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Anyone else remember that time Dropbox accidentally turned off authentication and you could log in as anyone?

https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2011/06/21/dropbox-lets-any...
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Too bad VMWare's management API's suck a big dick.
Since I sense (from the phrase "the rich") that you mean it as something bad: it's not. Just imagine whom would you rather lend your hard-earned money to: a wealthy investor with a proven track record, or a regular Joe. Well, that's exactly what the bank you keep your money it is doing.
Apparently not! =) but good try

> "Update 15 Jun 2015: Someone was wrong on the internet and this time it was me! Astute readers will notice that a tiny off-by-one bug in my implementation (see the fifth revision) led it to generate a lock with three tumblers with eleven letters each, and one tumbler with ten letters.

The new best lock from this implementation only generates 1,161 words, leaving Norvig’s solution the best still:

Lock: ABCDLMPRST AEHILNORUY AEILMNORST ADEKLNOSTY"
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We have multiple different pages. In our cluster we have 3 machines and if one of them is unavailable because of broken network, we do not page. In this case the page came as an application error that the application was not able to cope with. When we have issue that we have seen before and the server can handle it on its own, we do not page.
They offered a compensation in the forms of treasure bonds, payable in 20 years.

The Revolution was not marxist until 1961, two years after Castro came into power, and after the USA began being openly hostile to it.

People there were literally dying of hunger, the redistribution of land succeeded in feeding them.

But of course seizing the land owned by a corporation is a violation of Human Rights, whereas underpaying workers to the point they die of starvation is just business. /s
Umm, wasn't something like this a standard thing already long ago? I gave the exercise lessons for programming courses at TKK (now Aalto University) over 25 years ago, and in the bigger lecture halls, we had a system where there were four or five blackboards rotating up/down with an electric control. So you'd fill one blackboard, and then push a button, and the used up blackboard would lift up, remain visible, and you'd go on with the next blackboard. The system looked like it had been in use since the 1960's when the campus was built.
Honestly, I don't think that argument holds much water.

Init systems are not "just shell". If you go and try to write a sysv init script with only shell skills, chances are your init script will be broken in some obscure way. Perhaps because you didn't specify LSB headers correctly, or your PID file handling is subtly broken, or you're missing a check somewhere and the script is racey. I can't really say how much reading it would take to catch all the corner cases with sysv init scripts, but for simple cases, you will be able to write a correct unit file after about 15 minutes of reading the manuals.

Knowing shell helps, but you'll still need the tool-specific knowledge.
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This was discussed here before: "One sentence per line, please", https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4642395
"there’s no way to tell when a marker is running low"

Hm, maybe that's a problem that can be solved and earn the inventor good money?
> BitLocker is Microsoft's native file encryption program. Yes, it's from a big company. But it was designed by my colleague and friend Niels Ferguson, whom I trust.

Nullius in verba
This is one of the main themes of the documentary Fed Up - the food & beverage industry have sold us a lie about the US obesity crisis (people are obese because they don't exercise enough) - while downplaying their involvement (hiding\obfuscating sugar in the nutrition information of "healthy" options, lobbying to have Pizza classified as a "vegetable" portion in school meals, etc). It's worth checking out: http://fedupmovie.com/
I've used ed(1) to do complex(ish) programmatic edits to files that I think would have been extremely painful otherwise. An interesting editor worth spending at least a small amount of brainpower on.
I think it's a pretty good idea, thanks for the suggestion. I just added it to the 'about' section on my blog: http://madebynathan.com/
I had one response from the most recent thread, but my rate was too high. Hard to stand out from the crowd with 289 comments, though.
According to other comments here, your LastPass master password is used both to encrypt your stored passwords and as the password to log into their cloud storage. So someone compromising the login processing would also get the keys to the password encryption for the compromised accounts.

With 1Password and Dropbox the 1Password master password and the Dropbox login password should be unrelated. My Dropbox password, in fact, is a long password generated by 1Password's password generator. If someone gets a hold of it by compromising Dropbox, they might then get a copy of my encrypted passwords, but they get no clue to my 1Password master password.

There is some unencrypted non-password data in 1Password's data, so I'd not be happy if Dropbox were compromised, but it would not be a disaster.
I remember the only problem with cutting the notch to make the disc double sided was it turned the other way when upside down and the dust collected by the fabric hair brush unloaded all the dust back onto the disc :)
It's a whole different cup of tea though, this compromise required the attacker(s) to go in, download data and get out. Your scenario would also require the attacker to have changed their site and go unnoticed for any significant amount of time.

