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oAuth 1.0 supports both PLAINTEXT and HMAC-based signature schemes. I assume the article is assuming HMAC-based signatures (the PLAINTEXT option seems to be less well-known). With an HMAC-based signature, the token will not be leaked.

But you're correct that eavesdropping is possible.
I went all-in on Mac in 2001. Pretty unix and awesome hardware. I used iTunes as soon as it was available. As a matter of fact I'm actually looking at a 1st generation iPod on my desk right now (preparing it for eBay).

I have steered clear of this service from the beginning, partly because I'm old and want my own old library and partly because I am very aware that Apple can NOT do services of any kind, at all. They have botched everything they have ever tried to do online. .me, .mac, accounts (I have 3 and they cannot merge them).

I feel for this guy but, given their history, it's pretty much a slam-dunk that Apple would drop the ball if it's a service.
> tea isle

That's Great Britain.

You meant the tea aisle :-)
It's as if children have never seen rears in the nude before. Not even their own.
Good to hear romance isn't dead
This article seems to just be stating that the term is misused now. It's not dying/dead so much as becoming a less than useful term
Felt similar seeing my name on https://haveibeenpwned.com/
i love stories like this.

kudos to the author for taking it all the way to the finish line.
> Make that the world.

Please don't!!!

I stay far far far away from the dense cities. I can't stand those places.

I'm quite happy with the way in the US you can pick where you want to live - anything from superdense, to urban, to suburban, to rural.

Whatever you like, there's a city that will match you.

Even better is how in some cities there is a mix, all within 50 miles of each other you have all the types. You get the benefit of business city center without actually having to live there.
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Yes, consumer grade teas are disappearing from big chain supermarket aisles. But over here, the rise and rise of boutique specialty tea stores as well as online tea stores just keeps going.

As another poster mentioned above, there is a whole world of tea outside of the big brand 'English Breakfast' or 'Earl Grey'.

Personally one of my biggest enjoyments is blending various teas to see what sort of flavours I can create. Always leaf, never tea bags!

I'd suggest that anyone complaining about tea go and learn how to make it properly: http://www.h-tea-o.net/newsletter/G001DouglasAdams/teatalk/ :)
This is no different from any other business. You can be fined for operating a hairdressing salon without a license. This doesn't mean we've "partially decriminalised" hairdressing.
And don't forget about the venerable FTDI FT232R chip which has the very useful "Bit Bang" mode http://www.ftdichip.com/Support/Documents/AppNotes/AN_232R-0...
I use those FT232R puppies a lot for all kinds of things that the old PP was good for, programming FPGA's, testing out a new chip or circuit before going to MCU etc. It is very simple and inexpensive, and much faster than the PP was.
The "broken" items listed in Scott's 2012 blog are primarily personal productivity- and convenience-killing annoyances. Of far greater are the rather-more important things (like hospital operations, critical infrastructure and even medical implant integrity) that are broken, even though EVERYONE cares.

Software bugs cause more than lost inconvenience and productivity; they are an important vector for malicious activity that can be life-threatening.

Have things have gotten better or worse since 2012? Alot worse, I'd say:

2012:

The worst security snafus of 2012 – so far (NetworkWorld)

Worst security snafus of 2012, part 2 (Security InfoWorld)

2013:

2013 Raises the watermark of cybercrime worldwide (In depth Analysis) (Hack Read)

2014:

The year cyber danger doubled (Government Technology)

63 Percent of IT Security Pros Say They Can't Protect Confidential Data (eSecurity Planet)

79 Percent of IT Administrators Want to Quit Due to Stress (eSecurity Planet)

Average company now compromised every four days, with no end to the cybercrime wave in sight (ZDNet)

6 things security pros keep getting wrong (Security InfoWorld)

IT pros lack confidence in preventing cyber attacks, report shows (Computer Weekly)

2015:

Anthem says at least 8.8 million non-customers could be victims in data hack (Reuters)

US Office of Personnel Management Hacked Again (Slashdot)

Millions of records compromised in these data breaches (CSO Online)

2015's biggest data breaches: Were you a victim? (InfoWorld)

