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The last thing libraries need is Silicon Valley “disruption.”
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Just what kind of broken, corrupt soul puts the terms library and disruption in the same sentence and thinks "hmm, that makes sense"...
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Growing Our SaaS to $1M+ ARR: 7 People, 3 Years, No VC Money
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5 million USD revenue: adplexity.comEnough to pay 3 fulltime engineers.100K yearly AWS expense.Running several scraps....scraping ads and listing them on site.Most developers don't know where the market demand is, so they don't make a lot of money.
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Chinese Tokamak reaches over 100M degrees
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How are these results more (or less) significant than the stellerator (Germany) achieved earlier this year?I thought the stellerator had already achieved 100M Kelvin?
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Show HN: Top PDFs Posted to Hacker News in 2018
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The SRE book was available as PDF till August 25, 2018 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17614907#17624523. I tried to find it but seems not be availble anywhere as PDF. I could only find Kindle (with limited anotation), at safaribooksonline (with even less anotation capabilities), at https://landing.google.com/sre/sre-book/toc/index.html or as print-on-demand.
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Ask HN: Is there any money in website design for small businesses anymore?
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I’m a small business owner, we have 2 take out restaurants and we use wix for the design and go straight to our square store for people order pick up from us. I know that there’re restaurants paying 20000$ for their website and apps a few years ago!
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Browse State-of-the-Art Machine Learning Papers with Code
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Are the datasets publicly or easily available as well?Also would be great to include papers with SOTA results on “tabular” Multivariate datasets, the kind that arise in numerous applications, e.g.
EHR/MHR, advertising, finance, etc. In other words, something like the UCI ML Repository datasets (which are mostly “small” but still would be great to know the SOTA models for those), and much larger versions of such datasets — I often see papers applying ML to tabular healthcare datasets but the datasets are often not available.
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AWS Drives More Than Half of Amazon's Operating Income
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Mackenzie Bezos now drives half of Jeff's income
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Paul Graham inspired the creation of Redis
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PG was also involved in the inception of Reddit: It was PG who gave Alexis and Steve the idea to make something like reddit, and also gave them the tagline "the front page of the internet".[0]
PG had vetoed their initial idea to create a food-delivery app and then called them back and asked them to come up with something new.
[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rZ8f3Bx6Po
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Tracking Phones, Google Is a Dragnet for the Police
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Something I never managed to fully confirm or deny:I manually disabled all the data collection on my Google account (search and location history).
Is Google still tracking my location? Would I still appear in that database?
I'm pretty much Google-free at this point except for some spam emails and the need for a google account for Android Play.
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Show HN: ZFS Implementation in Python
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This is all kinds of funny. I'm awash with awe and admiration.
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Practical Deep Learning for Coders
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Anyone have thoughts on the utility of the Intro to ML and Computational Linear Algebra courses? I've done Ng's ML course and was interested in the first of these as a more practice-oriented complement to it; the latter sounds interesting, but a bit more of an "elective" to me.
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From Design Patterns to Category Theory (2017)
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I would highly recommend this talk by Scott Wlaschin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srQt1NAHYC0
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Developer of Checkm8 explains why iDevice jailbreak exploit is a game changer
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If apple knew about this exploit (given the patched the boot ROM on the newer phones), will iPhones that ship after a certain date have this fixed?
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Three recent papers uncover the extent of tracking on TVs
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Does any of that studies look at Chromecast?
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Google, Xiaomi, and Huawei affected by zero-day flaw that unlocks root access
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AWESOME!Please, give me instruction to root my Xiaomi Ido until they fixed it! (updates on my phone disabled for a while)
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Bazel 1.0
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One thing that I like about bazel is the way it integrates test and build actions to the same action graph and behind the same CLI. Tests are then also hermetic and sandboxed, and can be cached (or executed) remotely.For example, you could configure your CI to push test results to a remote cache, and when developers check out a clean master, ”bazel test //...” against that cache will report all tests as pass without running anything.
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Launch HN: Got-it (YC W19) – Bluetooth labels for tracking things at work
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This is brilliant and I can see so many use-cases for this in particular across manufacturing, travel, transport and logistics in heavy asset maintenance organisations - very many organisations pay over the odds for such sensors that don't give this level of flexibility, cost and scale. Unsure if the product has a hardware platform interface for direct integration, however that would be great to plug into existing asset management systems.
