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I capture both worlds by spelling them disck.
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wondered this as well. I've heard numerous time that there are super simple programs out there that give you the password within minutes. No idea if there is any truth in it though.
Followed this post to two related ones on medium.

Pax Dickinson's former cofounder: https://medium.com/glimpse-labs/131e9cd05852

Pax's Response: https://medium.com/glimpse-labs/4aa5b6a6a665
Not that I agree with insider trading, but preventing it through legislative means strikes me as a "band-aid" solution.
Working more than 40 hours in a week is not something to be proud of. In fact, people should be ashamed of it because it displays that they seriously lack intelligence or discipline.
I dont really see your logic, Gubment can put you in prison, take your rights away, companies targeting ads can't. It makes sense that one would be outraged at the former.
ionice[1] is even better for this use-case.

[1]: http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/raring/man1/ionice.1.html
Simplicity can be the outcome of good design, not necessarily always a sensible goal in of itself. The right thing might be complex, or it might be simple. The simpler it is, the less room there is for error, and in this case I feel like the outcome is an ugly icon. Obviously the flaps for the box are visually "off" by design, but why? It's not for me at all.
making peeping tom apps, that post sexually interpreted images of women without their consent, is a worse idea.
That is just sad. Why do you think most people get nothing out of art? Do you not consider Bach's fugas art? Or the Brothers of Karamazov? Or the statue of Nefertiti?

I suppose you must mean that most people do not get an immediate material benefit out of art. But there is so much more in life than that.
This article is dramatically light on specifics and historical context and heavy on innuendo and fearmongering.
A quote from the article:

If everyone spent time trying to satisfy standards of elitist grumps, nothing would ever get done. First make a game that works, perfection will come later.
It is the best collection of memoirs I've read by an order of magnitude, and the sequel - What do you care what other people think? - is great too!
I agree with everything Khadijah says, and I agree with all the people who thought TitStare was offensive and that Pax Dickinson is a bit of an asshole. But I just can't agree with the wording.

> Pax: "’misogyny’ is ‘hatred of women’. It is not misogyny to tell a sexist joke, or to fail to take a woman seriously, or to enjoy boobies."

> Khadijah: "This did not jibe with the definition of misogyny I have lived with for my adult life. Sexist jokes, not taking women seriously and making an app to surreptitiously stare at my “boobies” all fall squarely within that definition."

I'm sorry, but that just means that you've been living with the wrong definition of misogyny for all your adult life. It is not a synonym for sexism and it never was.

It worries me that so many people feel the need to not just denounce events like this, but also seem to be in a competition to denounce them with the strongest moral disapprobation possible. If you strip away the context, you'd be excused for thinking people are talking about the holocaust. In the end, what words will we have left to describe to describe actual misogynists, racists and other pathological characters?
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How boring is to be a project manager these days... you can't even find "challenges" for you in the challenges section.
For some reason, that story seems to have fallen off the front page, so people may not know that the root cause is not Heroku:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6380772
The community's lack of courage to even discuss these issues is pretty depressing.

I agree that this topic merits discussion and shouldn't be flagged, but you're just wrong when you say the community lacks the courage to discuss these topics.

https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/submissions&q=sexism...

edit: Three of the four articles you link in your reply to this post have well over 100 comments each, so you're only supporting my position that the community is very much willing to discuss this topic, and in fact, does so pretty regularly. Any topic that hits the front page over and over again (in this case, discussion regarding TitStare) gets flagged as people get fatigued by the same repetitive discussion. This happened with SOPA, and Snowden and every other issue that reached maximum saturation in the community.
To this inevitable complaint:

Others wonder whether focusing donations on individuals, no matter how worthy, diverts funding and attention from efforts aimed at tackling the more systemic causes of inadequate healthcare in impoverished parts of the world.

I can only respond with "The Starfish Parable":

One day, an old man was walking along a beach that was littered with thousands of starfish that had been washed ashore by the high tide. As he walked he came upon a young boy who was eagerly throwing the starfish back into the ocean, one by one.

