skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
mars - 197m results

"mars" - 228m results

+mars - 19k results

+"mars" - 197m results

Assuming the estimated result count is at all meaningful, it looks like + still does have an effect: it turns ["x"] in to meaning the same thing as [x].
The Verbatim search option often isn't verbatim enough. Also it can't be combined with a time limited search; selecting "last month" clears the verbatim option :(
Cool stuff. I was working on a similar site for a while which would give stars to site depending on their various security practices:

- HTTPS, HSTS support

- Password hashing (and type of hashing if available)

- Third party auth support (OpenID/Persona)

- 2FA

- ...

Is this something you would like to go towards? I would love to help (depending on the backend of the site, I may offer technical help too)
… or even better: Disable password authentication entirely.
Have you reviewed Svedlin's link in this thread to a related puzzle? (I think actually the exact same puzzle.)

http://plus.maths.org/content/mathematical-mysteries-getting...

It's rigorous and from a slightly different approach - what do you think? Also it says that even knowledge of the guesser's exact strategy cannot defeat the solution mentioned there, even if the offering party knows the strategy exactly and is actively trying to break it.
As far as I can remember HN also ( not a long time ago ) was giving plain text passwords. I'm glad this was discontinued and proper recovery password email is sent now.

http://i.imgur.com/sDt0DVK.png
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I don't see why that feature needed to change the normal + feature anyway. Couldn't they differentiate between it being at the start and in the middle? It'd be obvious for power users from the recommendations. That said I can see the argument for just supporting single word quotes and to me that seems more intuitive.
The bigger problem was it showed very clearly googles lack of care for search power users.

The plus operator was just one problem. Soon after they started fuzzing words in doubleqoutes and at some point they even fuzzed verbatim searches. (Luckily it now works to some degree again.)
One more very important thing that I neglected to mention is how you can help:

- Submit offenders
- Spread the word (we're also on Facebook and Twitter (@plntxtoffenders)
- Contact offending sites and let them know they're on the list
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Those should be listed too. I'm not sure I follow your point: Because there exists this other really bad but common practice, why are we harping on this bad practice?
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> There is not just "public" and "private", it really is all about necessity and consequences, about who needs to know what and what the potential consequences (good and bad) are when somebody gets to know something about you.

Of course, I agree that there is subjectivity when it comes to expectation of privacy. Not everyone has the same expectations, and group expectations change over time. But I do think that privacy comes down to expectations, not to necessity or consequences. I think some actions with good consequences are violations of privacy, and some actions with bad consequences are not violations of privacy. The goodness of an action's consequence and whether that action is a violation of privacy are orthogonal.

> Yet, I would very much consider it a violation of my privacy if someone started following me with an HD camera (maybe even streaming it to the internet?), even though they are just "doing something else with the information encoded in the electromagnetic waves reflected from my outside into the public sphere".

And I would not consider that a violation of privacy. At some point, I believe it could constitute harassment or stalking, but not a violation of privacy. It would seem that we have different definitions of "privacy." You seem to consider any inappropriate action which in some way involves personal information to be a violation of privacy. I do not, and I believe my definition more closely matches general usage. Privacy is about the ability to control which bits of your personal information area are available to which individuals, not what people do with your personal information after they have it (unless of course what they do includes sharing it with more people).

> Or if someone started pointing medical diagnosis equipment at me in public in order to figure out from that same "public informaton" stuff that I very much might consider private.

That's a different example, and I suppose it would depend on what diagnostic equipment we're talking about. For example, I do believe there is expectation of privacy when it comes to X-raying on a public walkway.
This is actually an interesting idea and not necessarily bad for the experience. If a place had certain demographics Sony or Microsoft could offer a free new console around/before release. Special feature for host to offer, bonus for guest, seems like a solid path to a sale for the company. It seems that could possibly work for other things too, and it'd surely be more interesting to advertisers than a typical hotel.

I guess the big thing is visitors probably aren't returning so local businesses aren't going to get much success- but I can see interesting opportunities for less location constrained companies. What if Netflix gave a free account to a chunk of places with certain demographics?
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Again, it's not society which "causes people to starve and be homeless". Hunting and gathering cannot support seven billion people; it is the accumulation of capital in forms such as advanced agriculture that allows the food production that currently sustains the world population. If all capitalists and corporations ceased to exist, a huge proportion of the world population would starve due to the collapse in the global structure of production.

