skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This advice isn't incorrect, but it isn't entirely accurate either.

The Google Authenticator mobile app doesn't require data, so that meets the OP's requirements perfectly (ie, no SMS or data).

Use that, print out the one-time use codes and keep them in your wallet.
with that much information, people will simply not care what everyone else is doing. part of what makes "private" information interesting is its rarity.

That's basically Brin's theory and it is a bad one because it assumes, against all evidence to the contrary, that people will just simply stop looking for ways to judge other people as being inferior.
A lot of time has been spent by developers trying to get points. There is a cost to that.

The site has enabled software vendors to slack off on their documentation. If there was no StackOverflow the vendors would have to do better. I'm thinking of msdn as an example since a lot of the Stack questions are MS technology based. MS is far from alone though. Much of the money saved has gone to vendors.

Even given those points it has still saved a lot of money. But billions? I don't know if it would be that much. It would be interesting to know what the global number for reputation points is. There may be a correlation to money saved.
The only way I see Linux gaming becoming "the thing" is if it cannibalizes Windows gaming. I think that even if all new games have first-class Linux editions, that will still be a difficult future to realize since you will still have legacy games that are Windows only (and wine will never become anything but a rounding error in that regard. Not in the next few years anyway, maybe 10+ years out playing games in Windows VMs on Linux will become reasonable...)
It's a start, but you'd need all the mobile platforms on it too.
Among the many hats that I wear, one is optics designer.

A useful resolution test is to take pictures of alternating black and white bars, then use some sort of image analysis software to measure the contrast ratio, then draw a graph of contrast versus "frequency" which is inversely proportional to the spacing of the bars. You could define the resolution as the frequency or spacing where contrast drops to some arbitrary value such as 50 percent.

Contrast won't depend on light level unless the camera is doing some interesting post-processing.

It might be worthwhile to Google "USAF test chart" and look at what pops up under Images, because folks have conjured up test patterns that are useful for determining the contrast of an imaging system in one exposure.

What I think might be tricky is to come up with an objective definition of resolution or contrast that is amenable to both physical and physiological measurement.

[edited to add "inversely"]
Agreed. 2FA is still rare enough that if a service you use offers 2FA, that's a sign you should probably use it.
It only works if you move the scroll bar or middle mouse wheel.
Ugh sorry to throw this at you (nothing personal) but here's how I see it...

Full disclosure: OP, long term Microsoft customer, ex MSDN premium sub, ex-registered gold parnership, 25 years working with Microsoft software and ex MCDBA, MCSD, ex WinPhone user (710, 820). Hey I even have a book on DOS signed by Gates from a 1990 PCUG meeting I attended.

Note the number of ex'es above. Even people like myself with vested interest have given the whole platform the finger due to the amount of crack smoking going on in the last couple of years.

Realistically, this is what it looks like to us. Not just me; this is the talk around the gum tree amongst the sector in the UK:

1. WinRT is an utter failure and is going to die. Even Microsoft is pretty sure about this now[1]. We've been telling clients not to even poke it with a 20 foot long stick becuase our stuff doesn't work on it (we have a desktop/COM broker that talks to our web app). It's a support nightmare. People just think they're getting a cheap PC. Instead they get a laggy bastardised half-finished OS which sometimes throws the desktop in your face with a copy of Office that is pure sufferance to use.

2. I've said positive things about WP8. It's not terrible. However WP is only selling because the handsets are low priced compared to the competition and aggressive marketing. Regardless of sales, I doubt a single penny of profit has turned up yet. Not only that, a lot of us devs who would possibly build something for it are put off by the whole buy/sell crack smoking, the fact that WP7 users were left in the shit and the completely closed nature of the platform. Also, mummy darling and Vicky Pollard still want an iPhone as do I because it's just nice [2] and not some lump of soulless plastic farted out of a tellytubby.

It's only my Unix/Linux wizardry that has kept me sane all these years.

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/nov/26/microsoft-...

[2] nice is equivalent to quality here in the form discussed in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Persig.

Edit: this is designed to be comedic venting rather than a flame.
Trying to argue with an alt-medicine fanatic using a .gov source is like citing Dawkins in a debate with a Bible thumper. They won't take the source seriously.
StrongLoop did not say they were firing him. They actually said they opposite — that they wanted to keep him on because they benefit from his contributions to the Node and libuv projects. They explicitly noted that the "we will fire him" was a far-future hypothetical situation that they didn't believe would happen.

