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> "With GCP, the pricing is very straightforward: you pay a certain base price per instance per month, and you get a discount on that price of up to 80% for sustained use. In practice: If you run an instance 24/7, you end up paying less than half of the “regular” price."

I wish either of those two statements were true! I hope you didn't actually base your pricing decisions on what you wrote in the article. The sustained use discount is a total of 30% off (not "more than 50%"), if you use an instance 24/7 for a calendar month. Also, the 80% discount off the full price is only for pre-emptible instances, which are the ones that may not be available and are always killed within 24 hours.
I'm going to buy one of these for my fire company. It took them (I'm told, I still wasn't there) 5 mins to get through my old 1960s solid wood door.
That's what happened; the city's initiative to restore the place was to launch a competition and partner with the winner.
Can you elaborate a bit? I'm asking because as a bit of security aficionado, I've yet to see a scheme that's better than passwords + 2FA.
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Weren't we still unsure how the thruster actually worked? As in where the thrust was coming from?
ugh, the actual wordlist is a single hyperlinked sentence in the center of a thousand word essay.

Here's a direct link:
https://www.eff.org/files/2016/07/18/eff_large_wordlist.txt
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It's not very good:

"the rule would harm our community banks and credit unions by opening the door to frivolous lawsuits by special interest trial lawyers."

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/10/25/559950275/...
The vote was extremely partisan, with no Dems voting for it. Remember that next time someone tries to discourage you by saying both parties are the same.
Symantec has developed an Open Source system for short-term SSH and SSL certificate management with 2FA (VIP and U2F). We encourage people to adopt this to improve their security.
Code: https://github.com/Symantec/keymaster
Design document: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AW3UROCJqTc3R4MLJXxmPUNS...
Yep Perl* is a great swiss army knife that rendered sed and awk obsolete -- I am old enough (50) to have been thru this progression. It's funny to see awk and sed come back around.

(It's a little like functional programming being rediscovered when Lisp has been around since the dawn of time).

* I think Perl got carried away when it added objects and folks started writing large programs with it (although I have written some large scripts for biologists doing genetic studies -- which is interesting popular use case == there are google groups and O'Reilly books focused on this use case).

Also, Larry Wall really humped the shark with Perl 6.
The "must be changed every 30 days" always annoys me to no end.

A system I use not only has that requirement (along with a very insane set of requirements like "no patterns like 123 or ABC"), but they also NEVER let you reuse a password.

Which means they have a database of every password I've ever used on a machine somewhere, hashed or otherwise.

So the annoying workaround is to append year+month on the end of each password (which I was basically told to do when first setting up my account). So combined with a "maximum 10 characters" leaves 6 for my actual password...
Engineering is engineering malpractice too.
Well I think table top RPGs by necessity have to more closely meet in the middle on the luck vs resource management spectrum, but "normal" board games are where the differences really get highlighted. Risk is a traditional "American" game, where you role dice for combat, and it can be very frustrating. More modern examples such as Arkham Horror or Elder Sign are similar, where any turn could be horrible or amazing, depending on your rolls. Compare that with Terra Mystica or Agricola and there's very little "chance" and more about planning ahead, and following some sort of strategy.

I'm not passing judgement or saying one style is categorically better than the other, but there's definitely a huge correlation between continent-of-origin and level-of-chance-involved.
The rule in question was put in place by the Obama administration.
Man, not a day goes by where I dont feel relieved and ecstatic that I have 1Password.

Everytime I go to an obscure website I rarely visit and I have to log in, I hope it's in my 1password account, and when it is I feel so releived I dont have to worry about what my damn password is for that one site.

Obscure password requirements are what drove me to 1password.
Wrong. If you have enough money, and your gains are sufficiently outsized from a win, then any spread bet across dozens of companies will end up making money. Being a VC in Silicon Valley over the last 20 years is a game you can't lose, as long as you have enough money. And let's not forget, they're not even playing with their own money, they are playing with their investors money.

But it doesn't mean you're a smart VC it just means that you're a rich VC. They have enough high profile misses to show they have no idea what is going to be successful. They passed on Google, Apple and Facebook with a combined market value of almost $1.5 trillion dollars.
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3. With Yahoo leaking billions of accounts, and hundreds of other services leaking 10's of millions of accounts, your passwords are already out there.

4. Someone makes a John the Ripper/Hashcat plugin that searches password dumps for common usernames/email addresses and attempts to determine if the password is based on an algorithm.

5. With advances in NLP AI, this will just get easier in the future.
No, that's the EM drive. This engine is less or more a particle accelerator shooting high velocity noble gas. It's like a rocket (less or more), but instead of using a lot of slow matter, it use a little, but very fast, matter. It still requires a supply of matter to trow from the back of the spacecraft, it just uses it in a way to minimize the amount required (by trading it by silly amount of power).