The means of production have to be produced by someone. How is it theft for capitalists to own the means of production when they produced it? And if you say well the workers produced it, the workers only agreed to work for pay, not for a stake in it (else they'd be investors/partners, not just workers).

Here's the thing: even with just two people interacting without any society around them whatsoever, it's possible for one to agree to work for the other for payment of some sort but without claiming an ownership stake in whatever's produced (i.e. common employment contract). To make such a thing illegal, you must necessarily introduce violence into the system, to prevent these two people from carrying out a mutually agreeable exchange.
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Indeed. I think whenever 'hacked sites' stories are posted here, the poster should include a screenshot given that the site will likely be fixed very quickly.
But can't you implement all three with a temporary password as well? Make the password valid for 24 hours only and when the user logs in with their temporary password perform any kind of extra verification and if that's passed then also force the user to change their password. Seems like the same thing.

The website I noticed on the front page (sunsuper.com.au) was doing precisely this (although their TTL was 90 days which is indeed far too long and it's impossible to tell whether they forced a password reset or simply recommended a password change).
Having the user send their password over a non-SSL connection when they choose it in the very first place is also less-than-perfect security. Having the user ever type in their full exact password is less-than perfect, because of key-loggers; when asked to choose a password the very first time, the system should ask how long it is, then ask for random characters from it until the whole thing has been supplied.

OR, we should just accept that there's a whole magnitude of difference between sending a password by email on a single occasion, and storing it in plain-text, and focus on the latter problem first.
Can you explain more about the fees they charge? As we have been discussing, usually transaction fees are 5% or less. Obviously for the airlines this is significant to their small margins, but isnt the fee they charge for using a credit card nearly equal to the 5%?

Surely no one wants to pay a surcharge for using a credit card, but if Im buying a $500 plane ticket, is a $25 extra fee really "large"? and is it the number one priority for cost cutting? If the fee is much larger than $25 then its not in relation to how much the transaction fee is.

Also, chargebacks are discussed here as if they happen often. If you are providing good service they should never happen. While it is an undesirable expense for businesses, it is a very important feature for consumer protection. At my company around 1/10,000 transactions is charged back. I would guarantee the number of sales lost if customers knew they had no ability to dispute payments would be much greater than 1/10,000.
> Having the user send their password over a non-SSL connection when they choose it in the very first place is also less-than-perfect security.

Who does that? That's even worse than storing it in plain text on the backend.
I can't seem to hear it either even after four times, although I have grapheme synesthesia (although that sound does feel weirdly colorful), so I already know my brain's wired the wrong way :)
Could you try grabbing that again? When you pasted it it looks like linebreaks were added. I'm trying to deobfuscate it via JSNice.
Is it end-to-end encrypted by default yet? Otherwise it doesn't do much more to advance privacy on the Internet than say Whatsapp.
Or just use youtube-dl
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Plus research paper, "Consumer Heterogeneity and Paid Search Effectiveness: A Large Scale Field Experiment" without the paywall: http://faculty.haas.berkeley.edu/stadelis/tadelis.pdf
Yeah I'm not sure. Actually, I wouldn't be surprised if I made a hidden commutativity assumption that would surface if I tried to justify treating multiplication as repeated addition like that.
> It is very selfish to bring children into the world [...]

Would you say there are any unselfish reasons for having kids? I believe poor and rich folks do it for the same reasons, although the circumstances are different.
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>And that's incredibly frustrating for both sides of the student/teacher relationship.

This article, and your comment, reminded me of 'Math Class (Imagined by Kids)' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdxEAt91D7k (2 minutes long)
In non-secret chats it even saves all messages on their servers. You can then 'conveniently' retrieve all non-secret your messages when setting up Telegram on other devices.

For non-secret chat it's even worse than Whatsapp, because Whatsapp reasonably convincingly simply relays messages, only storing them on their servers until it is delivered.
No ads, no fees, no size limit? I'm having questions about their business-model and longevity.
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Their business model appears to be "Hey, we're rich and we're not even past 30 yet! YOLO! \:D/"

In all honesty, that makes theirs a pretty good business model (compared to much of Silicon Valley), IMO.
Popcorn or other food makes films more enjoyable.

There are theaters that don't have plastic bags, though. The best ones are all 21-and-over, in the US, which cuts down on the noise and crowding considerably. I like CinéBistro, for example.
Its headquarters are not in the US, so at least the NSA has a slightly harder time getting data access.
I read that and still had no idea what it was really meant to do, until I came here and read the comments.

