skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with passwords is the human element.

People pick predictable passwords. Thanks to compromises of large sets of random passwords, we know far more about how to predict passwords than we ever did in the past. That means that, given a new password database, we can crack more passwords with a shorter search.

But it gets worse. A long time ago, people interacted with very few systems with very few passwords needed. Today people interact with many systems, and most still use very few passwords. (Yes, I know all of the ways to make more passwords feasible. The fact is that people don't do that.) Therefore if you target a low security system, you frequently get access to much more worthwhile accounts on another system entirely.

Because of both problems (particularly the second), passwords alone are not sufficient for anything that actually needs reasonable security.
To go off a tangent: Quantum computers are not real, yet, but we already have a handle on the complexity class of problems they will be able to solve in polynomial time.

(We do not know everything about that class, yet. But we strongly suspect that it is neither a superset nor a subset of NP.)
Once you click through to the actual Gum Road page, you reach a secure site.

https://gumroad.com/l/uyqN
Thank you. This is part of the philosophy of the app.
I think it's somewhat interesting that he dedicates so much time ripping on the whole brogrammers thing as stupid without realizing it's a long-running SV in-joke.
We'll consider. Thanks.
Chromebook by Lenovo
its open source https://code.google.com/p/go/source/checkout go change it? and a flag or similar on go build and put it to the community?
I'm glad you find it useful. Thank you.
Here is a Tizen family tree, tracing the merges and splits of various mobile Linux platforms back to 2005:

https://github.com/kumadasu/tizen-history/blob/master/tizen-...
Maybe you're not doing it right. A sloppy dresser will still look sloppy driving an exotic supercar. But a sharply dressed man will look so much more fly in that same car.
Well, he's wrong about this. Quoting the maximum statutory penalty is the standard in news releases, but tells you exactly zero about the negotiations in attorney conferences. US attorneys don't write the press releases, those are done by the most junior lawyers and quote the statutory maximum because it's factual without giving anything away about the government's courtroom strategy.
Yet another one. It depends on hardware manufactures how they're going to use and market the products. Though android is open source, it's heavily driven by Google. It's hard to leave their clutches.
> Touchwiz is not a bad product, though it adds actually very few to stock experience.

Not anymore, anyway. But TouchWiz added quite a bit before ICS came out. Off the top of my head: a customisable dock bar, resizable widgets, a paginated app menu, the app switcher you get when holding 'home', power saving toggles in the notifications drop down...

Admittedly these days it's just a way for Samsung to put a unified, iPhone-like interface across all of its phones, but in the beginning it added a number of features missing from Android.
HN is interesting because of the community and Y combinator's backing. The software behind it is laughably crude compared to other web forums. It could easily be replicated in any number of other languages, with better results. Maybe we'd even see the last of those "link expired" errors?
And this is why I keep coming back! The off-topic stuff is great.
OpenBSD in decline?
What redirect? And, did you even read the comment that you're replying to?

1. There isn't a redirect from that huge link.
2. The post replying to just explained a theory that doesn't involve tracking: the URL needs to be that long to be unique enough to specify a page with the exact same search results.
It'd be really nice to be able to right-click and copy-paste clean URL.

In some cases people don't need the URL in the browser, and don't need to open the actual page (or pdf document). Sometimes one need the URL itself - to send it via e-mail, copy into a command line, or anywhere else.

And in all of these cases it is a pure time waste - going to website (or starting PDF download), or cleaning up the URL, because google deceptively substituted it on a right-click. Or monkeying around with scripts that would prevent Google search from tracking clicks all-together.

And one more thing. Just like the original poster says: people hate not being able to just copy the URL. And every time somebody have to waste time cleaning it up, a little bit of hate towards Google sneaks in.
HBO is running some of the greatest shows these days, wouldn't you agree?
You are totally right: in the last 2+ years I've programmed in Go, this has never been an issue. OP's example seems very contrived.
If that were the goal why not just fork Android like Amazon did? You get a functional OS with a lot less work.

