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A basic implementation here: http://webpass.rkeene.org/

A couple of difficulties your writeup doesn't cover:

* password expiry/rotation - webpass uses the "sequence number" for this, and sequence numbers can be saved in localStorage or shared online through another channel

* policies. The "Site" dropdown references a json structure which can specify min/max lengths, character type rules etc

The implementation is pretty simple, but that's kinda the point :).

Is any of that really less the case with NoSQL?

Very interesting - thanks. I hadn't sought to delve into the combination of ASD and trip reports, perhaps under the assumption that my experience was somehow typical (haha - that phrase seems familiar). It still strikes me as something very easy to mis-diagnose under the influence, but you've shown me that there may be something there.

> I wish the light bulbs we already found were legal

Are you hinting at psychedelics? I'm familiar with their documented ability to open up different kinds of doors, but not this particular one. Colour me skeptical.

The sort of post-TMS emotional hypersensitivity he describes is "normal"? On one hand I wonder if I'm further on the spectrum than imagined and should seek help ... on the other, being overwhelmed by other folks' emotional state sounds crippling.

Came here to complain about the HN title which tells me nothing about why I might care to read the OP.

Noticed the domain, now glad to know.

The title could do with a fixup though - my RSS reader doesn't show the target domain.

A little disappointing to see the links to his favourite paper going to paywalls. Here are arxiv/free links:

39 page JFP version:

http://arxiv.org/pdf/1107.3539v1.pdf

12 pager from ICFP:

http://arxiv.org/pdf/1007.4446.pdf

8 page CACM highlight:

http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/dvanhorn/pubs/vanhorn-might-cacm...

The elephant in the room here is Javascript. No other scripting language has been so bloody awful in the past that a five-line module that saves you typing `array.prototype.forEach.call` or something that papers over the language's awful idea of equality comparison with three functions has been "useful" or "more than five minutes coding without references".

Granted, these modules don't do such useful things, but that's the environment their creators were immersed in.

The following RFC which sketches out a system for registration of markdown variants is much more interesting:

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7764

Maybe, eventually, I'll be able to open a markdown textarea on a new website and be able to predict what markup will actually work!

Heh, I saw the scrollbar but it broke my brain a bit to see a button in the middle of the page that wasn't going to make it scroll.

cf: http://adventurega.me/bootstrap/

> endemic lack of resources.

Funny, the number of "labs" projects mozilla undertakes and eventually abandons doesn't suggest such a thing.

Huh, yesterday's submission of the same thing got no attention at all:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11125050

Transcribing my comment from there:

I really want to see some papers, models or simulations to illustrate some of these effects - starting with the gravitational influence of ice sheets on sea level. This shouldn't be a difficult thing to illustrate numerically, but wow it would have a big impact on how (at least I) perceive the ice sheets.

So far, I haven't been able to dig anything up - there's some prose at [1] but nothing hard. A poster at [2]. Mitrovica's website [3] doesn't seem to have anything. It's late, so I'll have to postpone the search for now, but here's hoping other readers can help me :-).

[1]: http://sealevelstudy.org/sea-change-science/whats-in-a-numbe...

[2]: http://geo.orst.edu/files/geo/Mitrovica-2009-Science.pdf

[3]: http://environment.harvard.edu/about/faculty/jerry-x-mitrovi...

I can't find a reference now, but apparently the first "self-service" store in Australia was the original Coles Variety Store in Smith St, Melbourne, opened in 1914.

[1] http://collections.museumvictoria.com.au/articles/1901

Today, Coles is one of the big two supermarket "duopoly" and "self-service" refers to those robotic checkouts that are actually slower and more infuriating than being assisted at the counter to ring-up your purchase. Interestingly, the structure of checkouts now suggests that less shoppers use trolleys than I seem to recall from a few decades ago.

Another piece of trivia: I don't think I've ever seen a plastic trolley in Australia.

I really want to see some papers, models or simulations to illustrate some of these effects - starting with the gravitational influence of ice sheets on sea level. This shouldn't be a difficult thing to illustrate numerically, but wow it would have a big impact on how (at least I) perceive the ice sheets.

So far, I haven't been able to dig anything up - there's some prose at [1] but nothing hard. A poster at [2]. Mitrovica's website [3] doesn't seem to have anything. It's late, so I'll have to postpone the search for now, but here's hoping other readers can help me :-).

[1]: http://sealevelstudy.org/sea-change-science/whats-in-a-numbe...

