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> WTF is this "urgent"? How might this affect "all internet users"?

Suppose you have a domain registered with Namecheap (or really anyone). You've reused your password and the attackers get into your account at the registrar. What does that get them?

First they change the MX record for your domain. Immediately they're receiving all your email. Now that they control your email they can get a domain-validated certificate for your domain. Then they can change all your other DNS records to point at their servers and operate them with valid TLS certificates and MITM all the connections to your real servers. Then they can collect all the credentials of users using your website including the administrative credentials that allow them to compromise your real servers. Now they have all your data and your users' data and your password database and your website is hosting malware.

There are very few things more compromising to large numbers of people than attackers quietly getting control of multiple legitimate active domains.
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After we got acquired in June I hired a nutritionist to help me get onto a low-carb diet. I'm down about 42 lbs so far and it hasn't been hard at all. The trickiest part is the questions, comments and eye-rolling when I take the bun off my burger or whatnot.

The other thing I've noticed is how different my moods are when I'm "sugar-free". Routine tasks that typically bore me to tears become much more manageable and I'm able to just sit and think for longer. YMMV
You may be talking about CraftBukkit, which is a modified server using decompiled binaries (now has official upstream blessing).

There is some work done to clean up function names (see http://mcpold.ocean-labs.de/index.php/Main_Page) but yes, you may see obfuscated names.
It might be a good idea to link to the FAQ instead of the subreddit. It has an overview of the chemistry behind the diet -- for example, the use of urinalysis test strips.

http://www.reddit.com/r/keto/wiki/faq
I tried this several years ago and still see green and pink when I look at the black and white lines. The green in particular is quite strong.
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Important questions that should be put to Apple and Google loudly and frequently: Why don't we have baseband transparency to know what our phones are connected to? Why don't we have baseband firewalls?
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Guidelines state that we shouldn't complain about the appropriateness of submissions. Just flag them and move on.

Don't forget to flag clutter like this to keep HN on-track.
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This is fantastic news. Openness isn't inherently good; sharing everything and allowing others into our lives isn't automatically better.

Not only because of the attacks and general constant stream of stupid "content" that comes from even the most interesting of people, but since social networks make us unhappy.

Hopefully people will stop using broadcast based social networking. You heard it here first, one to one communication is the next big thing (tm)
This is just my own personal observation, but all the vegetarians I know try to stay away from high carb diets, and specifically do not eat a lot of pasta or grains. Some do consume far too much fruit (often in the form of guzzling fruit juice), thinking that fructose is fine in any quantity so long as it's "natural sugar."

I just always assumed a carb heavy vegetarian diet is entirely contradictory to the health benefits a vegetarian is often seeking from their diet.
Well written.

I first passed thru ShenZhen in 1985, when it indeed was a sleepy fishing village of 10,000 people. At that time I continued on to attend 北京大学 (Beijing University), living in 中关村 (ZhongGuanCun), where many high-tech HQ's (such as BaiDu, Sina Weibo) are now.

ShenZhen has grown overnight to the 4th largest city in China, and your description of it is superb.

Joi Ito hits the nail on the head, as do you.
Well, they did have roughly equal results if you look at the study. Both groups went from obese to slightly less obese. That said I don't follow your reasoning about equivalence. One diet was low carb. The other allowed for quite a bit of both fat and carbohydrate. Can't you see the difference?
It seems like an API to check compromised account / password combinations against a database of breached accounts could be useful.

Websites could check users aren't reusing a compromised password either at account creation, or as a one-time check as existing user log in.
I don't really see Quora ever getting the regular Joes.
I've studied probability theory, maybe more than you. I like it. But nothing from probability theory suggests why "size" and "power" might be useful properties in test statistics. Without other ideas like those, doing useful statistics would be pretty tough.

I notice you didn't propose a way to choose the sample size for a randomized trial in your reply. I'd love to see it -- using only probability theory and nothing from the stats literature. ;)
I recommend Lyle MacDonald, http://www.bodyrecomposition.com he's quite scientific to his approach, plenty of material can be found on youtube and on those 'sites' you know of ;)

Pdf such has http://www.bodyrecomposition.com/the-rapid-fat-loss-handbook have helped me structure great nutrition programs.
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That was true in MS-DOS and Windows 9x. Fixed in Windows NT.
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What annoys me, is how certain the vast majority of nutritionists were, despite the lack of clear scientific trials, that dietary fat would lead to heart disease.