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Mercurial’s journey to and reflections on Python 3
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For me this is the most exciting outcome:> The only Python 3 feature that Mercurial developers seem to almost universally get excited about is type annotations. We already have some people playing around with pytype using comment-based annotations and pytype has already caught a few bugs. We're eager to go all in on type annotations and uncover lots of dynamic typing bugs and poorly implemented APIs.Over in perl land people still spill their hate on types, which caused hard forks.
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Avatarify lets users run realtime deepfakes on live video calls
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I ran this on ubuntu 18.04. It took a little work to get around a small bug that will be squashed when the v412loopback library gets officially rebuilt but here is a solution
https://github.com/alievk/avatarify/issues/37#issuecomment-6...anyway, on a 4930k at 4.5 ghz i am seeing reasonable performance(~30fps) but minimal cuda utilization(titan pascal).
The biggest issue is that you need a well lit, stationary face for it to properly map features of the jpg you are using to substitute for your face. Also the jpg needs clearly identifiable features. Even then, the amount of facial expression is subdued (for example closing your eyes is not properly processed).I seem to recall software about 10 years ago where you drew line segments of corresponding features on 2 images and the jpg was then mapped onto the video. It was more accurate and expressive than this is but did require time to set up.
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JPMorgan’s small business loans instead went to its biggest customers
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Financial giants going to screw us all over, again? Who is really surprised here?
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Books I recommend to my software engineering students
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“ Note: This book does seem to overgeneralize and oversimplify complex situations, but there are still good points.” describes everything by Malcolm Gladwell.
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Surprising new feature in AMD Ryzen 3000
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It looks like there is a significant miss penalty for aliasing. Does anyone know if Rust's ownership rules would help avoid these penalties.
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All DuckDuckGo bang operators on one page
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Where are the torrent related bangs? Just silently deleted?
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YouTube Down
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socialblade seems to be broken now for all searches of channels not already in their database.
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Reveal.js: HTML presentation framework
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Have a look at my svelte hobby project for taking ONE Markdown file and compiling it into a full featured presentation (all client side) - no guarantees not to be broken or offline, there are lots of alternatives ;)http://mdprez.fynder.de/
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Watercooling a Canon R5 to enable unlimited 8K recording
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Is the dark magic pocket camera is actually internal perri cool? And many astro as well.
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Pass: The standard Unix password manager
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A well praised password manager that unfortunately will never be useful for the non-tech people, at least for me. I saw so many wonderful reviews, recommendations and reports about the simplicity of using it. And the level of excitement from the reviewers made me think I should try it as soon as possible. But with only basic-medium Linux skills I will never be able to install pass. I looked everywhere for step by step tutorials on how to run it, but there‘s always a „skipped“ step or a small „something“ that will lead me to failure (despite of spending hours in searching how to do this part). Unfortunately I had to give it up and started to use bitwarden.
Same with etesync - no way to use it, even the paid version with hosting on the developer‘s server gave me a hard time. I could never use it right: android, iphone or macos. So back to Apple‘s calendar or some other easy alternative.
Ah… :-(
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Show HN: I wrote a book about UI [pdf]
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This is fantastic! I love it, learnt a few things, the line height one was new to me. And I never thought about putting all the password rules with their state below a form. Thanks!One note, and I'm not sure this one is in - 'Don't rely on dots in gallery sliders'For the last image, left and right buttons on galleries, I prefer it so the left and right buttons are near each other somewhere (below the image on the right usually) so if you have to go left and right, there's not much distance to move the mouse. I'm not sure that's a major note though.
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Danish whistleblower details NSA collaboration, cable and data center spying (2020)
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Question: Is anyone really surprised about this? It's not the first time.https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jul/08/nsa-tapped-g... (2015)and Sweden also knows how to play this gamehttp://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7463333.stm (2008)
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Google removes its head of diversity after 2007 blog post surfaces
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That blog post is disgusting, and 2007 was not such a long time ago. There is no way one can be:- the head of diversity, i.e. THE LEADER pushing for justice and equality for minority groups,- while having an anti-Semitic inner-self, i.e. secretly advocating for the discrimination of a minority group.
