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I'll readily agree that there are Catholics who are opposed to science, and that these individuals are unfortunately more likely to end up in the roles of priests or religious teachers. These are often the same individuals who know the book knowledge perfectly, but have no clue how to practice it with compassion. I'm sorry you've been stuck dealing with them.

The trick with myths is that they still teach a story. In this case, the trick with Adam and Eve is that the Church still believes in original sin, and considers it a heresy to teach against this. You can look up Pelagianism, if you are curious.

The only point I'll really disagree with is:
Never does he encourage them to think critically.

The best priests will do this, and I've seen it done often. You can think critically constructively or destructively. I've seen numerous priests properly encourage people to look up what the church actually teaches, and to take the time to understand why. I'm Catholic despite my Catholic education, because I took the time to look at the morality text book and tried to argue against all the teachings. I discovered I personally agreed with most of them.

Finally, I like a number of individuals in the church, but I can't stand the hierarchy. They are humans and far too often lack the humility required in proper Christian leadership. Additionally, far too many of them DO push blind obedience, which is probably one of many reasons why church attendance has been dropping.

tldr(or possibly a Summary): There are many things to disagree with the Catholic church on, but claiming they deem religion and science as incompatible is mistaken. There are even more reasons to disagree with individual members of the hierarchy in what they say and do, but don't mistake individual human flaws with the institution, and don't mistake the current form of the institution with the full beliefs of the religion.
This guy is smooth. He's threatening "to shed some light on the role that the Catholic Church played and is still playing today here in India"

This is a brilliant defense strategy against getting arrested.
> If you are a girl from the north-east, India's capital is not a friendly place.

Barring north-east, there aren't many places safe for north-eastern folks. At best, they deal with implicit and explicit harassment; at worse, violence and molestation. And though the girls do have it worse, the guys don't have it much better either.

> On the other hand visit Chennai, Mumbai, Pune (by no means an exhaustive list) nobody will give it a second thought if an unattended girl has to travel in the wee hours of the night, even if wearing a mini fortune in jewelery.

I can vouch for Chennai giving second, third, and 1000th thought if a girl happens to travel after 10, let alone wee hours(jewelry irrelevant most of the times).

> In the south, (barring Karnataka) that is certainly not the norm.

What cities and what bribes are we talking about? I am personally guilty of bribing the traffic police, passport verification constable and TTE(train ticket examiner) in Chennai. I have friends who have bribed for driving pitch black drunk(I don't drive drunk and don't endorse it).
To survive, newspapers need to create significantly more value for readers and advertisers to drive demand and revenue, and lower their cost structures to about 10% of their historical levels. Any incremental steps, from pay walls to moderate layoffs, are totally inadequate to turn their fortunes around.

Let me explain.

The value proposition of most newspapers for both readers and advertisers pales in comparison to many new media options. For instance, who here gets their technology or sports news from a national or local newspaper? Who looks to newspapers for the latest stock market performance, restaurant reviews, or movie showtimes?

Since their value proposition is depressed, newspapers are attracting fewer readers (and subscription dollars) and, in turn, fewer advertising dollars.

And then you have typical newspapers' unwieldy cost structures. Many newspapers are still operating with staff levels that are multiples greater than their new media counterparts. I don't have any current examples, but during the 2008 elections the Huffington Post was driving as much online traffic as the Washington Post, with a headcount of about 6.25% (50 employees versus 800).

In short, lower value begets lower revenue, and if we assume a high cost structure, it's a downward spiral to oblivion.
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The term "commodity product" in this context refers a product that has been commoditized[1], and thus no premium price is possible.

From Wikipedia:

The more specific meaning of the term commodity is applied to goods only. It is used to describe a class of goods for which there is demand, but which is supplied without qualitative differentiation across a market.[2]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commoditization

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodity
_Nobody_ is hashing thousands of passwords per second as part of a typical webapp load. Even if somebody was, they would need only ~50 cores for hashing. I'm sure anybody with that much traffic could easily shell out a few thousand bucks for the extra processors without blinking.

Also, an 8 character password hashed with scrypt with a very low (64ms) cost takes on average $4.8 million to brute force[1].

1: http://www.tarsnap.com/scrypt/scrypt.pdf
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Indeed. In many disciplines we would actually need multiple runs to find out who is best with some statistical significance.
It's a question of sizing up what resources the attacker has, versus what they will need to succeed in an attack.