If that was the case I'm sure Lastpass would've found out and reported as such.
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There's a clause which mentions that if they receive a legal claim based on your content they'll send you another email asking you to indemnify them, which you may or may not choose to reply to in the unlikely event of it actually happening
(presumably this time, since it's more serious, it'll be opt in, and exactly like DMCA requests they'll take the content off their digital property if you don't explicitly agree to indemnify them and assert your right to publish the content)

Again, I don't see any issue to take with the wording acknowledging the existence of a process whereby their lawyers might send me an email in the event of future complaints. There is no indemnification clause unless and until you receive that email and respond by agreeing to indemnify Apple.
My bet is on 3d-printing, probably used alongside with some kind of CV-assisted robotic assembly, with an HDL-based design toolchain. I'm trying to use a simple robotic manipulator to pick up and put electronic components and pour conductive paste to a 3d-printed board (while it is being printed). Trying to compensate a lack of mechanical precision with CV, sort of like what we do with our own imperfect fingers.
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GitLab CEO here, I think Hortonworks is 100% open source. And we like to think that open core is a better model (making the core experience of the product open source instead of just tools surrounding it).
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I don't know how Leo leveled up, but really, there are two things you need to do to improve your style:

Figure out what to practice, then practice :-)

That's what I'm currently doing with j2c, a small js library.

After writing the core (JS object to CSS compiler) in a couple of evenings, I decided to play the open source game, polish the API, bullet-proof the test suite and write good docs. That took much more time, and I'm not fixed yet on the final API.
Isn't it obvious - you BMR is 2-3 times higher than your all other energy expenditures for the day. If you overeat nothing can save you ...
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None of these helps with implementing AST visitors. I was rather talking about things like Scrap Your Boilerplate or Nanopass.
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Getting Started in Electronics by Forrest Mims III is a good one for a gentle introduction.

But the standard bible, which is also a great source for beginners, is the Art of Electronics by Horowitz & Hill (just came out with 3rd edition). There's an associated Lab Manual which I also recommend.

AoE stems from a set of lecture notes the authors used in their Physics 123 class at Harvard, which is electronics for experimentalists. I took this class in 1999, AoE was the textbook, and it was amazing. You had people across the spectrum, like psychology and music students, who in about 13 weeks learned from scratch most concepts and components of both analog and digital electronics. The pinnacle of the analog half was one lab where we designed and built a system to take an input audio signal, PWM modulate it as pulses of IR light and flash it across the room to a circuit that received, demodulated, and amplified back to audio. The second half of the class was digital electronics where we started with glue logic and ended by building a breadboard 68000 computer. We programmed it in machine code (they had available external assemblers end EEPROM burners for those of us that wanted to go further). Some students went to amazing depths beyond. Eg, in the Lab Manual they showed some student projects where they took two computer-controlled DAC's and fed them into an oscilloscope in XY mode and made games like PacMan and Asteroids.

Not bad for a one-semester class of students who came in with minimal understanding of electronics.
The premise that the traditional media has been doing a competent job with in-depth investigative journalism is a false one. They have not been. More so, the subset of the media that has been doing that work, such as it is, is still very much smaller than the current remaining size of traditional media. Additionally, organizations that do a good job on such things are overall the least under threat of not existing in the near future.

Secondarily, the idea that there is some sort of strong divide between "bloggers" and "journalists" is a fantasy. A journalist is someone who does journalism, period. It doesn't require a degree or special training, it requires doing it well. And there are many folks who have been doing it well despite being outside the realm of traditional journalism. It's insulting to call them "bloggers" or "amateurs" or whatever other nickname you can throw at them. To the degree that they do professional quality journalism, they are journalists.

Meanwhile, we labor under this idea that the established news media has been a particularly good example of journalistic quality. Largely this is because there weren't other examples to compare against. The reality is that the actual quantity of legitimate reporting, investigation, and worthwhile analysis in a newspaper or in a TV news broadcast has generally been incredibly tiny. A slim collection of pages, a handful of minutes. But we've gotten used to the patterns, the production values, the mythos, the sense of gravitas.

The reality is that most of it is pablum and the rest is thin gruel. CNN? An alien from another planet who just landed on Earth would look at the media and tell you to your face that there is a hair's breadth difference between CNN and buzzfeed, and not always necessarily in the favor of CNN. Most of the rest of the media is in the same shape, with only the tiniest handful of exclusions.

