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I ran into a similar problem with an Intel motherboard about 10 years ago.

We had problems when some NFS traffic would end up getting stalled. Our NFS server would use UDP packets larger than the MTU and they would end up getting fragmented.

Turns out the NIC would not look at the fragmentation headers of the IP packet and always assume a UDP header was present. From time to time, the payload of the NFS packet would have user data that matched the UDP port number the NIC would scan for to determine if the packet should be forwarded to the BMC. This motherboard had no BMC but it was configured as if it did have one.

It would time out after a second or so but in the meantime drop a bunch of packets. The NFS server would retransmit the packet but since the payload didn't change, the NIC would reliably drop the rest of the fragments of the packet.

Of course Intel claimed it wasn't their bug ("it's a bug in the Linux NFS implementation") but they quickly changed their tune when I coded up a sample program that would send one packet a second and reliably cause the NIC to drop 99% of packets received.

While it turned out to be a fairly lame implementation problem on Intel's part (both by ignoring the fragmentation headers and the poor implementation of the motherboard) I have to say it was very satisfying to solve the mystery.
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We usually don't like our managers for one reason or another unless we ourselves become one and someone else replace us. This has been happening for centuries. Point is why don't we learn lessons from past mistakes?
This. What is the point of the curriculum? Are you trying to introduce them to what computers are and how they work from a hardware level? Basic user interactions of an average computer user? Office/business/presentation specialized skills? Intro into how software works and programming?

Computers are tools used by most people in a lot of different capacities, and depending on how people use them they need to learn different things. It all depends what you want then to walk away from the courses knowing.
I stopped reading at "outsource ... analytics". In this age of data and data science "analytics" means a lot more than web analytics and some javascript on your web pages. This expertise needs to be part of your organization's DNA.
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It sounds like the vulnerability could be used to bring down any machine you can send an arbitrary Ethernet frame to. (I immediately wonder if it works for broadcast frames? Sounds like a way to take down a LAN full of machines quickly if it does.)

Edit: Per http://www.kriskinc.com/intel-pod it does work on broadcast frames. Yikes!
While I'm not willing to go so far as to condemn Aaron I do find the sudden cult of worship around him and his work disconcerting. He did some great work and his death was a tragedy but at a certain point all the virtual grieving about him almost becomes a parody of itself.

I deeply sympathize with the friends and family of Aaron but I find the blogospheres canonization of him creepy and misguided. Humanization of an idea (freedom of information) is great but at what point does it become distracting from the actual idea?
Updated with more specific info: http://www.kriskinc.com/intel-pod
For the 200 dollar price point.

When it launched it was what, twice that? Also came missing basic features. That's what lead to the failure. I got mine as a gift, it's a nice device. Main complaint is no suffort from bigger third party companies (i.e. netflix, skype).
I think you are right. This guy needs some advice. My best guess is that he thought he was flirting with me. It's called negging.

http://www.seductionscience.com/2010/negging-women/

Just threw up in my mouth a little.
Caffeine content of tea and coffee will vary widely.

For coffee, smaller grind size, brewing method, the bean type (there are low/decaf cultivars,) roasting method, and water temperature (to name a few) will affect how much caffeine ends up in your cup.

Expecting Starbucks to give you a consistent dose cup after cup, month after month is probably a bit optimistic.
Guarana is just a different source of caffeine.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guarana
I'm in Canada, I'd rather have buggy untested crap than to wait for years for a vendor to bring it to Canada.
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> Ruby running on Python

That isn't what it is. Either you don't have the technical chops to understand, or you didn't read, or both.
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I never considered highly bureaucratic industries male dominated, where I live, 60% of middle managers, lawyers, etc... are women.

Also women dominate retail, and the service sector in general.

I see male dominated industries that don't bother with gender balance, being construction (and I am not talking only about the field workers, but also engineers, architects, etc...), automobiles, metallurgy, window cleaning (I never saw a woman window cleaner!), sports equipment manufacturing, fishing, farming (I know personally a female farmer that is bloody rich, but she is a exception, and she inherited her farm from her late husband... she is a good farmer though), electricity, telco (excepting call centers and support system of course).
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Since the generic term is "robot" or "android", it seems valid to me.
ahem Mary Schmich's "Sunscreen".
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In that case, fair enough.
It's Ruby in RPython, the implementation language of the PyPy VM toolchain. It has nothing to do with integrating with Python. It's an alternative Ruby VM using a proven JIT generator technology that happens to be built with a Python-like language. Hope that helps.
I was going to say that I prefer the left shift key... but while writing this comment, I realized I'm using the right shift key.

