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by mmcnickle 13y ago
"The first thing to say is this is definitely not pyramid selling, OK" Toni - trying to sell Jeremy on a pyramid scheme -- Peep Show, Season 1, Episode 2; "The Interview"
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by mmcnickle 13y ago
It's generally considered good form to read the article before posting. It's clear from the notice that the FDA known about 23andMe from the outset.
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by mmcnickle 13y ago
"In many ways, the work of a critic is easy. We risk very little, yet enjoy a position over those who offer up their work and their selves to our judgment. We thrive on negative criticism, which is fun to write and to read. But the bit
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by mmcnickle 13y ago
He was sued for libel by the British Chiropractic Association for writing in a newspaper column that they promoted "bogus treatments". Edit: Too late. I'd second the book recommendations though, they're excellent.
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by mmcnickle 13y ago
I've used passpack as part of a team and the workflow is pretty much spot on. I have doubts about the security (cryptography in javascript) and the long-term prospects of such a small provider; I worry about them disappearing one day w
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by mmcnickle 13y ago
I've always thought the simple coding interview questions was like asking a chef to prepare a very simple meal; they should be able to do it without any problem. Though it's apparent that coders, like chefs, can choke on even thes
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by mmcnickle 13y ago
I doubt Rolex will do the same. They are extremely protective of their brand[1], I'd avoid doing one of their watches. [1] To the point where they won't let you host their brand assets on your own servers. You have to link to thei
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by mmcnickle 13y ago
The police were tipped off about the backpack/pressure cooker searcher by their previous employers, not some anonymous internet company: http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/an-update-on-the-pressure-c... They were detecti
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by mmcnickle 13y ago
Churchill would have agreed: "Operations in which large numbers of men may lose their lives ought not to be decided by code-words [...] of a frivolous character, such as 'Bunnyhug' and 'Ballyhoo.'"
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by mmcnickle 13y ago
It's flattering to oneself to be contrarian; Not only have you already considered what has been presented, you've also thought about it and have a counter-argument. You're cleverer than the author of the article; she still en
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by mmcnickle 13y ago
You're rarely going to get a personal reply to a letter to your MP. The sheer volume of correspondence prevents it. Your MP's surgery sessions are a much better place to bring up issues like these. They're usually held every
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by mmcnickle 13y ago
Newer versions of tmux have an expand pane command mapped to Leader-z. It will grow the pane to full size, do your xopying then leader-z to toggle back to your normal split view.
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by mmcnickle 13y ago
Don't sign an e-petition, write to your MP [1]. If nearly 8000 people got in touch with their MP about this, it woukd be the singular topic of the next Prime Minister's questions. [1] http://www.writetothem.com
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by mmcnickle 13y ago
Read it again. He doesn't call anyone any names. All his ire is directed at the commit .
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by mmcnickle 13y ago
So it is, my mistake. I got it from a bad source[1]. I think the point still stands though; period dramas are relatively inexpensive to make. [1] http://www.imdb.com/list/0hV86zyDCdo/
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by mmcnickle 13y ago
A series of Downton Abbey costs approx £12MM and reaches 13MM people in the UK alone[1]. The 2hr pilot episode of LOST cost $12MM[2]. Each episode of Game of Thrones has a budget of $6MM[3]. So no, they don't cost a lot of money to mak
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by mmcnickle 13y ago
If you use the scheme described linked from the article, when the legitimate user logs in again, the attacker will lose access to the session permanently.
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by mmcnickle 13y ago
Yes, a password reset token is a good example where it would be fine to used a HMACed token, and is exactly how Django handles password resets [1]. [1] https://github.com/django/django/blob/master/django&
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by mmcnickle 13y ago
This is a good approach for a lot of things. It's the approach Flask uses for its session data by default. I wouldn't recommend it for authentication in large deployments though. One thing that it doesn't allow for is revocat
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by mmcnickle 13y ago
If an attacker uses a compromised session id before it is regenerated, the attacker will receive the regenerated session too. They'll have a long-lived session to the victims account.
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by mmcnickle 13y ago
The justification is earlier in the article [1]. It slightly lowers the attack cross-section. If you implement the separate login cookie scheme described in the linked article[2] you also get a limited ability to detect hijacked sessions an
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by mmcnickle 13y ago
Meanwhile, on another HN thread, you have developers baulking at paying $70 for a very good text editor.
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by mmcnickle 13y ago
Nowhere is it suggested that this is suitable for uses where you need durability. In fact if you are looking for a library for consistent hashing, I'd assume you'd understand the drawbacks (invalidation on resize). Have you a poin
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by mmcnickle 13y ago
The servers are returning the output of the redis-py library, which maps returned values from redis into python objects (hashes -> dicts etc). I had a quick look but I don't see an easy way to have redis-py pass forward the raw retu
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by mmcnickle 13y ago
What is the legality of selling this as opposed to using it? I assume it's legal?
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by mmcnickle 13y ago
>>> Congrats on your sophmore year high school physics, not real big on passive aggressiveness The irony.
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by mmcnickle 13y ago
The machines I've seen are essentially autoclaves, so sealed high pressure chambers. What you've expanded on is correct. The point I was trying to make was that at an industrial scale, the back of the envelope calculation you firs
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by mmcnickle 13y ago
You're assuming the only energy in reforming a glass bottle comes from melting the glass and that industrial sterilisation submerges a bottle into fresh hot water, neither of which is true. As far as I know, industrial sterilisation us
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by mmcnickle 13y ago
RBS in the UK provide an industry-standard XML dump for each of your accounts. There are several online service that will take that file and categorise your transactions and forecast your cashflow for you. https://www.mint.com i
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by mmcnickle 13y ago
I have to agree. The GP is getting bent out of shape. I think him describing the limitations of the course would be useful if not worded so defensively. This is like a professional fabricator complaining that the 10 hour welding course at n

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