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Yeah I agree with both of you about the need for investigative journalism. I'm just saying that it's hard to be sad about the papers losing their classified ads. They had a bunch of chances and they screwed them all up.

I think in the long run this'll probably get sorted out. But you are both right that in the short run it sucks.

Personally I'm loving what John Oliver is doing right now; it seems like every week he tackles some kind of genuinely important topic and has such a scathing review of it. They do such a good job that the institution's bad behavior is funny insofar as how misguided it actually is.

It's also depressing that one of the better news sources available right now isn't CNN or some "legacy" media, but rather a guy who came up through The Daily Show.

I think the reason that Last Week Tonight does so well is that they aren't beholden to anyhow. Most legacy media has somehow convinced itself that it needs access to politicians in order to report the news. That has led the reporters to be very deferential to people in power, which prevents them from asking tough questions or for evidence or proof of various assertions by those they quote. And because of that, they've watered down most of the value of their various brands.

It's definitely sad, but I think that in some way these folks did it to themselves. When everyone is reporting "An anonymous government official said Snowden hurt us lots, and he is a bad guy" it's safe to say that they're not really doing their jobs.
I know a newspaper who's IT guys very early on brought their major classified section (used cars) online, back in the 90s. It was a very low budget project, but it worked well.

Management pulled the plug on that project (because of course online was not core business and they were afraid it competed with print), only to years later buy a startup to get back in the game...
You could roll out your own. But I personally trust the specialized team at Lastpass to monitor and look for these sorts of breaches a lot more than I trust myself.

That coupled with convenience makes it so I'm going to stick with an online password manager.

Even under a worst case scenario, I could change my major passwords fast enough with lastpass that I wouldn't be worried about loosing my online presence to anyone. It'd be a pain, but I'm confident that the LastPass team would keep me informed if that was necessary.
One another incident that reminds me, why 2 factor authentication is absolutely necessary for important information.
I agree. You used to be able to sort all movies by how much they think you will like it. What a concept! A little over a year ago I actually wrote a script that used their API to get me just that. Less than a month later they shut down the API...
I honestly don't know what use case they are addressing. If I know what I am there to watch I just need a search field. If I don't know then there interface is a disaster. It keeps recommending movies they predict I will give a low rating. At the same time I found that they had "The Master" which I loved in the cinema after browsing the page for at least 10 minutes in order to find something. Most of the 10 minutes were spent looking over different lists that mainly contained the same movies I'd already watched or Netflix agrees I won't like.

I also find their rating system to be the worst. I always check at imdb first. Some movies that have 4/10 or fewer starts have 4/5 or even 4.5/5 stars on Netflix.

I can only assume that watching certain movies might be more beneficial to Netflix than others.
The projections of capacity seem way too low. It says it can do 840passengers/hour.

In the UK each 11 car train on the West Coast Mainline can take about 600 passengers seated + maybe slightly over 100 more standing. So around 700. We have 3 trains per hour between London and Birmingham, which adds up to a rough capacity of 2200 per hour.

This doesn't even take into account the multitude of slower trains that go between the two cities.

All these trains are generally congested as hell at peak (and increasingly off peak).

How is 840 passengers/hour enough for two big cities? I would assume making each pod bigger and heavier would require a greater stopping distance between them so the only way I can see to add more capacity is to build parallel hyperloops. At that point you've got the land take and the expense that comes with it.
If the Confederate States of America held a public vote to secede - do you think it would have passed?
If it passed, do you think the United States should have let them secede?
1Password only stores encrypted files in Dropbox. The encryption is done offline. Assuming the encryption is done properly, it is difficult to conceive of a way to attack it even assuming that Dropbox is compromised.
SQL Server Scattergories Game
What does tax policy have to do with how the federal government compensates it's employees?
"You won't make as much as you make in the private sector. You should think of it as a tour of duty"

Sounds like a modern day Shackleton job posting
It looks like Google Global Caches and other edge caching is proxying everything including the DNS queries in Europe, so what's returned is the proxy's IP, which, of course, points to Europe.
I've used WebTranslateIt and i18next.js, and found i18n and l10n to be much easier than I'd anticipated. While I've primarily worked with actual translators, I think WebTranslateIt has some automated translation options as well.

- https://webtranslateit.com

- http://i18next.com/
Just like everybody else that had something useful to AWS.
The previous site allowed anonymous viewing of a movie listing, for recommending a movie to a non-subscriber.