Puzzled, the man looked at the boy and asked what he was doing. Without looking up from his task, the boy simply replied, "I'm saving these starfish, Sir".

The old man chuckled aloud, "Son, there are thousands of starfish and only one of you. What difference can you make?"

The boy picked up a starfish, gently tossed it into the water and turning to the man, said, "It made a difference to that one!"
Makes it look and feel like movement, I would say.
Well, it is also a clickbait headline and a link to medium.com which for me and probably others has become an instant turnoff. Not something to flag, but definitely something not ignore.
The difference is whether they're using them for speculation or (real) hedging.
Way to shill for yourself.

"But along with the cash, Watsi has also raised eyebrows. To some critics, there’s something distinctly neocolonialist and off-putting about the spectacle of well-off do-gooders in the U.S. choosing which brown people live and die in the developing world based on who has a cuter picture on Watsi. Others wonder whether focusing donations on individuals, no matter how worthy, diverts funding and attention from efforts aimed at tackling the more systemic causes of inadequate healthcare in impoverished parts of the world. Watsi must also bear the misfortune of coming of age during a simmering backlash against Silicon Valley. We’ve gotten tired of hearing the name brand Silicon Valley bigwigs who have invested hundreds of thousands of dollars in Watsi talk about the merits of “disrupting” existing industries, when all that really seems to end up happening is that a few people get rich while the competitive screws tighten on the many."

You have an urge to save a life? Make a direct donation yourself or to one of the hundreds of charities that exist. Some charities are certainly better than others, but the options are out there. Watsi is a pathetic excuse for a "company" where this sort of pick-and-choose comes across as a form of good when it's really quite creepy and saddening.

Startups don't need to exist in order to do good, and you don't need to hide behind the veil of backing a company in order to seem like a good person. Give someone the money yourself or go visit those countries if you really give a shit, because there's more to their problems than individuals who happen to need medical care. Most of them don't have any at all.
In these situations, you're really only afforded two options: join the mob or shut up. Even questioning whether or not someone should be terminated from employment for being an idiot is treated as supporting rape culture.
Why does it do away with using <button> for buttons?
... and you think Android phone makers are not in mad rush to get a finger print sensor as early as possible ?
Is there a way to lock down a router in a way that can't be so easily spoofed?
> Great fun with cowsay

... and ponysay: http://i.imgur.com/Df09hpV.png
Is there a similar project to make Feynman Lecture on Computation easily available? I've been trying to find a decent digital copy for the longest time.
It really seems messed up that Martha Stewart went to jail and no financial crisis CEOs did. Prosecutors seem to be focusing in the wrong direction.

(I know it's not quite that simple. Strangely enough, Martha Stewart used to be a stock broker, so she should know insider trading laws. But still...)
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Smoke jumpers are taking on a job that offers a boon to others, so I politely give them the benefit of the doubt. Thus it is an exercise in adult behavior, even if the details of their personal motives are more ambiguous.

I do recognize a degree of courage in a young man going into the wild to heal the angst and alienation plaguing his soul. Yet I bristle at the suggestion such is automatically heroic or independent thinking, and (implicitly or explicitly) the less wounded amongst us can be dismissed as "sheep", as some admirers have done in this discussion.

I am sorry, but I see no evidence that McCandless ever had a single original thought in his head. He never completed the "hero's journey" in either the literary or practical sense -- he failed to achieve enlightenment and return with his boon, to help himself and/or others. He failed. He may have had some courage to admire, but he ultimately failed when it came to the big important stuff.

McCandless was an adolescent in a man's body -- he was not proven capable of handling adult responsibilities. That is not necessarily a negative in itself -- we are where we are in life, and being honest about it and doing something about it is a fine thing. But I am not going to be patient with people lecturing genuine adults about how this adolescent has deep insights into life. Sorry, but that is just wishful thinking by people who mistake ignorance and low intellectual standards for originality.
What does that mean? "Google knows"? That data exists in a database owned by Google, or that Google actively farms that data and makes use of it?