2016:

Hackers are holding a California hospital’s network hostage for $3.6 million (The Verge)

Infamous French Hacker Calls Internet a "Digital Shantytown" (Slashdot)

Ransomware Expected To Hit 'Lifesaving' Medical Devices In 2016 (Slashdot)

OK, panic—newly evolved ransomware is bad news for everyone (Ars Technica)

Even the Dumbest Ransomware Is Almost Unremovable On Smart TVs (Slashdot)

Bruce Schneier: We're sleepwalking towards digital disaster and are too dumb to stop (The Register)
buzzword filled click-bait. :/

just use your brain. agile is only a problem when people follow it religiously instead of intelligently imo.

its just one tool in the box, not the ultimate methodology.
In those $10 from ten million people suits the defrauded people get nothing or a close facsimile thereof, so it's not like class action suits give them "recourse".

This kind of stuff is better handled administratively by federal bureaucrats, of which we have plenty. Torts aren't really adding anything.
It's spelled authorisation everywhere else.
I'm fascinated by this. Because we all feel the same, but no efficient solution emerges from this tensions. Or only rarely. We should study this and learn how to make catalysts to trigger change.
I am of the generation that would say, "The redcoats are coming!" To us coffee seemed more manly, as in, what Earnest Hemingway would drink. Or soldiers.

Imagine my amusement in the 1970's when I was stationed with the British army and our mess halls had big vats of tea.
More detail:

http://chemistry.stackexchange.com/questions/14771/how-does-...

Very interesting, so perhaps there is at least some theoretical risk!
For men, we do sometimes suggest joining the military for pay - which has some parallels (very different but in some ways alike) as you're (a) selling your body to be mutilated or killed; and (b) removing agency regarding moral taboos, in sex work the issues regarding sexual acts, in military the issues regarding killing potentially innocent people.
Possibly cricket and cucumber sandwiches?? :)
Neat stuff. I wish him well. Still use his JS tools religiously in our projects.
If something puzzles you, don't be afraid to start drawing yourself a diagram. O(n^2) vs. O(n) amortized for naive string concatenation vs. growing a buffer by doubling:

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This can be a good way of getting an intuitive feel for what's going on. Note in the 2nd case, you can stack all of 1st two rows representing cost into the 3rd row. In fact, you can always stack the execution costs into row (n-1) and never exceed the size of row n.
> How is prostitution any different than selling our bodies to work in a factory, or construction, or retail, or .... Our bodies wear down and tire doing non-sexual labor. What makes sexual labor so horrid?

I'll bite. Sexual workers are among a very rare breed of "workers" who can make money from doing nothing, and this is what opens the doors to abuse. You cannot make money off a factory, construction, or retail employee if they just sit there and do nothing, you can however make money off a sex employee in that situation.

I think there is something fundamentally different about a sex worker that can't allow us to compare them to athletes or construction workers or other professions.
If this is indeed true, then it kind of trumps most of the comments around here.
i think the more important question, at least where i am, is if seeking the services is a crime... because it is here, even if prostitution is not.

seems a tad unfair to penalise someone who can be viewed as being exploited and a victim on either side of it to me. some women/men are desperate for money and others are desperate for sex... and the only harm these people do to the world is to each other.

(... and the ones who do it for other reasons are probably in need of help imo)

(EDIT: actually after some reflection, all of them are. its a sad state of affairs on both sides. :( )
How we all became product owners
It appears there actually may be a plausible theory:

http://chemistry.stackexchange.com/questions/14771/how-does-...
Except they were also working off the assurances of two major Bitcoin "nerds". Why not blame them too?
Imagine you started a new Department of Internal Security, got a .gov domain, built up a large website with forms to have people apply for some kind of visa, and took money from random people who thought it was a federal agency. Would you be guilty of something?
However, the university always had a reason to postpone the courses, just like scammers.

In that story, the university was the scammer, always asking for a few more days to "get their money back" and giving them a good faith gift as soon as students started asking questions.