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The James Webb Space Telescope has passed the final mission analysis review
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This is one of the most daring missions. In case of any malfunction there will be no chance of reparing. Everything has to go right
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Harbormaster: Anti-Kubernetes for your personal server
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I think that's the same idea as Ubuntu's snaps. A different implemention, of course. However, snaps are conceptual more secure. However there's rootless Docker now.inb4: Flatpak is not as powerful as snap. E.g., you can't use a different level with Flatpack.
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Extreme Ironing
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Had to have been started by an Englishman. English eccentricity is still alive and well!
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Moving Google toward the mainline
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is there a video of their talk, or slides? Seems to be behind a paywall on OSSNA site...
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An Algorithm for Passing Programming Interviews (2020)
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One thing that I have noticed that FAANG doesn’t do well is: help people with sleep issues.It’s not their job [0], but I do think there are some talented insomniacs that are great employees (given that they can mostly work on their own schedule, except for meetings). I remember that I interviewed for Facebook and I was so sleep deprived, I could barely write a for-loop. Ironically, I passed that interview but I couldn’t pass others that required some more creative thinking or more memorization.[0] While it is not their job, FAANG companies do mention that they are accommodating candidates with mental health issues, and I’d argue that insomnia (diagnosed or undiagnosed) should be one of them.
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Nothing like this will be built again (2002)
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"(Which isn't likely; in addition to the grid connection, there are four twelve megawatt diesel generator stations spaced around each corner of the plant -- each with two generators, any one of which is able to provide operating power to keep the reactor's safety systems working.)"I've heard that before, somewhere.
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Custom JavaScript controls can't capture the nuance of form fields (2021)
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Digikey changed their website last year and the specific nuance the article mentioned is not being implemented. Made my life a bit more miserable when purchasing electronics components.
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Open Golf: A cross-platform minigolf game written in C
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This is excellent. I had a similar (but not as well executed) game on an old Sony-Ericsson phone back in the day, and I spent way to much time playing it. Took me back. Thanks for sharing this!
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Is everything falling apart?
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Those of us who have been around for awhile haven't respected the Presidency for far longer than Obama, nor trusted the institutions of government to work on behalf of the American citizen. Further, what is now called the "deep state" has been an issue for many decades, previously referred to as the administrative state. I worked for a company shortly before I retired that employed full time lobbyists. They would arrange meetings with various members of Congress to discuss pending legislation. Not once, in ten years, did the actual member of Congress attend the teleconference, always staff and agency personnel. Big Tech has become a tool for elitists to control the narrative. It's not necessarily a conspiracy. It's an artifact of a laughable public education system and political malice. One need only look at the hyperbolic reaction of liberals to Elon Musk buying Twitter and promising to allow "free speech", something Twitter certainly doesn't allow today. Or the "ministry of truth" established by Mayorkas. Or more broadly, the so-called "social credit" systems. The United States has been moving in a fascist direction for decades, interrupted only briefly by outsiders such as Trump. Many of the positions of today's Republican Party more closely resemble the Democrats of the 60s when I was growing up. The views of today's "progressive" Democrat Party more closely align with Marx and other communists. It's been trending for decades and I see little reason for optimism.
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Ruby Shield: Shopify donates $1M to stewards of rubygems, bundler
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Kudos to Shopify! that's exemplary of what I think businesses that leveraged on Open-source should mimic. It's a gesture of gratitude and being appreciative. In addition, it keeps the lights on and motivates the community.
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Botspam apocalypse
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So you actually mentioned web3, but not the technology from it that is most interesting to me for this problem.I’m hopeful that “decentralized identity” is a solution here.In theory this would let people cryptographically prove whatever small fact about themselves they would like to share with a service provider like marginalia, without paying you, or sharing their identity, or anything else.Eg: “I am a human”, or “I have written less that 100k words on the Internet” or “my comments have an upvote average above zero”
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Raft Consensus Animated (2014)
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Thank You!
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“When are we going to use this in our everyday life?” (2017)
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I was at a talk featuring Richard Thaler a few years ago, and someone in the audience asked a question in a vein that runs through the comments here -- 'is it better to teach high school students stats or calc'?Thaler's response: I don't think it matters as people will forget either. For example, by show of hands, who here remembers anything of substance from their highschool chemistry class?I was mortified that only I and ~5 others raised their hands out of a very large group. (I picked up the ideal gas law and dimensional analysis from said chemistry class and have found the latter to be quite useful.)
