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I never use password managers. The reason is simple: I don't want to rely on another software. If I had to remember 20 passwords I would and in fact I do carry around 10 different passwords in my head constantly.

I trust my own brain rather more. And if my brain is comprised, what else can you do with all the security we have on our desktop?
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But these lies are exactly why psychopaths lie. They start by telling the truth, and realising it doesn't work. They learn to lie. They discover that does work. They then use this technique and apply it to everything. Lies become more than the social oil that everyone uses to avoid offence, lies become a tool of manipulation.
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But psychopaths are particularly effective at it, and lack the boundaries that stop other people from being as good at lying.
When will they announce their usage of hg at Facebook?
Not sure it would be that easy. LastPass only auto fills known domains, so you would have to spoof that too.
Friendly tip:

Ask a question rather than state a potentially incorrect opinion which sounds like you think you know what you are talking about, but suggests that you don't.

With my limited knowledge, you point initially makes sense to me. But clearly you and I don't know enough. Yes, it does on the face of it seem odd to compile C to JS. In fact, it seems positively mental. But then now I have read the replies, I can now see why. Trick is to acknowledge one's knowledge limits.
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You're right about that. Though my name itself is quite short, being one of the vast majority of South Indians who don't have a last name, quite like Srinivasa Ramanujan, I was quite annoyed that my login id was based on my father's name, rather than mine, at one of the large companies I worked at. And, yes, I was a fussbudget until they fixed it.
Any time you multiply two 32-bit numbers, you need 64 bits out to prevent overflow. Sometimes cleverly splitting and rearranging an operation will avoid the overflow, but it's much cheaper in developer time to have 64 bit ints available for intermediate parts of calculations.
Does anyone series believe that Iran is a threat to the world. How about basing threat levels on previous actions? For example, who invades countries most often? Or who's military kills the most people? I've heard about WMD threats before - and who did the invading and killing in the end? That saga ended with almost everyone looking bad.
interesting thought, I'll check it out.

Update: No, not able to set up a global policy - I'll contact them.
Props for admitting your mistake.

Our reaction to academic salaries should really be the opposite. It's sad that we undervalue education so much in the US.
As a recent member(11 months), I can clearly see that shift in the kind of articles that gets posted(or upvoted to the top) on HN over the last few months. A bit too much NSA, Snowden and Bitcoin these days. Not sure what the right word for it is but "tech activism" ? Not necessarily bad but usually not something I visit HN for. The telegram thing..that is more like it
You only need to know two things about BTC. Both courtesy of @ReformedBroker (but origin may of course be elsewhere).

Don't get me wrong, I really really really wish that a practical and honest and low-friction anonymous virtual currency existed. It doesn't currently. Bitcoin isn't it.

1) "You know what's cooler than a million dollars? Virtual currency backed by nothing and nobody."

2) The second explains BTC using a Venn diagram. If you don't understand this diagram, you're the ideal BTC user.
http://www.thereformedbroker.com/2013/11/20/bitcoin-likely-u...
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1) Criticism is easy, solutions are hard. Rather than just complain, you ought to have at least started the discussion with a proposal of your own.

2) If you want to turn back the clock for HackerNews, you'd have to change the whole world. The complaints about "bro-grammers" and San Francisco being over run by startup douchebags are getting tired, but they're also true. Steve Jobs turned tech celebrities into today's rockstars, and the tenor of the average programming conversation in 2013 has deteriorated as a result. Every highschool slob in America who can solder a wire to a circuit board, or write a 4 line Python script, makes a self-important promo video impersonating Jonny Ive. GitHub is full of repos created by weekend programmers who make some pointless project that only appeals to other programmers and solves a problem that has been solved 1000 times since 1970. Tech has sex appeal now, and the world is awash with meatheads adopting the nerd aesthetic, and pretentious products created to crowdfund a quick buck. To "fix" hackernews, you would have address this change in global culture. Or you could just relax, deal with it, and skip over the links you dislike.
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To me it seems lonelyness is the major issue when reading examples here. People in the US are so hopelessly lonely. I fight with my wife, but hey, then I have a brother, 2 cousins, parents and at least 30+ friends in town. As does my wife. This allows you to vent outside of work and sometimes home and is healing. In the US I get constantly depressed. Not at all in Poland. And I've been in the US long enough that this is just a lifestyle here. Work, work, work, no friends or fake friends. Family and real friends afar away. It's impossible not to get crazy. The quality of social life in the US is just very, very low. I'm wondering if all these social anxieties and emotional issues/mental issues are not caused by that.
To be honest, I'd probably end up where I am with or without that film but the early memory of it is so strong with me that I keep making that connection (for that warm fuzzy feeling). I was born at '76 and that tech to me seemed so far out futuristic for many years. It was only in the 90s that before I got my first modem.
More just deserts than irony?
An opt-in[1] filter isn't a solution, it's a snake oil pill that has no effects whatsoever on trivial access to pornography anyways.

