skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"You do get in situations where you have to know remember some more information, but this can mostly be written down."

That boils down to "this idea won't work"; "writing down my passwords" is the exact failure case we're trying to get away from. And I don't have that problem with LastPass.

The name of the game isn't to try to make this idea work at all costs. The name of the game is to find the best way to manage passwords. It's important not to lose sight of that in the argument. (If you look around, you'll see this particular cognitive problem come up a lot in engineering... never lose sight of the overall goal no matter how far into the trees you go.)

Unfortunately, at least a dozen iterations of this idea have come to my attention, to say nothing of who-knows how many hundreds or thousands of implementations of this basic idea there are, and they haven't succeeded because they really don't work in the real world.
While my brief comment history will confirm that I completely agree with your analysis of Orwellian vs. Huxleyan dystopias, and agree completely about the greater relevance of Huxley's vision to our cultures, I'd nevertheless be reluctant to equate sexual liberation with Huxley's fears. You're absolutely right about his having written about sexual indulgence in that way, and about pleasure-seeking being the opiate that destroys his population's ability to reflect meaningfully on life; but there's something to be said for finding the best expression of human nature and removing its impediments too. Pleasure corrupts, but so does frustration and repression.

What's to be desired is a culture that educates its individuals about how to safely and virtuously find their own happiness with a minimum of self-indulgent excess or Victorian hand-wringing. A more sexually liberated culture isn't necessarily a step in the wrong direction, though the pendulum could certainly swing too far.
Alexis Ohanian's Comments for the FCC
> I have a hard time swallowing police department rhetoric in these situations. The officer has a gun, and the unfortunate power to make "extra-legal" killings with it. They're safe.

Suppose that atleast a few of the police are not the bloodthirsty crazies depicted on reddit, and actually have the best interests of their fellow citizens in mind. You might also suppose that even those people might get paranoid about some guy following them around in a car and pointing stuff at them, because merely having a gun and the ability to use it doesn't automatically make you 'safe'.

Putting two and two together, you'd conclude that this article has nothing to do with hacker news and flag it.

You folks can downvote all you want, but it doesn't change anything. I value a hacker news free of politics and current events far more than I value 'karma' points.
Yup, sites that impose their own password restrictions, with the intent of strengthening passwords, that actually serve to weaken them, have a lot to answer for.
I think reliability is different than promptness. If someone says they'll get back to us on a certain day, we take note of that, and if it doesn't happen without a reason given, that's a concern. We wouldn't want to treat a customer that way, for example. We're totally fine with people letting us know (and this in fact just happened with a candidate recently) that their train is delayed due to mechanical failure, and they'll be late. That's a huge plus for us vs. just arriving late without forewarning.
Generally that's what severance time or packages are for.

I often hear 1-3 months of employment and or pay over the time, giving hopefully adequate time to prepare.
Codeship launches freemium model to push its Continuous Integration Service
Usually one of the main reasons you do M&A is that there are redundancies between the organizations. Therefore, being able to lay people off while maintaining the same output is one of the goals of the deal, not a sign of failure.
Is Tesla's Model S a good investment as a company car?
Don't change the airframe and the engines at the same time ;)
Same principle, minimalist and efficient: https://www.vpass.info.

Doesn't have the password checksum though.
It's a social indicator, not a definitive attribute. I've known several MBAs personally and only one was legitimately intelligent -- the rest were sales guys who thought their MBA entitled them to make big decisions with perilously little background or knowledge of much of anything related to the situation.

I know an MBA right now who is pursuing a business wherein he offers wifi hotspots to small businesses. His literature claims that renting one of his hotspots will make the business "PCI compliant". I've personally advised him on multiple occasions (gently at first, growing more stern over time) that this claim is patently ridiculous and only displays his incompetence to anyone knowledgeable in IT, but he refuses to amend his materials or statements. Just the tip of the iceberg with him.

Granted these are anecdotes, but I think they embody the anti-MBA ethos. Qualified persons strongly dislike MBAs because MBAs often feel their MBA grants them immunity from doing things incorrectly, and that they are instantly authorities on everything without requiring any experience or research.

I swear they have to explicitly teach that in business school, like: "Now, this degree grants you the magic power of never needing advice, information, or training, and you will always be right, and normal people won't understand that because they didn't go to business school... but remember, business school is the only school that matters. No one would have money without us! Just tell the nerds to shove it if they try to tell you anything else." It's far too universal a feeling among MBAs to be coincidental.
How Russian Hackers Stole the Nasdaq
Happiness Benchmark For Annual Income
If hust the outer dimentions need to be constant you could presumably make it more hollow as you go up.