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JC – JSONifies the output of many CLI tools
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While I can appreciate the immediate value this tool brings for some applications.At the same time it’s an epitome of everything that is wrong with current software landscape. Instead of fixing the deficiencies in upstream, once and for all, we just keep piling more and more layers on top.Programs having structural data and APIs inside, that get translated into human representation - only to be re-parsed again into structural form. What could possibly go wrong?If you are already in any programming environment, many of the tools already have better built in APIs. I mean who needs an “ls” or timestamp parser. Just use os.listdir or equivalent. As someone previously pointed out in this thread, the ls parser is in fact already broken, unsurprisingly. Mixing tools made for interactive use in automation is never a good idea.The Unix philosophy sounds romantic in theory, but need structural data, throughout, to work reliably in practice. Kids, go with the underlying apis unless your tool has structured output.
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Apple considering dropping requirement for iPhone web browsers to use WebKit
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"Apple considering [...]"You mean is being forced to, and is trying to find ways to avoid having to do that. Try "EU is considering making Apple [...]"
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YouTube Transcript – read YouTube videos
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Anything like that for podcasts? I cannot waste time by listening casual dialogues. Text reduced to point is much more effective.
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Copyright Registration Guidance: Works containing material generated by AI
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In addition to the new registration guidelines, the USCO announced a new AI initiative and series of public hearingshttps://copyright.gov/ai/
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Waymo and Uber partner to bring autonomous driving technology to Uber
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I'm delighted to read these news. Uber finally found someone to partner with/get bought by. They offered their complete self-driving department for sale more than two years ago (I was part of a group to assess the deal with a possible buyer).
I think Waymo also realized that Uber's self-driving devision is no competition to the big players. So I guess Waymo is mainly interested in their user base.
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TimeGPT-1
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Author could probably make more impact if you have open sourced their models, the way it is presented looks like ClosedAI sort of pathway. Meaning using papers as a way to advertise their model for developers.
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Steve Jobs Has Just Gone Mad
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Apple, who is primarily a computer hardware manufacturer, shouldn't be in the business of dictating what tools or languages software engineers use to create applications.
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Linus Torvalds: Pearls before swine
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The title reminded me of "The Fountainhead" quote. Or is it a common one?
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Clean Up Your Mess - A Guide to Visual Design for Everybody
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"If you're like most people, you feel like a baby when it comes to visual design. You sometimes have a vague sense of what you want, but can't articulate it or make it come about. All you can do is point and cry."
A very nice introduction!Thanks a lot. Brief, to the point, good examples to supplement the text, with pointers for further reference to good books as well. Love it.
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Startups Are Hard
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Super duper post, Chad. What you've done so remarkably in this post is you've captured "truth." Looking forward to one-upping you in comparing sad founder stories over beers.
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Don't Give Your Users Shit Work
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Twitter Lists may not be popular, for exactly the reasons you describe, but they're really useful for two purposes: if you follow a LOT of people (for whatever reason), you can use Twitter for 'people whose posts I actually want to read' and if you use it for news consumption, you can make lists for that. I use it especially for the latter; being someone who follows iOS jail breaking, 99% of the time, Twitter is the original source for all of the news related to that.
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You've Probably Read Enough
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Would this hold true for all "kinds-of" audience? People opting in for a career in research (for example) are asked to read & assimilate more than the norm. The trick though is to remember the good parts and the ability to recall the good parts. Your thoughts?
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Supreme Court rules 9-0 that warrant absolutely needed for police GPS tracking
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More interesting than the decision—in which Scalia so narrows the scope of the case (to whether attaching a device to a car constitutes a search) that it's pretty boring—are last November's oral arguments.[1a, 1b]In the oral arguments, there's considerable discussion about whether pervasive GPS or other technologically enabled surveillance in itself is constitutionally permitted. The discussion on this point makes for interesting listening/reading because everyone agrees that the police are permitted persistently to monitor someone over any indefinitely long period (in public, where there is no search) without a warrant. Would equivalent surveillance carried out not by human police officers but rather by technology be allowed? Even though the relevant technologies will soon be so cheap that the authorities would be able to monitor anyone (or everyone) in the country?Another interesting point brought up in the oral arguments is that the government owns your license plate, so placing a monitoring device on that, rather than the car itself, would not constitute a trespass and so may not constitute a search. Nothing in this decision refutes that logic, so the police may still be able to track you by GPS without a warrant so long as they put the transmitter on your license plate.1a. Transcript: Oral Argument - Supreme Court [PDF]1b. Audio: http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/302576-1 [Flash]
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Let my Wi-Fi go: FCC rules Verizon can't charge for Wi-Fi tethering
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I've just noticed on my iPhone 4S on Verizon I can enable personal hotspot and not get some warning about being charged anymore. But I very much doubt any changes have gone into effect this quickly.Some questions:Has anyone contacted Verizon Wireless to get official word if the free tethering has gone into effect?Has anyone gotten official word from Verizon Wireless if CDMA tethering will be free, also?Note: I am aware these are 700mhz restrictions. Note my use of "official word" above.