As you allude, preserving the traditional media isn't the right way to solve the problem, because they weren't solving it. Indeed, in some cases (FOX News, etc.) they have a tendency to make their viewers less informed and more ignorant. We shouldn't be asking ourselves how to get back to the glory days of the traditional media, that's largely a fantasy. We should be asking ourselves how people become informed in the digital age, and that's a much vaster topic than just the "news".
So AIG head Greenberg was indeed correct in claiming the government overstepped its legal boundaries in its "unduly harsh treatment of AIG in comparison to other institutions" which was "misguided and had no legitimate purpose."

Further interesting quotes:

"The weight of the evidence demonstrates that the Government treated AIG much more harshly than other institutions in need of financial assistance. In September 2008, AIG’s international insurance subsidiaries were thriving and profitable, but its Financial Products Division experienced a severe liquidity shortage due to the collapse of the housing market. Other major institutions, such as Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, and Bank of America, encountered similar liquidity shortages. Thus, while the Government publicly singled out AIG as the poster child for causing the September 2008 economic crisis (Paulson, Tr. 1254-55), the evidence supports a conclusion that AIG actually was less responsible for the crisis than other major institution."

The illegality of this decision may also have dramatic repercussions for all future government/Fed bailouts of further banks.
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Perhaps a solution is reducing the friction of learning the first steps beyond assembly language? These trading cards seem to be a step in the right direction (e.g. Towards the goal of learning in a few years the kind of knowledge which the old analog wizards amassed over the course of an entire career).

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Bias isn't necessarily a bad thing in reporting, in many ways it's good to have an agenda (examples: anti-corruption, pro-world peace, pro liberty, etc.) It's when the agenda overrides the facts or when the agenda is covert rather than overt that things get messy.
What do you mean "when"? Google was hacked quite thoroughly by China a few years past. Not to mention the NSA.
The Fed's answer to all this:

http://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/press/other/2015061...

"The Federal Reserve strongly believes that its actions in the AIG rescue during the height of the financial crisis in 2008 were legal, proper and effective."
Doesn't matter, had bolt cutters. While it's easy to open most of these combination locks, it's always faster just cutting through it. So two locks won't help at all if one takes under five seconds to get through. One proper lock that can't be cut with smaller cutters and a hope is all you need. Hope that someone with a bigger cutter, pneumatic one, or an angle grinder won't come/
GitLab CEO here, thanks for mentioning GitLab. I think a 'tag-only' user is an interesting idea. What do you use these build tags for?
The phrase I always hear is that "abs are made in the kitchen."

Edit: Or the variation: "Abs are made in the gym, revealed in the kitchen," which I always thought sounded kind of gruesome if you take it literally.
Still amazed that people are still considering this a pure caloric issue and not a food quality issue.

When you look at how various hormones (namely insulin) are affected by blood sugar & affect body composition, it seems you'd want to promote a method that bears that in mind.

That said, I think the focus should be on "eating better" not just "eating less."
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The problem exposed in the article is about un-queued trim.
I used my prototype app for archiving-and-summary against this list - hopefully it makes it a bit easier (or entertaining) to browse: http://server.wwwas.it/key/engineeringblogs2
"Can't outrun a fork"
Apple Mail.app

I've been addicted to IMAP since my university days with Pine. Apple Mail had IMAP support when I first came to OS X, while very few other clients did. I've stuck with it, especially since it comes with the OS. It also supports multiple mail boxes which I relied on early too.

And I like the native UI, how it responds to drag and drop, interaction with the Dock, works with built in OS services, etc.

Also, relatively fast mail searching via Spotlight kept me hooked on mail. I suspect everybody else has caught up now.
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Ubuntu (and Debian) comes with vi (not vim) by default. It's just not the default editor.
Over eating on high quality bacon won't stop you from being a lard-ass.
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This is obvious for anyone who tried both approaches and compared efforts/results ratio.
You should get back into it! Since you've left the hobby, a revolution has taken place in PCB manufacturing which allows for minimum quantities as low as 3 for the cost of a pizza or two. PCB design has truly become a hobbyist activity in the past 5 years or so.
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"The best exercises for your abs are fork putdowns and head shakes"
but that would prevent using the pressure in the loop?
Or just counted calories...
He mentioned "eating better". Eating "high quality bacon" isn't eating better.
Eating 3000kcal of "quality food" every day will still make you gross fat and give you heart problems. And did you know that protein also affects insulin? Insulin is essential for muscle building.

Still find it hilarious how so many people still don't understand that a caloric deficit or surplus is the #1 thing to do when trying to cut or bulk.
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No, the focus should be eating the right amount of healthy food.
The problem here seems that discussions about this are sooo littered with personal biases. "Bro science" is just one aspect of this, far more common is expecting that one's personal achievement is universally reproducible. Yes, person A may eat all the burgers and twinkies, because he's going to the gym all the time and swimming laps like there's no tomorrow. But as a general rule to combat obesity, that's probably not the way to go (we often get the same personal non-exceptionalism in economic debates).