The Daredevil movie listing link goes to a login page, is that expected?
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Like a lot of things, I think it depends mostly on the effort the writer puts into mastering his craft. I prefer the variety in length, and agree with it as a general rule. However, one counterpoint: Hemmingway seems to have done fine with (mostly) short sentences.
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I would imagine it's much harder to roll out at scale.

Netflix's ui has been pretty terrible for a while, though, I wish they would have an alternative to the grid view. Sometimes I can't find the genre I'm looking for.
The year is 2015 and they still dont have mobile site to change password. Amazing
I use 1Password for personal/family stuff. It's a much better interface and has many fewer bugs.

I manage a Last Pass Enterprise instance at work. I love/hate it. The interface is terrible and buggy. However, it's the only tool I've found to manage passwords across many users (some medium to non-technical) who need access to shared accounts within an organization. 1Password doesn't really do this, and sharing vaults over Dropbox doesn't really cut it. Despite all the bug pain, it's so much better than what we were doing before, sharing passwords via email and other embarrassing methods.

How can there really only be one company doing what LastPass Enterprise does? There must be other systems that I just can't find in my research. Any recommendations for other managed password stores for organizations?
There's no excuse for not giving people what they're owed -- never trust anyone that wants to exploit your skills. Whether its by "changing the world" in a startup or being patriotic for the government.

> The fact that some of the best and brightest in our industry have decided to do this work because it's important rather than because it's the most financially rewarding option is encouraging.

There's actually really simple reasoning behind this: the flip side to your statement is "the fact that the government isn't willing to pay for work that is important is discouraging".

You hear about the tremendous amounts of waste in government projects (everything from military contractors to the bay bridge that got built by a FOREIGN company, went over budget, and now may not even be safe). Clearly some projects are deemed "important enough" to be paid for. If your project doesn't command market rate, then either it isn't as important as they're trying to tell you it is (since they've clearly demonstrated a willingness to pay in other areas), or, perhaps worse, it is but they just don't care about it enough.

Its so strange that the patriotism line only applies individuals who can't negotiate for themselves. When it comes to huge corporations, these arguments never seem to come up.
A new city built to become a tech hub in Russia
Dropbox doesn't encrypt files, AFAIK.
It shouldn't surprise me at all that their name means "Prepare for war"...
'Basically the only requirement is that "good" solutions are more liquid than "bad" ones' - this could be used as a criteria to identify both good and bad stuff
> at least its not immutable even today

We've since moved to immutable trade agreements.
"Commuter Luge"
I've always thought the reason was to remove the bias of only watching movies everyone else likes (i.e. only those that majority gave high ratings) but I'm shooting blindly here. It would be great if someone from the team gave input
Front-end features have nothing to do with "scale". Does it work in the browsers? That is all that matters.

EDIT: FWIW, we also implemented this feature on our last site which was the #63 most visited site in the world at its height. So we have done it "at scale"
Several agencies in the federal government strive to increase salaries to approach market values, but Congress typically prevents these measures [1]. In this case, it's my opinion that they're representing their constituents' desire to limit public sector salaries, and risk reelection by legislating otherwise. I think that over 50% of Americans suspect federal employees are overpaid. The issue isn't improved by misleading stories in the media [2].

[1] http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/house-gop-release-bill-to-...

[2] http://www.factcheck.org/2010/12/are-federal-workers-overpai...
> Maybe there are people out there who will accept much more inconvenience in exchange for avoiding the risk associated with a cloud-based service. But, for me, the inconvenience is simply too much.

Sure, it's a balance everyone has to find for themselves. As you note earlier, a cloud password manager is better than shared passwords.

I'm certainly happy to accept a bit more inconvenience than most. I only do banking on one device, and one device only. I set up per-device passwords for things like Gmail (and MFA for my primary password), I authorize mobile apps via API keys, and try to avoid services that require I use my password on multiple devices in the first place.

For the most part, devices I use frequently can access things I use frequently without passwords. For web services (like HN) I simply don't need to log in and comment that badly if I'm on an unusual device.

> So the choice once more, for me, becomes cloud-based password manager or no password manager at all.

If those are you're options, you're probably right to go with the cloud option. For many people, even a physical notebook of single-service passwords would be an improvement.

> (Though if you've found a good option, that will allow me to easily sync across my home desktop, laptop, office pc, tablet, and smartphone, without using the cloud, I would absolutely love to hear about it! Maybe something Bluetooth based?)

