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There are still a lot of service providers that don't support multiple user accounts per organization, so if you want to share admin privileges (a good idea for redundancy) you're forced to share credentials.

We used LastPass [1] for the following reasons:

1. Works across multiple OS and device types.
2. Passwords can be either "shared" (used to auto-fill forms but not viewed) or "given".

When we did a small layoff, I insisted that we quickly change the passwords for everything [2], and LastPass made it a no-brainer to distribute the new passwords around the organization.

[1] http://www.lastpass.com/
[2] It felt somewhat harsh at the time, but I'm glad I insisted on this, because shortly after one of the founders started hypothesizing that a software bug might be due to ex-employee hacking. I was able to squash his paranoia by reminding him that the exes no longer had access. Eventually we determined that it was a pre-existing bug.
I'm living in one of these places now and I could not say enough negative things about the place or AirBNB. Its a mess, most of the rooms are either filled with beds or used entirely for furniture/tool storage. There were no shared trashbins until about 4-6 weeks after I had arrived. One of the guests had a severe breakdown and would spend hours in the middle of the night rapping or shouting at the top of the lungs, forcing his roommates to move to the permanent tents in the backyard. Eventually the guy left during one of his rants and disappeared for a few days, during which the landlord had us avoid calling the police because he did not want to have them involved. Worst of all, I feel like none of us are in a position to do anything. I complained within a few hours of arrival on my first day because the place is a mess, but AirBNB charges a months rent to leave early on a long term stay and there's nothing to gain in destroying our relatioships with the landlord. The rating system also makes it so that taking any action would probably result in an open flame war so that I'd probably get rejected by future landlords. I'll probably never use AirBNB again regardless.
I've had a lot of luck with Roboform Enterprise and KeePass. Storing the passwords in a place folks can find them has never been a problem- in a protected spreadsheet, in a heavily-locked down Sharepoint site, or in an internal-only Wiki. The real hassle is changing them all when an employee leaves, which happens a lot. Roboform has been great for storing those passwords, protecting them, and keeping us from having to give plaintext access to the passwords where it isn't required.

When you have 20+ techs accessing many different systems for many different clients each day, that feature was huge.
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I wrote a similar open source library that uses this approach last year

http://github.com/apiengine/seoserver

and the blog post related to it

http://backbonetutorials.com/seo-for-single-page-apps/
Well, sure. But it's not like that AirBnB was coming forward and discussing health and fire code implications or taxing problems with the service they created with the local authorities. AirBnB basically pushes that burden down to the host - most of whom will not read or obey the advice hidden in the FAQ. Also, I sincerely doubt that the IRS will be very forthcoming to discuss whether the current taxation rules are sensible or not with someone who's charged with avoiding taxes.

I understand that solving the problem is partially out of scope for AirBnB but so far they've been taking the easy route by ignoring and denying the problem. Reminds me of the mess über had at its hand when complaining about the taxi regulations in stockholm.
I have absolutely nothing to back this up, but I feel that the vast majority of gamers that would be interested in this game probably didn't have the slightest clue about any issues the game has had. I read tech sites regularly and as such I, like you, chose not to buy it, but it wouldn't surprise me if sales were to still be fairly good. The problems were newsworthy, but in the UK I only noticed a few articles stating the issues, and compared to other games the news seemed fairly tame when you look at the severity of the issues. It wouldn't surprise me if this news was largely ignored by those that found out through mainstream news sites.

The thought of being happy about a games failure feels quite bad, considering those that worked on it are real people who would probably like some successful projects under their belt, but in a way I'd be quite happy to see that EA had suffered because of this release.
Can we end oil subsidies yet? Or have the oil companies not made enough trillions of dollars in profit since they started receiving subsidies a century ago?

I'm all for subsidies to accelerate an emerging market or technology, especially if it's "the future", but for 5-10 years at most, until it becomes mature enough to handle itself. Subsidizing highly profitable companies for a century is beyond stupid, because it also means those companies can be a lot more wasteful, knowing the taxpayers will cover the difference.

I'd ask for an end to Middle East oil-wars, too, but that seems even less likely to happen, so I'll happily take the ending of subsidies for now.
Here's what's wrong with it (in the case of rent controlled apartments in NYC).

The city has embraced rent control as a way of foisting the cost of "affordable" housing on landlords. As a result, apartments constrained to below-market rents receive below-market maintenance. Now illegal subletters seek to capture the benefit of this market distortion.