And I'm a web developer.
Yes, but using a token is better for usability and trust since that wont make it possible to lock out other users by clicking the forgot password link, and I as a user will think it is more likely someone doing token based resets has done security correctly.
How is downloading a key pair generated by someone else safer? If this is only for login purposes (I don't use AWS, so maybe there is another reason), you should generate your own key pair and send them only your public key (which doesn't require an encrypted transfer, BTW). If AWS knows your private key and can view it or provide it to you at anytime, that's no different than storing passwords in plaintext.
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http://jscommunicator.org/
Sure, it's part of a header library I use in all of my projects.

Download the "higan v094 (source)" link on this page: http://byuu.org/higan/

And find the relevant code inside the nall/ subfolder. Note that the code inside nall/ (and libco/, ruby/, phoenix/) is public domain, or ISC if you prefer. The rest is GPLv3.
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Come on, it's an app that sends freaking messages. More complex things have been created as non-profit open source projects.
There are some serious issues with Telegram's cryptography it seems: https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/49782/is-telegr... and http://unhandledexpression.com/2013/12/17/telegram-stand-bac...

See also http://thoughtcrime.org/blog/telegram-crypto-challenge/ (comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6936539 )
If you are claiming it is logical because it is an argument from analogy, even if it is a false analogy, then technically I would have to agree to that. My comment about it being emotional is that when an argument from analogy is made between two things that have an obvious, fundamental difference between them, choice vs. force, then I see the person appealing to your emotions under false analogy by using the common term 'rent' for both situations. This is where ad hominem stems from, and although a term in logic, arguments based on it are not logical and usually are filled with emotion.
Hey Amrrs,

Thanks for the valuable suggestions :)

Regarding the comments:

* In the current prototype we are not displaying any contact details as we want to validate how many people are interested in the leads. But with our first version, we are going to provide an ability to contact the lead right from the dashboard. Getting more info about the lead will be the next iteration. We will try to study what information a business owner might want regarding the leads and then carry on from there. The fields you mentioned are very important in my opinion too.

* We will add filters based on demography. We wanted to validate the whole concept and see how many business owners are actually interested. Now we will focus on getting more reliable sources for leads. A lot of facebook/LinkedIN groups have very genuine enquires. Hence, at present we only know about those which are India oriented. We will be researching for other countries now. Once we have good number of reliable sources for different countries, we will work on the demography filter.

* Thank you so much for this! This is an amazing feature and I believe can be targeted at enterprise level companies too. I mean, if I was Costa Coffee, I would definitely want to see who are unhappy with Starbucks or want coffee from our competitors.

* Fees - is a very tricky point at present. The point you made is very valid that a internet sales guy or a telesales executive can get more leads. I think we have to find a balanced price depending on the customer value proposition we provide and how valuable it is to initial businesses who sign up.

Thanks again for your super valuable inputs! :)

- Sumeet
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They say Telegram is the most secure messenger out there.

I'm very excited about the Pavel Durov's another project http://telegra.ph/ which - I hope - is still in development. This is his next social project also with a focus on privacy. Pavel has become more well-known as a Russian IT-entrepreneur since he fled a country with a dozen of colleagues from his former VK company.
The first site [1] on the blog in question, for example.

[1] http://www.assosfactoryoutlet.com/customer/account/create/
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Is there a search engine that is as accurate as Google? Does Bing really stack up?
Although this approach is technically awesome, can't someone just modify existing noise cancellation technology with mics closer to the motors / props? It's a horrible hack, and nowhere near as elegant, but it may work quite well considering that no matter what signal is used for cancellation, it will be difficult to discriminate wanted / unwanted sounds in the cancelled frequencies.
There was definitely a feel of do-it-yourself, especially when installing Linux meant either wiping a partition, or trying to resize an existing one with very primitive tools. I remember using a weird variant called DOSLinux for a while, because my 486 couldn't handle the "real" distros, and then getting a new 350MHz machine and getting RedHat 6 installed. Then realizing I could use X, spending endless hours on themes.net, tweaking WindowMaker and finding new themes, and doing the Web 1.0 by learning perl to write a simple blogging engine.