Not really. It's largely the magic of cloud synching that I don't like. A lot of people run standalone password managers like Keepass or 1Password and store the database in some sort of file synchronization service like Dropbox. I guess that's workable, but it's still not something I'm going to be doing.

I simply don't want a single place where all my passwords are available that isn't hardware physically under my control.
1/3 the lines of code that go into fb's ios & android apps is shared C++.
That was probably the seminal article in my computer career. It was the first serious program I wrote, in 1989. The pseudocode for the essential routines were relatively straightforward for me to translate into Commodore BASIC on my C64, but getting acceptable speed to see evolution happen was a challenge. I started out by using the standard tricks I knew (e.g. "." in place of "0", because it's significantly faster in CBM BASIC) but ended up using one of the BASIC compilers for a really big speed boost.

I let it run overnight, and when I woke up in the morning and turned on the monitor (a CBM 1701), there they were: Bugs traveling in straight lines to efficiently gather microbes/food. It blew my mind. At that point I decided I could write any program I thought of! It only took me a couple more months to realize that wasn't true.

I ended up majoring in Computer Science, taking a class in AI, going to the University of Chicago's Ph.D. program in AI, dropping out of grad school to work on natural language interfaces for NASA robots, and I've been in and out of AI since then and am currently working on a speech interface for drones: http://lemondronor.com/blog/indexphp/2013/3/electric-familia...

I feel like I owe a lot of the fun and satisfaction I've gotten from programming to A. K. Dewdney and his lucid and compelling Computer Recreations articles.

(For A. K. Dewedney's spiritual successor, see Brian Hayes' Computing Science articles for American Scientist magazine.)
I think it would, however I didn't realize until now how small the tubes and cars are, might make a metro-type system challenging. Or, it could be widened for metro usage, like the disneyland monorail.
Thanks for this recommendation... I will definitely check out the book myself. I went off the rails a bit and tried something complex in my final year of university with a sensor input based system using emotions to try control behaviour.

https://medium.com/@dshields/working-with-emotional-models-i...

I really want to get back into it and finish off the project properly so this chapter on virtual ants sounds like a good place to start.
I just deleted, regenerated, and re-associated Google Authenticator and then altered the number of iterations from 10,000 to 10,001 (causing it to re-encrypt the database). None of this is really required but it has invalidated much of the information they could have stolen.

The thing that really bugs me about this, is the email address. I have a very low spam level on that account (sub-1 per day on average) and I want to keep it that way. Last thing I need is someone to dump this theft onto a Pirate Bay-like site and then to get spammed by everyone and the kitchen sink.
I don't think that's a cognitive bias. We should be inherently more suspicious of complex ideas. Complex ideas are more likely to be wrong than simple ideas due to the fact that their correctness rests on a greater number of assumptions.
Why would you be looking at the average for this though? The reason economic factors and crime rates are so tightly correlated are because it is those who are desperate for money, e.g. unemployed, working low-wage and/or part-time, etc., that would be most likely to be tempted to steal these devices. Even if you drop the resale value of those devices to around $100 you could easily get away with a smartphone, tablet, laptop at once and make enough to get by for a couple weeks.
That has already happened.

Most of the people that currently live in rent controlled or price stabilized apartments got them decades ago. The waiting list for any units that become available is extremely long.

That effectively means most rent control is helping the elderly. I present that without comment or judgement, it's just a fact. The elderly are generally not the people manning the counter at your local bodega. They are not your local construction workers, doormen, or bartenders.

All of those people, the ones that are the backbone of the service economy within Manhattan, already live in the outer boroughs.

So the question effectively becomes does it make sense to subsidize the rent of retired people in Manhattan? On one side you can be the assholes kicking elderly people out of the homes and neighborhoods they have lived in for 30 years. On the other side you can be the assholes forcing the working class to commute 90 minutes a day. Take your pick of the bad options.
Over the past four years, web browsers have changed a lot, becoming more sophisticated and allowing for richer visuals and animations.

I am used to this eye candy already from using it on the Playstation. but what I would really like is an ability to curate my own lists (instead of having just one), things on the stay on my list in the order they were added (pairs or occasional trilogies always end up 'drifting away' from each other for no special reason) and to see more information about who made a film than just 3 actors and a director. What if I want to search for films by a particular screenwriter?

