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1711.
by carbocation 13y ago
Hmm, unfortunately I think Symfony2 runs passwords through 1 round of SHA1 unless a custom password "encoder" is used [1]. [1] = http://symfony.com/doc/2.0/book/security.html#encoding-the-u...
1712.
by carbocation 13y ago
Bingo. I'm sure there are some HNers with arpanet emails who would appreciate this; it's not just about ipv6!
1713.
by carbocation 13y ago
Quite a few HNers have probably experienced lossy connections such as Amtrak or busy coffee shops. I would think that those high-loss situations would feel somewhat like a high latency experience.
1714.
by carbocation 13y ago
It's not irrational. Is your goal wealth maximization? If so, you might understand that you're now getting an extra $50/mo for food purposes, but now you feel like you should hold it and not spend it. Is your goal to suck down some minor pl
1715.
by carbocation 13y ago
> Know there is much more to a meaningful life than health Nicely said. There seems to be a pervasive notion among my classmates (yours too, I bet) that health is the most important value. I think people should and do decide which thing
1716.
by carbocation 13y ago
Eclipse (not currently an option in the poll except as "other gui")
1717.
by carbocation 13y ago
Numerically, these are not comparable. > There were 478 initial applications made for fashion models in 2010 ... U.S. ... approved 250 ... > 325,000 H-1B petitions were filed for computer-related occupations ... about 90,800 visas w
1718.
by carbocation 13y ago
Assuming this is true, does the 1.1 billion in cash tell us that this is purely about the property and not in any way about the team, or is that over-reading / misreading the tea leaves?
1719.
by carbocation 13y ago
Why not run a kickstarter type thing and do this sooner, as a for-profit?
1720.
by carbocation 13y ago
People say that about chemo today. However, until better things come about (targeted therapies are flowing now thanks to genetic and molecular biological advances), chemo remains an option for palliation, and rarely for cure.
1721.
by carbocation 13y ago
In the past 6 hourse, the price of a bitcoin in USD on MtGox went from a (previously stable) ~$119 to $105.
1722.
by carbocation 13y ago
Seizure Robots ( BEWARE : rapidly alternating / painful): http://wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#4,3,3,1,1,1,1,2,1,1,3... Ice 9: http://wry.me/hacking/Turing-Drawings/#5,4,3,3,3,3,2,2,1,2,0...
1723.
by carbocation 13y ago
There's a pretty large literature on the topic. I'm going for a run but would encourage you to check out 'disease stigma' (not stigmata, which would yield a different set of results!) on your favorite search engine.
1724.
by carbocation 13y ago
Yes, it's a nice UI decision. I'm surprised by the business decision. My feeling is that there is often value in collecting information on people without the condition (negative data), should those people somehow feel compelled to participa
1725.
by carbocation 13y ago
> It seems in principle to be no more or less dangerous than something like "apt-get install libcairo-dev ; make" but that would only be true if there was a trusted repository system. Not that this is really a response one way or anothe
1726.
by carbocation 13y ago
Go pulls down remote repos/libraries locally. If the original developer has any sort of backup of his system from the time the game was working, he will have all of the working code. If the original developer does not have that but at least
1727.
by carbocation 13y ago
Generally, I appreciate it when people with a condition or a risk factor speak out. I look forward to a day when diseases of all kinds are de-stigmatized, and each voice helps. Curiously, I went to fill out the survey linked from Larry's po
1728.
by carbocation 13y ago
Why is this posted here? Is it interesting because it's a former Microsoft exec? Is it interesting because people don't know that this claim is false? Is it interesting for some other reason?
1729.
by carbocation 13y ago
There is a pretty strong causal link between being overweight and diabetes. There is a strong causal link between over-consumption and being overweight. Wheat just happens to be a common source of very simple carbohydrates (in the American
1730.
by carbocation 13y ago
Bingo. The first time I saw this at my local Home Depot, I sent a photo of the rental trucks to my brother. He now drives a 2-door car. * (Well, he drove one then, too. But we were stressed about how to move large items in a pinch, and this
1731.
by carbocation 13y ago
There is always some amount of money that is worth the trouble. Now, it may be some amount of money that cannot be paid by any entity aside from governments, Exxon, Apple, and a few others, but it is some amount of money nonetheless.
1732.
by carbocation 13y ago
> Whatever I create or modify is my right to distribute as I see fit, regardless of what I created. Period. There's an absolute for you. This is a silly thing to say. Especially in a thread about weapons. Especially to say so in an "abs
1733.
by carbocation 13y ago
I didn't see any sarcasm in pkulak's comment. I read it as saying, "The Star Wars kid is doing great; I wonder if the person who meanly posted the video is achieving anywhere near his level of success?" Edit: Your comment should not be so
1734.
by carbocation 13y ago
Probably some mixture of [1] and [2]. [1] = http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19 [2] = They probably, at the end of the day, are not sincere. Instead, they are probably wordvomiting the pithiest, meanest thing they can think of in
1735.
by carbocation 13y ago
See also [1] for a case caused by the hard drive of a laptop. Fundamentally, this is a consequence of the decision of manufacturers such as Medtronic to use a magnetic field to temporarily disable implantable cardioverters/defibrillators. N
1736.
by carbocation 13y ago
> " Walter Chien, a cardiac electrophysiologist, helped his daughter coordinate the patient testing. " Maybe this is why she didn't win first place? At any rate, if this finding holds up, this is a serious problem. Edit : "the project
1737.
by carbocation 13y ago
I did as well, and I found Grellas and his team to be fantastic to work with. I probably owe it to him to submit a more thoughtful, in-depth write-up.
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Go 1.1 Release Candidate 3 is released(groups.google.com)
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by carbocation 13y ago
> I'm curious, what the answers to the comparisons you mentioned would make you conclude positively in WordPress's favor? My goal in disqualifying myself at the beginning of my post was to make it clear that, although I find the article
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by carbocation 13y ago
Fundamentally, "X is secure" has no meaning (to me, a non-expert in any security field). If it's a term of art, so be it, but make it clear you're using it as a term of art. In the absence of that, I think "X is secure" only makes sense in

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