Seriously - how difficult would it have been to do a couple-hundred person trial for a year or so to get some confirmation? And yet, billions of dollars (10s of billions?) of policy and dietary guidance were based on this poorly supported theory.
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Yeah, I certainly don't miss that "hey a sugar donut would be awesome right now" feeling I used to get when trying to get work done, now that I'm off carbs.
Alcohol was a real pain to cut out, although it's been some years now.

I've tried many times to cut out chocolate, and managed for up to 6 months at a time before coming crashing down. A few months ago I switched to "mindful eating", which says I can eat chocolate whenever I want, and life has been better.
I've made two concerted attempts at diet adjustment via low-carb diets. The first time, I made it about 3 months and was done in by my inability to fight the snacking urge. I couldn't sleep at night because I was so consumed by wanting to munch on something crunchy.

I'm about 2 months into round 2 now, a few years later, and snacking hasn't been much of an issue at all. The difference: The first time, I was also working out for about 90 minutes a day while this time I'm doing no exercise beyond a good bit of walking around town each day.

When I do need a snack, my go-tos are cold cuts (turkey or ham) and dill pickles, which I find I can eat by the jarful without much impact on my diet.
> It is native compilation with no runtime required

Go certainly has a runtime!
The Talmud Eruvin 18a elucidates on this.

Think about it - first it says he created both male and female, yet apparently there is just a single male. And only later does a female appear.

What actually happened is that he created male and female as a joint being, and only later did he separate them.

The word "Rib" is a mistranslation, the correct translation is "Side". (Rib doesn't make any sense anyway, Male and Female have the same number of ribs.)
Modern browser features have led to higher battery consumption on the whole. The number of sites that can peg a CPU core is staggering

If people are having consistently poor mobile experiences because of poor battery optimisation across websites, that should create market demand for smarter devices/mobile browsers, better development tools and modern standards etc., right?

I'm not sure how constantly trying to get people to download Chrome makes them either more educated or engaged. It strikes me to be the opposite.

Well of course. When Google nags people to download Chrome, they're advertising their own services and fostering ecosystem lock-in. It might technically equate to a public service if their primary target market is out-of-date IE users, but that's incidental. It's an entirely different issue to what's at discussion here. Regardless, it does at least raise awareness of browser choice and habituate people to such (to users such as us) very basic actions as downloading, installing and trying out alternative software programs.
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that is a very fair statement
The Zone diet works pretty well which call for a balanced diet with smaller portions, lots of veggies, way less meat. It advocates grazing, as oppose to 3 meals a day. After all we're not farmers of days past anymore, so we should adapt to modern life eating patterns.
That's an interesting result. I seem to see one or the other result in people that try it. Either they feel extremely full from high protein diets, or the exact opposite.

I would cook two chicken breasts for dinner (400x calories, 80x g protein) and it felt like I didn't want to eat for a week afterward.
Can you quantify how much meat you were eating? I did a similar diet and found that, depending on exercise level, I needed between 1 and 3 lbs of red meat per day. I suspect most people who are hungry on a meat and greens diet are accustomed to eating much, much, smaller portions of meat, hence why they are so hungry, but it would be interesting to find counter examples.
That's my guess. Plants are symptoms of a good work environment rather than the cause.

Personally I don't care one way or the other. As long as it's cool, clean, relatively quiet, and I have a comfortable chair and a nice keyboard I'm good. But I don't put up any pictures or nicknacks either. I guess I prefer clutter free space.
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How can you possibly say that people who try and support their families on a minimum wage salary are mostly lazy bums who don't work?

That would indeed be a silly thing to say.

Data is always welcome.

Work habits: http://www.bls.gov/cps/cpswp2012.pdf

Disposable income: http://johnhcochrane.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/taxes-and-cliffs...

Consumption: http://www.bls.gov/cex/22013/midyear/income.pdf
Pork rinds.
We don't typically recruit junior developers being a startup as we want the person to hit the ground running. But bigger companies sure do hire junior developers as they have the leeway to groom them for bigger tasks.

I'm sure there are enough avenues for junior developers, purely going by the salaries that are being doled out by these companies for INTERNS, what with $4,000-$6,000/month salaries. For INTERNS!
That is the main reason I restrict carbs. I have tried a variety of low carb diets, starting with Tim Ferris' slow carb, (because I was starting to get a little puffy around the middle) then an atkins style, then a strict paleo a la Robb Wolf, then, intermittent fasting with mostly only meat-and-greens.

