skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Two factor is a huge step. One of the biggest impacts of phishing is due to credential reuse across sites. The damage that a phishing site (or compromised site) can do is quite limited if you have two factor auth for your other sites. Also, online phishing attacks are doable but have the disadvantage of the victim being right there and potentially able to notice the intrusion instead of the damage being done at arbitrary points in time later.

Are you completely secure against phishing when using 2fa sites? No. And you never will be. But you're significantly safer than you would have been without it.
Imagine if people built bridges the way you propose building secure software. "What do you think of someone who publicly calls a new bridge design unsafe, and then reacts with snark and doesn't actually attempt to destroy the bridge when the opportunity is put before her by someone willing to bend over backwards to help her do it?"

Engineering doesn't work that way. Your proposed solution doesn't become more sound simply because you feel aggrieved at the way people react to it.

Also: it's deeply dishonest to suggest that the only reaction you've received to this design is "snark". As I pointed out above, with a link and everything, and as you yourself acknowledged in your original post, you've been given a litany of reasons why your proposed design is flawed. You just don't seem to like hearing them.
> mostly white

stopped reading there
DOMAIN.COM/ARTIST

Giving people directories vs. their own subdomains is much easier/simpler to manage.
that poster would be way better if it said "keep calm and start up"
+1 on the O'Reilly book.
> just like short people are can't swim at world-class levels.

This is not immediately obvious to me: world-class training programs favour people of a tall stature[0] in the belief that they're faster. This may just as well be a self-fulfilling prophecy.

[0] http://www.morethanthegames.co.uk/other-sports/206763-uk-tal...
well, there was this guy who made a movie on the subject...
I think Duolingo offers a wonderful service, and I really enjoyed it while I was using it. Currently, my only feedback for the team (if they're reading this) is that it might be a great idea to partner with popular exchange programs to notify highly-active users of opportunities to live in another country for a while to hone their skills even more!

For example, I participated in Explore, a Canadian immersion program that offers a chance to live in Québec for five weeks and really improve your French by speaking it day-in and day-out. Targeting such programs to their users could be a great value add.
So we're managing windows inside of our browser inside of our window manager.
Bitcoin is a money platform with many APIs
I agree what I want is a BS in CS. However getting a second undergrad degree is extremely uncommon in the US. Many schools don't even allow it.
Per my sibling post, I do not believe you are technically correct. Debuggers must support the ability to debug compiled languages before anyone can usefully implement support for debugging. I'm curious what exactly you think the developers of languages that compile to JS are not doing out of "lazyness"?
Also there a lot of people using OpenDns, Google Dns, etc... that don't have a server on their actual country, making those request appear to be from another location.
First let me start by saying that I believe my wife can do absolutely anything she sets her mind to accomplishing. She has her masters degree while I do not even have a bachelors.

However, these articles ignore the obvious difference between men and women. I (a guy) am interested in cars, computer games(FPS), working out, running, playing sports etc. My wife on the other hand is absolutely interested in all of those at a different level than I an interested in other things that I do not particularly enjoy like horseback riding. When I say she's interested in cars, she's interested in having a nice corvette, while I'm interested in working on a nice corvette. She likes working out, to be fit - I like working out to get stronger and more 'manly'. She loves to play sports because they're fun - I like to crush the other team.

I bring these things up because there are inherent differences between men and women that people seem to forget. It's not just nurture, but it's nature too. We are physically, mentally and emotionally different (not in all cases, but many).

I would love to see more women in the tech industry (I'm trying to get my wife involved). However, there will always be a difference in our mentalities because of our gender and these cannot be ignored so easily.
I hate the new compose. I think the mail UI team need to make a poster that says.

"If it's not broken, don't fix it"
For those, you have a filter that archives them and gives them a label. If you want to read them, open the label.
Towards Structural Version Control
I had the same questions after reading the article. While I feel this helps paint a pretty picture of what's going on it doesn't seem to even attempt to answer the more important question of why its happening? For example, are the people at the top controlling the direction of the escalators or is it just because it's always been a male dominated industry and has strong momentum in that direction? For example the simple fact that the industry is currently male dominant could be a factor in determining the direction of the escalator. Simply being a majority male may be off-putting to women trying to enter the tech industry, however i'm not sure if/how you would go about fairly solving that. I'm also curious about how this problem relates to other sciences, for example did/do chemistry or physics have/had the same problem at some point and how did they overcome it if they did.
India’s Flipkart shutters its digital music store
I think if you are planning on buying this in order to display 81 photos then clearly it is the wrong product to choose. That's the point. I'm guessing the typical person that this will appeal to will buy a wheel or two at the most, use it a few times/show their friends, then once the novelty wears off it gets shoved in a drawer.
My question is, what if he's wrong?

"All models are wrong, but some are useful." -George Box.

