CharlesMerriam2

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Comment · 4 years ago
I'm sorry. Could you include a bit less information so we could speculate more wildly?
Comment · 4 years ago
And so it is as clear as is the Summer's sun.
Comment · 5 years ago
Feed the maw that is a contract law justice system project.
Comment · 5 years ago
I do wish there were a "this is what it actually is" comment.
Comment · 5 years ago
This can be a useful idea, requiring a checkbox on password managers, e.g., "[ ] Pause for additional input".

No one ever answers how often security breaks are from: passwords being guessed, brute forced, or shared; client side compromise from malware, keyloggers, and first-hop IP session takeover; or server side compromise from poor custom code and poor infrastructure choices. Anecdotally, the chart leans to the server side security breaches.

In the absence of knowledge, we get two security talks repeated over and over. This is the first: do a better job with passwords. The second is "You are irrovacably insecure because of [some issue], but update your passwords regularly."

Security has not developed a reputation for being a craft or science.

Comment · 5 years ago
Bill Gates has a podcast recently talking about this: https://www.gatesnotes.com/Podcast/Is-it-too-late-to-stop-cl...

Also, the book "Ministry For The Future" is an SF take pulling together ideas people have on climate change. The actual prose may make you throw the book at the wall.

You can, if you wish, push information forward. For example, having free interfaces to solar panels, cheap sun following controls, software to control car charging for cheap times, software to use a car as a 'peak load' battery, data modelling to show Hawaii why tourism is better with only electrics, software to create micro cargo ships with solar power, cleaning up the automated kite power generators that were open sourced, and the like.

You have more power than you expect.

Comment · 6 years ago
Why are landing pages so incredibly uninformative?

In practice, I spend under two minutes to click around and see if can 'get' it. What does it do especially well? What's the syntax look like? If you are brave, what doesn't work well?

No idea why this exists or why I would use it. Bad website. No cookie.

Comment · 6 years ago
Hmmm....

Someone more passionate about open source usage could put up a brag site where products using open source and profiles of the authors of the open source are tracked. It would be of some benefit to the authors.

Comment · 6 years ago
Hey! Not done! Won't hit commits! Awesome to know!
Comment · 6 years ago
I wonder what this is? My very first impression is a standard boot screen. No details. No screenshots. No idea what makes it special outside of "it works". On the first click, it wants access to my calendar.

No. Mine.

This is flirting. Show me why I should be interested before I bare my soul.

Comment · 6 years ago
Stories need to be good, and that's a problem. Right now, the HN community is voting up more "pop science" to drive people to paywalls. I don't know if its a troll farm or a side revenue, but the number of nytimes.com, businessinsider.com, etc. stories keeps rising.
Comment · 6 years ago
Everyone's a critic. Not all changes are one hundred percent good, but just saying "no. stop." isn't the correct answer.
Comment · 6 years ago
This might be a good story, but the github ReadMe manages not to say what the package does, why its unique, or why its cool. I'm sure it says something much later in the manual.
Comment · 6 years ago
Nice start.

1. Make a single button for common sentences, e.g., "8 characters with one or more digits and one or more punctuation."

2. Grab your vocabulary from a selected corpus, e.g., StarWars, Shakespeare, Victorian Romance, Software Buzzwords.

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