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Fantastic news. Just as positive as that time Microsoft decided to "help out" with OLPC .....

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That makes sense in a library. Usually studying is a single person activity.

However I am sure most software engineering / programming jobs require programming, as well as discussing the problem. That's a fairly essential part of the job, and you can't expect to do that in quiet.

To me the ideal solution would be a library at work. I worked in an academic institute that had one. We had 5 or 6 people in an office. Fine for normal work, but if I needed to concentrate and read up on something new, I would go to the library, and get the silence I required.
This is not the same thing. Hamming worked with geniuses who knew the difference between "A moment Dick? Have you ever noticed how (some astute observation)?" and "Hey! Good weekend? (some bland filler)." See chapter 3 of said _Quiet_.
The other thread mentions that they provided the first unbundled C compiler back in 1989, closer to the standardization of ANSI C, which is probably no coincidence as many compilers had to be revised to support it and another reason why GCC became popular. It was not until they moved to SVR4 with Solaris that they removed the bundled one however, after gcc 2.0 was released I think.
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"An application should respond with a generic error message regardless of whether the user ID or password was incorrect."

I really don't like this advice (although I see why they put it in there).

I often use different email addresses for different services so that I can determine who sells on email addresses (depending on how much I trust them), and quite often I can't remember which email address I signed up with (was that mojang@...com or minecraft@...com).

At least if I see "user not recognised", I know to try a different email address.
The conversation on gun control has a very different outcome in Europe.
The problem with armrests is that you may develop a bad habit of resting your weight on your elbows. They should be used as a way to have a good wrist posture, and not for actually resting the weight of your body and arms.
Ask HN: How was your experience with monthly Who Is Hiring threads?
Who Is Hiring threads are pretty popular and usually land up on front page with many points. I am just curious to know how did it work for you? Did you find a great employee/employer? Did you get to meet interesting people? For people, who were looking for jobs (or hiring) was it any different experience?
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At my company this typically results in users printing or writing the password down.

I wonder if the guys who create these heuristics/recommendations ever had contact with humans. I believe that their research is thorough in their area of expertise (info sec), however, it sounds like they are only considering data per se, ignoring human behavior variables. There's little value in enforcing hard-to-break passwords while also encouraging users to write them down.

What I believe: Info sec researchers should team up with HCI people.
Except the teacher on Windows by design cannot teach a huge chunk of the stack that makes a computer a computer. They talk about hardware, maybe a bit about the ToS breaking NT source floating around this comment section, skip over everything else and land on this theme park island of C# standard library and Windows forms.

It leaves a huge gap in the childs education on computing that is one the major reasons so many people today do not even know Windows is not the only OS out there. And of course if they learn on Windows they are going to stay on Windows a huge majority of the time and it just breeds another generation of .net developers who would have a panic attack if a line didn't end in a semicolon.
> There's a big difference between not being a sports fan, and going out of your way to be an elitist snob about it

This entire line of reasoning strikes me as such an epic straw man. What is the difference between not being a sports fan, and being an "elitist snob"? It's completely subjective.
I think the outdoors can be a great teacher - I know it has been for me about things like this.

Many years ago a friend and I went to Yosemite to do a climb on Half Dome. Day one we were humping up to Little Yosemite Valley. It was a hot day and we were starting to grouse about the heat and elevation gain. As we rounded a switchback we were greeted by an enthusiastic "Good morning. Beautiful day isn't it!". Our greeter was wearing an enormous pack and was navigating the trail with crutches and leg braces. After chatting a bit, we carried on and vowed to not complain for the rest of the trip. Day 3 we were heading down to the Valley after completing the climb on the mist trail. It was a high snowpack year and the falls were thundering and true to the trail's name, blowing mist everywhere. We stripped down to shorts and no shirts and were reveling in the feeling of the mist and sun when we encountered a couple heading up the trail. They were in full boating rain gear and as we passed them I heard one say in a weepy voice "this is so horrible!".