We want to make password cracking extremely difficult. It's a problem a big site should want to throw some money at.

Today, we make it hard by requiring lots of CPU. Another commenter said 'scrypt' -- yes, we want to make it hard by requiring lots of RAM too.

Here's another way to make it hard -- now you'll need to make a clean getaway with multiple TBs of data off my server too, just to hopefully steal ONE user's password.

There is a benefit here, I think.
I think heyrhett's was trying to say that article does not teach its readers anything new about the world. You could sum it up as "practice makes perfect".

From the HN guidelines: Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon.
If the amount of money you make is a reflection of improvement in oneself then our society is flawed. It makes sense that the amount of money you earn is a reflection of your skills, even though I would argue that having the freedom to choose what you work on is more of a reflection of your skills. This type of mentality where money=self worth is a misguided mentality when looking at life as a whole.

What about activities where there is opportunity for improvement but are not rewarded financially? Like playing a sport non-professionally, improving your cooking abilities, improving your relationship with others, etc.? Can improvement not be measured since money plays no role?
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The question is not whether you bribed or not but whether you absolutely had to. In certain parts of India, even if you are a law abiding citizen it is hard to live without giving bribes, in some others, if you stay within the law you are not messed with. Having stayed in Chennai and beyond, I can vouch that it can get a lot worse than Chennai. A lot.

> Barring north-east, there aren't many places safe

If you are talking physical safety here that is patently false. Yes its never quite as comfortable as home. You would be stared at, but there are many parts in India where no one will grope you in broad daylight in public and not a sneaky surreptitious "feel". Small mercies. Delhi is not that place.
Celebrity gossip is fungible. E.g., suppose I cared about the gory details of the Cruise/Holmes divorce. A quick search tells me there are almost 2600 articles on Google News for "TomKat". Clearly there is very little incentive to buy a local newspaper when so much information is available for free from so many different suppliers online.

Anecdotally, I live in Melbourne and get a weekly local newspaper, but I don't pay for it since it comes with a bundle of advertising flyers. We sometimes glance through the newspaper, but I wouldn't be willing to pay for it. I'll wager that given the choice, most people would rather ditch the newspaper and keep the flyers.

FWIW the future of journalism will probably increasingly look like http://www.dailymail.co.uk/. It's trivia and gossip mainlined straight to the optic nerve. Addictive and profitable? Sure. "Great journalism"? No.
I've known a few old newspapermen in my various jobs, and they have all been fascinated by the speed of information in this new order. They see the opportunity and the power.

But they also like to wax about the old times... and make no mistake, the old times was just a big boys club. Alcoholism was rampant, misogyny was par. A big story or scoop would take weeks if not months to develop and it might get buried on some fucked up principle (see Caro's excerpt in the New Yorker this year on LBJ's impending downfall until JFK and Dallas... a scoop, if not buried, alters the history of a million young American men and American foreign policy in profound ways), and then, once ready for the presses, after the editor trimmed it down, they'd all go celebrate their Pulitzer chances at a pub. It was a culture of exclusion and entitlement; your entree was "J-School" pedigree, or worse, your ability to kowtow to as a junior to an established writer until you got your chance, because that was your only path to being heard.

It was a time where accountability was proportional to distribution, which is to say, tightly controlled at all levels and, for better or for worse, self regulated. It was also a culture of self-congratulation. The only redeeming quality of the old school is that self-control over distribution gave them stupendous levels of access and leverage, something that doesn't seemingly exist anymore.
This is a pretty mindblowing app example which is on it's way to the app store: http://clip.ignition.hk/

Lots of low-level stuff there, which is very very impressive.
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Ok, requiring the attacker to download several terabytes could be an interesting advantage. Could we also achieve that by inserting billions of fake users in a traditional [user, salt, hash] setup?
> We want to make password cracking extremely difficult. It's a problem a big site should want to throw some money at.

Maybe we should start heading back in the other direction, like making our stacks secure and not expecting a data leak in the first place. Sure be prepared with your time/memory hard hash constructs, it's not a solution to writing insecure code in the first place.
Agreed.

I am talking about expectations and exceptions. In USA an uninformed tourist won't expect such places. In Somalia, a person won't expect a super friendly neighborhood with Audis and BMWs roaming around.
Not working - Ubuntu Lucid, Firefox 13.0.1., no speakers - headphones.