I really can't see much point in Tizen except maybe as a bargaining chip used to keep Google honest with Android.
WireframeSketcher does this too. This feature is called components and you can share them across screens. You can also override some properties locally, so for example a navigation menu can have a different selection in each screen.
Regardless of the source (I didn't read it), there are some good arguments for buying non-local, non-organic being better for the environment. Efficient farms use less land to produce the same amount of food. Taxing carbon and pollution appropriately would allow lowest price to correctly indicate what is best for society, including environmental concerns.
There's only one crime, but there are a number of statutes that add all kinds of "add-on crimes", with widely intersecting definitions. Doing just one thing, you can be guilty both in computer fraud, unauthorized access, copyright violation, etc., etc. These are routinely used to a) intimidate the defendants and b) mislead the jury into thinking the defendant is a serious criminal (not one, but 15 charges! he must be guilty of at least something!) and gives strong incentive to "split down the middle" and convict on at least some of the charges. It is a routine trick, which is routinely used by prosecutors, and they know exactly what they are doing. In this case their intimidation has gone further than they intended, but otherwise they are not fooling anyone talking about how they really just wanted a small punishment and always told so to everybody. They bullied Swartz just as they bully everybody.

Analysis on Volokh's blog: http://www.volokh.com/2013/01/16/the-criminal-charges-agains... shows the number of the charges probably would not influence the sentence much, but greatly increases chances of conviction and creates serious chance for a long prison term if unsympathetic judge happens to be sentencing.
I disagree -- frameworks enforce structure (especially of callbacks), not code style.

Unity of code style is something you can solve with standards, style guides, pairing with new developers, and following conventions from surrounding code.

Clojure is nice because the community, while having different opinions about how often you should use X technique vs Y, generally has core sensibilities about what makes for good, simple code that composes well and doesn't tangle concerns. (This is largely due to the influence of Rich Hickey.) This (and not "perfectly uniform code style") makes for an effective large team.
A lot of people don't realize this, but Coursera is a young startup that just had its first birthday. If you have ideas for how we can make things better, I would love to hear them.

And if you are a hacker, come join us and implement your ideas for millions of students!
The only way they can compete in a market such as this is to partner with a manufacturer, and the end result is that they have to play to the manufacturers whim (and often the operators whim if the manufacturer wants to ship devices). The end result is absolutely crap devices loaded with useless "value added" apps and skins.

If they could make something revolutionary that people want to have no matter what (like Apple did) then some manufacturers might start selling such devices anyway. But my hopes aren't high for that happening anytime soon.
How do you name your product/company?
Hey,
First time here so bear with me please.

I'm starting to work on my bachelor's degree final project, which will be an Android app and a web service for that app. I don't know how this works in other places, but at my university each student has to come up with an idea for the project and then submit a formal application containing personal information and the project's title.

I had a really hard time finding the proper name for my idea and I finally went for a random name to be used as working title.
My hopes for this project is to evolve into a start-up at one point and I know the title/name is very important.

So, how did you come up with those names?
Yeah, a lot of what was in TouchWiz is now in stock Android.

This is probably kind of subjective, but my problem with TouchWiz is it's butt-ugly. I mean, if you think stock Android was a mess (and it's not so bad now with Holo) then TouchWiz is to stock Android as a 2 year old's art project is to the Mona Lisa.

It's a horrible mess of Holo, Gingerbread and just weird random stuff that doesn't fit with either.
Quoting greenyoda from below:

> Note that Deepak Chopra, the CEO of OSI Systems (the scanner manufacturer in the article), is not the same person as Deepak Chopra, the alternative medicine doctor.