The reason they mentioned firing was because they were responding to Joyent's suggestion that he should be fired. It seemed to me that the overall thrust of StrongLoop's post was, "We think Joyent are quite hasty if they would fire a great guy and great contributor like Ben over a misunderstanding."
If we're making it a competition, I'll note that the human eye natively supports edge detection, and it operates in a much wider range of light. Eyes also come pre-packaged in a format that allows for quite accurate determination of distance at no extra charge. While cameras have a slightly broader spectrum, eyes work in a far greater range of brightness - and seeing in the near dark is far more useful than seeing the LED on the end of a remote. Eyes are perfectly mobile, and don't require external power. Eyes have a much faster traverse and can move to and focus on a target much more quickly. If you're turning, eyes will give you a stable image of the world around you to help keep your reference - cameras will just give you motion blur. Eyes are very difficult to replace, admittedly, but they have pretty astonishing self-healing characteristics and last for decades of constant use - in the rain, snow, desert heat, even underwater (though admittedly the image isn't great). Not to mention that if you roll your cameras, people will just be confused as to your emotional state, and of course, it's harder to feel a knot of love when staring into your significant other's IP cam...
EDIT: I didn't see your edit which gave Apple's Rosetta and X11 as examples. Those are good counter-examples to my point. But then again, those strategies were not done by X11 itself, rather by compatibility layers as you suggested. And in fact this is precisely what a lot of companies are doing, for example the XMir project (http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/26254.html).

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I agree that that's a great strategy in general, but I don't think it translates well to display servers.

You can't just "put it in a sandbox". You need driver support, and you'd need a sandboxed environment sophisticated enough to deal with all the idiosyncrasies of the X protocol.

Even putting running an old version of X11/UNIX in a virtual machine is of limited benefit, because X11's core functionality is often tightly coupled with drivers and other things which would need a lot of special wrappers and hacks to work properly.

I'm not saying it wouldn't work (and I am not an X11 developer), but I do think there are extremely compelling and legitimate reasons for people to not follow your suggestion (at least in this case).
> But they're quite clear that they were not ATTEMPTING to track us.

Speak for yourself. As a European I'm apparently a "foreign target".
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If a person accesses your phone or laptop, he or she will not necessarily have access to all your credentials for various services and for other devices. But if all this info is stored in one place, in a password manager, the scope of the potential data breach suddenly grows.
From an econometric perspective evaluating these kinds of things is fun. I would guess that any productivity gains would be concentrated in the most difficult-to-answer questions, that you can otherwise spend hours / days trying to debug or understand. "20 hours for 5% of questions" is probably a more accurate characterization, although it would work out the same.
The DHS lawyers obviously thought they had threatened the airlines enough that they wouldn't turn the documentation over to her. Sounds like witness intimidation and tampering with evidence. At least that's what it would be if I did it.
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My point is that, journalism is free because they are subsidized by advertisements. If you as an individual want to go directly to the print page... of course that's fine. It's great that you have that option.

However, when posting a link on a site that will likely generate hundreds of hits (3% of which might click the ad), its only fair to THE COMPANY to post to their main site.
I love the speed at which they're pushing technology forward, but I'm also pretty worried that they're taking the lead in any industry that'll be a game changer in the future. They're getting seriously far ahead of everyone else.
Even if they shut down everything for a single day these days, chaos would ensue. I wouldn't want society to be even more dependent on a single company..
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Recent innovations in construction have provided residents with rather effective countermeasures to the weather.

But seriously, having moved here from a snowy/cold climate, I'm more than willing to trade an extra 20 degrees in the summer for an extra 20 degrees in the winter.
You can't regulate what you can't see so they will be at odds at least occasionally and probably much more often.
If NSA can spy on a device, then others can also.
I got one of these bad boys onto the University of Washington CS lab network once: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AT%26T_UNIX_PC

It didn't have DHCP, so I had to configure my laptop with its MAC address, acquire an IP, and then quickly move the cable to the UNIX PC. It didn't have DNS, so I had to manually find the IP of the CS webserver. And it obviously didn't have an HTTP client, so I had to use telnet. But it worked just fine!
Brazil, Mr. Buttle.

http://fixyt.com/watch?v=nWbIxFKtTmE
haven't newsreaders supported highlights of stuff like _underline_ /italics/, bold, multiple level of quoted stuff, bullet points etc since about forever?

I remember forté agent and thunderbird doing it about ten years ago, and I recall being annoyed that markdown differed :)
I think language works as a tipping point in that sequence. For technology to interact as you say, it has to spread easily.
Joel Spolsky, Things You Should Never Do, Part I

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html

Back to that two page function. Yes, I know, it's just a
simple function to display a window, but it has grown
little hairs and stuff on it and nobody knows why. Well,
I'll tell you why: those are bug fixes. One of them fixes
that bug that Nancy had when she tried to install the
thing on a computer that didn't have Internet Explorer.
Another one fixes that bug that occurs in low memory
conditions. Another one fixes that bug that occurred when
the file is on a floppy disk and the user yanks out the
disk in the middle. That LoadLibrary call is ugly but it
makes the code work on old versions of Windows 95.
I do not support this level of spying, period. However, the ignition of any real movement would certainly be helped by the personal embarrassment of anybody with a large enough mouthpiece. s/Glenn Beck/Rachel Maddow if you want, the point still stands. Somebody has to get really, really worked up over this.

