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Ask HN: Securing passwords for client systems my app must access
The application I am developing must login to a few third party websites on behalf of the end user. These are enterprise ASP.NET apps that were written in 2001 and probably never updated, its bad.

I have to store the username/password for these systems somewhere within my applications database. Storing passwords in plain text scares the crap out of me. So HN what is the best way for me to balance security concerns here?
Roundtrip - simple tracking + metrics for your business processes in real-time
Previous discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4724660
Proof by horde is indeed absurd, but the fact that the Android fanbase jumps to this should not be a surprise to Microsoft.

There has been several years of relatively vicious back and forth flaming between iOS fans and Android fans now. A lot of legitimate criticisms have been fired off by both sides, and both sides are very quick to respond with less legitimate but equally vitriolic response-fire. Even people who don't go in for that sort of thing probably cannot help but feel a little defensive about their choice at times.

If Microsoft wants to walk into the room and throw some mud (legitimate mud or otherwise, it doesn't particularly matter), they should expect everyone else in the room to already be pretty practiced throwing mud back. Nothing about this situation should have caught Microsoft by surprise.

Edit: Also, relative market-shares are probably an important thing to consider when your marketing campaign is calling upon people to bash the competition for you. Of course more people are going to respond negatively to this if you are a market-share minority. I am having a hard time imagining a reality where this could have worked out as planned.
California sues Delta Air Lines over mobile app privacy policy
Is there?

There are two kinds of clients in the legal field: rich ones and poor ones. Rich clients don't seek the cheapest legal services in the way they don't look for the cheapest office space or the cheapest office furniture. No board member wants some guy in India poring through his e-mails to do an investigation or diligence for a transaction. For rich clients, saving money and hiring "pretty good" isn't such a great thing if their opposing party spends more money and hires "pretty great."

Poor clients are different. Poor clients do want the lowest possible price for the given result. But poor clients tend to have problems that are hard to outsource. How is an attorney sitting in India supposed to represent you in your divorce, or help you get out of a traffic ticket?
There is no way to monetize images embedded on other sites

Let's pretend the solution instagram have for this is the same model Twitter has, "featured instagrams" for brands. A very basic and simple revenue model.

So Instagram, let's talk about these embeds. How about making them an
iframe or script tag embed like Twitter?

How does this solve the revenue problem? The point of Twitter controlling tweets is so they control the feed, if Instagram are copying Twitter (with pulling the content back to their site) wouldn't the obvious conclusion be they want to control the users feed (where the money is) and therefore embedding the comments page on Twitter solves absolutely nothing?

I don't understand what problem the author thinks embedding the comments solves, unless there's something about the comments that makes the instagrams monetisable?
So you do prefer non-authoritative information?
> This is a huge step backwards.

I don't understand this mentality. There is only an additional service on the market, nobody forces you to use it if you don't see the need. If somebody else finds it useful, how it is your problem?
I'll be very interested to find out what role Guido will take up at dropbox. When someone like Matz/ Guido/ etc gets hired, what do their job responsibilities, for the community include exactly? Are language writer hires such as this purely symbolic?
How you create an account using app engine. I cannot see anything in the Administration Panel.
The nobility / motivation for this act aside, I can't believe this is still even a thing.

Honestly, I find it incredible that there's even debate about this. Nobody thinks twice about things like transportation infrastructure or monetary policy being publicly administered, but the second health care is involved, all sense seems to go out the window. How someone can think that health is less of an inalienable right than access to roads or free markets is beyond me.
Three Reasons Why Every App Needs A Domain Name
Are you suggesting my non-tech client(a surgeon) should just know how to change his DNS?
The Ars Technica article oversells the shot-noise limit. What you really want to see in this business is a thermally-limited oscillator; the Brownian motion in the spring driving the mass. For a quantum mechanically limited oscillator, check out work like this (which shares an author with the paper linked by Ars Technica):
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v478/n7367/full/nature1...

A shot noise limit is not an inherent reason for kudos. In particular, this sensor is shot-noise limited at frequencies above a few kHz. In this context, the shot-noise limit may only represent the intrinsic noise of the optical readout, not the intrinsic thermal noise of the oscillator. Their noise figure of 10 ug/rtHz is interesting, but not unprecedented.

The Micro-G FG-5X represents the state of the art at low frequency and can do 15 ug/rtHz at sub-Hz frequencies.

For a more-fair comparison, in a standard MEMS form factor, the Analog Devices ADXL 103 and 203 do 110 ug/rtHz at 100s of Hz and below and cost <$10 each.

It'll be way cool to see what their oscillator will do with improvements. Optical readout has less influence on the detector mass and comparable precision to the best capacitive readout.