Or just use lighter 2x16 blocks at the top moving down to a mix of 2x4 and 2x2 at the bottom. Still wind is probably the largest issue.
What if the candidate actually does work in his current job and thus spend a lot of time focused on coding, writing etc (as opposed to dealing with personal mail constantly)?
It can be argued that their patent portfolio was worth about that much.
Companies announcing "X" layoffs typically don't need to lay off "X" people, they actually need to lay off "X + N" people; they are counting on attrition following such an announcement to quietly make up the difference. That makes the press (slightly) better, and the people who quit because they sense a sinking ship, etc. won't cost the company in severance packages either.
Why change the title to "Don't link to line numbers in GitHub", when that's not what the article is saying at all?
I would give your .box class a height of 300px, and your .container a bottom margin of 70, to keep the text from overflowing.
The thing that strikes me as scariest about this is not the clear-cut sexual harassment and possible rape, though that's pretty unforgiveable on its own, but rather the fact that a random man posed as a security screener at a major international airport long enough to let people through the security checkpoint. We've long known that TSA was useless, but this basically shows that it's actively dangerous to the public well-being, since it can be completely co-opted.
<sarcasm>
I'm shocked that this level of ineptitude doesn't immediately result in congressional investigations and the summary firing of every part of TSA management at SFO. If the TSA is really necessary for the safety of America, this is a breach of national security on par with the Snowden leaks...
</sarcasm>
Because this is an argument in semantics. Sometimes it's ok to let it go and just read about a subject in the way the author intends. This is hard for me too sometims!
I don't see this on golang-dev at all. I'm interested to see the discussion around it.
#tbt, a youth misspent
Did it need to be on the front page?
Freeciv players might enjoy http://longturn.org - Freeciv games where one turn takes a day. Games usually last half a year. We've been playing it this way for ten years now, since around 2004.
The fact that it happened in ancient times and worked doesn't mean that it's fine to replicate. I know that people who work in start-ups tend to be of younger age because companies want them almost exclusively for themselves and not for their girlfriend/potential wife/family but acceptable forms of discrimination are still forms of discrimination.
> Can HN lay off the MBA hate? It's getting really old.

As soon as the majority of MBAs start displaying a moderate amount of domain specific knowledge that makes them look less like complete fools to the petty peasants that work for them, I'm sure the hate will fade.
I like this as a reference & have used it, but to be honest between the npm registry & bower registry this site feels pretty redundant. I believe most of the tools on this site are in one of the aforementioned registries. I think the main utility of this site is to teach jQuery-only users that there's more than one way to skin a cat.
About a year (?) ago, someone did do a study of Lego manufacturing variance. They throw away a lot of bricks to keep the variance very small. Granted it focused more on fit than compressive strength, but should help you get nearer the answer.
Excellently put. It's like lampshading[1], for code.

[1]: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/LampshadeHanging
I find it hard to believe that people can get fat on low calorie diets(http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/11/08/twinkie.diet.professor/).

Nutrition research is a mess and yes there does seem to be connections between types of food, insulin spikes and how likely calories will be stored as fat - but to gain weight you still need a calorie surplus.

I'd suspect the 'poor fat' is because of consuming a large amount of calories from unhealthy food combined with nearly zero exercise.
How I gained access to Amazon EC2 servers from GitHub Search
It was great to see ShutIt during the last Docker London!
I have used a similar aproach, but I don't hash them. Here's a example:

Supose I have the master password "t3st1ng" and "!@#" as separator. When I want to register on site www.reddit.com, I just use the password "reddit.com!@#t3st1ng".

This way I always have a strong password and I can use different passwords in every site, and I just have to remember the master password.
I thought generational and mark/sweep were orthogonal. That is, can't generational still be mark and sweep? You just don't mark and sweep the entire reference set?
> Come on, you, the great land of free, surely can afford to help the disadvantaged.

A common attitude I see from people who have "made it" in some way, whether that's running their own business or just working hard and making a good life for themselves, is that their success is deserved and a result of their hard work.

By extension, if you're homeless or poor or on welfare or whatever, it's because you haven't put in that effort. It's a fallacious argument, but it makes it easy for a lot of people to dismiss those in need.

Actually on second though... I've seen that attitude from plenty of people who aren't well off. It's quite pervasive. I guess people just want to believe that it's always possible to succeed through hard work, and that they/others aren't just getting fucked over.
Interesting story but I'm a bit offended by the description of the board game as "linear". Having played the boardgame extensively and then played the first couple of versions of the computer game to death, the inspiration was pretty obvious (the similarity between cards representing societal achievements and similar mechanics in the game is utterly striking; and the boardgame has a really clever trading game which the computer game in no way equals), and the idea that Meier didn't even play the boardgame until after designing the computer game seems to me to be disingenuous.

Sid Meier's career was built on producing computer-versions of classic boardgames.
Researchers make ‘breakthrough’ to stop music piracy: Won’t change a thing
and this phrase on page 7 highlighted

The benchmarking itself was done in a simple and
fairly un-scientific fashion.