EDIT: As it so happens, Glenn Beck is actually not in favor of this type of surveillance. I would have never guessed. I thought I was pretty safe in that assumption.
maybe it was hitting the inclined surface of the podium? I can see it staying upright after smacking into a wall, but then the tall lever-arm has something to push against.
Not really, in this year I had changed only 1 filter, the initial setup may be cumbersome, but the end result is worth the effort.

And about the spam to random addresses, in 8 years the most extreme problem I had faced is spam to censored addresses like git...@domain.com (thanks google code).
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For some logins, the answer is "Sorry Dave, I can't do that." If I don't have the private cert, or the ssh cert, or the right hole in the firewall - there are many thing I've chosen intentionally to not be able to log in to using someone else's computer.

For lesser security critical logins, I've got my password software (1Password) on my phone (and iPad). For some intermediate level logins, I need my phone or iPad anyway, I've got TOTP two favor auth (using Google's Authenticator app) on a bunch of important stuff (Amazon/AWS, DigitalOcean, Dropbox, Guthub, the email account that all my domain names are registered with and to which password resets go, and a few other things…)
yeah, what the heck??
> One of the next versions of Java will ship with a module system.

I certainly hope so, since we always planned to replace JBoss Modules with Jigsaw when that becomes possible. But we still don't know if the Jigsaw module system will be made available for all consumers or just for the JDK itself.

> If your type was written by someone who didn't care to implement Comparable, bad luck! - If the type has a Comparable implementation which differs from what you need, bad luck, too! - You need the type to be comparable in multiple ways? Again, bad luck!

Um, you've totally missed the point. Go and have another look.

And sure, since you bring it up, we can certainly add a version of max() that accepts a comparator function. It would be a method of Iterable, probably.

And sorry, but I can't imagine why I would want or need typeclasses to solve that problem. Sure, I could use typeclasses, if I were a solution in search of a problem ;)

> I'm not sure that there is a large difference.

You can't abstract over tuple and function -arity in Scala. So yes, there's a big difference. Look at the definition of compose() in Ceylon.

> and performance (no pointer chasing, all values are just a method call away).

At the VM level, tuples are represented as arrays. So there is no real performance penalty.

> Anyway, if one wanted tuples-as-linked-lists, one could just use Shapeless' HList library, which has a few benefits over Ceylon's tuples, too, as far as I see:

In Ceylon, without any macro library, you can write:

value tuple = [1, "str", 42.31];
String str = tuple[1]; //totally possible in Ceylon

Seriously dude, _just try it out_, you're desperately searching for reasons to not like this thing! But it really has cool stuff to offer you. Give it a fair chance!

Sure, _of course_ you're going to find stuff in Scala that you can't do in Ceylon. Scala is one of the most huge and complex and feature-rich languages _ever_! But you'll also find plenty of stuff you can do in Ceylon that you can't do in Scala, if you care to look.
The need to label everything as right and left betrays a primitive binary mentality. A more accurate designation here would be distributed vs non-distributed systems. Then we can have an intelligent conversation about the relative advantages and disadvantages of the different approaches.

Also, it seems like this need to split everything right vs left is more characteristic of the older generation who are less familiar with technology. I think our generation thinks more in terms of solving problems with the best tool available-- be it the government, the market, or open source.
I've been reading the comments and something stuck out to me. It's not uncommon for people to have 20/15 vision with corrective lenses. The lenses don't zoom the image in, as far as I can tell; and so, the 20/20 number we often come up with has nothing to do with the resolution of the eye as a sensor, but more to do with the focusing power of the lens. It might be more useful to consider 20/15 or 20/10 as what humans can see, since the lens is whats failing on the eye, not the sensor in the back. To that end, too, it'd be nice to see some really good glass to mitigate the lenses failings there. There are charts that relate lens sharpness to sensor acuity. As long as the lens sharpness is approximately equal or better, we should have an accurate result.

Also, I have 20/15 vision with contacts in and both eyes open (weaker with just one eye open, as is normal); and, when I can see letters, I can see them pretty well defined. I'm not sure how much of that is mental post-processing, though.
That car compatibility stuff is definitely something that needs to dealt with. The fact that it entirely takes over your phone is entirely unacceptable.
Fun fact: The human eye sees in higher resolution for red and green than for blue. Blue light is scattered more as it passes through the eyeball (and as an evolutionary result, blue detectors are sparser on the retina).
I remember I started to use Linux in the early to mid- nineties. Back then home networking equipment was a bit too expensive for me (basically I was student-broke), so I did set up a local network between my "big" Linux desktop computer and my small laptop using PLIP (that is: IP over the parallel line interface IIRC). Then I'd launch an X11 server on the laptop but display on it a session from a user on the desktop. So both my brother and I could surf simultaneously from the "fast" machine. As I remember it things the network was slow, but I clearly remember that it worked. We had our first Internet connection (dial-up) and we were "sharing it" and surfing simultaneously (using Mosaic?) for hours and hours.