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepak_Chopra_(disambiguation)
My thought is that a Ferrari is better than a Toyota. But a Toyota is about 90% as good as a Ferrari and it serves 1000x more people. And in some ways (safety, gas mileage) a Toyota does outperform a Ferrari.
If anyone told me ,"write better code," in response to a question like, "does it have code folding?" I would be pretty enraged. I don't even use code folding.
Not really, but there are statutes - such as "unauthorized access" which become felonies if attached to any (even minor) other crime. So you can take two minor crimes, join them and get a felony. Moreover, if both are of such nature, you can have two felonies now, and if jury returns guilty on any of them, I understand you'd have felony conviction.
It would be great if the functions were documented in a way to show what these gates do and why they exist anyway. Not everybody has some pre education on quantum computing, right?
Web site doesn't really say what it is and why I should care.
Can exploiting human nature be a positive thing? If looking healthy to attract the opposite sex can encourages people to work out, is that exploiting our "simple" sexual nature?

To me, pretending to have a girlfriend seems as deceitful as dying your hair. Now, I've never done either so I can't say for certain.

Furthermore, if your perception of someone changes because they're in a relationship, then maybe you should be exploited. You'll then realize you should valuate a person based on who they are, not their relationship status - and maybe you'll be better off. Or maybe I'm trying too hard to rationalize this behavior lol
Simple router in js with hash tag
All of you can always move down here to Miami (South Florida). I actually live in Fort Lauderdale across the street from the beach. I do a lot of work in Miami.

For the price you pay for a tiny apartment in NYC you can live VERY well down here. Of course, Florida is crazy.. :) Not to mention you lose your net connection when a storm flies by.

And if you in tech, spanish is a must. Since much of the tech work here is linked to South America. The one exception is medical. Though there is a fair amount of banking work down here too.

Of course you'd be living outside the bubble. That brings it's own drawbacks.
What is open source & why do I feel so guilty?
Which is really no different than, say, giving precedence in hiring to someone from Google or Facebook. Preselection isn't a bad thing, though gaming it in the dating world is easier than in business. (And not terribly ethical to game in either case.)
While I also think it is sad if somebody decides to resort to that service, lets not forget that these "women" are virtual. No real humans are being hurt.
That's the first thing I noticed. Somehow I accidentally scrolled up three articles or so and I couldn't find my way back to this article. I had to back out to HN and click the link again and then I was super careful not to scroll too fast lest I end up on some other page. Horrible user experience.
Google Play drops racial stereotype apps
"Deepak Chopra" is essentially "John Smith" in India. It's unlikely that they're the same person.
Would also be handy to create a simple set of JMeter tests to ensure consistency across frameworks.

I would would be keen to run the test against Contentigo, but not very keen to do this for all the other frameworks! I would hope that if a good set of standard tests could be found, then the various vendors/project could run the tests themselves.
European greens have opposed fracking, so they are depending on coal and LNG shipped from elsewhere.
So you want to be a "real" programmer?(2011)
I thought I'd heard that the radiation dose was on the order of what you'd get from 2 minutes of your airline flight. [1] I was far more worried about the nude photos, and always opted out before the backscatter machines were replaced with millimeter-wave. "Being groped is uncomfortable for 5 minutes; having nude photos floating around some TSA agent's computer is uncomfortable for a lifetime."

[1] http://www.fda.gov/Radiation-EmittingProducts/RadiationEmitt...
Sorry I do't catch up your opinion very clearly.

You can't legally install Mac OS on PC's. You can install Some Linux on, maybe almost PCs but still have some troubles. PCs have restrict hardware standards. But Mobile devices have not explicitly.

Users can also install other mobile OS on their mobile devices, for example HTC's HD2, it not only can install Windows mobile/XP/7, Linux, Android, also can install dual-OS. As well as Samsung's Nexus, HTC G1...

Firefox OS at first showed us on a Samsung's Galaxy III (?) device. Ubuntu on Galaxy Nexus. They just don't expect to use pre-installed Android devices to run their OS, OS doesn't make money without hardware devices and apps.

