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by david_shaw 6y ago
It's absolutely astounding that you can go on Twitch and see Grandmasters playing speed chess at pretty much any time of day. I agree with other posters who've said that while Queen's Gambit may have sparked interest, it&#x
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by david_shaw 6y ago
From the (linked above) Amazon description: > The quick explanation of the Woodpecker Method is that you need to solve a large number of puzzles in a row; then solve the same puzzles again and again, only faster. It’s not a lazy shortcu
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by david_shaw 6y ago
This demonstrates two major points that many people not familiar with security may not understand: The first is that anyone -- really, anyone -- can get hacked. I often joke with our CIO that security would be a lot easier if he just powere
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by david_shaw 6y ago
> your employer should also have a budget for conf travel. In my case, my employer paid my travel/lodging fees and I did not have to pay anything out-of-pocket (or take PTO or anything). However, if I were (for example) between jo
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by david_shaw 6y ago
The best money I've spent on professional development is paying to travel to industry conferences at which I was accepted to speak. Like many people, I was nervous about public speaking earlier in my career. Out of a desire to improve
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by david_shaw 6y ago
For anyone interested in a little more context: the book has a website (including translated versions, etc.) located at https://beginners.re/ It looks like this PDF has been posted to HN a few times before, too: https:&#x2
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by david_shaw 6y ago
> Seriously though, even if there was footage of the actual hack occurring, it's just going to be a room with computers and users in front of a screen. After reading the headline, I expected webcam footage showing the hackers&#x27
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by david_shaw 6y ago
> I find it incredibly hard to get nuts that aren't roasted and/or salted I don't see plain nuts as often as I'd like in stores, but they are super easy to find online: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=raw
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by david_shaw 7y ago
I know that WordPress doesn't have the greatest security record, but it seems unfair to judge an organization for using WP. Many, many respectable businesses use WordPress for their brochureware or corporate blogs. In my experience,
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by david_shaw 7y ago
> If the VPN company insists on tracking me to this extent when I'm on their website, why should I trust them to not track me when I'm using their VPN? I think you make a valid point, but there's a difference between the
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by david_shaw 7y ago
It might make sense to support (or replicate) Google's DLP functionality. I think that feature is just a blacklist of certain regular expressions. Cool product, by the way!
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by david_shaw 7y ago
Agreed. However, granting visibility to decisions (and the information that leads to them), when possible, is a great tool. A generic example might be that a major client will sign onboard if a new API feature is implemented. Just asking
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by david_shaw 7y ago
> I burnt out, now I delegate lots of crap work and it works better for me and I think the team as well as they get a wider perspective. I think this is an underrated (but very accurate) opinion. While I'm not the founder of a com
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CISA, FBI, and DoD Identify New North Korean Malware(us-cert.gov)
2 points by david_shaw 7y ago|1 comments
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Implications of Climate Change for the U.S. Army [pdf](climateandsecurity.files.wordpress.com)
1 points by david_shaw 7y ago|0 comments
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by david_shaw 7y ago
> Healthcare tech has been the "next big area" for the past 40 years. Maybe this time is different, but historically it never pans out. How do you figure that it never pans out? Healthcare providers use a lot more technolog
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“Boring” Industries Benefit the Most from AI(angel.co)
3 points by david_shaw 7y ago|0 comments
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by david_shaw 7y ago
> It will not hide your IP address from the websites you visit. This is an interesting design choice. I'm sure the idea here is to reduce the number of abuse complaints directed to Cloudflare, but it also seems to significantly re
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by david_shaw 7y ago
> I have been using screen for almost 10 years now, is it worth switching? I've been happy with the switch. I was a long-time `screen` user, too, and something that helped me a lot with the switch to tmux was adding a few lines to
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Backdoor Found in Utility for Linux, Unix Servers(threatpost.com)
4 points by david_shaw 7y ago|0 comments
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Data Leak Exposes Biometric Data of over 1M People(technologyreview.com)
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by david_shaw 7y ago
I don't think it's crazy to suggest the creation of fashionable items with enhanced protection. At the high-end, bulletproof suits and luxury vehicles certainly have a market that already exists today.
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by david_shaw 7y ago
It can be helpful to reframe your envy as simply being happy for others. Other than specific edge cases (for example, competing with a colleague for a promotion), success is not mutually exclusive. You can be happy for your peers when they
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StarCraft: Cartooned(starcraft2.com)
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by david_shaw 7y ago
The whitepaper for Libra is available here: https://libra.org/en-US/white-paper/#introduction Calibra, Facebook's wallet, is described here: https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2019/06&#x2F
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Facebook Libra(libra.org)
1 points by david_shaw 7y ago|1 comments
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by david_shaw 7y ago
> Most super popular games these days have a short skill ceiling and an accessible skill floor; encouraging getting good isn't a major focus of design. What games are you thinking about where this applies? Many of the most popular
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by david_shaw 7y ago
I honestly think that following current events -- whether that means technical news via HN, or more mainstream events covered by traditional media -- is the best thing you can do to stay up-to-date on what people are thinking about. Take an
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by david_shaw 7y ago
If this is related to security, I think users deserve to know what's up. As someone working in security, I'm fairly distraught that I still don't know exactly what happened last week. The Docker post-mortem[1] states: >
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by david_shaw 8y ago
My guess is that they were using private certificates to read encrypted data, without which they couldn't inspect their traffic.

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