So I hope we'll have less "But it worked for me!" in this thread and more thought about something a bit more universal and averaged out.
I found it ridiculously easy to lose weight by eliminating refined sugar and alcohol from my diet. 'Don't drink calories' is a great rule of thumb, sugared beverages are a plague on society. Keep your sweet tooth happy by eating fresh fruit--I don't think it's even possible to get or stay fat if your main sugar source is fruit.
A lot of people don't know that you base metabolic rate consumes a ton of energy. One prof told me that exercising merely doubled your energy requirements during the exercise - half for the BMR, half for the exercise. Taken in that light, exercise for an hour a day didn't do much to change your energy consumption overall.

The numbers may be off, but the concept is there - it takes energy to maintain the billions of cells that make up your body. Even if they're 'doing nothing', they still live and excrete, for example.
+1 for a combination of both CBT and mindfulness. Both have really helped me with my depression.
It should be noted that "de-orbit automatically" does not mean orbital decay here, but using thrusters to do a de-orbit burn. If the satellite malfunctions, it will become space junk.
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It's a bit oversimplified, because exercising increase your burn rate (your basal metabolic rate), even when you don't exercice.

But anyway: eat food, not too much, mostly plants ;)
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I can't remember ever encountered a unix-like system without "vi" installed.

It's often/always part of a full install, but it isn't always there when you end up in rescue mode and/or situations where /usr won't mount.
It seems like the article downplays the role of exercise - maybe I'm nitpicking, but how is this a valid argument:
"Over a six-month period, though, adding exercise made no difference."

I mean who wants to lose weight over six months only to be more likely for them to gain it back?

Also, looking at weight alone is misleading. All other factors being equal, a person burning 2500 kcal per day and consuming 2000 would be worse off than if they burn 3000 kcal and consume 2500. The latter case leads to better body composition (as in the ratio of body weight to fat) and better athletic qualities like strength and endurance.

People doing regular exercise also report being more energetic than their sluggish 0-cals-per-day counterparts. On top of that, prolonged dieting regardless of exercise may lead to depression and moving around tends to alleviate that.

Source: My Ph.D. in Broscience and Anecdotal Evidence :P
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Your point is right, but bear in mind everyone has different calorie requirements.

The "3000kcal" is just a placeholder, it means "1.5 times what you need".
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Yeah, this looks like one of the (many) downsides of the quantifiable self.

Nutrition professionals almost always advocate for diversity, but the Internet-wisdom thing is this approach. I guess it's just easier to do the simple math of in minus out (instead of actually trying to understand the nutrition of a complex organism).
It's not obvious, actually; exercise also affects the BMR, as a matter of fact, according to some theories, certain types of exercise increase the BMR more than certain others (I don't express any support for this, just pointing out).

Although we're not talking about huge amounts, when having a precise dieting regime, even a few hundred calories of "good weight loss" matter.

Definitely nothing can save one from overeating, but that's why overeating itself it's a completely different matter.

To wrap up, while of course in this field little or nothing is definitely proven, definitely no, this is not obvious :-)
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Hey, it's better compared to low quality bacon.
Be amazed all you want, but you're conflating two different issues, as does everyone who discusses it the way you do. Your attitude on this is actually a public health risk, because you're implying eating "better" is necessary to lose weight, and eating "better" almost always puts "better" out of reach of low-income families. "Yes, you can lose weight, you just need to spend $60 more a week on things I consider better at the grocery store."

Better is a relative term. Your better is not my better. How do you quantify better? Can you explain that to me?

Eat fewer calories than you need. Lose weight. Not rocket science. Sweat the other stuff later, and treat it like a separate issue, because it is.

Wouldn't disagree so strongly with you if you said "this is good. In addition to just figuring calories out, people should also eat better." Then I'd agree with you, but you're indignant and "amazed" like nobody understands the nuances of one value minus another, and if you're not making a salad, why even try. My entire life I've been overweight, and everybody has told me I need to eat "better," and I just started eating less of exactly what I ate before and it works. It's mysterious.
Yeah, that is true, but I hold that being overweight and exercising (real exercise, not the fake gym training programs) is far better for your health and your well being overall. At least you keep a functional body - you can do long walks, runs, climbing, etc. - which is a much better life if you ask me, but that's only my opinion, I repeat, only an opinion.

Edit. Just to be clear, of course being slim and exercising is a better option. I am just saying that for health I would prioritize exercise over weight.