Link to the paper on the arXiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/1203.5730
"Elevator gate" was a stupid situation wherein a random guy hit on Rebecca Watson in an elevator, at four in the fucking morning, and when she mentioned that she found it creepy a lot of men went "THIS IS PROOF THAT WOMEN OVERREACT TO INNOCENT MEN, CLEARLY THEY DON'T KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CREEPY AND ENDEARING, BLAH BLAH HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO ASK OUT WOMEN WITHOUT HARASSING THEM."

Unfortunately, Richard Dawkins and a few other prominent atheists came out attacking Watson, which made me lose a lot of respect for people I otherwise quite like. It was something of a mess.
Well, we get into the philosophical definition of what "their own interests" are.

But in general - the statement that "people do not vote unselfishly or in a way they believe reflects the community" is false. It is true that some do. I've read some research before from western countries that have a multiparty system (UK, Germany, France, Israel, ...) and with very high probability, people vote for whoever it is their parents do. It's not national interests - it's familial interests and/or identity. (And, sorry, I can't find a link to that right now)
How about http://gplus.to/html5plus
Good suggestion, but unfortunately I have banana fingers so can't use qwerty phones that well. T9 still works for me though :)
how about http://gplus.to/html5plus
uhhh by "access" you actually mean "pay for and provide for free to others."

Everyone already has access to vaccines. Flu vaccines are aggressively marketed.
What a terrible world it would be if society rewarded giving so much that wealthy people and corporations climbed over each other to give as much as possible, just for the publicity. There'd be no more charity!
Sure. Not if they referred to it as "alarmism", because that would indicate that they don't give a shit about the science of it, which seems problematic in a science PhD. But if they did proper science, they wouldn't have a problem.
Here I was thinking that there's no way anyone would call anyone else a child molester on a mailing list, and then you go ahead and liken managers to terrorists. Suddenly his story has more credibility.
The issue with the LCA thread is that in modern socialization, being rationally thoughtful is unacceptable if the discussion is taken to be "insensitive".

Geeks often don't understand that trying to arrive at the truth on certain topics is fraught with the risk of social suicide.
Correct - and that is why I think that automation will not get us all the way there. (At least not in the 20-50 year range; I have no idea what the world will look like in 1000 years.)

And I think your point suggests that lawyers will continue to be valuable for many years to come, as well. There are so many rules that can be applied in a given case - including seemingly contradictory ones - that there is room for reasonable disagreement about which rule should be applied. A skillful lawyer can make a compelling (but not obvious) argument that rule A should be applied and not rule B.
Lambo/Ferrari/Aston used to have the same raw quality, and it was great then too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnHLMXmghwI
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I fail to see why it wouldn't be possible. I assume a PhD in climatology would require 1. an understanding of the field and its state and 2. being able to perform research in the field.

I'd certainly expect somebody serious about climate change (including disagreeing with its existence or with it being anthropogenic) to be able to understand what it's about in the first place, how climate model work, how to create new model matching available data or mine for new data, etc...

And thus I see no reason why they wouldn't be able to get a climatology PhD.
"experiments that can be reproduced by others" is just one example of a theory making a prediction, imo. Effects of "macro evolution" (macro vs micro is usually a distinction only made by creationists) have made such predictions. Here is a famous example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xanthopan_morgani
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It makes far more sense for 7300 cultures to learn one additional language than for 7301 cultures to learn 7300 languages. The former being difficult, and the latter being impossible.
Screenshots of upcoming Mega site: key generator, registration, and file manager
I used to come around because the commentary was top-notch. There was a reasonably high likelihood that a true subject expert would chime in for nearly every topic on the front page.

Now I come for the links and mostly avoid the commentary, as it's largely opinion based and/or a series of pedantic grammar corrections.
It's entirely plausible to disagree with the politics of climate change (alarmism) without questioning the science.
Good point. I wouldn't formally require the SO. I'd just phrase the invite to make it clear that my SO and I would like to have dinner. If they have an SO but don't bring them that's another potential signal (could be good or bad).
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No you are right, I cannot fanthom that anybody could feel threatened by a geek who talks to her in an elevator, no matter the time.

Stranger rape (as opposed to date rape) is so extreemly rare that it makes the news when it does happen -- and it will almost certainly not happen in a conference elevator. Especially when there is a lot of males around -- who are glamoring for a chance to be the hero.
I'm curious if any knows of a particular talk that prompted this response. I did a brieft search but didn't uncover much.
Hi there, this is going to be off topic but I couldn't find if there was a way to message people on here

The rewindhn.com that front-paged a while back is showing this page:

uWSGI Error

Python application not found

is this a temporary thing or is the site shut down?

does this have anything to do with the provider? (I recall you were using hetzner)
Not really being sarcastic or flippant, willow bark extract figures prominently in the history of aspirin and I would suspect something similar might happen again. I would suggest picking a different forum.