... older Pentium IV workstation. Run-times were
measured using wall-clock time.

but still a good read about tweaking c++ (I think at the time, clang and gcc were still implementing the C++11 standard features).

Also i remember long HN threads about this in mid 2011 but i can't find them, here'a a later discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4539668
Product Hunt joins Y Combinator, Hacker News looking more like Product Hunt
Here's some analysis of password generators like this vs password managers (by me) http://crypto.stackexchange.com/a/5691/291
I've been looking for a nice Markdown editor on Mac. Hopefully this one will be it.

Are there any others I should look at?
I don't think that it is, but rather that I didn't give the guy the benefit of doubt, and as someone else said my reading of it was overly cynical which I agree with. I still think he worded it poorly. To me, it sounded like he was suggesting that was an alternate, even equally viable, strategy for developing the product, and that it was the goodwill of his team and Google that led them to do the Explorer program. But, I don't think that's the case anymore.
How would you suggest that they verify that you are who you say they are?

If they didn't have some form of verification, anyone could sign up for an account saying they were you, and cancel or redirect any packages going to your home.

As another comment has explained, this is a third party verification service; they use public records and credit report information to verify your identity. Fedex does the same thing.
Brick count could be problematic though. How many 2x2 bricks would you need to build your 3x3.5km high pyramid?
I really enjoyed 4X games back in the genre's heyday. Not only Civilization, but also Colonization, Master of Magic and Master of Orion 1&2.

Have there been any new turn-based 4X games in recent times? I remember looking for a 4X flash game in 2010 and coming up empty handed. I don't really have time to play that kind of game anyway, but those were good memories.
It was a joke.
You probably knew that though.
Some context
Microsoft head count: 127k
Apple head count: 80k
Google head count: 50k
Facebook head count: 7k
There are nice examples on wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expect.
very well written and in my opinion a very fair comment to make. This is what brings me to HN, quality of the discussion is much better than any other place.
Kahneman's $65,000 “happiness benchmark” now $75k; $95k in California
Ditto, the guy is a real software engineer.
Wait, that's basic social competence!

Sorry, but I don't think any interviewer in the history of job interviews would give a guy a job if he showed up late without warning - how is your "testing for reliability" any different?
I am really looking forward to this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilization:_Beyond_Earth

Its supposedly spiritual sequel to Alpha Centauri.
Some comments on the original article seems to place the blame of the de-anonymizing on user errors.

As a crypto newbie, what is the 'correct' way of using Tor to minimize security risks?
This is like: http://userscripts-mirror.org/scripts/review/1341.html
Am I incorrect to make this truncation? Because it kind of blows my mind.

"a world without [..] pregnancy [..] will for the first time in thousands of years allow us to mate in the way nature intended"

Not too mention that "the first time in thousands of years" implies this situation existed previously, but then didn't for thousands of years... the writer got kind of carried away, that's for sure.
Not only cut workforce but they also retiring android from nokia now they only release windows phone
>Also the colors make my eyes bleed, so I had to close after a few seconds.

Special eye illness? If not, then a little over the top reaction...
Ff you want some help using pdftk, check out the free 'PDF Succinctly' ebook from Syncfusion:

https://www.syncfusion.com/resources/techportal/ebooks/pdf

It explains use of iTextSharp, a C# library.
ok, so peterwwillis@myemailaddress.com@site.com would be my unique door id, so each site would have a unique hash. that solves the first problem, basically.

if someone compromises that site, they get the unique hash. presumably they're not using an expensive hashing algorithm (most sites don't). since they know my username and the site name, they can start brute forcing my unique hash to determine the password. sure, the program could be using an expensive hash algo that would make this take some time, but the whole point (i thought) was to prevent passwords at rest. with this you still have passwords at rest... they're just distributed out across the internet.

there is benefit here, in that you have to compromise each site to get each unique set of credentials. but the downside is a much bigger single point of failure. you trade off the inherent security of memorized complex passwords for one complex master password and the hope that nobody will ever discover or brute force it.

at the end of the day, passwords are still vulnerable to the same flaw: you only need one attack vector to succeed in compromising accounts. with 2-factor auth you need two attack vectors to succeed, which isn't impossible, but is harder, which is really what security is all about.
apparently not anymore.
Add Twitter cards to your Rails site with metamagic
Maybe the police are more concerned about being filmed napping in the back of a parking lot (while ostensibly radar gunning for speeders) and less concerned about being filmed brutalizing and shooting innocent people.

While both of these types of events occur sometimes, the second type is probably fairly rare and the first type probably much more common.

Maybe the idea is that if police think they are being watched they will act in a more accountable fashion. I don't see this being a bad thing at all.
Surely complexity always creates risk. The question is whether the tradeoff is acceptable.