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Disqus bait and switch, now with ads
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Happened at a time when I was considering Disqus as my main comment system on my new (being built) blog. The main visual appeal of my weblog is going to be(at least that is what I want it to be) minimal and also engaging - as in discussion.Looks like I need to search for alternatives now. Maybe sth similar but installed on my servers that I can control, or some other paid option where the main business is handling their customers' reader comments and not advertisement. There might be some with clean and easy interface where a commenter does not have to go through much hassle.Having said that, Disqus being a free and non-charitable organization one should have seen this coming.
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Why Edward Snowden Is a Hero
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Maybe the definition of hero should be required to have more than one datapoint.
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Dropbox opening my docs?
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When you click on a .doc file in the Dropbox web interface, you get a preview of the file in PDF format. To do this, Dropbox must open and convert the file. LibreOffice is popular for this, as it can be run in a headless API mode, reads a wide range of files and can output PDF format. So this is what happens here.The wisdom of executing "active" content embedded in such files is of course doubtful and something Dropbox should investigate. But if you want your files to be safe, you should instead use a service that encrypts them client side, which has the downside of losing the web interface that Dropbox offers (as this requires it to be able to access the decrypted files in order to serve them to you).
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"Free-to-play" misleading advertising in Europe
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It just boils down to the EU preferring to protect it's citizens/consumers/public, whereas the US loves to protect it's companies/corporations/lobbyists.
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Dear Internet: Let’s Demo The Slow Lane
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A class action lawsuit is overdue against these internet providers over selling. I feel like I'm on a 128k ISDN most days, it's literally that slow. When you call in, they say, well, "Up to 3Mps" doesn't mean you will get it. ISPs are charging us by possible speeds, they need to deliver or discount when they can't. if you promise me about 10-15 widgets an hour for $50 and all you can consistently deliver for a month is 2-3 widgets. You should not demand $50.
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JavaScript as an alternative to AppleScript on OS X Yosemite
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The one thing I still like about AppleScript is the GUI scripting. I don't know of any other way to control the mouse position, clicking, and keyboard input using a programming language.One time I had to fill out a few thousand pdf files and print only select pages from them (like pages 2-4 and 14-22) for a client. I used applescripting because it was easy to write (took about half an hour) and worked consistently. Are there any other ways to do GUI scripting in OSX?
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Free, Worldwide, Encrypted Phone Calls for iPhone
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It's refreshing to see the rebrand (RedPhone -> Signal) links security with functionality, rather than with something dramatic/hide-worthy.When your tools are secure, they work for you and not the other way around.
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What Coke Contains (2013)
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This article reminds me strongly of a pivotal passage in the novel Gain, by Richard Powers (which I can't recommend highly enough, although it's a downer). In that passage he describes how a disposable film camera is made.
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JMAP – a better way to email
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I guess this tries to solve the same issue as microsoft active sync, just in a open specification way.
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Diagnostic page for Google.com
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http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=www.sourc..."Of the 10 pages we tested on the site over the past 90 days, 0 page(s) resulted in malicious software being downloaded and installed without user consent."What about bundleware fail?http://httpshaming.tumblr.com/post/95068402386/filezilla-sou...
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What Color Is Your Function?
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Relevant paper: http://www.info.ucl.ac.be/~pvr/VanRoyChapter.pdf
Especially p34+ regarding concurrency paradigms.
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NASA announces discovery of Earth-like planet with earth similarity index 0.98
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Briefing materials:http://www.nasa.gov/keplerbriefing0723(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9936612)
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Who Hacked Ashley Madison?