But maybe you're right - the way to fix this problem of deteriorating housing is for the government to become more involved in micromanaging the illegal subletting.
It's nice that they are frank about it, but it is also pretty clear that any company hosting in the US, even if they are based elsewhere, is less of an appealing option to the truly security conscious (or paranoid, depends on how you look at it). Sometimes these aren't necessarily the more technical people either.

The problem is that for most services, it is hard to tell where the company is from and where they are hosted, unless you're technical enough to run a traceroute. At StartHQ we've been trying to make that easier to find for non techies and the fact that FastMail host in the US became quickly apparent via their app profile page when we first added it: https://starthq.com/apps/fastmail - there was a pretty lively discussion on FB about it at the time as well.
That's pretty impressive especially how the current trend is hitting on dropping mutual funds in favour of other investments.

Side question: How long is one allowed to hold an ETF for?
so many precautions

read up on some of the police work the feds did. this guy was careless.
Actually it is pretty well proven that milk was mainly used as dietary supplement for calcium and potassium, not vitamin D. Vegetables in northern Europe had thinner leaves because of frosty winters (we are speaking of a pre-domestication age) so the ice crystals inside of the leaves wouldn't destroy the plant. But humans get calcium and potassium mainly from thick leaves of vegetables. And that's why milk as food spread out so fast in densely habitable parts of Europe, while in sparsely populated areas there was enough meat.
You don't need a MacBook Pro to program, and in many cases it's useless for some applications (Windows applications). You can get away with a really inexpensive computer, which really lowers that number of resistors. But the important part is that you can just buy one of them, unlike resistors where you will always need to buy more to continue innovating.
Indeed, the intention was to make it easier to follow for everybody. Maybe I made a mistake :).
Also, I'm not a Mozilla employee.
Thanks for the feedback!
It's not settled that passwords are protected under the 5th amendment. The 11th circuit has so ruled (http://www.zdnet.com/blog/identity/landmark-decision-allows-...) but it's still up in the air everywhere else.
>The fact that we don't agree with a set laws, doesn't make ethical overnight to overstep, break or elude them.

That's a very controversial opinion. Do you disagree with Martin Luther King Jr.'s tactics in the civil rights movement?

"King was arrested and jailed early in the campaign—his 13th arrest[74] out of 29.[75]" - Wikipedia
True, but there still shouldn't be a shared password. Personal accounts for everyone.

For the few truly top-level master accounts around, a printed password in the safe will do fine. It should be painful and feel dangerous to use those, because it is.
If you have a good internal service for auth/z, you can store passwords for less-critical outside services in plain text files on a network filesystem, with permissions locked down so that only the relevant people can read those files. In terms of security this seems similar in strength to what Passpack does--it lets authorized users see the actual passwords if they want to, or you can build applications on top to read from the file and log in to outside services. I did something like this once for FTP-style logins, and it worked all right.

Apart from that case, you really can integrate Kerberos or similar into your own applications, using e.g. SASL.
You should first ask yourself why you have the shared password at all. Unless there is simply no other way, shared passwords and logins should be avoided for the obvious reasons.

Next you need to document the procedure for resetting each of these passwords and accounts when an employee with access is fired or quits. Resetting the password needs to happen the minute the employee leaves the building.

As for documenting the password itself, the best approach is a shared document or file with built-in access control and auditing so you can tell exactly who has seen this document (for instance, google docs. Or an "enterprise" wiki).

While you can't use technology to prevent it, there should be a policy that employees cannot distribute these passwords, period. This is why having the password reset procedure is so important.
I would use Google's online tutorial, with one caveat: The section on the use of Fragment for scale-able UI assumes you want to use the Support Library for back-compatibility. This creates some complications and it is perfectly valid to choose not to support Android 2.3 at this point.

The Support Library has two purposes: To provide back compatibility for classes like Fragment that are not supported in Android 2.3 and earlier, and to provide new classes that are not part of any Android release yet.

Especially for a beginner, you will have an easier time with Action Bar and Fragment if you are not using the Support Library.
I couldn't (easily) live in another place than where I live right now. I have friends, contracts I know where to get my things.

Maybe he's like me.
A non compounded IYY (A dow index fund) return would be 15.5% over the same interval if todays price of 85 and 3 years ago of 58 is correct. Too early in the morning for me to correct for compounding.