Are you saying Google's using this for gain, or for any reason? Is there any evidence whatsoever to suggest that this data has ever been accessed by a Google employee ever, for any purpose whatsoever?

Slight tangent, but the difference between "can" and "does" is a vast one I don't think people are getting, with all these privacy issues coming about these days. Here's a scary thought: any person who owns a gun/car/knife/taser/baseball bat can kill someone else with it. They could do it.

Unless it "does" happen, and there's evidence that it happened, they don't get in trouble.

What Google can do is almost endless. What it does do is what matters.
Absolutely a great manager will inspire and motivate the team,. But, it is called "work" for a reason. Its a two way street. The employee has to put forth some effort as well. Your manager is not there to entertain you. At the end of the day you are there to work.
It's worse in iOS. I remember hanging onto an old kindle app version for ages to keep the feature that allowed direct book purchases. The upgrade killed this when I accidentally hit upgrade all one day. The annoying notification did go away though.
I'm not sure if you're serious, but just in case someone reading this thinks you are, you can't blacklist all evil (and many of those functions are important to valid code). You need to whitelist your own files, lock down write permissions as much as possible, then monitor them for changes using a file alteration monitor or intrusion detection system.
Close to 250,000 people on Tomonotomo already - Dating reinvented
Seriously. Ask Bradley Manning...
$ ls /usr/share/cows/
beavis.zen.cow dragon-and-cow.cow hellokitty.cow moofasa.cow sodomized.cow turtle.cow
bong.cow dragon.cow kiss.cow moose.cow stegosaurus.cow tux.cow
bud-frogs.cow elephant.cow kitty.cow mutilated.cow stimpy.cow udder.cow
bunny.cow elephant-in-snake.cow koala.cow ren.cow supermilker.cow vader.cow
cheese.cow eyes.cow kosh.cow satanic.cow surgery.cow vader-koala.cow
cower.cow flaming-sheep.cow luke-koala.cow sheep.cow telebears.cow www.cow
daemon.cow ghostbusters.cow meow.cow skeleton.cow three-eyes.cow
default.cow head-in.cow milk.cow small.cow turkey.cow
This might also be an indication that their advances in attacking commonly used ciphers are not that major - it does not make that much sense to perform a relatively complex MITM attack if you are able to just break the used cipher.
Thanks. I'll check it out. Was planning on skipping it because of Ghost.
As a man, I'm encouraged that there are others commenting on this link, indicating that they don't want to see it flagged/removed, and that they'd like to have a more frank and open discussion about sexism.

Guys, if we keep trying, eventually it will happen. It takes courage as a man to say you're against sexism and misogyny, there are so many easy outs provided by our culture and community.
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the USB Condoms nomenclature is likely the reason it is getting exposure. For a first run, I'd say it was definitely successful considering its sold out. But you're right, retail would probably suggest a name change.
This is going to be yet another archetypal Hacker News semantics comment, but as tone-deaf and out-of-touch as Pax Dickinson may be, I have to agree with him on the use of the word "misogyny." Misogyny is what ultimately results from casual sexism: By laughing off things like Titstare, we reinforce a culture of simplifying, infantilizing, and objectifying women. This is then fertile ground for the repugnant last step, contempt for women, which is misogyny.
There is actually quite a bit of prejudice against hiring male teachers in the lower grades (k-6) and an almost unbreakable wall in the daycare / pre-k settings. The schools are very worried about lawsuits. Plus, many parent in daycare don't want males changing their daughters, but are fine with females changing their sons.

// yes, I worked in the area and had a buddy who ran a center
If you have enough space to lug one of these around you might as well carry with you a complete wall-charger all the time.
Probably not, even for inexperienced users. WEP was flawed but it's been rolled out already and most ISPs configure routers with proper WPA-PSK and long passphrases.
I kind of had the same thought when I read his comments. Crude, rude and crass, but not misogyny by the dictionary definition and I think his detractors weaken their argument that by using it. Unfortunately the word has evolved in meaning for certain people (as words do).