(I'm right-handed and anchor my right pinky on the shift key. Somewhere, a typing tutor screams in horror. I use the left control key exclusively.)
Beautiful site. Is this Vuong's work? It's exceptional.

I can appreciate that you want your descriptions to be as accessible as possible, but I had trouble finding any technical details about your system. Do you have this information on your site? Is the source code available? If the answer to either of these is no, then I'd be extremely reluctant to trust you with anything important.

Also, am I correct in understanding that this is not a standalone service? Is this only usable with a dropbox?
Here's how I look at it: I indent my code properly and my team does the same. If we're already doing the right thing where whitespace is concerned, why not reap some benefits from it?

Of course, I also use Coffeescript and Haml...
Can anyone remember the source of the quote :

Sometimes bug fixing simply takes two people to lock themselves in a room and nearly kill themselves for two days.

Reminded me of this
> That is YOUR definition of where to write data files

Well, Him and the designers of the operating system.
According to their chart. Starbucks coffee should be killing you but the article mostly about energy drinks. Has it not occurred to anyone that caffeine isn't the only contributing factor?
Those are how one differentiates flags from arguments, which is a separate problem.
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I was using galaxy s2x. A variant of s2 with a 4.5 inch screen. That was hard to use single handed. This is my first blackberry so no idea how it compares with previous blackberry handsets.
Reading about the OP's issue got me to a doc from Intel (http://www.intel.com/content/dam/doc/application-note/sideba...) re: the "NC Sideband Interface", which sounds like the place where the bug that bit you "lives". Reading over that doc made me shudder a few times, thinking about the complexity and, thus, potential bugs that could be lurking there. I wonder if the OP's bug was related, too.

Having the NIC inspecting incoming frames and potentially diverting them to the management controller sounds like a scary proposition. I'd almost rather just have dedicated Ethernet hardware for the management controller. The decrease in switch ports needed is certainly seductive, but I wonder if it's worth the risk.

(Do you happen to recall which Intel motherboard this bit you on? I was just getting out of whitebox Intel motherboard-based server builds about the time you're describing, but I'm just curious if only for the nostalgia.)
Same sentiments here. jwz has been an industry hero to me for a long time. It's incomprehensible that an informed person, as I assume at least the imagemagick team has, can get a mail from him and choose to ignore it. jwz is an upper echelon guy.
Could you go to a conference to add in some social events that are programming-related? Perhaps having self-imposed deadlines and social support would be helpful.

Do you know any programmers that could be a bit of a mentor?

I went through a career pivot going from mostly web development to mobile programming. The big thing for me was to release your own apps and to create good tech demos.
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If you type properly using both your hands, you should use both of them almost equally. That's what I do. Use the left shift key for keys pressed by your right hands, and right shift key for keys pressed by your left.
> What a phisher can do is emulate the 'clean' state. Not logged in, no cookie. Some users will get suspicious and leave the site, sure.

Agreed. Where we disagree seems to be regarding what constitutes "some" users. I contend that it's a large enough portion of the total that the security images do more good than harm. I admit that my position is based on intuition. If you have evidence to the contrary, please share it. (That's not meant to be snarky. I really would prefer basing my position on evidence than intuition.)

> I'm not sure what the most prevalent system is but the default one described doesn't involve an extra security question. The image is presented after the user enters their username but before they are asked for their password. If the site follows this flow, then we have a problem. Now in your case the flow is a little different.

I don't know what's most prevalent either. As I mentioned in my other comment, I've sampled too few banks to draw a conclusion, but 100% of the ones I've looked at ask a security question to register your computer before showing the security image. There's a chance I got lucky in the few that I sampled and the rest don't ask a security question, in which case, you'd be right---it'd be trivial to defeat in that case. I just don't see any evidence that that's true.

What do you mean by "the default one described?" Do you mean the one described in the blog post? If so, the screen shot in the blog post is from Ally Bank's website, which is one of the banks that I confirmed does ask a security question before displaying the security image.

> It seems to me that showing users a different page based on a cookie is a good idea in that if a user hits the no-cookie version, they might be alerted. But the good part doesn't have anything to do with security images.

The cookied version of a page must sufficiently unique per user. Otherwise the phisher could emulate the cookied version of the page. You haven't proposed an alternative to the security images, so I'm not sure what you're suggesting here.