Otherwise - excellent hack, can have many uses - marketing, e-commerce, people with disabilities, you name it.
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To be clear my mom was on the right side. The publisher was on the "threat" side.
Ultimately, OP's strategy is just increasing the cost of brute forcing. Why not use the cost increasing features built into the hashing algorithms themselves?
Odd. I mostly see articles in newspapers linked to on HN and twitter.
>I'm just waiting to see who delivers the first tablet geared towards getting things done.

This sounds like the domain of ultrabooks. With a tablet, you can't use the huge ecosystem of PC software. You can't run VMs. Peripherals aren't as well-supported.

The main advantage of a tablet over an ultrabook is that you can use it standing up. But if you're getting things done, it's probably going to be sitting down.

Disclaimer: I am a huge fan of tiny laptops. I got the 11" Air when it first came out and never looked back.
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The nexus 7 will be sabotaged by google's crappy customer service.

I bought one at 10:37 am the morning they were available. It's 11 days later and there's no communication and no status on when it will ship. For status you are instructed to click through to google wallet. That site also has no status, no expected ship date, nothing. So that's strike one.

Second, I moved this weekend and need to update the billing address for the credit card. The google "contact support" page displays their usual FOAD customer service. You have to click through to yet another page to contact customer support. Of course, they're too incompetent to forward your 37 character order number. So after you compose a message, you realize you have to hit backspace to get the order number. And of course, they clear the message you carefully composed. These people supposedly understand web applications. How the hell does the link from inside google wallet to google customer support not know who I am and my fucking order number?

I still haven't gotten through to customer support and I anticipate spending at least 30 minutes on the phone tomorrow. I'll update, but I imagine that there's another ipad in my future.
I spent three weeks in India last year teaching in a slum school, and this is the most candid and accurate description of the country I've read yet. Well done. I think some people are afraid to really be honest at the risk of being politically incorrect, and I appreciate the author's honesty.

I had the same reaction the OP did when I saw so many living side-by-side with the impoverished - especially children - and being so callused. But the reality is that poverty is everywhere in India, and because it's a way of live, people simply adjust.

But it doesn't make it any less sad. It's sad to see full-grown, gaunt men struggling to pedal their rickshaw in flip-flops over washboard roads for pennies. But it's devastating seeing small children who are really, truly famished.

We would buy food for hungry children whenever we could, and often they would stare at us blankly at first. They'd accept the food, but would have no reaction. I figured they simply didn't appreciate it or couldn't muster a reaction.

But then I started watching them after we left. And after they realized they weren't being had - and we really were giving them food with no strings attached - they were transformed. I looked back at one begging child to see him absolutely gleeful, grinning from ear to ear. Another child who I gave some candy and bit of money ran after our departing rickshaw - while holding his 1 year old sister - waving, smiling and dancing with joy. It almost most made me cry.

But I didn't cry, not until the night before we left. After three weeks in India, I was ready to to leave. But at the same time, I felt almost guilty that I was able to return to such a country of prosperity and wealth while the children I'd taught would simply stay behind. And while my wife and I had worked our ass off for 2 weeks to improve the school, the curriculum and the educational prospects for the kids, ultimately our effort wasn't going to move the needle, and few if any would ever leave the slums. They had almost no shot at making a life for themselves. With all these emotions stirring in my mind, my wife held me as I cried.

If you're living in the U.S. or any Western country, you are incredibly blessed / lucky. Don't take it for granted. If you haven't been to India, it's a trip that will forever change your perspective. Before leaving for India, I simply lived in a home. But I returned with the knowledge that I live in a luxurious castle.
Can improvement not be measured since money plays no role?

I do believe you seek some kind of return in everything you do. Your job's return is money, but it doesn't necessarily have to be money.

Sports, relationships, etc. also have returns, but not in the form of money. If, for example, it is the adrenaline rush that draws you to sports, that feeling should increase as you improve. That is your payback to show that you are getting better.

So no, I don't think money necessarily has to play a role, but I think there needs to be something to show yourself that you are improving. Money just happens to be what the measure used in the workplace, as that is the primary reason for working.
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It also depends on what you want to get out of programming. From a pragmatic perspective:

One option is to look at code that's embedded into other platforms.
You talk about data analysis. Perhaps try looking at OpenOffice (which I know has Python bindings). Import your data and get OO to do the heavy lifting of creating the graphs.

