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burgerbrainon Show HN: Using a color pattern to let a user 'recognise' their password

My comment is in response to the discussion about this:

"Of course, my preferred solution to this problem is to allow the user to toggle the password field, so that they can view the unobscured text if they wish"

I am assuming that if the password field is being toggled, that it is not actually a password field but rather a regular text field with some javascript stuff messing around to hide the text. That would probably function just like a username field. I'm not really a web developer though, so it is possible my analysis isn't correct.

burgerbrainon Show HN: Using a color pattern to let a user 'recognise' their password

In case anybody is wondering about robot hashing: http://robohash.org/

burgerbrainon Show HN: Using a color pattern to let a user 'recognise' their password

What if you hit the back button until their browser goes back to the login page, likely with the form still filled out?

burgerbrainon Show HN: Using a color pattern to let a user 'recognise' their password

I think a better solution would be to only show the colour hash after there hasn't been a keypress in a few seconds. This would likely be a pretty good way of making sure you only displayed the hash after they were done typing their password, which would prevent enabling a brute force attack.

burgerbrainon Congressman demands details of secretive ACTA treaty be made public

The primary issue, not the primary use of birth control. Though I suspect you would be surprised by a breakdown.

"However, the "other conditions" case IS covered, and this wasn't about that."

Depending on the organisation, it often times it is not. That is why the issue has been in the news so much recently.

burgerbrainon Dwolla Being Sued by Bitcoiners for $2 Million

And that is a good thing. I want both systems.

burgerbrainon Cursor:none abuse (trick users into clicking Facebook 'like')

That more straightforward approach also avoids an unexpected downside of this approach. I never really noticed it before, but my mouse icon is black instead of the apparently usual white. My mouse suddenly turning white on that page makes it pretty clear what is going on.

burgerbrainon Congressman demands details of secretive ACTA treaty be made public

Condoms are almost completely irrelevant. A primary issue is women being prescribed contraceptives for medical conditions other than preventing pregnancy. Contraceptives like "the pill" contain powerful and varying hormone cocktails which have numerous uses. Different brands/types contain different cocktails at different doses, meaning that the situation is not as simple as "just get the cheap one". The particular one that works for that use is prescribed, which most certainly can be 1000USD/year.

burgerbrainon Uncle Sam: If It Ends in .Com, It’s .Seizable

"having a betting shop in Canada, but the only entrance is via an underground tunnel whose entrance is in the US."

Did Bodog only allow US residents to use their website? That seems highly unusual.

burgerbrainon OpenSSL’s tools don’t support IPv6, patches unmerged without reason for 5 years

If you add two ' '(space) characters in front of a line, HN will stop "formatting" your text.

burgerbrainon Numbers API - An API for interesting facts about numbers

219

Edit: on the other hand, in the math category "219 is the smallest number that can be represented as a sum of four positive cubes in two different ways."

burgerbrainon A single tweet page is 2.0 MB

http://samsaffron.com/archive/2012/02/17/stop-paying-your-jq...

Apparently Stack Overflow sees similar numbers.

burgerbrainon Ask HN: Why PHP over Java?

I'm not sure I would describe either PHP or Java as for "hard core" programmers.

As far as I am concerned PHP is used by self-taught teenagers in the early 00's, while Java is as you mention popular in "enterprise".

"Enterprise" you should probably be aware is generally not considered to be praise.

burgerbrainon Mercedes uses LEDs and a Camera to make "invisible car" for marketing

You certainly can make cars with close to zero emissions. Solar energy via bio-fuel is one way, though there are some energy inputs required to make the fuel. A steam powered car that burns wood could possibly be more efficient in that sense however.

burgerbrainon A Lawyer/Photographer Just Deleted All Her Pinterest Boards Out Of Fear

If they want to waste that much money to learn that I only use public wifi, more power to them.

burgerbrainon A Lawyer/Photographer Just Deleted All Her Pinterest Boards Out Of Fear

Yeah, that section bothered me to.

To be blunt, I have to wonder if this 'lawyer/photographer' is not a 'concern troll' (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll_%28Internet%29#Concern_tr...)

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Has Apple not mastered the oh so tricky technology of "two harddrives inside of one computer" then?

burgerbrainon A violently true depiction of what war really is

The Turing Test's disturbing twin.

burgerbrainon A violently true depiction of what war really is

If you want to be sufficiently pedantic, then nothing is for nothing. Equal and opposite reaction and all...

burgerbrainon A violently true depiction of what war really is

Quite frankly that is the same line that AA uses, and it isn't any more accurate here.

burgerbrainon A violently true depiction of what war really is

So?

burgerbrainon A violently true depiction of what war really is

Hmm. As I read the article, it seemed like the author was alternating between suggesting that experience was what turned people that way ("he was the FNG [ed: fucking new guy] that got blown up because he was incompetent, who left the fight before it turned him into one of us."), and suggesting that there is something else at play ("only roughly 20% of combat troops ever get PTSD – when if you think about it, it should affect everyone that ever sees combat."). I read it as him carefully suggesting that the career self-selects for sociopathic tendencies.

burgerbrainon How to drive your users up a wall by being nice (HN Search)

To be fair, I don't know if this is HN Search's fault, or the fault of some of their underlying technology. It's been driving me absolutely crazy though.

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I believe most of his "quotes" are markov chain output (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markov_chain) or somehow otherwise automatically generated. It seems he thinks randomness provides a communication channel, something like if he generates messages while incorporating randomness then god can influence the output and encode messages for him.

That's just the impression I have gotten though.

burgerbrainon Linus Torvalds on C++

Live is too short to justify not having a little chuckle at the expense of your detractors.

burgerbrainon Linus Torvalds on C++

"It does make me wonder though how he's able to get away with responses like that"

The man delivers.

burgerbrainon Vimbits: submit and vote on .vimrc tricks

I'm beginning to think he's either high, or a markov chain...

burgerbrainon Useful use of cat(1)

In case you missed it, "tac" is literally the reverse of "cat". As in "cat".reverse() or something.

burgerbrainon Useful use of cat(1)

Of course if you want colours, you can often force programs to use them anyway. For example, I use the alias:

  alias new='ls -lthr --color=always | tail'

Normally ls will not use colours when writing to a pipe (not a tty).

burgerbrainon US Appeals Court: Forced Decryption Is Self-Incrimination

I imagine it's probably possible. The trick with flash drives though I think is the size. You could easily swallow a micro sd card without anyone even noticing.