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I'll answer some of my own questions on security measures:

1) We encrypt password using bcrypt, so in case of a database theft they are not easy to crack. We require SSL any time any authentication action is required -- cookies are sent with the secure option so over HTTPs only, and login/password must be entered over SSL. When you create an account your email gets a link that you have to follow and only there enter your password, same if you forget your password. No user will have an email sent nor can he even ask support what his password is. Of course this requires he can securely access his email account without anyone else snooping.

1b) We leave password strength up to customers and very few (1%) of them care to enable settings above basics (e.g. requiring password change every X days or password consisting of both numbers and digits and special characters). So while the feature is there technically, it's a failure socially.

1c) CSRF is handled by generating a token when generating a sensitive form; that token must be used when submitting that form. XSS is prevented by quoting of untrusted user input when displaying it.

2) Our SSH ports are wide open, but brute password cracking from a single IP is prevented by fail2ban which blocks IPs that repeatedly try to enter bad usernames/passwords. This does not protect against distributed password cracking which is why I like two-factor authentication. Many employees from roaming IPs access our SSH port so we can't easily firewall them, but I have a solution in mind where users can enable IP access via the web app (which uses different usernames/passwords).

3) Backups are encrypted, but that's it. If you collect fact X that may be sensitive, how do you protect that fact on disk if you have a rich web UI that uses that fact X for various reports?

5) We use mod_audit with some cut down rules and a few additional custom rules; an external company runs a Nessus-like scan. I've installed various toolkits to check vital binary integrity (rkhunter), have automatic updates from a good vendor (Red Hat Enterprise Linux).

6) I have started getting nightmares around about thepiratebay.org hosting a giant mycompany-complete-data-hahahahaha.set torrent, thus this posting :-)
More problems with milk:

1) It is highly allergenic.

2) Many people, such as 80% of those of African descent, cannot digest the lactose in milk. Cow's milk can therefore hardly be demonstrated as a food required for good health, when such significant numbers of humanity cannot drink it.

3) Multiple links to cancer, including that via casein, as well as increases in IGF-1.

4) Independent studies on reduction of cancer risk and cancer growth, by both the Pritikin Center and Dr. Dean Ornish, eliminate dairy in order to achieve their results.

Are any more reasons needed to seek our nutrition from less controversial foods?
Along one axis, the two forms are aristocracy (rule by non-consent of the governed) and pure democracy (rule by mob)

There are other axes, of course. I don't have an exhaustive list in front of me.

As a libertarian, I would. But as a utilitarian, I'm resigned to the fact that at some point we're going to have to start talking about what's best for the most. Unanimous consent doesn't work in groups of more than just a few.
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I guess Milk: Slightly more dangerous than you think, but much less dangerous than driving at night, while more accurate, would not sell as well.
Reminded me I should download Opera 10. Thanks.
This could be a real boon for startups looking for easy micropayments. I'll probably test-drive it just to see whether it should be recommended to my customers.
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I'm more of a business guy than hacker/programmer, and more of a lurker than a poster, but I was inspired by a thread here last week and thought I'd share. I hope it's something you'll find useful and I'd love to have any feedback.

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Thanks
May I suggest flagging the post?
"And the basic problems with trust are the same whether it is 2009 or not.

I do not trust you!"

Well, axod who runs mibbit is a respected HN contributor who works very hard on his client and is also available to chat/help often in #startups on irc.freenode.net

You however, I have no idea who you are and the fact that it looks like you created this account just to take a stab at axod makes me wonder who you really are on HN and why you have a bone to pick with him.

These kinds of actions do not engender trust in someone.

In summary, I'd be more likely to trust axod over you.

EDIT - for those reading this comment later, when I read the above comment, the comment was written "40 minutes ago" and then I checked his profile, it stated that the account was created "42 minutes ago", so that is where the perspective comes from. It appears like he created the account just to say something nasty.
This comes to no surprise to our family... just seeing what "regular" milk can do short-term. My cousin's daughter (7 years old) was showing signs of early puberty (B.O., armpit hair). Since switching to "organic" (hormone-free, among other things) milk, the B.O. has disappeared and the hair showing some retreat. ::scary:: YMMV
In Opera: right click anywhere. Select Block Content. Click on any annoying banner ads which tries to find a block pattern. No default filter like AdBlock, but pretty easy and a core element of the browser.

I'm an Opera user on Linux because I found it somewhat faster than Firefox back N years ago but I'm not sure I'm hanging on to Opera out of anything but loyalty and stubborness. Both Opera and Firefox (which is better at handling Gmail) bloat up to awful amounts of memory with time (why is Opera using 400 megabyte RSS now after 3 days?))
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> But if you don't have ADHD and you use it all the time, it can hurt you.