Remember: The whole point of programming is that you get shit done by giving a general purpose system specific instructions to carry out.

For large parts of the "Build an application" questions you have. It depends on the tool you use. If you're building an iOS app -- XCode includes Interface Builder (which lets you drag and drop GUI objects and link parts of your code to them). If you started coding in something like Visual Basic you'd have the same thing. These sort of tools make it easy because the design a gui and package the app are all baked in. A Web example is probably PHP.
For Python you can look at tools like pyGame or wxWidgets
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The Washington Post also does actual reporting, unlike the Huffington Post; they actually produce something of value, even if they don't monetize it as successfully.
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> The Washington Post also does actual reporting...

So does the Huffington Post, but many of the writers are unpaid contributors.

> they actually produce something of value...

Tell this to readers and advertisers, who are voting with their time and $.
This sounds interesting. But, in implementing this, what's the purpose of storing password hashes in your own database? Wouldn't it be safer (and maybe even faster) for a centralized service to handle checking the existence of password hashes and storing them?

Compromising this central database would be meaningless because it would only store password hashes. If an intruder accessed it, they'd just have billions of long strings of random characters -- they wouldn't know where it came from/who uses it.

I think the biggest downside would be that the larger number of password hashes, the more likely duplicates exist. The answer to that, I think, is more randomness. But, I don't know how soon/if that would be a problem.

Another potential downside is performance. Would making a request to this other server make logging in slower? I think the answer to this question depends on the implementation, but there's a guranteed latency of another server to contact before logging in/registering. Beyond that, I think, would be getting too much into the implementation details.

Note -- I know very little about cryptography, but I'd love to learn more.
I've noticed it's mostly the geeky sort who think it's bullshit. I prefer sitting at home and playing computer games or learning something new when compared to lunches or dinners or other social gatherings because it bores me to death to make idle conversation.

Most normal people though need to make small talk, it's an important part of their lives. Also, most people dislike (or worse) those who are terse in day to day conversation.
Everything wrong with the Canadian tech scene probably begins and ends with #2.

Here is an email I received not-too-long-ago from a tech recruiter in Canada to someone who has 7 or 8 years of experience as a project manager and coder.

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The selected individual will be expected to have a detailed understanding of more than one of C/C++, C#, Java & Objective-C programming languages and will have previously developed or ported applications/games on either the Android, iPhone or Windows Phone 7 platforms.

We are looking for someone from a Mobile Porting/Development background to join our team and hit the ground running in this challenging role. Confidence and enthusiasm are essential for this position in our busy and exciting company, as are team leadership qualities.

Degree (or equivalent qualification) in computer science, plus minimum of 3+ years software development experience gained in a Business / Corporate / Government environment. Experience gained as a hobby or school/university will not be considered.

If you were offered an interview and job offer, how soon could you do both (Please put this info in your reply)?

Pay – (Up to $18 or $20 per hour) Depends on Experience

Competitive Benefits Package

Up to 1 year assignment with strong possibility of Direct Hire

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It is so insulting that the recruiter included this note:

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(If at some point of contact, you feel the Pay Rate is to low or your skill set doesn’t match, please accept this apology in Advance)
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I understand where you're coming from. In my college days I bought all those thick academic books on "machine learning" when the term meant Lenat more than it meant statistics.

That route does seem to have failed us. Or at least not have gone much of anywhere in the years since. At the same time, I'm not sure the Google-y approach to machine learning has made real progress in the last 10 years.

Sure, we've got cars that may or may not be able to handle actual road conditions, but search, and more importantly any sign whatsoever of computers knowing what we want to do has stalled out for quite some time now.

I dunno. There's got to be another approach that yields more progress than either of the semantic or statistical paths.
Qt -- particularly the desktop version -- is still being supported and maintained by Digia (and the Qt community).

Digia have been fairly aggressive in insisting that Qt isn't going anywhere and touting the features of upcoming Qt 5.

There really is no better cross-platform GUI library at this time. To jump ship from Qt now, I think, is a fool's move that will create hassle later on down the line.
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perfect example of messed up priorities.
stuff that runs in chrome?
that's not really a desktop app.