It will hamper a stressed kid trying to go to the local youth NGO's site with info on condoms (a true example blocked by one of the UK filters). It won't hamper a horny teenager trying to look for porn, he'll find it rapidly anyway and tell his peers how to do it.

In short, these web filters are a worse solution than simply doing nothing. You're accepting a tradeoff of real harm for imaginary, nonexistant benefits.

[1] By the way, isn't the implementation on-by-default, making it an opt-out filter instead of opt-in?
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i picked up the hard copy of this set when border's was liquidating :) very glad to see a digital copy.
Interesting, I don't understand how this should be worrisome - the receiver has to know what kind of transaction he is engaged in. Sending BTC which is not redeemable is the same as sending no money at all. It is exactly analogous to signing a contract. If you don't understand the terms you shouldn't sign it. So a sender might trick the receiver into believing that the contract does something he didn't know. But if you have a network of trust you hope that the sender gets punished for this behavior. Most of these issues haven't been solved yet, but it's a bit like saying the internet is worrisome because its peer to peer. I mean its exactly this part that is the most fascinating about the network. Sending from A to B we can already do with paypal.
1. Vote for the stories that you feel are appropriate here.

(Resist the urge to vote for the the fluff even if it's funny)

2. Submit appropriate stories when you find them.

(Don't submit general news and politics articles)

3. Spend a few minutes curating the new page.

(Vote up the good stories, flag those that are unsuited)

4. Strive for intelligent comments. Improve the level of discourse.

(Downvote dumb jokes and memes, flag offensive language)

5. Hope for the best and enjoy it while it lasts.
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Wasn't there a similar study either in Freakonomics or Super Freakonomics?
IIRC they boiled it down to level of education and how well the the children with uncommon names were doing.
Of course it had anecdata of two brothers named Winner Doe/Jones/etc and Loser Doe/Jones/etc.
Are you seriously asking why a branch of the the USA's government has less power outside of the USA?
> that typically results in the police threatening the reporter,

Typically? Really?
Assuming sincerity: much of the technical stack is based on GNU tools, projects, libraries, etc.
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The original article is protected by a paywall. However, the notice in SciNews reads: “These compounds are thermodynamically stable and, once made, remain indefinitely; nothing will make them fall apart.” I take this to include ambient temperature and pressure.
Bill Gates is one anecdote, but what about the heir to a fortune? Did they build that wealth out of skill? Certainly not. Furthermore, so few people actually give half of their wealth like Bill Gates does [1]. Could you really argue that every wealthy person, or even a slim plurality mirrors Gates?

Also -- you'd have to make vast assumptions to claim that such a huge percentage of programmers just don't care, enough to the point where their code isn't "good". It's not at all reasonable. I wouldn't consider myself in the top 5%, surely there are those who are more driven to improve their skill. But I wouldn't at all say that my code is careless or definitely not "good". Also Hacker News commenting doesn't really require caring, it just requires free time -- not sure what you're going for there.

[1] http://philanthropy.com/article/The-Stubborn-2-Giving-Rate/1...
10M sounds like a downpayment, I dont believe RSA would lay their cred on the line for such a paltry amount.
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I was open to the idea that the article might be making a good point until I reached the stereotype that Engineers don't have people skills.

In my experience, most Engineers have very good people skills and understand that you can't look at the world as a technical problem waiting to be solved.
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Jut to clarify: "solicitation" (which is not, in fact, the offense; more properly, it is "communicating in a public place for the purposes of prostitution") applies to both parties, and the actual transaction is legal for both parties (according to existing Canadian law). Any of the "middle man" activities are generally illegal (procurement, operating a common bawdy-house, transportation, and "living on the avails" where exploitation is involved) are illegal.
There potentially exists a solution: leave the front page as it is, and create a secondary page where stories are weighted by taking into consideration something like upvoters' seniority on HN.

One upvote by a 3-year old account weighs 3 orders of magnitude as much as one upvote by a 1-year old account.

It's not a perfect solution, but it has the potential to make everyone happy.
Given I received no clear meaning from your statement, and you've failed to clarify it, no, you've mis-written yourself.

Your statement was and is unclear. Your follow-up to which I'm responding doesn't change that.
What are "the appropriate actions"?

What pressure do you apply?

You usually have nothing they want.