It's based on the classic `F=m*a` Newtonian second law. But uses high `a` instead of high `m`.

The Hall and Ion engines just replace chemical energy with electricity.

Edit: Added the `F=ma` part. Edit2: Added that it still requires matter.
You are confusing it with EmDrive [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RF_resonant_cavity_thruster
Is cragslist usable where you live? Last 5 times I've gone there looking it's 98% dealers in every category, especially the non-dealer ones.

If I want to buy from a used ______ shop, I wouldn't be on Craigslist.

And in certain categories, your legitimate ad (anything Apple in particular) will get insta-flagged because it's competition. And then you'll get a call from the likely flagger, who's a dealer trying to score a cheap deal and resell. They post the same ad 5-10 times a day, so there's no hope in weeding them out.

Craigslist evidently doesn't really care, so I have to wonder if thefacebook (tfb) can do a better job. All the startup reselling apps are filled with soiled couches and old gym bags. They're like going to a yard sale after all the good stuff is gone. This is in the US southeast, so I'm sure it's different on the coasts.

Regarding tfb buying tbh... the antitrust laws are in dire need of reinterpretation from the Supreme Court whether it's in this case or something substantial it doesn't matter.
Experts don't care about usability or convenience, only security. I use password algorithms because managers are so darn inconvenient. Especially when I need to type my password into an Xbox, for example, or on my wife's computer real quick.

I believe my algorithm is strong enough that it puts me completely out of reach against automated attacks. If one password is compromised to plaintext, will an attacker even recognize it was generated by an algorithm? Unlikely. If two of my passwords are compromised to plaintext somehow will a determined attacker specifically targeting me be able to recognize and determine my algorithm? Possibly yes. But in my mind, the risk of being individually targetted and having two different passwords compromised to plaintext is not high enough to outweigh the convenience factor of password algorithms.
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> That touchid on back is a huge fail from UX perspective.

How so? My wife's phone has a fingerprint sensor on the back and it works great. My phone has a retina scanner on the front, and it works less well. Sure, we'll eventually see scanning through the display [1], but until that happens the fingerprint sensor on the back works really well for me.

[1] http://www.freepatentsonline.com/y2017/0257534.html
I guess you're glossing over the fact that without the Obama administration creating this bureau, there never would have been a lawsuit in the first place.

Anyways, later.
I once had an Amazon courier deliver to my bin! I don't think I set any safe space. I was expecting a redelivery. I only found the item by coincidence. I could easily have let it be collected and taken to the dump!
I'm going to ask what might be a dumb question, because I don't know any better. But is there any statistical evidence that arbitration results in worse outcomes for the consumer, or is all the hate theoretical for now? People on HN and otherwise speak about arbitration like it's an auto-loss for the consumer, but it's not like our court systems are guaranteed to be much fairer.

EDIT:

It looks like the bottom of the article explains that the US Consumer Bureau studied arbitration and found it anti-consumer:

As arbitration clauses appeared in tens of millions of contracts, the consumer agency was specifically mandated to study arbitration under the Dodd-Frank financial law in 2010. That effort culminated in a 728-page report, released in March 2015, that challenged longstanding assumptions about arbitration.

The agency found that once blocked from suing, few people went to arbitration at all. And the results for those who did were dismal. During the two-year period studied, only 78 arbitration claims resulted in judgments in favor of consumers, who got $400,000 in total relief.
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I think you're thinking of EmDrive
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RF_resonant_cavity_thruster
concern of an onslaught of frivolous lawsuits as business models thus taxing bank legal resources

Edit: don't understand the downvotes. I'm answering the poster's question but it doesn't reflect my personal opinion
>Is LastPass going to protect you against sophisticated State, or even potentially Corporate attackers? Maybe not. Will it protect you against random hacks and insecure sites better than just reusing the same password that you can remember? Yes.

but using keepass does protect you in the case that lastpass' servers get compromised into serving malicious javascript.
A better compromise might be to put the counties in control over this rather than cities/towns or the state itself. County governments sit close enough to local to be more in-tune with local needs, while at the same time having a broad enough jurisdiction for its decisions to benefit the region as a whole rather than a specific city/town.
Facebook already has a pretty easy to use API that gives you access to the major user facing data. So I don't see what the problem is.
The loudest most outspoken people are rarely the people we need to hear from... We need more people like you helping organize competitors to Google. There's so much demand for this, but Qwant, Zoho, vid.me, and CopperheadOS aren't quite cutting it as a Google replacement scheme. We're getting closer though!
GNU style is mostly about the funny and ugly indentation of braces.

Return type on separate line is shared by many other coding styles.
From what I gather this is a pretty standard electric propulsion system: some inert gas is ionized and accelerated with an electric field. Gas escapes through the back, motor gets pushed forward.

