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... That's not a timing attack. A timing attack involves measuring the time taken to return an invalid response to a password attempt and, given enough tries, figure out the password based on this. It usually takes advantage of the way that string-matching code is written in libraries. Preventing this is not nearly as simple as you may think; for example, recent research shows that over a long enough period of time and enough attempts, it is possible for an attacker to factor network latency into their timing analysis.

What you're describing is not the result of an "attack," but rather the result of code that wasn't designed to deal with database locking. You weren't hacked, nobody attacked you; you just didn't design your system to deal with tons of people trying to write/read the same thing at the same time. Again, it's a tricky problem, so it's understandable (and a lot of people would consider dealing with such issues to be "premature optimization").

I will also note that the OP needs to stick to his MySQL Cookbook rather than commenting on coding practices for large-scale, heavy-usage web applications. His code suggestion is terribly naive, arrogant, and embarrassing. Yes, EA made a mistake; no, you have no clue what the hell you are talking about.
I really like Redactor and am considering switching to it from wysihtml5, but the one thing that has been holding me back is the design of the modals for things like editing links. I really wish they were more easily customizable because they look nothing like the design of my site. For example, I put the cancel button on the left and the ok button on the right and I use bootstrap to style it all. Redactor uses a link for cancel and switches the button order. I know this is a small complaint, but keeping consistent design is good design.
IMO (skydiving instructor, world record holder with ~800 jumps), it doesn't necessarily contradict the definition of freefall...and was in keeping with Kittinger's mission (which was to test whether a Mercury astronaut with no skydiving experience could exit their spacecraft safely in the event of an emergency during the ascent).

The jump on which the 1960 record was set was Joe Kittinger's 34th jump.

Regardless, tandem skydiving rigs traditionally use drogues to stabilize and slow the freefall. So while they do provide drag, and semantically one could say that it's not "terminal velocity", ask anyone who's made a tandem jump: 120mph is freefall.

I'd say if a drogue is landable, you could call it a parachute. Most drogues are ~2 feet in diameter and only slow you down by, say, 20mph...not exactly landable.

Definitely an interesting question, though.
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I tried making this initially but had trouble. I will try to revisit it soon though.
I've tried to read it two times already, and never got past page 100 out of utter boredom. I will try one more time, but some books are not for everyone.
This might be a silly question, but couldn't his suit have added a tail to help prevent spinning?
He was very smart, and his lectures were a lot of fun. What made him a great poetry teacher was that he didn't care about what poems "mean"; what mattered was the effect they had on the reader.

I can't tell you how liberating this was. For years I had felt that I just didn't understand poetry, but Prof. Booth told us that poems are just candy for the mind. All the rest is just pretense. And he meant it too.

The final paper was a eight-page analysis of the last four lines of Paradise Lost. So you'd take the phrase, "The world was all before them," and you'd see that this line suggests several meaning to the reader. E.g., the world (God's creation) was complete before Adam and Eve; or that the world (the entirety of human history) was in front of Adam and Eve; etc.

More than anything, he taught poetry as a kind of game. It was so much fun.

The last class was truly great--he did a close reading of the children's book Go, Dog. Go!. So entertaining. Sadly I don't have my notes anymore, but you should search for other people's write-ups of the Go, Dog. Go! lecture online. It's honestly one of the top five lectures I've ever seen.
"Ulysses" is perhaps the most written about book ever after the Bible, which should tell you something. It's definitely a better read. Sláinte!

The writer is also missing something important: it's virtually impossible for a normal person, or even an abnormal person, to read Ulysses without a guide to the book that describes its allusions and what's going on. If you're trying to read Ulysses without the superstructure of a guidebook or guidebooks, or a class, you're almost certainly going to fail, because very little of it, taken as a free-standing narrative, makes any sense. This is doubly true for those without an in-depth understanding of Irish history and religious practices / cultures.

