modern browsers allow a user to type (in lowercase) text to find in a select element while focused and will scroll to an exact match inside of it.

Additionally they always highlight item that begins with typed letter. Because of that in default combobox i can type only "po" to get Poland, whereas search after typing "po" highlights French Polynesia. I think that difference is worth noting because it may searchbox more or less useful depending on data.
It is all very well suggesting running the hash millions of times but sites with many users might not want such performance hit.

This kind of escalating competition based purely on computing power indicates to me that the very concept of passwords has probably had its day and we should seriously think of better alternatives.

Passwords are no fun to remember and to keep secure for the users either. Anyone with a reasonably active 'online life' suffers from this.

Maybe this is the real reason why Facebook is doing so well? Only one password to remember.
I wrote a large paragraph on now I do my passwords then realised how silly it is to tell the world :D
Indeed the picture in the article immediately made me think "How do I know how far those cars are away?" The objects in that mirror seem a lot closer than they appear, which strikes me as a different danger.
Both Bill and Steve are class individuals right in their own accord and have changed the world for ever in their own ways.

They haven't (and shouldn't) base their life's actions on what will be remembered some indefinite time after their death but on what their calling is; on their existential view of the world and their purpose in it.

Since their actions are not optimized on how to be remembered the most, I think it is naive for us to try to predict it and while doing so, judging two highly accomplished individuals in the same scale. There is no absolute scale of who is better. It is all relative. We would all do better trying to focus on our purpose and calling in our existential view of the world and acknowledge others'.
In last.fm's defense, they argued that there were some hardware devices (radios) that had last.fm clients, so they couldn't update their password system.

I have a question though, how would a strong password that takes around 1 second to hash affect the scalability of these systems; would it impact the login times of users a lot? Imagine thousands of people trying to login at once. Might it be the reason linkedin didn't hash and salt properly?
I hope Facebook builds a phone, than we can really start to watch them fall.
The fact that Flash had it's own cookies that weren't cleared by private browsing modes was a big story (don't know if they've fixed that yet) but there's a general problem of Zombie Cookies (as long as one ID method works the others can be recreated) and Panopticlick (ID you uniquely based solely on the random info, like installed fonts, sent to the server by your browser).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zombie_cookie

https://panopticlick.eff.org/
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- my Google exit questionnaire.

[edit s/My/my/]
Like what? The other guy was nice, but badges are flatly stupid. Unless you want to force websites to allow security inspectors, you have to either assume they're doing the right thing or believe them if they tell you "They've got it".
yeah. The ideal approach is a flat mirror with a curved one inset either above or below. That way you beg both.

However it seems to me that there is a bit of basic math at work here. The more you fit into a mirror of the same size, the smaller the objects will appear and the further away they will look. That strikes me as a very basic premise and I don't think you can get away from that so easily.
If it takes 50 years to forget Steve Jobs, it shows he is so influential.
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Well, except when it does, it seems...
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what really got me into re in the first place was "the dragonbook" back in 1990. very good background stuff.
NASA is killing every project it can to not lose the James Webb. Casulties so far are a Mars rover and a Jupiter orbiter, as well as no new missions planned for the next decade.

The question is, what happened to the Shuttle portion of the budged. You'd think they have more money for robotic spacecraft after that.
Out of curiosity, may I ask which DB this is?
> if you're committed to your company and your company's success, then you decide to do what ever it takes to solve your customer's problems.

> Anytime you spend extra time with your customer you win.

I don't think that anyone actually adopts this position. You would probably not become a kidney donor for your customer, or pay them $10,000 because they confess to you in a support call that they recently became unemployed. You would not build a new software application just for them. You would not even add a feature to the product just for one customer! (At least at the consumer software level.)

It's fine to make exaggerated statements because our society requires exaggerated change. But there is a big difference between saying that Time Warner, AT&T, et. al., need to get better about customer service, vs saying that patio11 or Peldi do.

I guess the fundamental problem I have with your position is that you are preaching a message that lots of people in Fortune 500s should hear (and won't), to a group of people that are probably treating their customers too well already, and are perhaps feeling guilty that they do not do even more for them, and are thus primed to further the error. So in that specific sense, I think this advice is dangerous.

A much better approach would be to advocate a scoring system that takes into account more of the actual benefit of customer service, e.g. realistically estimating the marketing benefits, considering the product feedback benefits, and so on. The value of customer support may vary greatly with the kind of market you are in, for example.
> I actually imagine that their very gifted developers are running around wondering how they themselves didn't audit this.

or perhaps its that some 3rd party can authenticate users using sha1 passwords i.e. that internally linkedin passwords are scrypted or something, but this dump was from MitM between 3rd party plugin and linkedin?
And good on them. But that doesn't mean it's easy to write large websites in dynamically-typed programming languages, it just means that they are very good at what they do.
I supplement my lack of TV news with a once-or-twice-daily visit to Drudge. It compresses all the utter lunacy down to one appropriately-ugly page and keeps me a couple days ahead of the GOP talking points at the same time.
This is the mainstream view.

The alternative view is that FDR made the Great Depression great, with arbitrary orders like NIRA and attacks on business. He ruled for four terms and the Depression coincidentally lifted after his death. Out of necessity business was given a freeer hand during the war, sort of like Lenin's NEP in the 1920s. With FDR's death that free hand continued. Read "The Forgotten Man" or John T. Flynn if interested in this point of view.