As a result, pressure you can apply is the same with or
without knowing the content of the meetings (IE essentially "take your ball and go home").

Also, you know the content of the meetings because they tell you their positions. In very formal letters. That they will be held to in court.

It's not like any of this is secret.

How do you "favor officials that are against them"? They are appointed.

Why would they care? They usually can't be voted against individually.

Can you point out any that were removed from office?

I'm really trying to understand what such a thing would buy you.
Where can more info be found on the "ACE" metric?
"how easy near-monopolist US companies have had it in Europe"

This is honestly the funniest thing i have heard. Europe is usually literally fighting over who gets to open and push investigations to regulate these companies first. That is often the main holdup. They sit in rooms drawing straws to see who gets to reap the political benefit of being anti-US.

How easy indeed
One of the most interesting conclusion of Douglas McGregor (inventor of the Theory X vs Theory Y management theories you've probably heard of) is that when it comes to the question "what motivates people?", whatever theory you set out to try to prove, you typically find evidence to support its validity.

So if you start with Theory X, for example, "people are lazy and need to be motivated into work through the external means of money and threat of firing", you find plenty of evidence that that is indeed how people function. Anyone who believes otherwise must be mad.

If you start with Theory Y's assumptions, though, "people want to work in jobs where they can be intrinsically self-motivated, and while external factors need to be 'good enough', internal motivation is far more important" - you will find plenty of evidence that this is true as well.

The point is, be very careful of what assumptions you start with, because you might think you can check them with facts, but actually they will shape everything you do and remain largely unquestioned. Therefore, choose your assumptions based on the outcome you want, not based on the assumptions you started with.
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Bullshit. Subverting the Linux kernel would easily be within the capabilities of the NSA.

Kernel contributors aren't background-checked so all you need to do is to pay someone to do some legitimate kernel hacking in a sensitive area. Then in one of their commits slip in a backdoor.

"But noooo the many eyes will see the backdoor!" you say.

This is clearly false. If it were true Linux would have no security bugs at all. Since old security bugs continue to be found, it follows that it is possible to have a security bug that goes unnoticed for many years. See also the underhanded C contest.

Hell maybe it has already happened. Who is to say the latest Linux security bug wasn't deliberately introduced by the NSA?

I don't think this is paranoia - it would be fairly easy for the NSA to do, very useful and almost completely deniable. I would do it if I were them. They certainly wouldn't not do it for moral reasons because they've shown they don't really have any.
Yes, Iran's totalitarian leadership is a threat to its neighbors, particularly Israel.
> Why assume that somebody asking for their market rate wouldn't be a good fit for your company?

That's twisting my words. What I said is that if salary is their primary concern, then they're not a good fit. Asking for your market rate is just fine, so long as you understand that what we can give you is constrained by what has been decided by the team is a reasonable level of pay for that position.

Someone who, knowing our culture, still insists on being an exception and getting a different salary, is basically saying that they care far more about their own outcome than about the outcome for the company as a whole. Teamwork is one of our core values, so they've just marked themselves out as a bad culture fit.

> Personally, I prefer to separate salary negotiation from the rest of the decision about whether somebody would be a good fit.

Arguably, with our system the salary negotiation is entirely separated out - and then reduced to nothing. There is no salary negotiation. The salary is what's on offer in the job ad, and that's that. If you don't like it, don't apply.
I tried to get rid of those redundant ^ and $ but it somehow didn't work. I probably forgot to put it all inside one group.
Definitely, though in GrantTree the process of defining how different performance is rewarded is still a work in progress. We set things up so that the team decides together how much people should be paid (that's a lot more complex than it sounds on the surface - lots of ways to do it wrong). Currently, if someone feels they are underpaid, they need to convince their peers that that's the case, rather than cozy up to their manager and then argue for an exceptional pay raise.
> A rare name, the professors surmised, had a negative psychological effect on its bearer.

No, no, no! Because correlation is not causation. Period. The prevailing social science nowadays isn't psychology but pseudology.
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Practical ideas and plain ideas are not the same thing.
If the person has truly demonstrated that they can bring $1m a year and honestly believes that (as an example), then they are presumably a salesperson, and those are on (a generous) commission with very low base in GrantTree, so they will have no problem with the compensation so long as they do deliver the goods.

For other roles, how would someone argue that they can "bring in value in excess of $1m per year"?
Bit sets for 64 element or 8x8 things. One example are chess programs (the board is represented as several 64bit integers called bit boards) but there are many others. Everything is going to be way slower if you suddenly need split your bit set in two.
It is absolutely people's prerogative to keep their salaries private from other employees. They can do that easily by working somewhere else.