Then, the government punished them for biting to the government run scam.
After wondering what British tea was like for a long time, I did a little research and decided to try Scottish Breakfast. It's a little malty/toasty compared to standard English Breakfast.

It's a huge hit in our house. My wife actually gave up coffee for it. And she's Colombian.

I still do strong coffee in the morning, but Scottish Breakfast in the afternoon with honey and milk is a great new thing to look forward to. And by new I mean new for the last year or so.
Are you suggesting that keeping prostitution illegal is preventing men from cheating on their wives? I've not met many people who are so naive.
DareDevil might have been the worst example you could have picked for your argument.
s/I rebuttal/A rebuttal/

Didn't notice the typo within the edit window; didn't mean to imply I wrote that other article.
Are you telling me there's not a way in Ruby or Node to query the database and put each result directly into the native hash object equivalent? That seems like the sort of thing that gets optimized fairly early in a database interface's existence. That JSON ends up being faster would surprise me, as there's still a deserialization step that needs to take place (JSONB might indeed help with this aspect if available though).

Now, if you are indeed just passing the JSON directly through to some client further up the stack, there probably is some benefit to generating JSON on the DB, as long as your DB isn't CPU constrained. For any other purpose, I imagine generating JSON would be less space efficient and require additional and/or more onerous steps to converting the record to the appropriate language construct.
> charming neighborhoods in the country (e.g. Chelsea in New York

That's charming to you???? Looking at photos of it gives me the creeps. How can people stand to live in places like that?

> But most of the rest of the country feels dead in comparison.

?????

The rest of the country feels open and alive, not crowded and oppressive.

I've very glad that in the US you can pick and choose what you like, and it's not all a monoculture. You live in a density you like and I'll live in one I like.

But please don't go out and advocate for more of what you like while pretending other people's desires are somehow "bad".
But wait - the hipsters have just discovered this brand new unheard of thing called 'matcha'... Soon trendy matcha bars will replace all the coffee shops in high street. And millions of people in the orient will smile as they sip their matcha tea like they have been for thousands of years...
Ah, when you phrase it that way I see what you mean, I agree.
My prejudice has no effect on reality though, does it? So what is the reality?
Many other cultures are just as much into tea as the Brits!
It is a really effective way to spread some pretty terrible diseases.

But the thing is -- as demonstrated by the entirety of known human history -- people are going to find a way to engage in it, no matter what governing power structures may try do to try to prohibit it. So the bigger question is whether attempts at totalistic prohibition (as opposed to regulation) actually lessen the risks of disease transmission -- or make them worse.
>> No-one ever designs new hardware anymore and bemoans the lack of parallel port that would make their job easier.

Did you even skim the article? Not only did he identify a painpoint (whether or not you feel it, he did), but he wrote a solution, took the PCB to production, and open sourced the whole thing. That's the exact opposite of most of the tech articles which sit around and complain about the lack of solution.

Hey OP, way to go man. Setup a Patreon, and I'll throw a tenner your way just to see what you come up with next. Like AvE, mikeselectricstuff, SpritesMods, you're a "do-er" and I'm sure whatever you do will be mighty interesting.
Because we all wish agile was dying?
> I don't understand why people consider sex a moral issue. This is a deeply personal issue and when done between consenting adults affects no one else.

I guess for the same reasons we make other personal decisions illegal, like suicide and the use of certain drugs.

C. S. Lewis once gave a metaphor. In a fleet of ships, if one fires on another, that of course is bad and should be illegal. But also if a ship's internal mechanisms are so bad that the ship careens into others, that is bad too.

Promiscuous sex spreads disease. Before the 1960s in the US, there were two main STDs, and both curable: syphilis and gonnorhea. After the '60s, it ballooned into a nationwide epidemic, and now we also have chlamydia, HIV, HPV (causes more deaths than HIV), and many others.

Another common-sense splash of water is to ask the question, "Would you want your child to grow up to be a prostitute?"

I don't see how the exploitation and abuse will end just by making it legal, either.
And miss all the fun hacking a custom solution? ;-)

At least USB also works on a laptop, which is easier to put next to the console in the living room.
Show HN: Quitjoy.com – Personalized vaporizer juices to help you quit
There are certainly collective behaviour instincts that can kick in with groups and which can be manipulated to cause people to run amok, but it's not any group by any means.