The problem with low interest rates / low returns isn't so much a cherry picked three years from last trough to current near peak, but longer term. Look at the yield of the SP500 from 2000 to 2010 for a decade long perspective, for example. That's where losing a couple percent is a big deal.
Oh, and another thing:

While Peoplebank can charge a "reasonable" fee for updating the information, I would argue that $75 is excessive. I'd love to see a breakdown of how they have charged this. As for the argument that they are using a relational database, this is ridiculous. They don't input their data via raw database SQL, and I'm certain their systems allow for updating of information via some sort of web front end. I'd be asking them to justify their charges.
We used to have a spreadsheet with a silly password that could be hacked in 1 minute using rainbow tables.
Now we moved to a shared Google spreadsheet. Not really that much more secure, but at least it's easier to manage.
To be precise, transactions must explicitly state all output addresses, and the default behavior of the client is to transfer the "change" back to a new address owned by the party doing the transaction to increase anonymity. It is however possible to redirect the change back to the original address.
Open idea 
If you idea you want to get feedback and check that with other ...
I will start with me
i have idea to convert phone number to web site
to build social network for phone number
What do you think about this?
Is it useful?
Do you want to use it?
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The thought exercises are fascinating. Say he has a completely trustworthy friend somewhere that the FBI is unaware of. Could he have that person spend a little, back up that copy again, and effectively keep that FBI from ever getting that money?

Also, surely a backup exists. What is an effective way to backup the wallet so that it can survive decades of prison time? Particularly if a trustworthy friend does not exist?
That's actually illegal.
Facebook has always been at war with Eastasia, err, Google.
Which of the following NoSQL databases have you used?
The asset seizure issue with regards to bitcoin is interesting, but not unprecedented. A lot of the same issues that come up here come up in the more traditional context of seizing assets stashed in Bermuda, etc. You have Bermudan banks that won't allow access to assets without consent from the owner, and the question is whether giving that the owner can be forced to sign the consent form or whatever.
.. and if it was not some kind of brain-wallet (supported by Electrum, etc.). If it was, then the wallet can be regenerated from memorized hash.
How long are people even going to care about them bungling things like this? Admittedly, I'm not a super hardcore gamer, but as indie games and iOS games achieve ever higher levels of polish and depth, I find it hard to lament any one company's flops - there's too much good stuff out there to enjoy in just about every genre.
I agree with the larger point you're making, but one nitpick:

> AirBnB isn't competing with luxury apartment rentals.

Have you seen some of the houses listed on AirBnB? There are some that ask like $3000 per night. Luxury apartment rentals have all the right reasons to be worried here.
And now he'll be living in prison. Though in fairness, the US would've probably extradited him from wherever he was worldwide anyway.
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Tell me this though. Someone who will install Bedrock Linux is most likely a more advanced linux user. Would they not just compile from source instead of installing this disto? Should I install a whole different distro just to get pre-packaged software? I think not.
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A comment befitting your nickname. The array of empty liquor bottles after fridays party agrees with you.
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Because it makes the troll more elegant and pure.
It's funny how Yahoo Maps use HERE Maps with minimal coverage of Japan
We've been using PassPack for a while but it's more of a pain to use than a pleasure.

The biggest issue is that password entries are owned by a single user and then selectively shared to other users. It means that if you want to have an overview of all the passwords you need to make sure to have a "owner" account to whom you transfer ownership to, and then make sure to share the password back with you and potentially others.
It would be much more practical to have a notion of bucket/group that a list of users can access and modify.
There seems to be some confusion about the tax issue here .. many commenters seem to think that AirBnB hosts are avoiding tax on their income via AirBnB. That's simply not true, in fact AirBnB reports this income to the IRS and you are required to fill out a tax form to continue hosting.

The issue at question is a tiny (% wise) hotel tax. In my view AirBnB is not resisting this tax for its own sake, but rather because it risks classifying hosts as hotel operators.

AirBnB is a wonderful service, and yes it has flaws, but NYC is caving to the demands of political interests who know how to play the lobbying game.
In my experience this is what it often boils down to. If access control isn't possible, it immediately and totally rules out using that service. For many companies this is how they have to operate for auditing purposes, and they have to be audited otherwise their clients can't use them, etc.

Although to be honest, out sourcing things like this is often not possible in itself. For internal passwords, everything should be linked to a single-sign-on system of some sort I think.
I keep a 6 month emergency fund as well. Not only does it cushion me from something like a layoff, it also gives me the freedom to resign, should I run into something unreasonable or unethical. As a rule, I try to prevent myself from being backed into a corner.
Thanks for the kind words! I would say Mozilla is in good hands and it seems to me that it's getting better and better.
The profit is flowing to tax havens.
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after shuffling Ross from horrible prison to horrible prison and making his prison life miserable on purpose...