Now when words like "literally" evolve to mean "figuratively" (I literally died!) it is relatively unimportant but when such emotional trigger words have different meanings for people then it gets complicated.
The following articles were all flagged off the front page of the site, just in this last week:

"'Titstare' app at TechCrunch: women in tech deserve better": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6352595

"Tit Stare – We wish to apologise": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6357607

"Business Insider CTO Forced to Resign Following Twitter Firestorm": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6360328

"NPR: Sexism In The Tech Industry Takes Center Stage": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6374508

Sadly, HNSearch does not show the lifespan of articles on the front page of the site.

Oh, and we can now add this thread to that list:

http://i.imgur.com/GhU3mRV.png

EDIT: All those threads do have plenty of comments, because people went out of their way to link to threads that were flagged off the home page. It presents a huge visibility problem - there were responses in the Business Insider thread asking "What happened at TC Disrupt", because they never found out about it.

The fact that we both have to edit our posts because this thread has been killed within minutes of posting ought to indicate to you that flagging is real, and does happen.
They need to modify ALL of their company's design. Not only the logo.

https://www.dropbox.com/

Look at their home page. Flat logo in a skeuomorphist world. Gradient on a 3d button. Pencil drawing.

The logo simply doesn't fit with the rest of their image.
Lack of courage to even discuss? An article about gender or sexism in tech is on the front page of HN every day or two, and always results in over a hundred comments.

If anything, writing an article about gender-based discrimination seems to be one of the easiest ways to get an item to get noticed on HN. Only privacy issues seem to be more discussed lately.
I wonder what would be the impact on the amount of funding if donors were only shown pictures of patients after choosing to donate? Say donors could still get the rest of the demographics data, just not a picture. Would this lead to "non-photogenic" patients receiving equal care? Or is the "non-photogenic" patient issue not a problem in the first place?
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Yes, check out the many variations of the EAP and PEAP authentication protocols. Client authenticates the access point by its certificate, client gets authenticated by his/her client certificate. While some combinations have some flaws, like MSCHAPv2 may have too short keys for instance, there are others that I consider quite solid.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensible_Authentication_Proto...

EDIT: Sorry for having repeated some of the stuff bjornsing already said. Should read through more carefully before rushing to comment, I guess.
Failed experiment or no, it's probably the single most influential set of undergraduate physics classes ever taught. Grad students attened these classes too, and nearly everyone in the field has a copy of these lectures sitting on the shelf.

They're not a singular reference, but they're really good. His rachet and pawl lecture is timeless.
The original article uses Java, which makes it harder to see how simple it can be to make and use prefix trees. For comparison, here's the Python code to create a prefix tree from a set of words:

def prefix_tree(words):
d = dict()
for word in words:
root = d
for c in word:
root = root.setdefault(c, {})
root['$$'] = {} # mark end of word with '$$' token
return d

For example:

>>> prefix_tree('foo bar baz'.split())
{'b': {'a': {'r': {'$$': {}},
'z': {'$$': {}}}},
'f': {'o': {'o': {'$$': {}}}}}

To query whether a word is present in a tree you basically compute

reduce(dict.__getitem__, word, tree)

and test whether the result (a forest) has an end-of-word '$$' tree.
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exactly. The government doesn't want to prosecute these guys because if they go to trial, what will come out is that the government WANTED these outcomes, and the bailout was mostly an effort by the government to save face and patch over a mistake that they are significantly responsible for (this is not to excuse bank executives for not having the moral perspicacity to stop it).
By far my favorite piece of writing from Feynman is QED:

http://www.amazon.com/QED-Strange-Princeton-Science-Library/...

Out of all his writings, this is the one that has always stuck with me.