We don't have to employ everybody. In fact, it turns out that being fairly selective of who you employ is widely considered a good thing for startups.
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A repository of effects and collection of tutorials is something that I always wanted to do but never did.

I'm planning to have one for the open source release. I also intend to fix the iOS and Windows/Direct3D ports of Conduit and make some decent example apps (those ports have been done earlier but they're in disrepair, somewhat out of date).

Lastly I'm thinking of renaming the effects core because Conduit is not quite googlable due to other software products with the same name... So there's some work to do. I remember intending to finish this back in June :)
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As even pg said multiple times, HN is not changing but your perception of it is.
I would like to propose for HN open source project for developing a content curation system.

It's possible to infer and rank submitted link content automatically. This will help in removing completely irrelevant postings (e.g this thread - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6942656 ).

Quora is doing something like this but it is targeted towards much wider audience. Whereas HN is focused on a special goal in mind so it can not be generalized for all kind of discussions.
It's far more complex and simple than that in our case. The starting point is that 50% of revenue is allocated to "costs": overheads, base salaries, commissions and the bonus pool.

How people decide to split that up between themselves is up to them, through a process that itself is open and semi-democratic (getting more so with each round of changes).

If anything, I would say that seeing transparency as a weapon of management is really misguided. A manager could always lie and claim that Jim only took a 2% raise this year. With transparency, they can only say that if that is in fact the verifiable truth.
Looking through the lens of 2013 it might sound stupid. In the cultural context of the mid-20th century it was perfectly appropriate. Fifty years from now the word "iPhone" will probably sound like the dumbest name ever.
These might also be helpful:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Lewin_Lectures_on_Physic...
tptacek, widely known on this site for his coarsely abrasive, impossibly high friction, social interactions and not admitting he's wrong on issues trivial or important. He's also widely known for a being an expert in his field.

What are you talking about? Whatever caricature you're illustrating here is not Thomas Ptacek.

With the way you've been talking, I would've suspected you were a newer member, but you've been around for three years or so. So I simply have no idea what you're talking about.

Would you please point out precisely which comments you take issue with? https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/comments&q=by%3Atpta...

I think the thing to remember about Thomas, and me, and everyone else, is that we're all human, and we all have different moods which influence our behavior. Thomas's, on average, is exemplary.
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Looks pretty cool, good luck. If I have the time next year I might try to use this for the "entry interview/mentoring" process at our university :)

I used to work at a company that built a FLOSS ERP. You can still build a nice company around offering this if you want to. You can spin the fact that it's open source to your advantage and emphasise that they will have full control over their software stack. People still gladly hand you fists full of money if you solve their problems...doesn't have to be hosted. And don't worry about "but they'll just replace us with inhouse folks". If it works they'll usuall just pay you to make sure the system doesn't fade away.

Also on the https://logicpull.com/tour page:
"The Problem. Creating a customized question and answer interview, and using the data to populate a form is very time consuming and costly, and needs to XXX created by a software developer."
XXX= missing a "be"
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Alternatively: you've got great cover for illicit activities. "It wasn't me, but someone else with the same name."

Though honestly, given the state of bureaucratic snafus, changing it might be wise.
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is anyone aware of an smartphone app that allows your phone/tablet to act as a usb keyboard for a pc, and "type" passwords in for you?
>UI design benefits from a completely different structure than text-oriented documents -- layout managers, containers, spacers, grids, reusable components, nearly all missing from current browsers.

Oh, but it's coming soon, via both JavaScript and Dart:

http://www.polymer-project.org/
https://www.dartlang.org/polymer-dart/
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>It has nothing to do with what each supports - rather that you can't justify harmful behaviour, period.

what harm is coming from "eco-terrorists"? Lesser availability of whale meat? I doubt whales would see it as a harm. Or people who worked for decades to restore whales population. Or people who are just disgusted by whale killings.

>What Pussy Riot did would be illegal in pretty much every reasonably civilized country in the world.

i'm wondering what do you think they did? Do you seriously think that tresspassing and non-violent disturbance of peace - the minor crimes in reasonably civilized countries - are the "2 year in prison" crimes in Russia? Or calling upon God to chase away a President is a crime "in pretty much every reasonably civilized country in the world"?

> The point is that you can't arbitrarily allow some types of crime, and disallow others based on the ideology behind it...

You seem to be saying that no illegal behaviour can be justified. Well, you've mentioned swastikas and Judaism before. That reminds about the most known and indisputable today example when illegal behavior was rightly justified - i.e doing right thing toward Jews for example was illegal in Nazi Germany and doing legal thing was terribly wrong.