They have their own markets. Like Firefox, they promise to provide cheap devices, the main market may depend on South America I don't know.
Did you try http://www.photoshopwireframingkit.com/ ?
Check out proto.io
2-hour series finale is tonight (Friday). The most disappointing thing is that it's one of the only Sci-Fi shows on TV right now, and I'm counting the SyFy channel.
Or you can just declare an anonymous global variable:

var _ = fmt.Println

Now the fmt package is always in use. No more import issues.
We The People petition to simplify the US government's web presence
A simpler script that just removes the redirection from the search result links can be found here: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/134151
Why isn't Bob Woodward on Trial (if Manning is)?
It works amazingly well with Visual Studio (especially with the ReSharper add-on) in practice. I've never heard anyone complain about it.
As someone who works with Go full time I can understand where this criticism is coming from, but in my experience it becomes a non-issue after very short amount of time. The various editor helpers that automatically add/remove imports help.
"Social hacking at its finest. The benefits of a fake girlfriend go far beyond attracting a real girlfriend. Everyone looks differently at someone who is dating a hot chick. This could be just as valuable in terms of general networking or self promoting."

Right, assuming your primary concern is convincing douchebags to like you, you'll be golden.
The ultimate story is of the Anandtech forums, where someone invented a woman, sockpuppeted her on the forums, romanced her on the forums, got married, had a child (or she already had one?) and then killed them both off in a road traffic accident.

(http://web.archive.org/web/20010624115154/http://forums.anan...)

(http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=275172)

(http://oro.open.ac.uk/647/)

Fakery on the Internet is fascinating and very very common. People fake having cancer; people fake their own situation; people fake their friends. The movie Catfish is a nice exploration of one person's fakery. (It would have been easy to say "OMG SHE'S MENTAL LOL" but it's a surprisingly gentle confrontation and you end up somewhat sympathetic to her.)

Here are some other notable fakes:

SEXTORTION AT EISENHOWER HIGH

(http://www.gq.com/news-politics/big-issues/200907/wisconsin-...)

> Last year, an awkward high school senior in Wisconsin went online, passed himself off as a flirtatious female student, and conned dozens of his male classmates into e-mailing him sexually explicit images of themselves. What he did next will likely send him to jail for a very long time

DAVE ON WHEELS

(http://betabeat.com/2012/10/meet-hunter-dunn-the-young-man-w...)

> Followers of “Dave” on sites like Twitter and The Chive thought they were reading posts from a deaf young man suffering from cerebral palsy who had worked tirelessly to overcome his obstacles, all the while maintaining a positive outlook and relatably wry sense of humor.

KAYCEE NICOLE / DEBBIE SWENSON

(http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2001/may/28/internetnew...)

> For two years, a young American girl recounted her brave struggle against leukaemia in a daily online diary. This month she died. Thousands of web-users sent condolences. But [...]

(http://web.archive.org/web/20050115092141/http://www.rootnod...)

(http://www.metafilter.com/7878/The-Kaycee-Nicole-Swensen-Faq)

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaycee_Nicole_Swenson)

THE LYING DISEASE - in which a cancer patient is befriended by another cancer patient, who is faking cancer. (Happens three times.)

(http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/the-lying-disease/Content...)

WARRIOR ELI - a ten year hoax

(http://gawker.com/5914621/the-long-fake-life-of-js-dirr-a-de...)
loved your analogy... but you see I use Toyota all the time... just that if I have a choice between a Toyota and a Ferrari, I'll go with Ferrari if I have the resources. Anyways I love Coursera, I am taking a lot of classes there. Remember a lot of quality of a course depends on how well the teacher conveys it whether its a lecture hall or an online course.
Screening for traces of explosives seems to be less invasive and maybe more effective than most of the other "resources" they use
Well you have stylecop.
Is this humor/sarcasm ?
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Naaah, still waiting for "Turing-test passing" AI-girlfriend to appear on the market...
Our UX team at work uses a Windows-based (e.g., not web-based) wireframe program called Axure[1]. I haven't used it myself, but they seem to be able to produce some pretty good content. They can make custom reusable controls so that the look and feel can be consistent across all our applications.