By the middle of his second term, much criticism of
Roosevelt centered on fears that he was heading toward a
dictatorship, by attempting to seize control of the
Supreme Court in the Court-packing incident of 1937,
attempting to eliminate dissent within the Democratic
party in the South during the 1938 elections, and by
breaking the tradition established by George Washington
of not seeking a third term when he again ran for re-
election in 1940. As two historians explain, "In 1940,
with the two-term issue as a weapon, anti-New Dealers...
argued that the time had come to disarm the "dictator"
and to dismantle the machinery."[1] These criticisms
largely ended after the Attack on Pearl Harbor.

In key respects, Pearl Harbor was to FDR what 9/11 was to Bush. It shut down criticism and gave him two terms.

Because victors write history, we need to be skeptical of presidents surrounded by war propaganda, whether Bush or Obama or FDR. Did a president lead us through war and depression? Or did he get us into war and turn an ordinary recession into a depression?
Basically this is true and this leads to the conclusion that instance types like (micro, small and medium) are quite underpowered compared to "today's" usage patterns right?
Did enough of them use an editor/IDE that could
take advantage of a static type system?

Just because the language is static, that doesn't mean it benefits from an IDE.

For instance, Scala has fairly good integration on top of Eclipse and IntelliJ IDEA, however every time I try doing some work in Scala, I end up cursing and screaming, because these Scala IDE plugins are slow, incomplete and unstable and get in my way. And I can't blame their authors, because Scala is a difficult language to deal with.

Another example would be C++, which has been around for a very long time and is one of the most popular programming languages ever. And yet even Visual Studio has problems with its refactoring/IntelliSense support.

And then there are the Smalltalk environments, still around, still kicking ass.

Here's the thing ... there are static languages, and then there are languages designed for usage within an IDE ;-) Java, C# and Smalltalk are like that, while Scala, Haskell and C++ aren't.
Is custom domain possible? I heard that CF doesn't support custom domain.
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This is not a trolling/vote post, just really annoyed at Microsoft! Do we really need a credit card for the trial sign up?

It says proof of identity, why do websites like Heroku offer email id checks instead?

https://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/pricing/calculator/
> "You know, we don’t grow most of the food we eat. We wear clothes other people make. We speak a language that other people developed. We use a mathematics that other people evolved… I mean, we’re constantly taking things. It’s a wonderful, ecstatic feeling to create something that puts it back in the pool of human experience and knowledge" - Steve Jobs

Ones contribution to the world need not necessarily be in the form of money; but very well in the form of experience or knowledge.
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NASA's paying for Falcon 9 development by proxy.

And the Antares launch system, and the shuttle-derived SLS.
In order to reduce the computational overhead on the server, perhaps one option is to run (at least part of) the hash on the client (eg in Javascript). Does anyone have any idea of how that would perform and if it would be feasible?
I agree with you. But i think that beyond scale and state of mind, one key factor in B2B is the tolerance of the organisation (not only the leader) to change and experiments.

It takes a great deal of leadership to bring everyone on board and convince the naysayers.
In my case, on of my customer has ~100 users. the problem is not my stakeholder, but a slice of the 99 other users, who have to deal with the change. Some request additional training, some complain...

With all the good will of the leader, i just fear that he eventually grows tired of fighting for each change, regardless the value brought by such change.

So the question about experiment is maybe more a question of overcoming user resistance (and, in a company, the associated cost).

The reactions to UI changes in Facebook are probably a good indicator that it's a tough battle :)
That's ridiculous. A free-of-charge iOS app can be published world-wide literally with the click of a single checkbox ("All stores") in iTunesConnect.
I was thinking of having stacked mirrors, the way tractor trucks do. But your comment made me think: is there a way to have a flat mirror turn transparent, revealing a curved mirror behind it? You could activate the transparency just by using your turn signal.
Why can't I be allowed to choose the authentication method I use to access MY data (and be responsible for the consequences if mis-used). Is my data in linkedin really my data after all?
None of the links work.
Yeah, stacked is good.
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They also take the phone number from a user to register on azure.
It's the lack of the cathartic rebirth mentioned.

Among the more interesting articles I've seen on the company and its practices was in the short-lived Brill's Content magazine of the late 1990s, titled "Making Bill". As I said above: there are very profound reasons to distrust Microsoft, and they haven't changed.

I certainly don't trust IBM in all things. What's significant for it in terms of its relationship with Open Source and Linux is that IBM has determined that its fundamental business interests are inextricably aligned with Open Source and Linux systems.

Microsoft have shown themselves to be adaptable over time, but it also frequently acts in limited ways that are clearly in its interests. And while, yes, Microsoft are contributing directly to the Linux kernel, the contributions are largely drivers related to Microsoft technologies -- mostly the Hyper-V virtualization system, where the enhancements allow Linux to run within Windows Server instances. Hardly generalized kernel code improvements, though still useful to some (notably, Microsoft). (http://techie-buzz.com/foss/microsoft-linux-3-0.html).

I don't have a source tree handy to check myself, but I suspect that this is still the case.

Rather more telling is the ongoing drama in the UEFI boot management which may restrict future X86 systems from being able to boot anything but Windows:
http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/microsoft%E2%80%99s-take...