How so? I don't think taking Adderall with or without ADHD has any different effect on the body. The doctor needs to monitor your heart rate and blood pressure closely either way.

edit: Down voted... for what? I'm asking for a citation. FWIW, I have first hand experience and am (legitimately/legally) on Adderall.
There are certainly more reasons needed. You'd need to show that the utility gained from milk is small compared to the increased risk.

In short: I love milk and cereal and am not allergic to it. I don't care about a small increase in the risk of cancer. Your reasons don't convince me at all.
I agree, it's definitely bait of some description or another. I don't think it offers "nothing to think about" though.

The article is right in that Opera is last in browser market share. Would it be pushing as hard against Microsoft (and for as long; I wrote about Opera when they were saying exactly the same thing 2 years ago) if Opera was in say, 2nd?
Agreed, I wee the things coming out of MozLabs a lot more innovative - "the future of the internet", if it can be predicted, seems to be along the lines of Moz JetPack, not Opera Unite.
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I wonder if he will arrange a boycott of almost all European telecoms companies that make use of local loop unbundling: the principle is the same as they have to allow their competitors to use their last mile infrastructure.
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Be careful. I had a nightmare of a time with Adderall, which led to a manic episode and a year of my life lost to recovery. Whatever you do, don't ask us, ask your doctor.

Its a rare side effect but it happens for folks who are susceptible to depression or bipolar stuff..
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Humans are the only species that drink milk from other species (we technically don't need it unless it is from our own mom).

The reason we have been taught that bovine milk is good for us is because the market is too big to be ignored (or lost). We have been lied by a marketing scheme that businessmen have created just to make profits from us.

If you don't believe in this there are other sources of nasty things they do to cows to overproduce milk.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZkDikRLQrw&feature=fvst

Another example is the marketing behind bottled water that 'is better for you'...think of it, Americans are paying more for water than oil...but that is a different story.

Anything I say here you are free to disbelieve, but research on yourself because: 'only the truth can set you free'

Thank you
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Too bad, original blog doesn't accept comments without logging in. Anyway, here's my thought about Opera.

First of all, the default adblocker is available in default Opera installation. Right-click anywhere on the page and choose "Block content".

Second, Turbo doesn't cut adds. It blocks the initial loading of Flash/Silverlight content though. So if you go to Youtube you won't see the video. Insted you'll have to click on the video area so the browser know that this content is required. It will download the video dirreckly (not through Opera servers).

If your website uses Flash for ads you might be in trouble. But this Turbo feature is very new and only a small fraction of all Opera users run the 10th version with it.

I just went to mibbit to take a look around and it seems like the only ads you run are from Google. It's a safe bet in general case but sometimes it doesn't work well. Here's the thing: Opera is big (I mean huge) in Eastern Europe and chanses are most Opera-running visitors come from that region.

What is also special about Eastern Europe and former SU is that Google is nowhere near as popular as it's here not only in search but more importantly in advertising. About a year ago when I lived in Russia the two major players were Begun (banner ads) and Yandex (adsense-style text ads). Google made an attempt to purchase Begun but the deal was blocked by authorities.

What I suggest you is to try to alter between Google Ads and, for example, yandex ads, depending on where do you users come from. May be that could work better for you.
This question seems to come up periodically here.

I wouldn't even consider nootropics until you're already getting plenty of sleep, eating well, exercising regularly, and not using too much caffeine or alcohol. Those things have a much bigger impact on your state of mind. Nootropics are attractive in part because they represent the dream of sharpening your focus without all that boring lifestyle stuff.

Piracetam is cheap, studied (at least compared to the rest...), and doesn't have any particularly bad side effects. If you're going to take anything, that might be a better place to start than amphetamines (!) such as adderall. Of course, I'm not a doctor, but I doubt you are, either.

I've had the best results with green tea (which includes l-theanine) and getting enough sleep, FWIW. (Also, meditation helps.)
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yes, he really was that right (link to the post): http://asserttrue.blogspot.com/2009/06/heres-what-opera-is-a...
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This has to be the longest comment I've ever seen on HN. I don't mean that as an insult, simply an observation. Wow! It's obvious you care about this subject, as do I. And for practical reasons.

If I asked you whether you'd rather be ruled by Stalin and the Bolsheviks, or by Teddy Roosevelt

I'd rather be ruled by a system, not a person. We are a nation of laws, remember? I would rather not be ruled by any one person no matter how great they were. Remember "Give me Liberty, or Give Me Death!" "Live Free or Die!" Come now, these issues were prevalent and were widely discussed during the United States' founding. It's not like any of them are new.