You're right, though. Different times, and the community feels very different. The feel I get when I'm browsing web forums for answers to questions is a lot of kids who use Linux because it's somehow "cool", and certainly it's ridiculously easy to install these days. But I might just be making assumptions based on the terrible grammar and incomplete sentences.
For many, including me, going to a cinema is to treat ourselves and have a good time. If all I wanted was to watch a movie, I could've done that at home.
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This. If you've lived in manhattan for more than a month, you'd know that pickup and dropoff locations are not precise, specifically:

1) you never get a cab on quiet single-family condo streets - gotta get to corner of an avenue

2) cabbies often click meter to off half a block before you actually say "stop right here please, between the drunken couple and the pile of garbage on the left side". They do this so you pay and get out quicker, clearing way for another passenger.

3) There are a LOT of "skyscrapers" in manhattan, with 300+ apts in each

What WOULD be interesting is taking credit card logs of someone's cab payments and cross-matching dropoff based on charge timestamp :)
Action sports are probably the big one. Filming things like MBX or snow sports can be greatly improved by including natural ambient sounds. Tricky to do with a quadcopter.
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Another proprietary IM protocol (although the clients are open).

Can't we all just use XMPP already?
I've been using Telegram for several months and have found that it is much more reliable than iMessages.

The key feature for me is that you can access messages through a web app, and through native desktop apps on Mac and Windows. This means that I can really use it with people who aren't on Macs/iOS all day for iMessage, which is most of the world outside of tech unfortunately.

The open protocol means that anyone can write their own client and pull out message transcripts.

The business model is a little sketchy (donated Russian social network money I think) but at some level who cares: if it disappears I can just switch to something else (that probably won't be as good unfortunately).

I know there has been some controversy about their encryption, but I would not trust any IM platform with perfect security. I care much more about reliability and availability on multiple platforms, which is where Telegram wins hands down.
Password can be one time password, too. Require user to change their password the first they login is not an advance feature.
It sounds like you're a perfect fit to solve this problem, if you were to choose to do so :-)
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Compared to WhatsApp? Maybe. Compared to TextSecure, XMPP using OTR or even iMessage? Definitely not.
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From the FAQ:

Q: Why not just make all chats ‘secret’?

The idea behind Telegram is to bring something more secure to the masses, who understand nothing about security and want none of it. Being merely secure is not enough to achieve this — you also need to be fast, powerful and user friendly. Telegram is a secure and powerful alternative to mass market messengers and a fast and user-friendly alternative to secure messengers. Hence the two types of chats that we have: ordinary chats and Secret Chats.

The important thing to remember is that all Telegram messages are always securely encrypted. The difference between messages in Secret Chats and ordinary Telegram messages is in the encryption type: client-client in case of Secret Chats, client-server/server-client for ordinary chats. This enables your ordinary Telegram messages to be both secure and available in the cloud so that you can access them from any of your devices — which is very useful at times.
What alternatives with well-vetted crypto would you recommend for non-life-threatening personal use?
So I guess we've just forgotten about the 5-6 posts half a year ago about how dodgy this service was claiming it was 'secure'.
this seems to be based on a study done by ebay, who had an atrocious ppc campaign. it was run by monkeys. really no wonder they didn't achieve any good or predictable results.
http://www.searchenginejournal.com/how-not-to-run-a-ppc-camp...
They say Telegram is the most secure messenger out there.

Have you even tried to google (or yandex) this? There has been a lot of discussion about their hand-rolled crypto.

http://unhandledexpression.com/2013/12/17/telegram-stand-bac...
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I use TextSecure, myself.

https://whispersystems.org/#encrypted_texts
The bigger problem is that you, as a user, don't have any control over internet search. Not only are you dependent on Google (or another provider) for what search commands you can execute, you also don't have no control about how these commands work nor on what subset of the database. Especially advanced features, complex queries, or power tools for searching are unavailable to the common user.

I have no idea about the (development of the) quality of the search query + results. I have no idea how to measure that (over time).

I suppose I could write a personalized search engine that runs queries I care about regularly on different engines, aggregate the results, write some code to analyze, monitor, and visualize all that, and start running my own valuing algorithms to determine the quality and depth of Internet searches. Space and computation power are cheap nowadays, so for certain well-specified domains, this might be feasible?
Whoa. Reminds me a bit of Logo.
I didn't think I ever would, but I've actually been using duck duck go as my primary search engine. However, about 10-20% of searches I need to prepend "!g" to search google instead since DDG isn't fully there yet.
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source? no?
no thanks.
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