Pretty much like any rocket.
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You should file a complaint with https://www.consumerfinance.gov/ (CFPB.) It will get Citibank's attention and you will get to their escalated support team which will hopefully get a better result. They will take a CFPB complaint very seriously and respond. There are existing regulatory systems in place to push back against the shady practices you mentioned.
Clickbait title, but interesting article.

I Am Not a Physicist, so I need a real one to explain why I'm wrong, but I've thought for a while the cleanest explanation for dark matter is

1. The universe is inside a black hole.

2. Dark matter is matter which is outside the black hole, which explains why it has mass but no other observable properties.
178 House democrats vote for it and you're acting like they opposed it? While Bill Clinton signed it into law?
The author suggests storing in password managers optionally, "for reference". The point of using an algorithm to generate a password is that you only have to remember the algorithm and can always work out the password on a new computer.
Isolation, repeatability and speed of deployment:

- Docker images are portable. They will run anywhere there is Docker. No surprise missing system packages when deploy.

- They are isolated from the the rest of the machine. Inconsistencies between dev and prod are minimized greatly.

- Kubernetes allows you to deploy stateless, immutable images using a declarative manifest. IMO this is far superior to imperative scripts that are used in a lot of places.

- Kubernetes pods start up in seconds when they are added or restarted. Deployments for me routinely take under a minute. Compared to our EC2 deployment strategy which can easily take over half an hour to deploy a single node.

The list goes on but these are the key things for me. I would suggest checking out some videos by Kelsey Hightower is want to see more of it in action.
> I can only conclude that the real goal is to get you to install those cameras

I suspect that the ultimate goal is to grant home access to their home-services pros (ie home cleaners) while you are away.
I've seen the rice treatment work also, but chances for success are reportedly better if you do not try to turn the device on first.
It sounds more like a confirmation of GR. Mass-energy tells spacetime how to curve through gravity, and spacetime tells light where to travel.
I'm just looking to provide an online payment experience to supplement their in-person payments, so I'm looking for integrating credit card payments specifically, rather than bitcoin or snail mail
I Created an Improbable SpatialOS Prototype in 5 Weeks
I wasn’t impressed with SpatialOS after all the hype, their demo is dull [4], and it doesn’t show off anything that couldn’t be done on a single machine.

So, I decided to give it a go on our platform - Hadean (full disclosure, I’ve only been an employee here for 5 weeks). In 5 weeks, I built this demo [1, 2] which I think is already shaping up to be more impressive. I have my own ideas [2], but I want to know what suggestions you have/improvements you’d like to see. If you have any questions about the demo or the platform I’ll be around for a while, comment or message me.

I decided to take a different approach to their grid, while the 2D hexagons they use may be better in a few cases, their approach seems overly generic for many use cases [3].

My approach uses an octree with cells stored by Morton (Z-Order) index. A leaf cell in the tree corresponds to a single worker/core. New cells will be dynamically spawned when the entitIes move out of the live area, and despawned when they’re empty. Cells will also be subdivided when the load in a single cell increases beyond a threshold, this will maintain an almost constant amount of computation per worker. All of this is made fairly trivial on Hadean, which handles spawning and communication between workers across machines and clouds.

[1] Youtube video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2fKRy5zC54

[2] github repo https://github.com/hadeaninc/spatial-tree-simulation-public

[3] SpatialOS load balancing https://docs.improbable.io/reference/12.0/workers/configuration/loadbalancer-config

[4] SpatialOS video demo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7RCFoY2d-k&t=3m43s
feel free to let yourself pass away the next time you get sick... or will you impede death, by taking some medicine?
Shouldn't there be more stuff for everyone then? Something is wrong if there weren't.
Ok, so now I'm worried about the full-time driver almost as much as the fill in. I haven't followed any of the scandal on the subject since I don't think I'm in their delivery area -- I see a lot of UPS and USPS from Amazon.
> If you really cared about humanity, you wouldn't impede death.

That's an ideology masquerading as wisdom.
Diceware is good for encryption passkeys or for master passwords for password managers.

It is awful for actual third-party passwords.
I use my phone a lot when it’s lying on a desk, can’t unlock it when the fingerprint sensor is on the back.

Besides, the convenience of TouchID is largely due to it being integrated in the home button, you’d lose that too.
Just three weeks? That's would be an improvement compared to some water utilities I've known.
Honestly, given how badly literally every town/city/municipality here in California is run, I say let Google take over for a while. Maybe we'll at least get decent public transit systems.
> We refute them every time they come up. They don't work.