> As others have posted, the real value of security images is not their security. It's marketing and compliance.

This is just an appeal to cynicism and doesn't add to the debate.
I have to agree with this point: Experience is orthogonal to the specialist/generalist axis.

I was Justin.TV's first engineering hire, and I was an "old guy" there, but I'm very much an experienced generalist. At one point I was the sole developer responsible for:

- Justin.TV's chat system (front and back end; The back end was at the time the world's largest public IRC network, by a factor of at least 3)

- All of the site's Flash code - the video players (live and prerecorded), the broadcaster, an embeddable version of chat, and so on

- All of the site's advertising code, including our own custom video ad server

You can't hire someone who's a specialist in all of the above ;)
The article fails to mention how they are going to attract other minority groups such as African-Americans and Hispanics.

Yes, I am playing the Devil's Advocate. You cannot give yourself a pat on the back for only tackling one segment of the diversity problem and ignoring the rest.
Funny, I posted the following to HN this morning: Acme::Pythonic - Python whitespace conventions for Perl - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5175619
"Unsupported gender stereotypes." Stated also as "opinions based on experience."

Possibly also "opinions based on experience that contradict one's equality indoctrination in kindergarten and therefore deserve loud public indignation."
It appears to work if you send the packet to the network broadcast address. Quick way to detect if any of the machines are vulnerable(they won't respond to the second ping).
I tend to agree with you and the blog post. I generally avoided those threads because it seemed like everyone was emotional. In the matter of internet v. Ortiz, I tend to agree with Ortiz.
It is, but your clients are going to complain to you.
Email apps should allow pin protection (separate from the phone pin). An email app is a door allowing access to the majority of services people want to keep secured.
Great post. As a LiveOffice customer during the time Nick described (and currently), we had no idea they were that kind of crisis. Had we known, it could have prompted us to move our business elsewhere. The archiving that LiveOffice provides is very important in meeting regulatory requirements. I think a key requirement for a company in this situation is to not lose credibility with your customers. For example, if Nick had called us and said "You always wait to the last minute to pay, can you pay us today? We are running out of cash." it would have immediately prompted us to re-evaluate our contract.
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I'll see if I can find that setting on my laptop as well :) thanks
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i think people should give it a chance, too much negativity due to fanboyism.
In my experience dealing with a similar bug (see my other post in the thread), the vendors will immediately assume it's not their problem.

They spent a long time "showing" us that a different version of the Linux kernel didn't exhibit the problem so it must be a Linux kernel bug. Turned out the different version just sent data differently so it didn't trigger the same bug with the same data. Other data would have triggered it.

I wouldn't be surprised if the majority of "bugs" they receive reports on turn out to not be bugs in their hardware. There's probably parallels with the reports of compiler bugs, most end up not being bugs in the compiler.

The unfortunate truth is that responsibility of proving it's the vendors bug falls on the customer.

I had to write a proof-of-concept "exploit" to show the problem was with their hardware, effectively troubleshooting most of the problem for them.
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Anyone use the play framework inside of IntelliJ IDEA? What's that experience like?
So if a company ever messes up then they're doomed to endlessly flounder?

Hey, you remember the Apple Lisa?
I actually did nothing special, I just installed clink as executable. Tested it in cmd.exe (you will get the message about running clink). Afterwards added a tab for cmd.exe in console2 and it worked.
Whas seems to be a problem for you?
How wide is the fixed-width website that a desktop monitor cannot display it?
This response seems a bit harsh for the question being asked. The poster went out of his way to outline 4 other hobbies that had unequal male-female ratios and that noone seems to be demanding blacksmiths include more women.

You seem to be saying the reasons behind having a 1:1 ratio are self-evident. And not saying that nicely.
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The write-up gave me the feeling that the OP did just that. My experience has been that manufacturers will blow you off unless you can provide a reproducible test case. Certainly, his company doesn't sound like it has the volume necessary to threaten Intel w/ moving to a different NIC manufacturer unless the problem is resolved. With that in mind, I think the amount of work he did was just the right amount.
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I run a website that, to date, has had very low traffic, fewer than 1k uniques / day. I expect a Fortune 500 company to link to the site via their Facebook page within a day or two. How can I estimate how much traffic will be generated?