[2]: http://geo.orst.edu/files/geo/Mitrovica-2009-Science.pdf

[3]: http://environment.harvard.edu/about/faculty/jerry-x-mitrovi...

I find `not in` highly dubious - it makes the expression grammar awkward and harder to parse. Is `not in` a two-token operator? Or is `not` an adverb in this context? What else resembles this?

To cite an alternatice, in Tcl, `in` is an operator and its negation is `ni`. A cute pun and echo of Monty Python that I'm disappointed Python didn't follow :).

Container deposit schemes are getting some discussion in the comments, so it seems an apt time to mention their history in Australia [1]. SA has had the scheme since '77, and the NT managed to introduce it - then reintroduce it - just in 2013. No other state presently has such a scheme.

The most disturbing part is what happened in NT. The proposed scheme - which had massive community support - was challenged by beverage manufacturers - Coca Cola, Schweppes and Lion - based on some very dubious claims about it being an expensive and ineffective way to recycle.

In other states it has been a political football: parties support the idea when campaigning, then promptly forget about it once in government. The paranoid part of my brain wonders about behind-the-scenes influence of donors on this pattern.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Container_deposit_legislation_...

As a side point, in Asia I'm used to experiencing that a beverage bought in a platic bottle must be consumed on premises, so the bottle can be immediately put in a container for collection. That's a lot more satisfying than having to look for a bin because I got thirsty.

You are asking the interesting question. I have nothing to add.

That link to http://learn-to-search.com/ kinda took the wind out of it for me.

> In 2012, only 7% of men organizing tech conferences had the search skills to book male and female speakers in equal number.

.. that slide would be funny if it had a link back to http://rentaminority.com/ !

The more I look at the three snails, the more I find A and C to be similar in their pattern of illumination.

EDIT: the closer I look the more I'm convinced. C is the matte rendering of A; B is the different environment map. Figure 2 in the paper bears me out; I think the authors managed to fool themselves while editing :(.

EDIT#2: make that figure 2A & 2B that bear me out ... 2C they seem to have used the same image twice in the bottom row. Am I mad? I know these errors are easy to make in the rush to publication, but my senses disagreeing with the text in so many places is starting to freak me out!

maybe my sin is hosting at linode - for a new recipient at either of the behemoths, I seem to have 50% chance of going to spam. Thanks for your comment.

are you able to mail folks at google/live without going to spam? Genuinely curious.

Not open source, no plans to monetise, nothing to see on the website but expensive-looking animation ...

what's the point? Who is this supposed to appeal to?

(yes, this is kinda snarky, but I'm also genuinely curious)

> Auer and his team measured lifetime marijuana exposure in a fantastic new unit of measurement they call "marijuana-years." Essentially, if you smoke pot every day for a year, that equals one marijuana-year of use. Ditto if you smoke every other day for two years, or once a week for seven years.

That sounds highly suspect.

Interesting study though - the original is linked below for anyone that has access or cares to buy it (bugs me no end that I have to google for the source from articles like this)

https://archinte.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=2484...

For those as confused as I was: "x^" is how the author renders "x̂" (or x-with-circumflex, for the font-challenged).

Power budgets for software are already a thing that exists. It's not just about stuff getting cheaper and faster -- portable/battery-powered devices are becoming increasingly important.

So you're right, but not only for the reason that you think you're right :-)

The variation I keep seeing today is sites that lose any left margin at all when the browser is less than 1000px wide (or 930 or whatever magic number the designer had in mind that week).

It's pretty special seeing text butted up hard against the left margin. I'm glad the proliferation of web standards has advanced to the point that this is acceptable!

Can you use 8.6? TclOO makes objects a lot more wieldy: they're still commands, but you get automatic cleanup, destructors, some nice options for inheritance/delegation and so on.

"emulating objects with procs" sounds like you're not taking advantage of any of the previous OO extensions (snit, itcl, xotcl ...), which has to be making life harder than it should be :(.

> Not a week goes by I don't have to wrestle with one of my legacy tcl scripts

That's an odd thing to say ... I've seen Tcl written last century that runs unmodified on 8.6. Why are you wrestling with legacy scripts?

I make business desktop software in Tcl/Tk. That it keeps me out of the hype cycle is gratifying, but it's also a damn well engineered and productive environment (I could go on for hours ...).

> just set your browser to the width you like?

Thank you for saying it. This "fixed-width-in-pixels" thing that has taken hold completely baffles me.