Everyone is optimizing the hell out of their Javascript engines right now -- the question is whether some jit that's cobbled together independently of any other codebase is going to be intrinsically superior to a compiler that's being used for lots of other things (obviously there are arguments in both directions, right?). Is it better to simultaneously support Javascript via V8 (which has tiered optimizations of its own), Dart both via compilation to Javascript and its own independently optimized runtime, and NaCl? Is it better to have Javascript and asm.js?

Your trusty Apple II will be immune to modern malware thanks to the simplicity of not being able to connect to the internet, run 32-bit software, or have more than 48kB of memory. Of course the Apple II did have at least one virus.
Want a great User Experience? Make it harder to add new features
Something similar for Lua: http://www.tset.de/lpty/
I've built a similar tool called Password Wallet for Android two years ago, but there was little interest. I made the generation process customizable so that you could choose to have special characters, numbers etc.

You can see it for yourself here:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.alitas.pas...
Dude thats crazy. GG
Galactic Civilizations II, released in 2006. Gal Civ III will be released soon-ish.

Then not turn-based, and not necessarily 4X, but the Paradox games like Crusader Kings 2 or Europa Universalis IV can be fun too.
Thanks, I came here to make pretty much those same points. From the link:

Normal Encrypted DB:
To steal your passwords, the attacker has to steal the database. Then she has two options: steal the master password or guess/bruteforce it.

Password Generation Method:
To steal your password, the attacker has to steal your master password, or steal one of the derived passwords and guess/bruteforce the master password. Once she has it, she can generate any current and future passwords, until you stop using the generator with the same master password.
Ehrm, what's the purpose of it? Once one of your passwords is leaked, your master password is leaked too.
It can get worse. MS could be firing the whole team and not just 50%. This is the reality that Blackberry faces.
We don't even know who was laid off, so the market isn't judging based upon it being a productive reduction of force -- they're reacting because in the short term, layoffs almost always improve profits, especially for an organization like Microsoft that is coasting on prior wins. It may sacrifice the future, but few of those holders have any commitment to the future.

In every post about this story, right near the top have been dreamy posts about "dead weight" and "middle management" being cut, as if all of Microsoft's prior executive bungles are suddenly being resolved (with most of the same executives, as an aside). Yet the bulk of the layoffs come from Nokia (man, Finland is going to be pissed), people whose only mistake was following a leader who was widely considered a trojan horse.

Elop keeps his job. Those people lose theirs.

And how ridiculous prejudicial for all of these people whose only mistake was being in a company that main horrendous strategy decisions time and time again -- having people title you "dead wood".
Excellent Idea!! Looks promising.
Deutsche Bank holds a patent on linked lists
This is exactly as bad as a single master password, because now I know your hypothetical password for HN is "news.ycombinator.com!@#t3st1ng".
People in the US all believe that if they just work hard enough for somebody else, they can become millionaires.

There's also this fun narrative about the mysterious "job creators," which are angelic creatures from beyond the firmament who seek only to sprinkle money down on the destitute in exchange for a paltry 40 hours of their lives per week. Personally, I don't believe in them but I know enough people who do.
Snapchat, Geolocation and Brands
Snowden: 'If I end up in chains in Guantánamo I can live with that'
I prefer running a simple algorithm in my head so if my plaintext password gets leaked, an attacker can't just replace "reddit.com" with the name of another site.
Success is highly subjective. Perhaps you mean different?
Bigger in terms of inflated stock prices, but not by head count. Lenovo has taken the Thinkpad line down the toilet, not that IBM wouldn't have.
The article doesn't say that he let people through the checkpoint.
For those that follow Microsoft and Nokia: does this effectively mean that the acquisition has been a failure? Or was this the plan all along?
The only bit I would disagree with is, "For our business to continue running..."

Last year, Microsoft made over $20 billion profit on almost $80 billion in revenue. The truth is that Microsoft has accumulated many useless employees over the years, and they could be even more profitable by laying off those people.
> Is there any large acquisition that succeeded in the last 10 years?

Lots. Of course, success is relative to for whom -- many of them work out well for shareholders of the acquired firm, many work out okay for shareholders of the acquiring firm, and the executives on both sides usually do well.

Of course, part of how it works out for those groups is that it, by design, doesn't work out well for the "human resources" that are production inputs.
Except that Microsoft didn't get the Nokia patents, merely a license to use them.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/03/us-nokia-microsoft...
I already knew legos were strong without this research.

For instance, I know for a fact from legos left on the floor by kids that one lego can hold my entire weight (240 pounds) when I step on it in the middle of the night walking to the bathroom with no signs of damage to said lego.

Further, I know that one lego can by itself topple a fully grown man.