Personally, given the list, I would think TEDx would be better off discussing anything but science. It would save on staff time and possible future embarrassment. There are many topics that could fill the gap that don't often have a forum.
All of this can be called "legal services." But the extremes, you two are essentially talking about different markets.

Corporate clients will continue to hire the best lawyers and pay high fees when and because the company is on the line.

Most individuals, on the other hand, do not need a Yale Law grad billing $900 an hour to set up a living trust or LLC.

Obviously there's a whole spectrum in between. Just flagging that "Tech will utterly destroy the legal industry" and "We'll always have top lawyers starting at $160K" may be talking past each other a bit.
It's not a strict criterion, but it's a great heuristic for whether or not someone knows what they're talking about. Sometimes an outsider makes a valuable contribution to a field, but 99% of the time, it's a crank blaming his lack of a degree on his exclusion from the standard outlets.

This is less true in fields like programming where a lot of self-educated people still work happily. But in fields like physics that demand years of intense study just to grasp the field properly, then yeah, whether or not you have the relevant degree is a pretty good signifier of whether or not you're peddling bullshit.
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I lived in Peru for 5 years, everyone who has the skills to write GAE or rails apps there all have very well paid outsourced jobs working for companies from the US or Spain. $50 is absolutely no problems for them, it's not a problem either for the local growing middle class in Peru or even India and Africa. Most people who had enough education to be able to write GAE apps are from the middle class or already have well paid jobs.
As the letter clearly states, tripping red flags should result in a higher level of scrutiny from the organizer. They do not, in themselves, trigger rejection.
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> Nobody thinks twice about things like transportation infrastructure or monetary policy being publicly administered

You're right. I only think once about it, and I think it's a bad idea.
The article links to a reddit thread that links to this thread:

http://www.reddit.com/r/tedtalks/comments/1443ke/the_ted_nam...

It looks like the issue was with the speakers at a specific event, not just a specific talk.
Not to change the subject, but this decision just made my switch to Office 365 that much sweeter. If anything I love that I get push notifications (active sync) for emails and group calendars work much better.
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RMS doesn't care if Canonical make any money.
This is great Dropbox PR. Also I'd imagine DB Python developers are excited!
"the adventure found at a nimble 250-person startup like Dropbox becomes more tempting"

What is the definition of a startup these days, anyway?
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You appear to misunderstand the principle. Behavior is acceptable or not in the context in which it occurs. Trying to make hard rules that specific actions are harassing is a no-hoper from the beginning. Behavior that might be perfectly acceptable with someone I know well could be completely harassing to someone I don't know.

The key issue is that if someone tells you that they consider your behavior offensive or unacceptable then you are expected to back off. To persist is one way of harassing people. Nobody's asking you to be a mind reader, but it does help if you have some empathy towards your fellow humans.
Right. It's hard to imagine anyone clueful enough to do a whois who wasn't also aware that the registrar is a commodity service.
This resonates most with me. I get the low flow as I escalate the complexity of the problem cases.
Google drops Reader for mobile
I don't disagree re: two markets, but even leaving aside big corporate clients there are barriers to outsourcing work. Individuals tend to have one-off problems. They need someone to represent them in a divorce, they need someone to do a will, etc. It's not clear how some "law center worker" sitting in India is supposed to do those things. If there was a market for it, you think someone would have already set something like this up in Nebraska. You can't quite pay $2 an hour for Nebraskans, but you could probably pay $10-15 and get U.S. licensed attorneys in a cheap cost of living state. Heck, document review work in major metro areas these days only pays about $20-$25/hour and those jobs get tons of applicants.
FYI, the shot noise limit is one which exists when experimentalists are restricted to "classical" techniques, i.e. they don't use unusual quantum input states or measurements. That's probably a reasonable assumption for anything that could make it into a consumer product, but "quantum-enhanced measurements" can do better. Giovannetti et al.'s article is pretty good for those with the background:

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/306/5700/1330
http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0412078
How confidence intervals can give you confidence about your products
As a counter to that view, my daughter needed an eye operation 3 weeks ago, squint correction, 2 muscles on each eye. Saw the specialist, operation 8 days later. If I'd had a choice of date it would have been further away. New Zealand, tax payer funded (so not free as such), socialised cost. Successful operation.
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Are you saying that a start-up can't have more than a certain number of employees?
The problem with that statement is how specific it is. There are many routes to credibility in a field that might be perfectly normal and consistent with mainstream science. Limiting it only to people with PhDs in the specific field from select universities is snobbery.