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Wow this is elegant. Well-written article and super engaging story. The tab on the screenshot is magical.
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Show HN: Jukedeck – create unique, royalty-free music for your videos using A.I.
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This is fantastic, could we get longer tracks? I want to use this for generating music in our corporate phone system, right now you get a randomly chosen ambient track, and this could let us provide unique music for anyone who has the [dis?]pleasure of being stuck in our phone system. Maybe even a "press * to listen to a new song" option.
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A free shipping mystery
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It's the same way BackBlaze makes money yet sells unlimited backup for $5/mo. If everyone had 1TB backups, it wouldn't work, just like it wouldn't work if Ali only sold 3 cent buttons.
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A Facebook Sixth Sense
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This is really interesting, and takes me back to a few months ago, when I tried to read the FB Newsfeed from the console.
I did it more crudely, but I lack the knowledge the OP has, especially seeing how to integrate with React.I had had an idea for a nice iOS app, which would in part rely on listing Facebook posts from your friends. I thought this would be easy enough, so I designed it before I prototyped, which is something I never do.Sure enough, when I had finished the design and finally got to prototyping, I realised that Facebook simply no longer allow access to the read_stream API endpoint, unless you get authorisation from them (seems like no one does). Info here: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/facebook-login/permissi...Fuelled by ingenuity, and because I had the design ready, I thought I'd try and simply load the user's news feed on a UIWebView, and read the data I need from elements in the DOM. I'm pretty sure this is against FB's ToS and wouldn't fly for long, but I kind of want to give it a go anyway.I got to a place where I proved it works, but not always reliably and it's certainly hacky.If you want to give it a go, load up https://m.facebook.com on your favourite browser, and then copy/paste + run the JS code in this jsFiddle (https://jsfiddle.net/Letwernb/), to your console.It'll list whatever posts it finds on your feed, and give you some info on them. I believe at the moment I'm skipping ads and not so relevant posts, such as "friend shared a link".I've also got a bit of code that lets me load more posts, until I've reached the 20 I need to display in the app. This is hackier still.I've got some challenges though. Like I said, it's hacky and relies on FB not changing certain class names, and because the date for each post comes as a string ("2 hours ago"), I need to find a way to convert that back to a timestamp so I can re-order the posts.Maybe there's an easier way to do what I was trying to, using a similar approach as the one described in this article?
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Basic income plan clearly rejected by Swiss voters
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This was a proposal long on rhetoric and short on concrete action steps. Future referendums that are more substantive may be treated differently by voters.
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FDA Orders Antibacterials Removed from Consumer Soaps
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can we get rid of all the dispensers popping up at work places, grocery stores, and more?
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Why are browsers so slow?
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Why for view HTML/1.0 1990 specification (https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1945) modern browser needs about:config 3000 variables for show it?Too many modules in this "Bot Machine".
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'Tooth repair drug' may replace fillings
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It sounds like they're sticking something in a small cavity and covering it. Like a filling. Minus the drilling.
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Noiszy – A Chrome plugin that creates meaningless web tracking data
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How about a plugin that routes any request to a sdserver thru Tor?That would really screw up things for any location tracking.
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ZeroNet – Uncensorable websites using Bitcoin crypto and BitTorrent network
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This project is cool, but I'm more interested in future releases by the Askasha project.
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How I didn't become a SoundClouder
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The OP should be happy. He may have dodged a bullet on work environment. Shady is as shady does.
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Why Good People Leave Large Tech Companies
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Ah the tail wagging the dog again sounds like facilities and I suspect hr have got to much power.I know that the CEO when facilities where pushing for people to move to some industrial estate near Heathrow with zero pubic transport links "word class Telco's don't have a head office in a F%^king shed at Heathrow"
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SoundCloud's Collapse
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SoundCloud problem was that it tried to chase and copy competitors instead of being unique--but it has truly unique user experience which it completely ignores (probably need to write about it a blogpost). By following competition you don't win. You don't get a leadership position. You just lose slower.As a result, SoundCloud faced a notorious problem of wholesale transfer pricing [1] power. And it didn't have enough money to win or even participate in that battle.[1] Wholesale transfer pricing = the bargaining power of company A that supplies a unique product XYZ to Company B which may enable company A to take the profits of company B by increasing the wholesale price of XYZ.