So Ross,
how about you tell us the password and instead of 14 life sentences you get only 20 years?
I have used it 5 times (some whole apt, some rooms). In _general_ it works o.k I travel a lot and the amount of work that one has to do (back and forth with host, broken calendaring, shady host) etc only makes sense for longer stays. If I am only going to be at place for a weekend, I'll book a hotel and be done with it.

It isn't feedback against bad hosts, it is the amount of work that it takes to _not_ get a bad host which isn't comparable to weeding out bad hotels.
Good question. Immobilise focuses on stolen rather than lost items, and relies on contact with a participating Police force.

One of our main aims with LoseProof is to make the process of recovering a lost item quicker, easier and more convenient. We also have a low entry cost (vs. other similar products), which lets users protect items that might have a lower physical value, but immeasurable personal worth.
If things are that bad, big movements on water and energy markets will influence each other (because you can use energy to purify or desalinate water).
There was a discussion on this earlier as well but regarding food checks that happen annually if that. Just because it's regulated doesn't mean there is an efficient means in place to assure compliance day in and day out. You're tax dollars are being burned assuring compliance would be an additional burden you don't further want. I think if there is a guarantee of some specified level of sanitary quality (for lack of better word) before you signup for a hotel you are free to sue them if you discover they broke that contract. I know this sounds absurd but you're also free to bring in your own sheets and pillows. My point is that regulation and oversight in this centralized manner should be the last resort.
If you've got an LP allele, neither are you.
Oil subsidies are the only reason the US is an energy production leader, not unlike how corn subsidies are the only reason corn-based ethanol is competitive.

Ending subsidies cannot be done -- it needs to be accomplished as a side-effect of ending political interference. The oil lobby and corn lobby are very powerful.
I read the entire thing and I think what you said is the easy but not necessarily accurate conclusion. The site was in business since February of 2011. The operator of the site was careful enough that they successfully ran the world's largest black market website for over 2.5 years. Doesn't really align with a characterization of "careless".

Sure, he re-used a few login names but I don't know how many people could've successfully gone without doing that over a 2.5 year period. I think it's more accurate to say he "wasn't perfectly careful" than it is to say he was careless.
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The original was sourced on HN a few days ago and I believe Alexa was used.
This is interesting as a more generic case: before criminals had to stash their money in a hide in case they got caught and into prison. Now they can convert the money into bitcoins and simply arrange that they can't unlock the wallet. Things that help:

- you can make indefinite copies of your locked wallet so TLA basically can't confiscate it

- you can protect your wallet with a secret (passphrase and/or a key) so that they can't unlock it

- you can distribute the secret among several people using one of the secret sharing protocols

- or hide it steganographically in an ordinary file while the TLA in question still can't prove it's there
> moral obligation

Keep in mind that these companies' only obligations are to their shareholders.
I've been working at banks and financial institutions for years, and am currently working at a large investment bank and do not agree with you.

Yes, these large institutions have to support older technologies, but they are still creating innovations in the way the author suggests. There are several products out there available to the public that are better than what some banks are putting out, but the products banks are making for their core clients that aren't the general public as very good and relevant to those niche users.
It boils down to this: the United States needs to have a sphere of influence (good or bad) within Africa to compete with China, which is pumping billions into various African countries' infrastructure. The strategy as given in the article is debatable.
> There are some that ask like $3000 per night. Luxury apartment rentals have all the right reasons to be worried here.

That seems to me to be more of a competitor to luxury hotel rentals. Luxury apartment buildings don't rent per night (and many don't rent on terms shorter than say six months or even a year). Indeed, one of the things renters of luxury apartments look for is a lack of short-term or hotel rentals.

To the extent apartment buildings are in competition with AirBnB, it's from people leasing out their condos for 6-12+ months. Can you even do that on AirBnB?
I don't think this is something that can be won, really, other than in a politics and power influence sense. Not to take analogies to where they oversimplify things, but this is similar to M.A.D.; we share the damage we do, locally, then globally. For us, the shortcut to energy production is in the industry already in place (with its centuries-old history and political power). Until that shifts, we'll keep going the same direction and worry about long term when we have to.
Solar energy production is still in its infancy when you compare it to fossil fuels production, in China or anywhere else. I suspect the high output of actual solar panels are more (or just as much) a symptom of market than environmental concerns.
Problems in finance, like computer science, can often be solved through a layer of indirection.
> Luxury apartment rentals have all the right reasons to be worried here.

I doubt that. AirBnB is in the "give me an apartment for a short-term stay" market while luxury apartment rentals are more in the "I'd like to rent an apartment for living" market. Judging from a quick lock on the website, Glenwood Real Estate Corp doesn't want to go in the short-term rental market either.