What if I had some interesting advance to present in the field of computer science, and I had plenty of data to back it up, and it got listed on Hacker News and my peers on this site reviewed it and agreed with my conclusions? But then I only have an EE degree, so that's a "red flag" because I "didn't make an attempt to engage with other scholars"?

Credibility is a difficult subject to pin down, but science is not an exclusionary endeavor. All you really need to be credible is the review of other credible people, and universities are not the only places to find such people. Similarly, lots of people use a PhD to give themselves false credibility.
There are no degrees in "Climate Science". But plenty of skeptics on global warming alarmism are PhD's in the relevant academic fields (one good example is Richard Lindzen at MIT), and they are still teaching students and helping some of them to get PhD's.

That said, I agree that academia is heavily skewed on the topic of global warming alarmism; I just think the skewing is more subtle than keeping skeptics from getting degrees. I think it takes the form of pressuring journals not to publish results that don't support the "consensus". And, of course, making sure that all the "official" information that politicians use to justify policies comes from the IPCC, and then controlling the IPCC process to only produce results that support the "consensus".
Ultimately, I think you are misreading what I've said.

My priority on my phone is my music.

As far as the rest:

Integrated GPS/Maps: I used GPS because I recently moved to a city in which I did not know where things were. As I have become more accustomed to my surroundings, I use the GPS less and less. I can replace this with an actual/physical map, which is what I used to do and do on road trips (I don't rely on GPS on road trips). I like getting lost and exploring my surroundings, actually.

RSS reader: I mostly use this on my PC. I don't need a phone for this. I don't need to be updated on world/breaking news when I'm not on my computer. It's like, why do you need to carry a newspaper all the time? Same deal. If there is an emergency, SMS should suffice. All phones offer SMS.

Phone calls: regular mobile phones do this. I'm not sure why you bring this up and tie it to a smart phone.

The apps that got slow were the messaging apps (Kik, Beluga which got bought off and another which I don't recall the name anymore). They were especially slow-loading. I can do without these if I/everyone had unlimited SMS. I don't play games on it. I don't watch/stream any videos because Verizon 3G sucks.
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A company in a hyper growth mode?
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You do realize there are numerous variants of influenza.

For the most part, the vaccine is limited to those of the highest level of exposure (infection rate).

http://www.cdc.gov/flu/protect/keyfacts.htm

"The seasonal flu vaccine protects against three influenza viruses that research indicates will be most common during the upcoming season. Three kinds of influenza viruses commonly circulate among people today: influenza B viruses, influenza A (H1N1) viruses, and influenza A (H3N2) viruses. Each year, one flu virus of each kind is used to produce seasonal influenza vaccine."

Why run the risk of endangering yourself or others of infection?
Grad student: "Professor, my own analysis isn't matching all these graphs that keep getting published"

Professor: "Don't rock the boat, we're getting a lot of funding."

Keep your profs happy and toe the line if you want that Ph.D.
I was always impressed by how much code Guido wrote at Google, he definitely isn't afraid to get his hands dirty.
It was because of the SOPA issue. However, they backed off on that pretty fast.
That key generator seems to imply javascript-based encryption. The only possible use I can see, is encrypting a file on upload, so MEGA's servers can't look inside. In which case I'd very much insist on having an open-source desktop client, instead of entrusting encryption to some javascript code which can be hijacked.
Well, I'm sure there is a point when a startup has started up.
Larry Page is destroying families.
seriously one can get coders block?? don't think i've ever experienced that. if i don't know something im in research mode. then back to coding again. i only experience 'block' like feelings when at a path in the road which requires me to pick from two solutions with equal pros and cons. could be that i code most everything bottom up, so its relatively easy to work on small tasks and build up and not have to think about the huge monster one is about to tackle.
Perhaps companies that have existed for less than n years?
It's a genuine question. To my mind, a startup has a small number of employees and not very much money. This is hardly the first time I've heard of a company with >100 employees described as a startup, so I'm interested to know what people's definitions are.
This is surprisingly naive for someone like Peter Thiel. The law is not an axiomatic rule based system, and it's far too complex and fuzzy to be automated.

We haven't even automated medical records for godsakes!
Appealing to an authority is not a fallacy unless it's misapplied. Saying "I'd rather learn about X from an expert in X" is completely legitimate; it's common sense, really.

From your link:

>Although certain classes of argument from authority can constitute strong inductive arguments, the appeal to authority is often applied fallaciously: either the authority is not a subject-matter expert, or there is no consensus among experts in the subject matter, or both
I'm not sure I can agree that the world would be better if everyone spoke the same language, there's plenty of readily googlable research suggesting that multilingualism has cognitive benefits.

But if we're going to have one universal language, it will be java. Still happy?
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