Feynman long held that one does not understand something if one cannot explain it to someone who is not deeply steeped in the subject already. I regard this lecture as probably the culmination of that philosophy for Feynman. Anybody with a deep mathematical background will be stunned on reading this book to realize that, oh, he was actually just talking about complex numbers and the path integral formulation all along.

Taken from one of those reviews, I don't need to say much more than this: "He does close to the impossible by explaining the rudimentary ideas of Quantum Electro Dynamics (QED) in a manner that is reasonably accessible to those with some physics background"
A recurring problem with these articles is how emotionally charged they usually are. Indeed, this very story starts with calling the guy in question a 'dick'. Sure, he's a dick, but at least don't start out like that... just don't say the word 'dick', it's highly unprofessional. IT has a subset of men who feel they were unfairly treated by women when they were younger, when they approach the problems of women not being fully welcome in the IT industry, they approach it with the baggage they've been carrying for a long time. So it's best to approach these incidents with great care and delicacy, to avoid having these stories inevitably be oriented in a men-vs.-women frame. This article is not written with any considerable thought or care to solve problems, that's why I flagged it.
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EVERTHING changing in London sure looks similar to not very much changing. I was in Bangkok 2 years ago and I must have had blinders on since EVERYTHING changed. I think the only thing that hasn't changed is bullshit hyperbole.
Huge.

Tested a simple "for" loop: http://jsperf.com/jsfuck-perf-testa

Vanilla I got 225k ops/sec. JSFuck, 4.5 ops/sec.

So about 50000 times slower.
That's splitting hairs, though. She lied because she knew that what she did was against the law. She was held up as an example not to dissuade people from lying to investigators as much as to dissuade people from insider trading.
$ grep bofh .bash_aliases
alias bofh="nc bofh.jeffballard.us 666 | tail -n 1 | sed -e 's/Your excuse is: //'"

$ bofh
The air conditioning water supply pipe ruptured over the machine room
It certainly didn't help that Eliot Spitzer's political career imploded months before the financial crisis hit. It's impossible to know what he might have done -- either as governor or in some investigatory/prosecutorial role after his term. But it's also hard to imagine him remaining on the sidelines on this issue if his own dumb hubris hadn't taken him out of the game.

Edit: if any of you have seen Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, the same filmmaker also made a documentary to explore Spitzer's downfall with regard to the financial crisis:

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/feb/27/eliot-spitzer-w...
"Google's legal initiatives are largely just naked lobbying for its own corporate interest. SOPA in particular.'

This is where I stopped reading.

I personally know all of the people at Google involved in doing SOPA, and you have literally no idea what you are talking about.

You are talking about a group of people mostly from places like EFF, Creative Commons, and other wonderful orgs. They do it because they want to make the world better, don't want to see the internet censored, and because it's the right thing to do. Maybe you are too cynical and jaded to do something like that, but they aren't. Your opinions have zero basis in fact.

(I read the rest, and it's equally as uninformed. You no nothing of what google has tried to do, done, or anything of the sort, be it related to the NSA or anything else. If Google puts out press releases, you call them self-interested, if they do it quietly, you never notice and think they are 100% cooperative. They are fucked either way).
I agree. First of all, why is a ui class necessary? Second, what's large? The icon, the button, the label? All of it? What's red, the icon or the button? Certainly not both. There's a reason we have classes like "btn btn-small icon-* icon-2x". A large icon in a small button. I think those names are more 'semantic'.
I guess they're reducing boxiness
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It is frequently thrown around without any supporting evidence that sexism/misogyny is the reason there are so few women in technology. Does anyone have any proof, or even any good argument that this is actually the case?

Is the same argument true as to why there are so few women in construction, mining, and auto body repair?

I took an introduction to computer programming course in 7th grade, and there were 29 males and 1 female in my class room. So I guess the sexism/misogyny starts before 7th grade?
I wondered the same thing regarding them requesting private keys a while ago. If they could break the ciphers, why would they need the keys?