I read Ulysses in a grad seminar, one or two episodes per week. Without that guidance, I don't think I would've finished. Or could have, in any meaningful sense of the word.

Ulysses seems like it was written to be written about, or to be treated like a puzzle, more than to be read like a novel. Some people obviously enjoy this sort of thing. I don't think I'm one.
Literature has intrinsic value. Good literature has more intrinsic value than bad literature. Ulysses is even better than typical good literature.

That's all the justification it needs. If you disagree with the first premise, you shouldn't read it. Being well-read and cultured is dying as a signifier of cultural superiority or as a topic of social conversation, so those utilitarian purposes really don't hold. But if you appreciate the intrinsic value of writing, then Ulysses is one book worth reading.

Why over other books? It's a very textured, complicated book: figuring it out is great if you enjoy puzzles, and it's deep enough to survive multiple readings. (Just read it once, and it was great, but it's definitely not a quick beach read.)
You know, you're right. I'm too sensitive on this point. Also, I see I did that annoying thing where someone makes an untrue generalization about HN and inadvertently (or advertently, as the case may be) changes the subject. I'm going to edit that out.
Karma police.
Out of curiosity, what was the bug?
> Keep in mind you're posting this to a site where most people, or at least the most vocal people, don't think the arts and letters have much value and think that pure technocracy is a fine thing.

Please. There is a difference between criticizing what passes for art these days[1] and believing that arts don't have value.

[1] E.g. going around switching prices on items in a grocery store, or acting mentally disturbed in public in order to get committed to a mental institution (both of those where graduation projects at Konstfack in Stockholm).
I think I'll add a 'Create Life' button that adds a random known pattern.
The grammar Nazi's misuse of "which" in its failed attempt to insult you.
Resort to authority. One of her adversaries is a retired Stanford prof. I'm not taking one side or the other here.
I've lately been using a combination of HTML5 Boilerplate and Chris Coyier's "don't overthink it" grid system to start a project. The result is just a basic prototype/wireframe. It's not too hard to skin and make nice. Adding modules later from Bootstrap and Foundation, as needed, is not hard to do. I much prefer that than starting with one large framework and hoping I'll have the inclination to refactor later.

I'm normally not a fan of grid systems but Chris Coyier's grid system uses percents instead of pixels and is very lightweight.
http://css-tricks.com/dont-overthink-it-grids/
Lol I suck so much. I fixed it. Thank you for pointing this out.
On their website they say that the speed of sound would be about 690mph at the height that he was expected to reach it, not 768mph – that speed just applies at standard temperature and pressure.

I would very much like confirmation on that point, but it seems to me that pointing to the 729mph you saw is no such confirmation.
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they also had other ideas like a long heavy ball falling first with a long rope that he's attached to to stabilize as well as small rockets to counter-steer things, but it wouldn't couldn't as a completely free fall somehow, they said.
On the live stream they said he topped 1173km/h. What speed was the target ? I mean speeds are defined in air and 'normal condition', there was almost no gas around him during his fall right ?
"... This is well known. This "news" is very old ..."

Old? How long has RaspberryPi been released, this year? It's one thing to have a chip that will do this, quite another to have the chip on a usable system that you can program for $35 setup.

Either way, it's not old news for me. That's why I posted it.
arggh, Americans you say ;)
So, what you're saying is that TC has the same people working on rewrites and features? Doesn't it make more sense to give the busy work to interns and let the higher paid journalists do original content?
I must say, I do subscribe to Tupac's ghost-podcast.
I think the main reason why scientists haven't moved away from FORTRAN is cultural.

What should they move to? Fortran90 has vector and matrix notation build-in so it's just like typed, faster matlab. More safety, more speed, what's not to like?

Move to C? You lose the vector notation, and gain all the pointer mess, so not very lucrative unless you were a C-programmer to begin with.