As for your Gibbon quote, let's not start playing who's got the best authority. Plato said that philosophers should rule, and that art should mostly be eliminated. Lots of people working with the best information they had at the time made lots of statements. I think Gibbon was completely smoking crack, and I'm not going to take 7 paragraphs to prove it. After all, I don't think it will convince you anyway.

You're making a case based on incomplete stories. Sure, early democracies without proper checks and balances did all sorts of heinous things. But Germany became productive, Iraq will become productive. These things are simply a matter of time. Aristocracies stagnate. Democracies evolve. Since we've started with mostly autocratic systems and moved towards democracies, any change to the negative has to be viewed in a much longer focus.

As to WWI, you're surly not telling me that Tsarist Russia was democratic, are you? Or that the rise of populist feelings and movements didn't drastically affect the outcome and aftermath? Or that the Germany-France war in 1870 didn't set the stage for the larger conflict to follow, right?

It just seems amazingly blind to assert that the evolution of what works and what doesn't be predicated on some Utopian view of inherited rule. In fact, it's circular logic at its best. If a nation doesn't do well, then it's the leader's fault. If it does well, then it must have had a good leader. You're stuck never being able to figure out that some systems work with bad leaders. That's a major advance in thought that The Enlightenment brought, and it's one that you seemed to have missed.
Baning MS from bundling IE with their OS is very hypocritical and great distraction move by EU bureaucracy.

They should open the tenders instead of making secret deals and make publicly available all the deals they have made with MS in the first place. That would limit corruption where business and government meets and give chance to alternatives and progress.

The whole anti-Opera campain is just more distraction from the real issue.
If you build it, they will ignore it (unless you promote it)
Good thoughts, and good idea at the end. I'll likely run some different adverts and see which ones produce the best revenue for each country/browser/OS etc.

eastern-europe: opera=8% usage, compared with US: opera=2% usage

So you may have a point there - Opera users are less likely to be in easy-to-monetize countries. In terms of absolute numbers, there's more Opera users outside the US/EU, than inside.
It's a different approach, but to the third-party developer (and the end-user) it definitely has some overlap with Google Wave. Interesting to see the two different approaches to web-based collaboration, and it'll be even more interesting to see how they compete and/or combine.
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This post raises far more questions than answers. such as:

Why is Opera's action so egregious? Competitors often take a stand on legal cases relating to each other.

And why among his list of "great alternative browsers" is IE first?
"For now, entries are stored in a simple array, so will be lost when the service is restarted, but it wouldn’t be so hard to extend the example to provide a means of retaining the blog entries."

Oooof... that hurts. It looks like they want you to do File I/O and create your own storage layer. Opera really needs to implement client-side SQL:
http://dev.w3.org/html5/webstorage/#asynchronous-database-ap...
One thing they didn't mention that I'm curious about is are there differences in estrogen levels between milk from cows raised without additional hormones (marketed as "hormone-free") versus those raised with additional hormones to produce more milk.
I like the idea. I just made a quick test (visible here: http://www.resubj.com/inboxes/1152) to look at the code formatting. The formatting looks great for Ruby, but not-so-much for Lisp. Not a huge issue, but maybe when somebody clicks the programmer? link, it'll show a list of supported languages.

The email that I got was in plain text. Maybe there could be an option when creating the message to send the emails with formatting? That way, if you know that your friends can see formatted emails, you can send properly colored code.

Comment posting is very quick. When I sent in a comment through email, it took about half a minute for the comment to show up -- but I guess that's to be expected.

So, my general verdict:

I like the idea.

However, I think that for it to appeal to non-hackers, it should support formatting. It could even be something simple, like the italics supported by HN.
Probably not. I don't necessarily agree with the law suits against Microsoft right now over in Europe - honestly, most of the tech-savvy users have moved away from IE, and the ones who haven't probably wouldn't know what they were working with if you gave them something else anyhow. Either that, or IE is still used in an enterprise environment, in which case the IT specialists probably just don't want to field tech support calls from people who are trying to use the 'e' but can't find it.

That said, I did dislike the way MS dealt with competition back in the Netscape days - they have become considerably less 'evil', but a lot of that old animosity remains. I think it will eventually die off, but until then I think MS has an uphill battle with a lot of hackers out there. Plus, Microsoft bashing is something of a sport amongst Linux users like myself - I doubt I'll use Win7 just because I prefer the feature set and interface of Linux, but that doesn't mean that I necessarily thing it is a bad product (won't stop me from bashing WinME/Vista, though :-).