They "don't work" in theory, but in practice hardly anyone is individually targeted by attackers. 99.9% of compromised accounts are due to automated attacks churning through compromised databases looking for low hanging fruit. People who use algorithms are not low hanging fruit.
In modern times (read: every site leaks its database all over the place), you really need a different password per service. XKCD approach isn't going to help, since you'll never be able to remember the password to a site you haven't used in 4 months. You still need a password manager, so you might as well let it generate strong passwords for you. XKCD passwords aren't as strong as you'd think.
Passwords can be used for systems other than websites, where "forgot password"-type reset doesn't always exist.
That applies to pretty much all domains. From choosing an employer, restaurant, movie, car to choosing an editor, programming language, keyboard, etc. Humans, some more so than others, trick themselves into thinking they are rational, or that their decisions are firmly grounded.
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>The 2007-8 crash was somewhat before Obama's time.

Not the jailtime, and not the Obama negotiations with Wall Street. Do you ever watch Frontline... or Google?

>Started under Bush.

Misnomer. It started under bush, and a second, LARGER program started under Obama. Google it.

>Started decades before Obama.

Wrong. Look up the unprecedented demands of Obama for news companies to reveal their anon sources.

>That needs a citation.

God damn, have you ever heard of Google? Or are you just afraid of finding out something?

https://nsarchive.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/classified.png

> neo-nazi misogynist

As usual, use a character attack when you don't have the logic to win.

You can really tell when someone's ego is on the line when they refuse to even check your facts before attempting to refute them with "I haven't seen it, so it must be wrong."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LastPass#Security_issues
How is posting it clearly on their website minimizing the truth? As a reasonable person, don't you think that if they were trying to minimize the truth, they would just not include it like everyone else?
(I live in Marin County, in the SFBA, and I employ quite a few service workers from Sonoma/CC/Napa counties)

"It is ironic to tell service workers that, in the name of democracy, they can’t vote for the councils who decide the zoning in any of the cities where they spend their economic lives because they happen to live across a town border."

I don't think this is a problem at all. These people are pursuing a very rational arbitrage strategy between place of work and place of living - and it is paying off for them. It is not the "service workers" who are clamoring for less regulation in trendy housing markets - it is overeducated, underemployed hipsters whose self identity is tied to living in a certain type of place and whose life script no longer accommodates the steps their parents took to climb up the housing ladder.

If fancy coffee and cute stores are so important that one would sacrifice the basic building blocks of wealth building and family stability then so be it - but I am not giving up the progressive wins of the past[1] to enable this (bad) strategy.

[1] Which, in my neighborhood, are quite profound. The Pt Reyes National Seashore, the Mt. Tam watershed and accompanying open spaces, agricultural zoning throughout west marin, etc. Remember that all of these were all achievements of the progressive left.
I have an identical situation with Verizon Wireless. I pre-ordered the Pixel 2 and cancelled the order 4 days prior to the release date. I called AGAIN to verify the order was cancelled. I'm told yes. Verizon shipped the order, charged my card for it, and tells me "Sorry - our mistake. Please return the phone for a refund." Since it was 'cancelled', I don't have the ability to print my own return label. I'm told one is coming in the mail. Nothing arrives. I call and inquire: "It was sent. FYI, if you don't return the phone in a week, you'll be outside the return window."
To punish Equifax?

The problem with the snarky, knee jerk response to class actions that you have is that most class actions are instances where individuals aren't harmed for much, but together it's quite significant.

And I have absolutely no faith in private arbitration to do anything but find for the entity paying their fees.
I cannot stress enough how much I enjoy your product. When you offered the freemium model, I was thrilled. Happy to convert to paying once I cross that $10k MRR mark!
The interests of the people are more or less aligned with Sidedwalk Lab's interests. So you're not wrong, but you miss your mark a little bit.

You're generally right though, that any publicly-traded company has primarily its shareholders best interests at heart. But that doesn't mean they'll ruin their public image by doing something untowards. Google especially seems to be more forward thinking than the traditional "quarterly results" style company. So I think it's worth giving them a shot at this just to see what happens. (Spoiler alert: it'll probably be the ultimate form of sacrificing privacy for convenience)
I like Pantry, but I live in a small town where Fresh isn't available. Thanks for the warning though.
I disagree that (A)D&D was a very American thing. Certainly in Norway and Sweden it was huge (or at least as huge as pen & paper rpgs can be) when I was growing up. Sweden did have its own RPG home grown scene going on with both the other D&D (Drakar & Demoner) and Mutant being quite popular, but on the whole I'd say AD&D was by far the most popular game.
I agree that the average is probably around 2X, but the variance and margin for error are pretty large, so I approximated. I didn't mean to imply that there was exactly a tenfold difference.
There was a slight typo in the article, the line of code should be
ctypes.cast(id(113), ctypes.POINTER(ctypes.c_char))[3 * 8] = b'\x71'
OEM variants without the media and box are £25 on Amazon. Worked fine for us. Came as a license key from a VAT registered reseller and activated just fine.