Take for example the English Society of Friends (Quakers), and their burning collective desire to stop the Slave Trade. (& for prison reform, but that was arguably self-interest because they kept ending up in them.)

So perhaps the more interesting question is still which groups and why.
Plus, in that timeframe, FPGAs have become much cheaper and more powerful, providing tinkerers a step up from bitbanging.
This is amusing but absurd, especially if you're serious about this phrase being confusing or malformed. "You may not smoke": does this mean, to you, that either smoking or not smoking is permitted? If the answer is yes, I think the solution may be to cease applying the logical rules of programming to human languages, where it is meaning and tradition that matter.
Three Felonies a Day excerpt:

The average professional in this country wakes up in the morning, goes to work, comes home, eats dinner, and then goes to sleep, unaware that he or she has likely committed several federal crimes that day. Why? The answer lies in the very nature of modern federal criminal laws, which have exploded in number but also become impossibly broad and vague. In Three Felonies a Day, Harvey A. Silverglate reveals how federal criminal laws have become dangerously disconnected from the English common law tradition and how prosecutors can pin arguable federal crimes on any one of us, for even the most seemingly innocuous behavior. The volume of federal crimes in recent decades has increased well beyond the statute books and into the morass of the Code of Federal Regulations, handing federal prosecutors an additional trove of vague and exceedingly complex and technical prohibitions...

http://amzn.to/24vLd3O
Creating a ZFS zroot Raid 10 on Ubuntu 16.04
Community A doesn't take out a loan. The roads were built with exogenous funds. Starting in 30 years, Community A has to start paying X dollars a year in maintenance on it's roads. Community A taxes itself $X/2 per year and pays for a fire department with it.

In Year 30, Community B is built with exogenous funds. Starting in 30 years, Community B has to start paying $X a year in maintenance on it's roads. Community A has to raise taxes to $X, half of which goes to maintenance on it's roads and half of which goes to A's fire department, and Community B starts paying $X in taxes every year, half of which goes to maintenance on A's roads and half of which goes to B's fire department.

In Year 60, Community A and Community B each have to come up with an additional $X/2 per year in taxes or cut their fire departments.
Don't take photos of your Arduino 101, It's Light Sensitive
> And, no, condoms and dental dams etc aren't going to be full protection. There are some that are not routinely tested for and many people don't know about.

Part of this was covered in the article:

> Amnesty and Human Rights Watch, along with other groups that support decriminalization — U.N.AIDS, the World Health Organization, the Global Commission on H.I.V. and the Law and the Open Society Foundations — acknowledge that there can be grave harms associated with the sex industry, but say that they see changes in the law as a precondition to reducing them. Last year, an analysis[0] in The Lancet predicted[1] that “decriminalization of sex work could have the largest effect on the course of the H.I.V. epidemic,” by increasing access to condoms and medical treatment. Governments can free themselves to crack down on trafficking and under-age prostitution, human rights advocates argue, if they stop arresting consenting adults.

So sure, awareness of condoms and dental dams might not be 'full protection.' But outreach efforts to improve safer sex along with legalization seems to be the better alternative to doing nothing.

[0]: http://www.thelancet.com/series/hiv-and-sex-workers
[1]: http://www.vox.com/2014/7/28/5944597/study-decriminalizing-p...
Out with the old buzzwords, in with the new.
software meets personalized formulation manufacturing
Win  or just don't lose?
Might have better luck asking this in https://www.reddit.com/r/cpp/
Bizarre, my thoughts are the complete opposite.

In the U.S., coffee is essentially a human right. Even the most humble of blue-collar work environments has at least a "Mr. Coffee"-style drip machine, and most white-collar offices these days have a K-cup or other cartridge system that brews in seconds.

It's easy to brew coffee mechanically, because the optimal temperature is well below the boiling point. Whereas most black tea requires the water to be brought to a boil. Even a nice electric kettle takes forever compared to a $15 Mr. Coffee. Also, you need to drink tea right away, whereas coffee can sit on the burner for nearly an hour before non-snobs would think to throw it out.