The lesson that stuck with me from that weekend: your conditions do not necessarily determine your experience.
I don't agree with encasing it for a couple of reasons. 1) The goal is to get maximum functionality out of minimal cost. If you want to encase it you can buy a case yourself. 2) Not including a case has encouraged the community to get creative and sell cases, or patterns to 3D print one. Inspiring creativity is another goal of the foundation.

I wouldn't mind if it was a little smaller, but again, they want to keep the cost down.
It's unusable for you and at this point in time.

If you're concerned about this, have you considered opening an issue on the public repository?

Maybe you have some knowledge to share about how to make the site work well with JavaScript disabled?

Maybe you'll find that the team has thought about this, and are planning it?

A cursory look reveals an issue [0] closely related to this, mentioning that there are .html URLs that are supposed to work without JavaScript; that they have at some point verified the functionality with a screen reader; that Google should be able to index the contents; etc.

Maybe that would be a good place to bring up your concerns?

[0]: https://github.com/fedwiki/wiki-client/issues/39
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Given that one of the core principles the hacker culture was founded upon is "knowledge should be free", I think setting such an example is clearly in the spirit of encouraging such a culture.

Unfortunately the average kid is likely not going to discover such things on the Internet, and even those who pirate tend to be more interested in far less educational content... I think it's somewhat sad that, despite the various file-sharing/peer-to-peer systems that have appeared making it easier than ever to share lots of content, and build something akin to a massive distributed library, the majority just use them for entertainment.
As a Canadian, it would be socially unacceptable not to complain about the weather in February. It is a common topic of small talk. Less so in the summer, as the common retort to weather complaints is that "at least it isn't snowing".

The example of rain is given, and I wouldn't be complaining about rain. I just got back from London (UK, not Ontario), where locals couldn't seem to understand that I wasn't being polite, that I genuinely enjoyed their weather compared to home. Being able to walk somewhere for 10 minutes without any exposed skin becoming numb in late January was lovely.
>> "Have we not learned anything from the conversation on gun control?"

Terrible comparison. Gun control works fine here in the UK imo. In the US I think it's different as getting those weapons back from a heavily armed public is more trouble than it's worth - getting them back from criminals will be impossible. Anyway, it has nothing to do with encryption. I'm sure Cameron understands the implications of banning it - he just doesn't care. And there's very little we can do about it. There are elections coming up but our alternatives are just as shit.
With one kvetch (last for this Feb?): "the missed bus, the rainy weekend, the crying baby next door" are small and current annoyances - and I have no trouble not complaining about them. But when it comes to missed life opportunities, wrong life choices (and anything having many-year long profound and irreversible effect on one's life) or about things broken with the world - it's much harder (at least - for me).
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The core of windows is tiny, its all the other stuff that makes it big.
this is nothing new.

why go through all the trouble? just take the disk out and mount it elsewhere.

that's why one has to encrypt drives.
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Increase the budget. It's pretty simple.

The deal is: If you provide a crappy work environment, there had better be other compensations (interesting projects, money, great cow-orkers, etc.) or I'm going to leave. And I have done this, with no regrets other than feeling bad for the people I left behind (some of whom I try to recruit).

And at some point, when a project is done or someone really good bails for a better place, people "wake up" and realize they've been had, and the exodus will start. And you'll be left with cheap digs and the people that haven't left might not be the people that you actually want, and the decline will start.

Being cheap is its own reward. I'm actually okay with cheap, cheap is great stuff when everyone is on board with being cheap, but I'm not okay with people telling me stuff like "This space is designed for collaboration and empowering communication" when the first design goal is actually cheap, and all that other stuff is just post-facto justification for a work environment that is noisy and sucks hard for people who need to think for a living.