Models get refined over time. Only the omniscient see the entirety. Newton had an incomplete picture of gravity, but it put us on the path.

It's the fundamental shifts -- the leaps in thinking -- that illuminate new areas to explore.

If he's right, why bother expending all this effort to influence people to see what he sees?

Have you ever been inspired by a great teacher? Great teachers begin by inspiring their students.

"It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge." --Albert Einstein

"We expert teachers know that motivation and emotional impact are what matter." -- Donald Norman

He admits he doesn't know, because nobody knows what will be important in 100 years.

The residual impact from communicating your insights can last well beyond 100 years, especially if you provide new puzzle pieces that fill in our gaps of understanding, connect domains, and contribute to a more complete picture.

"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops." --Henry Adams

Someone who did not try to communicate their understanding would be doing a disservice to us all. You never know what pieces someone else may be missing.
I have one word for you: pushState. Eventually you will want to use it, and you're screwed if you used subdomains.
What's a good swimmer?

You're going to be measuring it against other people. This points to the same significant flaw in the article: conflating "mastery" with "success".

The "10,000" rule is well known in Chinese culture as Gong Fu. Gongfu in any skill, whatever that might be, is accumulated little by little over a lifetime. It's part of the oral tradition that someone with talent and doesn't practice will not be good as someone without talent and does practice. And that someone with both talent and practice will have far greater skill than someone with mere talent or hard practice. There is a balance of both accepting your limitations as well as knowing how your potential greatly exceeds your perceived self limitations.

This is part of the fabric of Chinese culture and no one really questions it too deeply. It's been thrashed out in centuries of folk lore and literature such as Confucius. But I think, this offends American sensibilities in a deep way. So we have lots of discussion about it.

American culture has deep roots in: fairness, equal opportunity, upward mobility, and self-determination. What we're thrashing out here with the "10,000" hours isn't really anything about nurture, or nature at all. Underlying all of that is our deep seated feelings and values about fairness, equal opportunity, upward mobility, and self-determination.

You can have mastery without "success". Success is the outward, social recognition of your upward mobility.

Saying you can achieve "success" with 10,000 hours of practice arises from the self-determination -- that the world is fair, and that we all have an equal opportunity at "success". Which we don't. Because "success" is always defined relative to other people so it is inherently ephemeral and unstable. Mastery, though, is a knowing of yourself, and something anyone can achieve throughout the vicissitudes of outward "success".

Upward mobility give rise to aspirations to grow beyond your limits. The trouble is when you confuse self-perceived limitations and the limitations imposed by reality. You don't argue with gravity (in day-to-day life). You don't argue with a hurricane when it comes to town. We confuse self-perceived limitations and limitations of reality because there's a strong need for self-determination.

It can be argued that many of our technologies have allowed us to exceed our "natural" abilities. We can live anywhere in the world! Medicine extends our lifespan! Agricultural technologies let us feed a much greater population!

The thing is, with many of these technologies, we're creating an illusion of exceeding limitations by deferring its cost. We're like the child with hands on the ears: "La la la la la la la la la la la..."

A little navel-gazing is in order: Who are you? Why are you here? What are you doing here? Where are you in life?
The intention is good, but GeoIP is laughably wrong. If it worked you wouldn't need Route 53 in the first place.

Figure out how to measure real user latency[0] and compare to whatever routing you had before.

[0] Hint:
http://carlos.bueno.org/2009/11/dismal-guide-to-dns.html

http://www.slideshare.net/aristus/doppler-12564220
Heya, co-founder of plaintextoffenders.com here.

Just to note - we have talked about it before here: http://plaintextoffenders.com/post/7006690494/whats-so-wrong...
So this is for Gmail users that can be bothered to figure out how filters and labels work?
yeah... I'm not sure how this added to the article...
Can someone explain to me patio11's Taco example?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5603403

"I don't think that was the takeaway I was going for. An accountant, told "Tell me where the money goes in a taco truck", would be able to do do a napkin sketch of that in under a minute. "Describe at least one business problem amenable to a software solution that a taco truck has" does not strike me as being terribly difficult. (Actually selling it to them in a scalable fashion? Much more difficult, but that's largely because they're a taco truck.)"

What did Patrick mean in this paragraph? If you were to ask me "come up with a software solution for at least one business problem that a taco truck might have", I couldn't give you an answer. How could someone look at a business, and just dream up some software solutions?
Heh, yes, that never works. To be clearly a parody one must post something that would "obviously" never be posted seriously by someone. This turns out to be a high bar. Especially in emotional areas like environmentalism.
The Great Communal Experience
A far less thorough test:

http://www.dnscomparison.com/speed.html

Here is a list of DNS providers to look into comparing:

http://socialcompare.com/en/comparison/hosted-authoritative-...
My browser has a navigation bar and a tab bar,
and now my gmail has a navigation bar and a tab bar inside those.