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Eager to Burst His Own Bubble, a Techie Made Apps to Randomize His Life
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I don't like NPR's attitude of conflating social anxiety of meeting a random bunch of people and whether they're going to accept you with racial issues.This makes me like them significantly less.
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The Interface font family
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Nice. Honestly, it reminded me of Apple's San Francisco more than Roboto o_0
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AT&T wants you to forget that it blocked FaceTime over cellular in 2012
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I remember. The ENTIRE Deaf community remembers.
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Patreon’s new service fee spurs concern that creators will lose patrons
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It's actually not about new fees. They are adjusting fees in a funny way, but it's all about trying to make their freemium assumptions work. Most creators are using Patreon to enable a partly-gratis partly-paywalled business model. None of this would have come about if it were just about donating to creators you like.https://wiki.snowdrift.coop/market-research/other-crowdfundi...
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Show HN: Sapper.js – towards a better web app framework
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Why dont you guys use laravel when you need better SEO and server side rendering? It is fast, easy to learn, easy to deploy, etc.
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What Did Ada Lovelace’s Program Actually Do?
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There is a very lucid graphical explanation of the hardware of the difference and analytical engines functions in a lengthy appendix to The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage. I really love this book and I can't recommend it enough. I wish it were adapted into animation! It is historical fantasy of the highest calibre.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thrilling_Adventures_of_Lo...
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Amazon private label brands are quietly taking over Amazon.com
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Reading so many "frustrated shopper" posts is... frustrating.• Search problems?Also use Google to search Amazon. And clicking through to similar products in Amazon's comparison section is one of the best ways to find things. Of course don't ONLY search Amazon...or any other online vendor. I've listed some extensions that do a lot of heavy lifting. Yes, manipulating placement in search result is sub-optimal for the end user, but with some browser extensions and an overall strategy, Amazon will always have a place in my overall search strategy.• Quality problems?Install the Fakespot Chrome browser extension. Avoid products with few reviews initially. Read the 1-star reviews to see if there's a problem you can live with (e.g. complex installation). And Amazon is NOT right for some kinds of products.• Price?Check WalMart and local stores online first. Many stores make in-store pickup painless, e.g. Home Depots lobby lockers. Enter code, grab your stuff and go.Install the WikiBuy and official Amazon Chrome extension. WikiBuy often shows you the same product cheaper on eBay, and Amazon will sometimes give you a coupon if you follow it's link back to Amazon it when you are shopping elsewhere (e.g. Walmart).I like to always look for a used fulfilled by Amazon product. There is often no significant issue, and small issues can be overlooked. But even if you get a backwards or missing part the return is pretty painless.For simple stuff, of course check AliExpress and Ebay first.• Overall experience?Amazon should not of course be relied for everything, by anyone, ever. Microcenter (as several have pointed out) is currently great and reliable for computer parts.• Shipping speed?Yeah, don't trust the two-day shipping. But the (sometimes) free one-day shipping option is awesome. And complain from time-to-time and get discounts on your Prime. Sure, some people are dropped for complaining too much, which really sucks. But it's pretty rare.
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5G Got me Fired
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I _really_ wish posts to Medium would indicate if its a story that hits agains the Preview Member stories.
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China Telecom's Internet Traffic Misdirection
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Hanlon's razor has been raised on NANOG.
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New York governor orders probe into Facebook access to data from other apps
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Is there some sort of a security site which rates android apps by their level of respecting privacy, something above and beyond the quality gates of the play store?
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Show HN: I wrote a book about WebAssembly
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I do not have time to read it now but for sure I will buy it. It looks good, well done!
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Ripgrep 11 Released
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Here I thought I was hip using ag, the announcement blog post linked in this thread is fascinating and thorough, looks like it's time for me to try out rg.
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Geoff Ralston taking over as President of YC
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Congrats Geoff! Your advice and the empathy associated with it has been very helpful as we evolved out of YC. Glad to know the future batches will continue to be in great hands :)
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GitHub is down
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3 hours later still down. That's a pretty long outage by most standards. Ouch.