Regardless of the specific diet, my energy levels and moods are so much more consistent with reduced carbs, I continue to restrict carbs regardless of other hypothetical benefits.
Yeah but think about the data they had. They didn't have massive fast food and snack food industries that were primarily carb based, and so people who overate overate fats much more frequently than they do now.

The certainty you dislike is the same certainty I react against with the low carb movement.

We are only certain of two things:

1) Having less fat on your body is healthier (to an extent) and will help prevent things like heart disease, diabetes etc.

2) If you have too much fat lowering caloric consumption will make you burn it.

Anything else is speculation.

> Seriously - how difficult would it have been to do a couple-hundred person trial for a year or so to get some confirmation? And yet, billions of dollars (10s of billions?) of policy and dietary guidance were based on this poorly supported theory.

Really difficult, actually. And doing it without pissing off a major industry is impossible.
Eggs are probably "mostly fine" to be honest. Most homes could easily raise their own chickens and have a nearly unlimited supply.

As a prepper and a homesteader (amateur/beginner), I realize that low carb and high fat/meat isn't really feasible when SHTF, and I mostly stock lentils, pintos, rice, wheat, quinoa, and a few other standard staples. They stay good, when properly sealed for like 25 years (quinoa only 8 years or so though...). No meat known to man (or at least myself) does that. Also, even doing basic homesteading, you tend to eat more veggies and much less meat.

In the meantime, I admit that I eat plenty of meat, and could probably raise a cow or some pigs, or at the very least do the rabbit thing, but it's a lot of work and planning, and it's just easier to get your meat from a can in an emergency situation.

Edit: I prep for emergencies, FWIW, not health. Calories and nutrition are the major requirements.
Could we as a society maybe tone down the SJW just a bit? They're pictures of women. Big deal.
It doesn't have anything like Playgrounds, but, as it's from Jetbrains, it does have very good IntelliJ support.
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Modern browser features have, like all change in the world, opened up some potentially problematic paths. But your frustration is misguided. Be upset with the people/sites that abandon standards or suck up processing power for an article.

I'm curious what prompts this frustration?
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As an embedded linux hacker I am very happy to see articles like this. I just opened my small firm in Shenzhen to do hardware and embedded linux software. The ecosystem there is just unbeatable and the willingness of engineers there to get job done is hard to find here at US at the moment.

USA, by all means, is under attack in this regard. Unless one day the kids here put education first, I somehow feel the future is hopeless.
197lbs for a 6'2" person doesn't sound that terrible, honestly. I would think you look better than without the 70 pounds you gained. That height at ~130lbs just sounds deadly thin.
This is awesome! I'm expecting an audio version, soon-ish :)
Hope to meet with you one day at SZ, I am running a small embedded system firm there and visit SZ frequently.
The kinds of conversations I have seen on Quora and arguments about god and other things have led me to believe it's already kind of overrun with silliness.
But the point of the representation is that locations can easily and unambiguously be stored in a single number, say a 64bit integer. A bit array necessarily has some overhead to specify the number of bits; something unnecessary in this proposal. Yes a standard using two bits per sector and specifying how many bits have been used in the actual representation is easier for a human to start to decipher, but it requires more information to be unambiguous and doesn't have as nice a binary representation (I'd rather have a fixed sized larger representation that the more complex one needed for an arbitrary sized bit array).
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In-n-Out : Double Meat Animal and Protein style...

Protein means they wrap it in lettuce instead of a bun.

You can also go the double double but I'm not a big fan of the cheese...
I was just starting to really like Twitter. Is it really the end? I have my doubts. Something is going to have replace it first, and it wont be Facebook since Facebook has conflicts family and private groups with public sharing.
For another random data point:

There's an old book called "Life without bread" that was a pre-Atkins low carb diet written by a German Doctor named Wolfgang Lutz. He claimed that, after much trial and error, 72 grams (about 6 slices of bread) was the cutoff, and further restriction didn't particularly help patients in any measurable way.

Leben Ohne Brot (Life Without Bread)
http://www.amazon.com/Life-Without-Bread-Low-Carbohydrate-Di...
Well, HN used to be much more technical early on, so I'm sure some would argue it's already happened.