Move to python? Sure, the language is nice, but it's not faster than matlab, so why bother. Unless you really appreciate the extra niceness. (I do)

Move to C++? Again, no build-in vector notation, so not very lucrative. Sure, you can use libraries that overload operators to get the vector notation, but the learning curve can be steep, and after all the extra learning, you just have what you had with fortran90 and matlab to begin with. Of course, if you already were a competent C++ programmer, then you may like to do everything with C++. But scientist may not have that much extra time to train themselves even half-fluent in C++.

Move to some other language? Which? Java? Scala? Rust? Haskell? Lisp?
Why is "I'm Feeling Lucky" in English?
Can anyone shed some light on the natural limit for this record?
What galls me the most about this is the celebration coming out of the centrist camps. Sure, we punished some sad nerds for gawping at women they'll never have.

Along the way, we made sure that "creeps" became a moral term-of-art and thereby conflated the yuck factor with legitimate qualms of ethics, used moral outrage and "think of the children" to make strong arguments against free expression, and not-so-tacitly affirmed that if there are pictures of you online (and you are a woman— "r/ladyboners" and Tubecrush don't attract similar sentiment) you will be probably be assaulted, and only through the actions of an unaccountable, anonymous, mostly male vigilante pseudo-police force can you be protected.
You are confusing long-term climate with 'catastrophic man-made global warming'.

The data record in the original article is about recent temperature trends and not about climate trends on a geological time-frame.

No one doubts that the earth has been both warmer and colder in the past (i.e. hundreds of thousands or millions of years).
Now that's a freakin' cool article!

Freefall is generally defined in terms of vertical speed.

If you exit a DeHavilland Twin Otter that's doing 90 knots forward speed, yes, you get "forward throw" from the plane...but you still have to accelerate vertically before reaching terminal velocity. As a skydiver flying on your belly in an arched position, you usually fall at ~5 seconds per 1000 feet...excepting the first 1000 feet, which takes ~10 seconds to fall as you move from 0 vertical speed to 120mph.

(It's that age-old physics problem of whether the forward speed of a projectile has an effect on its downward velocity.)
Operators and Things, a (supposed) first-person account of a schizophrenic who recovered from the condition and wrote about her experience. The second half of the book is where it really shines, since the author attempts to analyze her experience as a window into the inner workings of her cognition: how it broke down, what she experienced when it did, how it recovered itself, and what led to it. Since the author is anonymous, and talking about one's mind is very introspective, it's hard to take away real science from the book but I found it fascinating nonetheless. While I really dislike pseudoscientific explanations of brain functioning, after reading this I took up the idea that the conscious mind is more of a time-slice scheduler and message-passer than where the actual computation is done. So concentration is about controlling your unconscious indirectly, like training a puppy how to play fetch: you give it suggestions of what to do, and ignore it when it doesn't do that :).

I'm linking to the Amazon page, but IIRC the book is old enough to be in the public domain and there is a free text version somewhere.

http://www.amazon.com/Operators-Things-Inner-Life-Schizophre...
"some writing styles truly haven't changed in centuries"

That is because this style dates back to Euclid's "Elements", a textbook used for over four centuries.
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This is awesome. Although such a shame he's in Canada, because now I can't meet him. He sounds brilliant.
The latest big development was porting the UI from ExtJs to jQuery UI. This had some benefits concerning licensing and code size.

Drupal is interested in integrating Aloha, and we are currently discussing several improvements that would be necessary for them. Have a look at the issue tracker. I think the UI À la carte and accessibility will be the next big user-visible developments.
This. Exactly this. I couldn't have said it better.
I don't think you understand what I mean by liberty. Try to not let your political goggles blind you here.

> "pursuit of equality" = giving medicine, schooling to the poor

I'm all for achieving the best results. I want to see more education and better healthcare for everyone. What we're doing, however, is not achieving the best results. Why is it that these areas with the most government involvement (education, healthcare, and banking) seem to have the most problems? We spend more on education than anywhere else in the world (http://mat.usc.edu/u-s-education-versus-the-world-infographi...) yet the results aren't there. Same with healthcare.