So in the U.S., tea is more commonly consumed at home or in shops. Coffee is ubiquitous in the workplace, because it's far easier to brew in a hurry with machines (even cheap ones).
>concepts of love/relationships/family/jealousy/cheating

I share a similar view,

But our current set up won't allow for something like that.

When you take out those concepts, you will see a human being suddenly has a lot less potential disasters/sufferings hanging over his head, which makes him harder to control and exploit, which is all living in todays world is about. Being exploited nicely.

Give a man a family or put him in a 'romantic' relationship. You will see that he get reduced to pulp, Easily controllable and mouldable into anything as required by the state and similar establishments...

They won't let that change happen.
You are splitting hairs and are mistaken.

"Smoking" is the noun form of the verb "to smoke", also known as a gerund.

"No" is an adjective (quantity) modifying "smoking".

In the unintended misinterpretation, the phrase "no smoking" is an action that is permitted. The misinterpretation is possible because the negative is an adjective on the gerund which allows for ambiguity with regard to the sentence's predicate.

This is a feature of the English language. Colloquially, most English speakers understand the intended meaning.

The ambiguity can be removed by 1) writing "Smoking [is] not allowed" thus asserting the negative as an adverb in the predicate, 2) removing the predicate nominative "[is] allowed" (leaving only a gerundive phrase, not a full sentence), and/or 3) using a diagram like a prohibition symbol atop a burning cigarette [0]

EDIT: grammar and sense (this is getting complicated!)

[0] http://images.mydoorsign.com/img/lg/S/no-smoking-sign-s-9584...
> I wonder if at some point we'll look back at the 20th century for what it was: a complete disaster of urban planning as sacrifice to the Church of the Car.

Never, that's when. Some people (not you) actually like to have the space to live in. So you need a car. The goal is not the car, the goal is space.

It's not a disaster at all, it's a breath of fresh air, having space.

> I live in NYC.

You do that, and I'll stay far away from that place. I've been there, I would absolutely loath to live there.

> ....gun....car....crime

You have got to be kidding. The crime rate in cities is much higher, if anything cars reduce crime.
Depends where you live and when you drive. Stay out of the evening rush hour in certain areas of town and you can count on 65mph to your destination. If you are popping across the river in the middle of the day there is no problem. Some people do have jobs that turn them out a 4-5pm in unfortunate locations. When I worked in one of those locations I shifted my schedule a bit so I worked until 6pm instead. Waiting 60 minutes turned a 45 minute commute into a 15 minute commute.
Now add a SD card slot and you could load all games you ever owned from it without a computer.
The parallel port was great for simple bit-bash interfacing and I miss being able to do such hacking on contemporary PCs. I remember fondly a hacking war story from the late 80s. I had just purchased a Mephisto 68000 dedicated chess computer for my own recreational enjoyment. The embedded dev lab where I worked won a new contract and the hardware dudes decided a 68000 was the way to go. Not content to wait weeks, maybe months for first hardware, I decided to get some early experience by hacking at my chess computer. Basically I opened it up, reverse engineered the keyboard scanning hardware (which was implemented with standard jellybean CMOS logic), and commandeered a couple of inputs and outputs for my own purposes. I hooked these up to the printer port of my PC.

Then I worked out a simple serial bit twiddling scheme to exchange bytes a bit at a time and coded it up in C as a kind of software serial port. On the PC side I ended up with something that looked just like a simple terminal that happened to talk out the printer port. On the Mephisto side, I replaced the 64K byte EPROM with a 128K byte EPROM. I changed the cold boot vector to point at "my" 64K, which first checked to see if the printer port was hooked up. If it was hooked up, then the CPU stayed in "my" area and ran a monitor I had coded up for the occasion. If it wasn't hooked up it vectored back to the original boot code and the chess computer worked as well as it ever did. I layered a loader on top of everything and enjoyed loading simple cross compiled C programs on my new 68K computer, (complete with 16K RAM).