This started over a year ago, and has gotten even worse.

http://threehuskies.wordpress.com/2011/07/03/why-is-there-a-...
Core thesis: 'No...Malcolm Gladwell is wrong. You can't be me. Why? Because I'm cool. Yes, that's right. I'm cool, like Warren Buffet."

This article is a phenomenal example of an intelligent and successful person lacking any rational and logical basis for their core thesis.

There are countless individuals who have become experts in their respective field, yet lack any formal training in logic, argumentation or critical thinking. They naturally believe that because people listen to them in a particular field, their skills of reasoning and grasp of logic must be superior. Often they tend to equally believe that their 'gifts' are 'in-born' because they don't ever remember feeling any different; they have been intelligent their entire life.

There are so many logical fumbles in this short piece, whether it be an excerpt or not, that it could be used as an philosophical exercise in pointing out faulty lines of reasoning. Example => So, how does Warren Buffet disprove the 10,000 hour rule? Author's response: "Because he was involved in business affairs from a young age." I assume that her line of reasoning is as follows: 'Warren was incredibly young when he had successfully started his first business. At that age he could not have possibly invested 10,000 hours in the study of business. Thus, he must have been born with business talent.'

Interestingly enough, Warren Buffet's case may be worth looking into in order to better refine the 10,000 hour rule. That being said, the above line of reasoning is hugely problematic. Nowhere is Warren Buffet's 'expertise' at a young age commented upon or evidence given in support of it. The 10,000 hour rule says that you will become an expert with 10,000 hours of deliberate practice/training at ever increasing levels of complexity. The rule does not come to say that you can't be successful without 10,000 hours of practice. (Look at Mark Zuckerber!) The author has both misunderstood and misapplied the correlation between these concepts and what could be meant by the word 'success'. Beyond a couple of other problems, the second major issue is that invalidating one proposition does not inherently validate an opposing proposition. Thus, just because the 10,000 hour rule may be invalidated by Warren Buffet's experience, we cannot make the logical leap to declare that he, therefore, has in-born/genetic attributes that we would consider 'talent'. These are 2 entirely separate arguments that may be related but are not directly tied to one another. I could go on and on with the problems in this article.

The short of it: Paul Graham was being overly optimistic in thinking that writing helps everyone form better arguments and think more carefully. Somebody should introduce Temple Grandin to a philosophy class on critical thinking and basic reasoning.
Apple hires former EPA chief Lisa Jackson
I think "Achilles heel" is the wrong term. These clocks do not have an unusual sensitivity to something (e.g. vibrations) which could make them poor compared to some other hypothetical clock. Rather, all clocks of this accuracy must necessarily be sensitive to these gravitational effects because the gravitational field effects the passage of time itself.
> When lions hunt buffalo on the plains, they look for those they get separated from the pack. Simply put, attacking an individual that is part of a smaller, less powerful, group is more likely to succeed without anyone coming to their defense.

This was exactly my experience in school. I wasn't bullied in high school, I was bullied throughout elementary instead. I'm INTP, introverted, extremely geeky, but none of that was why I was bullied. I was bullied because I was fat and I didn't know how to fight back. I was an easy target, basically. I had friends, but none who were capable of physically standing up for me, so we all suffered the consequences.

The bullying stopped in 7th grade (13 years old) when I stabbed one of my bullies with a pen and was suspended. I also started weight lifting and made a name for myself on the JV football team. The bullying stopped, even though I had become no less the geek and didn't stop hanging out with my geek friends.

> The more interesting question is why geeks don't have a mutual defense or strength in numbers

In my experience, fear. In a typical school pecking order, if you're not capable of physically dominating others, then you live in constant fear of being physically dominated yourself. I certainly was.
I realize you're doing the "Lean Startup" approach, but if you don't have actual quotes from customers or users, you might want to remove that section from your website. Are you based in Louisville, KY?
> Pre-reqs – If you’re not currently working, and you don’t have competing offers, you’re pretty much out of luck. So task #1 is to make sure you have competition for your talents. Otherwise, you might be able to ask for something small around the margins (eg help with relocation expenses), but you’re not in position for serious negotiation.

This is so, so true. Having a strong BATNA is 90% of negotiating. When I negotiate a package with someone, I want to do 2 things:

1) make sure I compensate them fairly. I've learned that skimping on salary is penny wise and pound foolish. If an employee feels slighted by their compensation they'll start looking for a new job immediately after starting working with me.

2) make sure I'm not over paying and setting myself up for resetting my entire salary structure. Raising salaries is part of doing business, resetting salaries downwards is darn near impossible to do.
> judgments about speech are judgments about the speakers themselves.

And so is "old white dudes".