Thanks, all.
Neither of them sold. I wonder what's next for Microsoft, they did make some computer cos mad and still didn't hit a homerun
Exactly. That's why people are seen as being too sensitive when they complain about any one specific thing.
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It's not about bugs. I believe it's more for testing the market, and helping learn about how people would react to the product.

Microsoft sometimes release products in New Zealand earlier than the rest of the world, because New Zealand is small, and unlike european countries that are closely connected to each other, it's relatively independent to the rest of the world, which makes it a good place to pilot test products. My friend there is pretty happy for always being able to try newest products.

It really can be a good thing. You get to hand on it first. And if BB find it going well in the rest of the world, they'll probably raise the price when releasing it in the US.
Given their market capitalization and their trophy cases full of design awards, I'd think otherwise. It may not be concrete logic working here, but I think using Apple is a rough rule of thumb is probably not the worst thing.
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What is the distinction in this case? Is the sexism the beliefs and mindset, and the actual hiring actions are the sexual discrimination?
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Re Imagemagick issues/questions etc, the OP did it wrong.

You need to post to the Imagemagick forums: http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/

They are extremely active and you will get a response from someone within hours.

Several of the people who frequent the IM forums are extremely experienced and helpful including:

Anthony: http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/
No, they weren't flagged off the page. The first one slowly faded to the bottom of the page, and the second got few upvotes.
I have one throw away with no friends and no info (I consider this best-practice) for these situations.
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I am planning to evaluate play! on some small projects.

Does anyone knows what are pros/cons using play with java/scala?
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This would seem to be true for any scenario where you decide to value one biological/unchangeable trait over another.
Not so much Devil's Advocate as bringing up a valid point. Most if not all social struggles are intersectional.
Source: http://dsc.discovery.com/tv-shows/curiosity/topics/10-ways-m...

The author cites several studies to back up those assertions. Agreed on the positive stereotype bit, though--I think people rely far too much on anecdotal evidence simply because the way that people talk is difficult to distill and quantify.
This is a post announcing the new release and some of the thought that went into it - we'll also have a separate, very technical post that goes into the development details. A quick mention of some:

* The frontend is entirely written in Clojurescript, which has been an almost entirely fantastic experience for lots of reasons.
* Client-side visibility via logging and event reporting into streams, including Clojure's Riemann, provides us with *actionable* real-time data about error rates, failed forms, failed profile lookups (that may succeed server-side, but were previously completely hidden to us). This is mostly switched off right now for just the bare-minimum, but will be turned up gradually and tied into things like CD.
* The frontend uses a event-bus approach for most of the UI and data flow, which provides a lot of benefits, but can be tough to debug at times. Overall, I think we're getting close to packaging up the right patterns and sharing them.

And plenty of others, but we wanted to get the product announcement out separately, and let it survive on its own merits. Feedback welcome!
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These are the kind of interviewers that keep asking technical questions until they find something you don't know, just so they can deflate your ego during the interview.

If I ask questions at difficulty levels 1-7, and you flunk 7, I know you are a 6. If I stop at 4, all I know is that you are >=4.
One place to look for a ImageMagick consultant would be to post for one under the 'consultant' section in the IM forums themselves [http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewforum.php?f=...]
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Sexism is socially systemic sexual discrimination.

Racism is socially systemic racial discrimination.

Classism is socially systemic class-based discrimination.

This is why you'll find people who say "You can't be sexist against men." You can obviously discriminate against a man based on sex, but that's not part of a larger, overarching societal norm. When the discrimination becomes routine, ingrained, and pervasive, that turns it into an 'ism.'
Hmm, it doesn't seem to be prejudice against all men, but negative stereotyping of male nerds in particular. Many men are guilty of it too, unfortunately. Even many of those who try to get more women into CS.
Go Mike! I really like this product, can't wait to try it out.
When we set out to create nCryptedCloud, we took a look at all the solutions out there. Some solutions address the private data quite nicely. However, the problem is secure collaboration. As far as I can tell, there's no way to easily share encrypted files with other people and this is one of the main problems nCryptedCloud solves.

Thank you for your feedbacks,

-V.
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Does any company in the world do something like this? If not, why make it sound like Heroku is doing something bad by not having it?

I don't think expecting people to protect their email and TOTP secrets is unreasonable, but it does go to show how vulnerable you are if your unlocked phone is stolen and you don't react quickly.

Don't give your phone to people you don't trust if it grants them this kind of access, and if somebody gets a hold of your phone or you lose it, change your passwords.