Other missing features: request a film for streaming that's not currently available, so they have some way to gauge demand; a higher-priced streaming tier where you have access to the extra features that come on a disc, like interviews or director commentary; Scene search. Netflix has a massive incumbent advantage now, and a deservedly earned one, but user-side development has slowed to a crawl since they went into producing their own content, and the risk for investors is that the market cares more about user experience than the output of Netflix's TV studio (although I personally think their content division is outstanding).

Oh, and please stop ejecting me from the credits of a film to show me what you think I want to want to watch next. There is nothing more annoying than to be sitting there in a reflective mood following a great film, thinking about what I watched as the credits rol and the music plays, only to get kicked out into a static advert for some other film usually wildly inappropriate/irrelevant. It's like being woken up when you're still dreaming, and every time it happens I want to throw something at the television.
> Scrolling through rows is now much faster, with a mouse-click advancing a full row at a time.

Jesus. Not only have other competitors had this (Amazon Prime, HBO)...Netflix itself had this nav "feature" before it moved to the tedious mouseover scroll it's had for the past couple of years. The slow-scroll was so infuriating that I thought it had to be the result of some incredibly counter-intuitive A/B insight. But now that they're reverting, it just seems like a poorly conceived idea.
Yes, this is what I remember my parents getting really mad about as a teenager. This was one of the first times in my life I thought to myself "People do this kind of thing to other people? WTF humans."
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LastPass Announces Breach, Users Urged to Reset Master Passwords
The difference is that a password manager must be able to decrypt a password in order for it to be used, while ideally websites only store one-way hashed passwords which if stolen aren't always useful at gaining access to other sites.
Would a Hyperloop system work well in a system with frequent stops, where you wouldn't be able to get up to full-speed because you needed to stop and the stops could disrupt other express traffic.

No, which is why it's strictly city-to-city. It's supposed to compete with short haul point to point airlines. Those don't have neighborhood stops either.
I'm not even convinced the NSA can get it. There are no side-channels to exploit here (which we know the NSA is good at) and cooperation from online services won't work either. The protocols used to encrypt this are fairly simple and well-understood and we should not assume that the NSA is capable of breaking the underlying (strong) primitives.
"BIOS mode only, UEFI/GPT not supported"

It's getting increasingly difficult to buy a Windows computer that's not UEFI/GPT, so no OS level encryption.
I thought the biggest issue is once that file is downloaded it has to be unpacked, parsed, and executed in the browser that at the same time is trying to decode JPEGs and reflow the layout. It's why pages take 20 seconds or more to load.

Less javascript means less cycles burned executing boilerplate framework factories means faster page loading means longer battery life means you can keep that two year old phone that's not quite so fast instead of throwing it in the trash.

jQuery causes global warming. (tongue-in-cheek of course, but not entirely)
I would also appreciate more detail, but that shouldn't be their first priority.

They note that they discovered the breach on 'Friday' so I imagine they have an ongoing Incident Response right now. They may not have or be ready to share this information at this time, and that's fine. They might be working with law enforcement, further hardening systems, and continuing to confirm their findings to date to ensure they've mitigated the full impacts.

What's important now is conveying how users are impacted and what steps they should take to protect themselves; hopefully the rest comes in time.
Not really; they were done by different teams.
If you are using LastPass without 2FA (YubiKey, etc), people attacking LastPass itself is really the least of your problems. I'd be much more concerned about keyloggers grabbing your password. BeEF can pop up a LastPass phishing prompt if you just happen to load the wrong javascript file.

Using just one string of characters to protect ALL of your passwords is insane.
Right. Wait for the stentorian voice to tell you when you need more pylons.
Hey dude, first of all, thanks for all the stuff over the years. Second, this is really great. This is exactly what I was looking for this afternoon. I need to select some elements and bind an event, nothing more. You rock!
Probably those willing to do it pro bono would be ok.
I think Dropbox encrypts data before storing it with 3rd-party providers (Amazon). At least I think they used to.
And now they are under heavy load because of people changing their master passwords. Can't change mine :)
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There are parts of the government which are different. (Some are better, some are worse, and all in different ways.)

Thinking of the US Government as a monolithic entity with a single culture was probably my biggest incorrect preconceived idea; it seems to be fairly universal to people who have never seen inside.
I've noticed it several months ago by going through my server logs - hadn't included 'favicon.ico' in the HTML and yet, the browser - Chrom(e|ium) - tried downloading it every time.

Thanks for reminding me to report it ;^)
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Absolutely! I would just go ahead. Good Luck :)