Long gone are the days of waking up to a front page full of Erlang posts in an attempt to scare off the general public whenever there was press about HN. I think it's been accepted that HN is more just general interest about startups these days.
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I'm not a heavy user of Twitter, although I've been a member since 2008. Mostly I check in a couple times per week with a few people that matter to me. The first time I noticed just how bad the 'people just misunderstand' effect now is, I was observing Richard Dawkins argue on his Twitter about simple logic concepts, and the people that were arguing against him could not grasp even rudimentary concepts of logic. It was terrible to observe.

Or another example: I randomly ran across Dax Shepard making a point about sugar consumption and the rise of diabetes ( https://twitter.com/daxshepard1/status/498145203639685120 ). Many replies were pointing out that type 1 diabetes isn't acquired from a sugar heavy diet (which was blatantly not his point). Type 2 diabetes is over 95% of diabetes cases in America, and that's obviously what he meant. Could the audience be that stupid?

I suppose it's the MySpace'ification of Twitter; that point where mass-appeal or distribution has been reached. I don't think I've seen any mega-sized, public service that this hasn't happened to (it's a non-stop complaint on Reddit for example).
In a completely unrelated matter, I liked the Dave Matthews Band before they were cool.

Seriously though, the revelation that the "unwashed masses" now dominate a platform is pretty much commonplace. Twitter has, for me, become a news stream and very little more.

I did an experiment where I recorded and released a song a day, and nobody really noticed; I promoted via social media and all that, but really, there's so much noise, so much of a firehose, that unless you are watching the stream when something posts, you're going to miss it.

It's neat in a way, but it's also, exactly as the author says, no longer the intimate gather place.

Ah well, back to IRC then. :)
Interesting to learn those details.

What brought you to Shenzhen? How were the first years there?

Would be happy to read a blog post on this :)
Whatever the solution is, it needs to allow remote permits. e.g., I need to be able to grant an employee access to my NameCheap account for client work purposes.
Why did this go unnoticed for 6 years?
True, and whoever pulls it off is the next Mark Shuttleworth, if not the next Bill Gates.
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How often are frequency-domain tools actually used on perfectly periodic signals?

The mathematics assumes the sample is of a (bandlimited) periodic signal, but so what? What is of interest here is the power spectrum of the sample.
(Namecheap user here. Just set up 2FA.)

Could you have people adding multiple phone numbers to the 2FA process and then allow someone to set their preferred, whitelisted number for the SMS?

I need to grant access to a second account to purchase services on my behalf. Does your solution of granting domain modification access work in that case or are we going to have to deal with the SMSes?

Also, is there a plan to upgrade the internal tools that don't much the newer public design? It's pretty jarring.
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Anyone even vaguely interested in radio would be well served by getting an amateur radio license. There's a simple test to prove that you understand the laws and safety aspects, and then you are allowed to transmit in a large number of bands across the spectrum.

ARRL (US) "New hams":
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RSGB (UK) "Getting started":
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Amateur radio isn't just about sending morse code to your friends in neighboring states - there are a growing number of digital modes and even people that bounce signals off the moon.
Sure. Bread. It's so convenient and easy, and it shows up in 90% of the things that you might be able to get for breakfast and lunch at the average food joint.
I'm sure that's part of it, but I've had great success with no-carb diets (ketogenic) and I guarantee I eat more calories than most people do, even with snacks.

When you take the carbs out, your body starts using body fat for energy. It's great, really.
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There was actually a NASA study about which plants clean the air for space stations. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_Clean_Air_Study or
I like the approach explained here:

http://www.try-alf.org/blog/2013-10-21-relations-as-first-cl...

Is something like:

requester_city = 'Paris'
solution = suppliers

# 1). A supplier may only see information about the suppliers located
# in the same city than himself.
solution = restrict(solution, city: requester_city)

# 2) The supplier's `status` is sensitive and should not be displayed.
solution = allbut(solution, [:status])

# 3). The country name must be displayed together with the supplier's city.
solution = join(solution, cities)

The good idea is that is composable. You can query by all the solution =
Carbs(aka glucose) is a poisonous substance and as soon as your body detects the glucose it releases insulin. The Insulin lowers blood glucose levels by forcing the glucose to move into your fat cells as fat(through a long chain reaction).

So carbs essentially become fat.

If you don't eat carbs your body doesn't release insulin so you can't store anything as fat. In fact once you truly go very low carb your body releases whatever hormone is the opposite of Insulin which allows fat to be released from your fat cells and used as energy.

The low carb diet makes sense to me because of the basic biology that I know. (I am not an expert and these are just my thoughts).
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