> "liberty" = medieval scale deregulation + tax cuts for billionaires

How about tax cuts for everyone? No more income tax, no more corporate tax, no more FICA? What about removing regulations that encourage the growth of monopolies and too-big-to-fail banks, removing subsidies, and removing tax breaks for everyone? How about no more bailouts?

> And where people's freedom is actually destroyed, down the rathole of militarism and corporatism, well that's just "patriotism".

Militarism / corporatism are products of big government. How about a much smaller federal government?
Man I wish I could see the stats on this post, it's hilarious.

Hint: if you downvote this post it's a strong indicator you either didn't read the article, didn't read the post, or both.
I've read Impro and it's a great book.

There is another book that I want to recommend to other Hacker News readers and that is 'Language in Thought and Action' by S.I. Hiyakawa[0]. Honestly, reading that changed my life.

[0] http://www.amazon.com/Language-Thought-Action-Fifth-Edition/...
STL uses 'value semantics'. Just use push_back in a loop and observe how often the whole data in std::vector is copied. Not to mention std::sort.
Download size is one big factor for me.

http://cdn.aloha-editor.org/latest/lib/aloha.js 1.1MB!

http://imperavi.com/js/redactor/redactor.js 168KB (odd, it is an encrypted version)

The actual minified 8.1.0 version that you get after giving them a fake email address is 41KB.
The reefs are already doomed. We're going to look up in 10 years and wonder why there was so much skepticism and discounting of clear signs.
I'm glad - hope you enjoy them!
But those aren't reasons. The first is a non sequitur on top of an appeal to authority: Shakespeare did X, Joyce does X, Shakespeare is good so Joyce must be good. The second is beside the point; a book that isn't worth reading isn't more worth reading on an iPad! (Reminds me of Chesterton's quip: if a job is worth doing it's worth doing badly.)

The closest he comes to saying why Ulysses is worth reading is that it is a "great psychological novel" and that just begs the question.

By the way, I recognize the phenomenon as a former grad student in (Russian) literature: when you're immersed in something, it can be hard to articulate its value to outsiders. You keep pointing to things that you take for granted, but others don't.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olbers_paradox
Someone was working on a hypermedia version of Ulysses a couple years back.

Unfortunately, copyright issues and the Joyce estate killed the project.
Doesn't that make sense though?

1960 was 50 years ago, the government (or multiple world governments) could be bank rolling a human mission and initial human outpost on Mars right now if that was a priority the public would support.
Yeah, this is exactly how I feel about the book. It's a shame you've stopped reading fiction - why is that?
Felix made it
I work there. It's a great place to work.
I'm not sure if op's solution is optimal. But why not use unique promo code?
Isn't that a job for a copy editor? A nice thing to have a but a good regular editor is more important.

But I did wonder while reading the piece what Pando Daily's editorial setup is like. Does it bear any resemblance to the process she went through earlier in her career?
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Nooooo. The community matters a lot. The way a conversation will shake out on HN or stackexchange or reddit (all of which have up and down voting) will be hugely different. Indeed, on reddit the particular sub-reddit that a thread is in will make a huge difference in voting patterns and comment behavior.
No, we expect it to remain preffed off by default.
> The limitation is that there is little ability to specify behaviors, use cases, data distributions, workload profiles, etc because that would effectively break the abstraction and expose the internals.

STL's limitation is its design. That's the real reason why STL acceptance is low (for a Standard library), not the often cited compatibility issues.
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Are we talking about the speed record? It depends on a number of variables, most notably being body position and altitude.

The higher the altitude, the thinner the air. Whereas terminal velocity at 10,000' MSL (mean sea level) is 120mph, if you go up to 30,000', terminal is faster due to less air molecules to create drag.