Later on I've configured similar setups so that several devs could use older PCs to run fat IDEs from the one fast machine to older PCs (it was funny the day I yanked the power cord of the fast machine, interrupting everybody ; )

Up to this day I still love the fact that it's trivial for one local user (if you allow it) to run programs in the visual X11 session of another user. I'm using several browsers from unrelated user accounts: one only for my personal GMail / Google Docs, one only for browsing, one only for my professional GMail account, etc. That's a feature I use daily and, for my use, I think it's easier (and faster) than running several VMs.

You can also run simultaneously several X11 session, for example at different sizes (say one at 1920x1200, another one at 1280x800, etc.).

I'd really miss these features if they were to go away: I hope the newer Wayland and Mir etc. will still allow one "user" to display graphical apps on the display of another user.
> Right now, that is setting up TOR for people longing for unrestricted information, in the past it was smuggling black slaves from the south to Canada.

Could you possibly be more self-serving?

For the record, some libertarians think that slaveholders should have been compensated for the "theft" of their "property" and that buying out slaveholders would have been cheaper, and therefore morally superior, to fighting the civil war. There's an ugly strain of Confederate sympathizing among some outspoken libertarians: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2013/07/10/th...
Ah, okay then. So then he left himself open to that possibility but he believes the possibility is still too small for SF to make a law over. That's a fair conclusion. I can understand that there's no need to alarm the general public until concrete evidence is brought to light.
There were conventions, and a lot of (graphical) newsreaders did support automatically presenting text according to those, but ... implementations varied.

Formalizing a basic level such as markdown would be a big win.
This is interesting. I think there will be a lot of fallout if they find that APIs are copyrightable. Until now, I think the industry has been acting as though APIs are not copyrightable. The next question will be what actually constitutes an API? For example, are Unix programs like "mv" and "grep" parts of an API?
"String?" is equivalent to "String|Null". Only the question mark syntax sugar is baked in.
HN greatly overestimates how dead FTP is.
Not to be a spoilsport, but don't most sites allow spaces in passwords anyway?
From that list :-

50s - none involving America. 60s - 5. 70s - 14 (3 of which, as far as I can tell with any fatalities).

However, I'm not really arguing against zero security at airports. What I'm arguing against is the ludicrous increase in security procedures since 9/11.

>It is currently difficult to execute. It won't be if we had no security

It's not difficult to execute bombings on trains, and they are hugely impactful when it happens. Yet they rarely happen. You seem to be ignoring this.
Don't get me wrong, I don't mean to belittle scientific computing, which is after all, a big part of my background (I'm a mathematician by training).
Sounds like some jurisprudential butterfly chasing.

I'm inclined to think Alsup's basis of "sequence, structure, and organization" not being copyrightable is far too broad a change, with ramifications beyond this specific case. (This is what allows lists, like a phone book, to be copyrightable, even though the numbers are public).

I'd have thought the reverse engineering exceptions were a more apt basis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_engineering#Legality However, that's where Oracle's argument about the "fan-base" comes in: it wasn't purely interoperability between machines that Google wanted, but the installed base of developers. I haven't followed the exact policy considerations for reverse engineering, but it seems to me that the training of engineers to work on a particular machine is part-and-parcel of interoperability (for example, third-party after-market car parts - not only do they fit, but mechanics already know how to fit them; a more relevant example is IBM mainframes/minicomputers being copied, where programmers already knew the platform).

So, the higher court's consideration of the bigger picture may have serious financial consequences for Google and Oracle. I think Oracle will still lose, just on a different basis.

It's good to be appellate judge.
Good call. I should really watch that again...
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Perhaps you can clear up my confusion with the article. It appears to me that Play is basically implementing Rx, except with a pointless new set of terminology. The Node examples could have all been structured almost identically to the Play examples if they used rx. What advantages or extra functionality is enabled by enumerator/enumeratee/iteratee that you can't get with observable?
Careful. Right now, under the ACA, insurance companies must sell you coverage no matter what. If the rules change, they may use your gap in coverage as an excuse not to sell you insurance in the future.
There is also http://supergenpass.com, which uses a JavaScript bookmarklet to do the hashing.
I wonder what the difference between the DoD certifying iPhones for use in the military and this situation is?
shrug I'm not familiar with Rx nor did I name these things.

If you're really curious, I'd ask on the mailing list. The devs are pretty quick to respond. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/play-framework