> When it comes to language, the rules of natural selection apply: Evolve or perish.

I demand strong affirmative action for the less privileged languages.
Also remember a "compromised server" could be DHS serves you with a warrant that forbids you from discussing the warrant.
Slide #63 is funny. Even TechCrunch noticed: http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/29/people-actually-use-qr-code...
> I think words are concepts.

My notion of this is that words are pointers to something in a concept space. The words themselves don't and can't contain everything that the concept is; through cultural immersion, you gain a more complete notion of the concept and can more reliably refer to it by using an appropriate word.

This is why a lot of words are used to mean things completely unrelated (apparently) to their definition. The address they have in concept space simply changed.

And then there's the detail that concepts easily and frequently overlap.

I'm sure this has been covered by an Actual Linguist more credibly, though I've never seen it.
I have a MS in CS but, before enrolling in a graduate program I took 30 credits of undergraduate CS courses at a local university as part of a certificate program. My BA in Journalism did not really prepare me for graduate-level CS work.

If this option is available to you then I'd heartily recommend it.
People also stopped cutting down all the trees to heat their homes. Moving to fossil fuels for heating meant that people could reasonably keep trees on their property without needing to cut them down for firewood (and without neighbors cutting them down for the same reason).
I'm with you until you get to nature vs. nurture. Societal norms are so ingrained in early childhood education that it's extremely difficult to discern one from the other.

So, while we currently have different interests between the genders (speaking broadly), there's a good chance it's mostly nurture, which means that different attitudes early on could change that in the future.
Is there some reason you decided to have a maximum price?

I was curious that you felt the app had $20 value personally to you, yet you don't think anyone else would value it higher than that?

I found that decision surprising.
I have put a sticky note on the front of my laptop.
This sticky note contains a single english word.

If you can tell me this English word, I will paypal you $10.

--

Despite no one winning my "contest", my sticky-note encryption system is not particularly secure.
The story behind the all new Airbnb for android
> As a journalist The Magazine has been eye-opening to me. Almost non-existing staff (Glenn and Marco), handpicked contributors and you get a excellent magazine running profitable in less then one month.

OTOH, this is basically the business model of most niche paper magazines. You essentially have one editor, a bunch of freelance writers given assignments, and then photos are either freelance or stock. I guess they also have an ad sales department, unless that it outsourced too. But shoe-string permanent staffs are very common.
I was referring to the Android app.
Tech is VERY white. Take a look around during the next conference you visit.

If you want something more objective, this US-centric chart seems to be a good example:
http://www.bls.gov/cps/cpsaat11.htm
Is there any way to subscribe to them? I usually end up seeing them each year, but I'd rather prefer not to rely on serendipity to catch something as interesting as this.
Midway.js - Automatically center responsive elements.
Ayn Rand's Vision of Galt's Gulch Has Become Reality as of Today
Yes! Exactly!

The difference between attaining skill and "success".
I am Portuguese and I lived and worked in Spain for more than 3 years and to lump together Portuguese and Castellian as one language is very weird to me.

I had to learn Castellian to be able to be understood in everyday situations, to attend classes and to be able work in an office with natives.

Some words are spelled the same but the phonetics are completely different ( unless you speak Brazilian Portuguese which could be argued to be closer to Gallician-Portuguese ), and although Portuguese natives can understand a bit of Castillian ( not to the level of being able to read a newspaper though ), try to get two youths from the streets of Lisbon and Madrid to talk to each other and most likely they will sadly resort to speaking in broken English.
Even though the French themselves drop consonants like crazy; try pronouncing n'est-ce pas with all the written consonants.

EDIT: typo
all I got from article is implication that somehow women are less skilled (slower in article) otherwise they would be on up escalator as well? I certainly don't agree with that implication.
I went back at 27 and did post-bac courses to earn the equivalent of a minor in CS. I also taught myself python/django, js/css, basic database theory, and how to use heroku. Now I have a web app with paying customers. There might be other ways to get to where you want to go, without paying a lot of money out of pocket. It all depends on your goals. I too considered those MS programs for non CS undergrads. Because I ultimately knew I wanted an entrepreneurial career, I went more the DIY/non-credential route. My advice - decide what you want to do after you graduate, then work backwards to determine alternative paths. I'm not saying don't go back to school, but I am saying you have a lot of options, which is a great thing.
That still does not explain why they chose to offer their services only to Instagram users when accepting a pic directly uploaded to their site(s) is a fairly easy task. They suggest a work around of just creating an Instagram account. But I don't want an Instagram account. OTOH, I don't want their projector either. A magnet I could use... but I can get those lots of places that don't require an Instagram account.
Perhaps the author was using it as a demonstration of how easy it is to overlook the direction of your own escalator, being that she certainly has an advantage over some minorities because of her ethnicity.