As for body position, if I'm flying my body belly-to-earth, in a stable arched body position, I'll fall a lot slower than I will flying head-down with my arms tucked to my sides. Apparently, Felix was attempting to increase his speed by flying close to head-down - he flared out in mid-attempt when his visor began to fog and decreased his visibility. (You probably saw the spinning on the video as he reached close to 730mph - to me, that appeared to be the result of him flaring out of his head-down dive to a belly-to-earth body position in the thin air, which doesn't provide a lot of control).

Additionally, if he were to make this jump in a latex suit, he'd be moving a lot faster due to decreased drag. (However, he'd also be dead from exposure to cold.)

So the "natural upper limit" is basically however fast he went, given the equipment, altitude, and body position. If we change the variables, we'd get a different maximum speed. Terminal velocity is terminal velocity, given all those factors.
Arrest this man. He talks in maths. He buzzes like a fridge. He's like a detuned radio.
If all you are doing is reading websites, checking email, browsing through Pinterest and reading books then 8GB is more than enough.
I just looked at one of the iPads laying around with a single screen of apps, no photos, and a couple synced videos from iTunes and its definitely already more than the 8GB. And thats on an iPad that has almost nothing relative to average use. I think 8GB is too small.
The CSS is based off of Bootstrap, so everything should be showing correctly on mobile and tablets (I don't have an Android device myself so I can't verify that particular use case). I'll look into it; in the meantime, I enabled zoom for mobile devices.
When I went on a foreign exchange trip to China in HS, I brought along a bunch of coursework for my other classes back home. Of all the books I chose to write a report about, I chose Ulysses, because of its critical reception.

Once I arrived in China I cracked open the book for the first time, and the nightmare began. I searched in vain for any English-language bookstore I could find in the hopes of replacing Ulysses with something more... comprehensible. Writing that report was more painful than wisdom teeth extraction.
I'm below 500 (430) and couldn't care less about agreeing with people if what they are saying is not matched by what I consider the objective truth.

What would be the value of karma gained that way? (I mean value for myself - is there any value in being a phony??)

When (or if) I can downvote is not very interesting either - so far I get a lot of great content from HN - like valuable book recommendations. Karma won't make it any better.

What I'd like is HN to remain a good source of information for as long as possible, since I am still finding lot of great info. Karma could help that, but would require an activate participation on my behalf (like clicking for downvoting - consider I rarely highvote, odds are it won't be very useful to me)

Just yesterday I saw a post of mine get voted below - 4 for just questioning the interest of an approach - I first tried to explain how, in my sense, the proposed approach was wrong, gave an example, then basically gave up - not because of the karma but because there are better things to do with one's time.

Everytime there is a score, we humans want to try and max it out. It's a natural tendency, but not always for the better- sometimes thinking whether it might be worth it helps :-)

Karma on HN seems especially worthless. You quickly see who's posting sense and who's not - for ex I didn't need to see the user actual score to consider yummyfajitas posts very interesting and worth spending time to read
"Ulysses seems like it was written to be written about, or to be treated like a puzzle, more than to be read like a novel. Some people obviously enjoy this sort of thing. I don't think I'm one."

In one sense this puzzle aspect is definitely true, e.g. Joyce even said famously: "I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's immortality."

On the other hand if you rule such works out, wouldn't you also get rid of many important and enjoyable works. Much of Borges, Eliot's The Waste Land, DFW's novels and essays, Pynchon, Homer are some of the ones that immediately came to mind.

My approach to these books is completely orthogonal to that described in the OP: Try reading it with no guidebooks, etc. If you don't like it, fine, set it aside. But if you can slug through at least the first part. Then, bring out the guides.
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I actually wasn't personally involved in the solution, but I believe that we went with something involving SELECT FOR UPDATE.
Here's a take on Ulysses written by a former math professor of mine.

http://www.dougshaw.com/Reviews/review1.html

I've not read Ulysses myself, having disliked Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
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