Of course I'm not a designer so I'm not really qualified to express an opinion beyond the fact that this program exists.

[1] http://www.axure.com
Hilarious NoSQL Parody Video [YouTube]
What is a Nexus device?
Um, the person who's lying, obviously.
Linus is dead wrong on this. We have independent confirmation of everything that Ortiz said from the Boston Globe's interview with Aaron's defense attorney.

The maximum statutory penalty for the original 4 indictments was 35 years. The prosecutor was planning to seek 6-7 years. There were two plea bargains offered, one was 4 months and no disputing the period, the other was 6 months but the defense attorney would be allowed to try to convince the judge to lower it. (The judge, of course, is not bound to follow the plea bargain.) And the average cost of defending one of these is $1.5 million, which is money Aaron did not have and could not raise.
Why is Bada (developed in-house, costing Samsung money) cheaper to deploy than Android (developed by others, free to use)? Why would a Bada phone be cheaper?
WTF is this social hierarchy? I hear about it a lot but really it just sounds like hanging out with douchebags.
Quick no's are the best
Cause that's what we need, TSA agents searching you before you get on every bus, train, subway and light rail. :)
But Google Drive can be used to do real work by sharing work documents across many email accounts, etc... It's a good collaboration tool for certain things.
Not just theory. You can have x86 builds if you like.

I know, because I ran it on my Netbook.
Many times I've flown with knives in my carry-on without realizing it until after the flight. Why go through all this security when it doesn't even work? Makes me suspicious it's all for show and to fill some company's pockets.
Or you could use this greasemonkey script that doesn't even require you to click on the bookmarklet, and it makes all result links direct, so you can reach them faster:

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/134151
Yep, http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/134151
I didn't even know of the existence of a decent open source wireframing tool. Although I haven't used it long enough to give it the "decent" label or my seal of approval, it's worth a try.
I think comments you saw are from people on HN before reddit steal it
I thought that the export potential was limited because the competitive edge of American natural gas will vanish once fracking technology reaches those countries?
yet its so difficult to find the good technology to learn & adopt, since several languages & frameworks are created and fail everyday.
Given the quality of a lot of Facebook comments any of the Loebner Prize bots would have a reasonable chance of passing as human.

(http://www.loebner.net/Prizef/loebner-prize.html)

A bit of tweaking - some learning and some Markov chains - and you'd have something reasonably solid for that narrow gap.

Obviously there are trivially easy ways to trip up bots, if you suspect they are bots.
Brute force on quantum computer will require around 2^(n/2) invocations of algorithm, compared to 2^n on classical computer. Not a huge problem.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_size#Effect_of_quantum_comp...
To be fair, the original person was asking about the "Acme way." And the Acme way is, indeed, to just say no to a lot of the conventional wisdom about how editors should work.

Go may share some of Acme's developers, but it is a very different project to Plan 9.
But it is a good bet - people I know are more likely to
Use services I will also want to use.

There is dirty data in there, but I would suggest the people who like coke to get a token are the kind of people I will happily ignore recommendations from anyway
Well, if you can't install Mac OS on a PC is because the software vendor doesn't want you to do so.

But get any PC and you can install several OSes without being too picky on the hardware. It's accepted that the hardware and the software are different things.

If I want to try FirefoxOS I don't wont to buy a FirefoxOS mobile phone, and it looks like that's going to be the only way.
His argument now seems to be that you have to use C for speed. In my experience that doesn't necessarily hold true anymore, given modern computer architectures and what JIT compilers are capable of. I have several times written something in a modern language and then convinced myself that I could get a large speedup if I instead wrote it in C, only to discover that the speed benefits were minimal at best and would require an exorbinant amount of exquisite hand optimization to increase further.