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Long story short, we are creating a project for a startup weekend (mostly for fun) that allows project owners to place rewards for feature commits on GitHub. Obviously, the develop…

[This is not a complaint or negative in any way] A couple of us at the office have been noticing this and wonder if it's just our connection or HN.

You also just added nothing to the discussion. Congratulations.

> I'm suspicious of anyone who spends their time critiquing others' work so harshly instead of innovating on their own. How in any way is that 'positive'? Also, read the OP's origi…

You clearly don't understand the importance of TDD like many others (count the downvotes). If you cannot stay with the curve because of your lack of knowledge, maybe you should spe…

this is exploitable both ways. humans will always be able to outsmart themselves.

Another good way store passwords is to memorize a simple algorithm based on the topic of your password. Example: - last 3 letters - a static symbol (let's use %) - @ if it's online…

This could affect Facebook in a negative way. Think about big sites that get spammed with tons of fake email user accounts. Making Facebook registration the only option, these spam…

I was online last night, this thread saged pretty fast actually. Just grabbing stuff to write about off /b/.

The new Ford Mustangs have a kit you can install that does just that. I thought about this a few years back and want it so bad!

Truth. If we vote trustworthy people into government, there is no need for transparency.

No way does Facebook even acknowledge this. Bottom line: Facebook is worth $x per user. If you have 4 accounts, you are 4 people as far as they are concerned ;)

no it's not.

Yep. I was raised in a religious school and the most fascinating topic we ever touched was when a law is morally and contextually 'ok' to break.

Indeed, as I remember setting some payment stuff up at my parents business a while back-- you can get a gateway setup that uses their web interface to process transactions. That wa…

This is a weird subject because it is totally dual sided. 1) It promotes freedom of speech and taking action as a community to promote change. 2) It is completely illegal which goe…

A co-worker Engineer just went down to get frozen yogurt. They couldn't process his card. Apparently they route transactions through their domain DNS? Suddenly corporate powers don…

It depends on the context; if you offered me 1 penny or 2 pennies, I really wouldn't care. (even though it's a 100% difference)

modafinil = sleep hax.

Actually brute forcing is exactly what he is going. But grabbing people's password hashes isn't really 'easy' w/ a well designed system.

For anyone that wants to try this out, here is the 'german guy's post on the matter: http://stacksmashing.net/2010/11/15/cracking-in-the-cloud-am...