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AI startup claims to automate app making but actually just uses humans
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The automation they described sounds like automation of part of project management. why they are not selling that? :-D
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Job loss predictions over rising minimum wages haven't come true
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This is leftist propaganda. Increasing minimum wage pushes more people into poverty. The majority of people in poverty vote left.Why does increasing minimum wage push more people in poverty?Because an increase in expenses does not guarantee an increase in revenue. If your expenses increase while your revenues remain stagnant, you have to decrease your expenses in order to stay cash flow positive. To compensate, you decrease the number of hours employees receive. Less hours translate into less employees required. When the people who are earning minimum wage can't find a job because of the lack of hours available or can't receive enough hours from their employer, they are falling into poverty.
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49% of workers, forced to change passwords, reuse same one with minor change
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Reminds me of the first job of my career.We had a 30-day password reset policy enforced by Active Directory group policy. I couldn't have told you what rules were required to get the system to accept the password, but it well beyond the default/typical AD policy[0]. To "enhance security", ours included a requirement that none of the prior 10-or-so passwords could be used, had a 12-character minimum[1] which IIRC, required also setting the "Store passwords using reversible encryption[2]". We allowed 30 bad logins, but a good login had to occur before lock-out or it required tech staff intervention.We would have been better off having a non-resetting password policy with a reasonable minimum length. For the first 9 months of my career, I was top-tier end-user support[3]. It took about 2-months before I stopped asking people for passwords. 95% of the time, the password was "MonthNameYearNumber!!!!" with bangs filling in the rest, i.e. "March19991!!!!!!!!", or some variation. However, the frequency with which it was exactly that pattern was amazing. So that gave me 12 tries to get a password. I rarely locked out an account.As is usually the case ... there's a law of unintended consequences. People will seek to reduce the friction to getting their job done and aren't great at assessing risk. In addition, the risk to an individual password is low. Even the result of a successful breach of a user's password is often not devastating to the individual who was attacked when that password is a LAN login (chances are you're not storing your own personal financial information on your work PC).One of the odder unintended consequences -- figuring out the appropritae incantation to generate an acceptable password for the system was ... way more difficult than it should have been. I'm fairly certain one of our security tools was just broken. We had something that applied far more strict rules about password history than what AD could enforce, looking specifically for people using patterns, along with some other odd ones, like "you cannot repeat the same character", so "umbreLLa" was rejected. They, literally, reduced the number of possible passwords that a brute-force attack would require.There was an interesting bug there -- we discovered that after the account was created, if only one password was in the password history, it would pretty much refuse to allow any password that didn't contain half of the characters, in the same place, as the prior password. Then, future required password resets would refuse all passwords that were similar to the previously rejected ones which were used on that account. However, if you used one of those rejected passwords on an account that hadn't had them rejected on that first reset, they would be allowed for that user.I'm guessing they reversed a boolean somewhere (no similar past passwords) and that the security software stored a history of rejected passwords for future validation (no idea why this would be done, but then, no idea why it'd be illegal to duplicate characters), but security ditched all of those products when AD was upgraded and the tools stopped working. I know one of the reasons for the odd password rules were that we synced passwords to the Mainframe accounts, and they had a set of nonsensical rules that were very similar.[0] If memory serves, default was 10 bad passwords before 1 hour lock-out, password had to have at least one number, one lower-case and one upper-case letter with an 8-character maximum and 90-day reset.[1] I believe there's a study or two that indicates somewhere around 7-10 is typical for what a person can memorize easily. I've always wondered why. In my childhood, memorizing a 7-digit or 10-digit phone number for several people was something everyone did, so it's arguable that people my age have that ability out of necessity. I wonder what would be found if that were re-done, today, with people who are too young to remember days before speed-dial. Maybe it has been: https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/brain-memory-magic-number/...[2] This sounds horrifying when thinking about passwords in today's terms, but storing as a password hash resulted in storing a Lan Manager Password hash which is very low quality (fairly certain this is moderately improved in later versions of AD but is still able to be enabled).[3] I remember joking that we were helpdesk staff without phones; our "ticket system" was voicemail/e-mail. Basically, if the helpdesk couldn't solve it over the phone, we arrived at a cubicle, often with a screw-driver.edit: bumped tab and accidentally hit "enter" for a newline ... submitting before I was done :(
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Students defeat new 'Barnacle' parking clamp, skip fines and get free internet
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Normally I would think “break the rules, pay the fines” but I am sympathetic in this case. When I was in college I had to put my bicycle in the back of my truck and park about two miles away from campus because there was literally never valid parking on campus and the school was doing next to nothing to fix the problem.
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