It really is simple.
I think context is important. If it's a bank password, I don't mind coming up with something complex. If it's for something that requires me to have an account, but I don't care at all whether or not someone else gains access to the account, I have no problem using a much simpler password and would be rather annoyed if I had to do something more complex.
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Wow, great concept... I just spent 1 hour watching live concerts!!
This is the first module I've published to npm. It's pretty simple, but I figured it might be useful to someone else. My main motivation is to get some feedback on how I could improve the code, tests, documentation, etc. Please let me know how I did!
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As a designer, that’s one my life’s goals.
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And I would add: A programming language that only allows low-level code only allows buggy code.
What open source solution powers your entertainment media center?
I heard of another variant where a jammer was used to stop the car from locking in the first place, whereby goods could be stolen. With the ODB programmer and the key blank the car could then also be stolen.
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When I was a young teenager there was a mailing list called Linux Chicks. They were teaching a beginners' course on C (this is long before the days of MOOCs, I might add). I signed up and did it and that's how it all started.
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I watched all of the special features on the LOTR extended editions back in the day. It seemed like they were extremely proud of their "bigatures". It's a shame that they seemed to have completely abandoned a technique that worked so well.
You wrote "it's expensive to fact check every single creative that comes through"

I'm surprised they fact check any ads. Many publications don't have the budget to fact check their news, features, or editorials, never mind the ads.
If your measurement is correct, then your office environment violates OSHA regulations.

https://www.osha.gov/pls/oshaweb/owadisp.show_document?p_tab...
Internet sarcasm fail. I'm sorry.
You should look at Art4Apps: http://www.art4apps.org/

It's a library of images in the same dimensions and a uniform style, licensed under Creative Commons.

They created it for developers of educational apps, but it could work just as well for worksheets!
Movies posters generally don't represent a real scene in the movie, but are staged for a reason. That could be to relay who the actors are, or to set a tone. I'm not sure how trailers are different. I think the problem is that you believe something about them that is not true, which is that they are made up entirely of scenes from the movie. Historically that may have been the case, but it was almost purely because that was the easiest and cheapest way to get a high quality trailer. We've moved past that now, and it's possible to easily represent the feel of the movie using custom material in trailers, like it's always been for movie posters.
Or it makes tinkering easier and simpler than ever. Linux is many things. User friendly is not one of them.
When I was building websites in the mid-90's myself and everyone I knew had something like "250,000 Clip Art Images" on 30 CDs or something like that. It came with a giant phone book-like directory of them all by name.

I'd be astonished if some publisher hadn't put that online even for some nominal fee. Anyone else remember this stuff?
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Just a hypothetical, but what if an application started encouraging users to enter a "login sentence" instead of a password. i.e.: "Please enter a sentence that you'll be asked to remember each time you login." Obviously, the standard constraints of length and complexity (albeit slightly altered) can be enforced.

It's much easier for me to remember "Please close the window, I'm cold." then it is for me to remember "XSDJd94*(lo03X.._".

The "horse battery staple" XKCD comes to mind.
Take a look at HN's discussion on Facebook's Data-fetching framework for React (Relay), due for release 'real soon now':

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8977229
I'm a Dad with teenagers. My next ten years will be worrying about how they're restricting themselves.
I guess we're going to get into a "No True Scotsman" situation, but given the OpenSSL codebase, I don't think the OpenBSD folks regard them as "true C programmers". Rust is only being used by enthusiasts currently, so I'm sure we will see code like that once it gets into the general population.
Yes, it's a system-wide permission (needs admin rights) IIRC.
"Usually studying is a single person activity."

Really, what school did you go to? The main reason to go to the library to study was because there would be other people from your class studying there too. So lots of collaboration, working through problem sets together. Yet it managed to stay quiet.
As the offending commentor, I apologize. Particularly to the Rust team for generating this negative publicity, and to the person I replied to, for asserting a lie.

I misunderstood Heartbleed, exactly as Ted summarizes. I've no excuse other than commenting when I shouldn't. I am happy though to have my idiocy corrected as I'll comment better in the future.

The rest of the original thread does point out that I did examine every security advisory published by Microsoft over a year or two span, and that, from the descriptions, Rust would have prevented basically every serious (code exec) one. (Notable exceptions being failures in the sandboxed code loading, similar to the various Java in browser bugs.)
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The article, and the linked comments, indicate why headphones are not a universal solution.
Because if at some point in history there was a need for weregild, the process I am talking about was common enough to warrant addressing.
How is the wayland/weston support going? This thing should be quite capable now.
You're trying to be too intelligent for your own good.

Fact of the matter is the new wiki UI is horrible. It doesn't have to be spelled out any more complicated than that.