The EU courts, though - I think they are just trying to keep big American companies in check, give them a wake up call telling them that they can't think that the EU market is going to be business as usual. Intel is getting the same message, from what I've read.
Absolutely correct - please consult with your doctor before you take any advice off of the internet. Messing around with your neural circuitry may cause more harm than good.
Because other people are allergic or lactose intolerant, I shouldn't drink milk and eat dairy?
1) The name is awful. I don't have a nice way to say it. I'm sorry. Assuming people like the app how are they going to spread the word? The name can't be pronounced without sounding like a person who is possessed.

2) Why would someone use this? Right off the bat I don't get why I should use this instead of email. In order to start a discussion I need to know the email addresses of the initial participants whereas newsgroup or mailing list posts go out to hundreds or thousands of people I may or may not know ahead of time. If I need to know exactly who's going to be involved from the start it's easier to use my mail client.

I understand that the discussion can be made public on here, but what's the point? Sure, you don't need a newsgroup already set up, but a newsgroup is also a good starting point for someone looking for discussions about a particular topic. I just don't understand what need this is fulfilling. This needs to be made clear on the front page so potential users don't navigate away 15 seconds after landing on it with the impression that this is a reinvention of the wheel.

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There's a small grammatical error on the About page. "Discuss any topic with lot's of people right now and waste no time for registration." should be "Discuss any topic with lots of people right now and waste no time for registration." "Lots" is plural; "lot's" is possessive.
Now if only everyone was tech savvy we wouldn't have these problems. Microsoft would actually have to make a really good browser rather than leveraging it's near monopoly on the OS to deliver an average browser to the masses.
Thank you for your reply.
Emailing comments is probably that slow because we haven't optimized the emails queue (that's coming).

Sending emails in HTML is a big question to me. I believe that people who would prefer HTML emails to plaintext ones would also prefer web-interface to email-client when posting new comments. What do you think?
What does it matter if other species don't do it? We're also the only species to domesticate other species. And that's precisely why some of us can digest lactose into adulthood: our ancestors domesticated cows, and evolved that ability because it provided an advantage.

It sounds like you're parroting PETA/vegan talking points.
As I understand it, there is a very different way these meds work in folks with/without ADHD. With kids at least: it is paradoxical how "hyper" kids are calmed by the use of stimulants - unlike the effects of stimulants on the rest of us.

There are other threads here on hackers' experience with ritalin / adderal / their benefits, addiction potential, and side effects. There has also been an item in news in last couple days about a cardiac death for a teen prescribed one of these stimulants. Buyer (and patient) be ware: especially if your doc has not checked you out for contraindications.
I would love to see these links and correlations. If it's true, I'm screwed because I freaking love ice cream!
Yes, I agree with you.

But he has earned his trust with HN community. I have not been around that long haven't earned your trust but that just supports my point about trust vs technology and his stupid "enable javascript you *" message. As I am new to your community, he does not have my trust yet and does not deserve any based on what I know about him so far.

That might change over time but so far it seems he is making web a bit more unpleasant for people who do not throw themselves to the sharks by blindly enabling javascript to whoever asks/orders to.
That's just silly. A confidence interval by definition is a range; the commenter is arbitrarily choosing to post only the low end of that range. If the high end were posted instead, Washington's lead would look that much more impressive.

That's not to say the math is useless; a better statement (which could have been supported by the data) would have been "The difference between CA and WA is less than the measurement margin of error given WA's small sample size".
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I've had a bit of personal experience with Ritalin. I focus very well on things which interest me, but I have a much harder time focusing on anything less interesting. I tried Ritalin very briefly (for a few weeks). As far as I could tell, it just made everything equally "interesting", and I could focus on whatever I chose to.

Definitely consult with a doctor, preferably one who specializes in this type of medication. Keep in mind that everything has a side-effect, and that mixing various drugs (illegal or not) can have unexpected results. In other words, learn as much as you can about anything you might use, and decide whether to use it based on that.

I'm also about whether AD(H)D is a real condition in the sense that some people have it, and others don't. However, I definitely agree with the sentiment in one of the other replies below, of how it's like vision -- everybody has a different preciseness of vision. If your vision is bad enough, you get glasses. If you believe that your attention problems are bad enough (they seem to be, from your post), then consult with a doctor.

I hope you find a good treatment.
Regarding the casein, what do you make of this:
"For example, many people are allergic to the casein in milk. It's one of the two most common alleriges, along with gluten. Both casein and gluten are proteins. A normally functioning stomach at the proper pH should completely digest casein."

Source: http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.com/2009/02/sugar-hydrogen...
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