eriknstr

The problem with the brain is that it forgets. For example if you have an important piece of information that you encrypt with a long passphrase, you will likely have no problem decrypting it if you do so every day but if you don't use the passphrase for a few months, you probably won't remember it. However you probably will remember where you have the passphrase if you write it down and put it somewhere secret where nobody will be able to both find it and to know what it's for. IOW, don't hide the paper in your house.

As far as I understood, the system is distinguishing between its members so we have some data about false positives because OP was always identified as themselves and never as another member.

Sounds interesting. Please do a "Show HN" post when your app is ready for it.

If IPFS is blocked and the people that need anti-censorship tools can't use it then they might as well not have bothered.

Thanks, I didn't know what JWT meant. When I first read the title I thought it would be about the Google Web Toolkit (GWT) which I incorrectly remembered as being named Java Web Toolkit (JWT) because with GWT you use Java.

Author would do well to edit their post, changing the title to "Things to Use Instead of JSON Web Tokens" and replacing the first occurrence of "JWT" in the body text with "JSON Web Tokens (JWT)".

In addition to helping visitors from HN, this change could also improve the possibility for others to find the text in the future when they search for JSON Web Tokens using a search engine.

Does the Archive Team backup Wikipedia? Probably they do but if not I guess they should.

For those that do use it, don't you find the jumping around of the news items distracting?

Instead of

    let mut file = File::open("conf.json")
        .expect("could not open file");

    let config: Value = serde::from_reader(file)
        .expect("config has invalid json");

    let jenkins_server = config.get("jenkins_server")
        .expect("jenkins_server key not in config")
        .as_str()
        .expect("jenkins_server key is not a string");

    let mut file = File::open("conf.json")
        .expect("Need to be able to open file `conf.json'.");

    let config: Value = serde::from_reader(file)
        .expect("The file `conf.json' must contain valid JSON.");

    let jenkins_server = config.get("jenkins_server")
        .expect("The config must have a key named `jenkins_server'.")
        .as_str()
        .expect("The config value of `jenkins_server' must be a string.");

It never happens that someone makes a choice, like what license to use, because they are only familiar with a subset of all choices, or because they have been misinformed or have misunderstood something.

Right?

>Wouldn't returning an object containing the array, instead of the array directly, also solve the problem?

And someone else replied

>No, that wouldn't solve the problem since the same attacks mentioned in the post could still be performed. Overriding the accessor methods to retrieve the info.

I don't have kids yet but I am wondering if perhaps letting your child use a keyboard that is without printed letters could help them learn to type better.

Back in 2010 me and a good friend of mine decided to buy a TypeMatrix 2030 USB keyboard each and to switch from QWERTY to Dvorak.

Now of course I am not suggesting you let your child learn Dvorak. Teaching them Dvorak would probably be doing them a disservice at such an early age because of the amount of QWERTY keyboards they are likely to come in contact with.

But I think you should try to let your child use QWERTY with a keyboard that does not have any letters printed on it.

We bought black skins with printed letters and black skins without printed letters. In the beginning I was using the skin with the printed letters and I had to look at the keyboard for each and every letter I was typing. While my initial plan had been to first learn to touch type Dvorak on the TypeMatrix and then put on the skin without printed letters, I soon decided to put on the skin even though I had no idea where each letter was, in order to force myself to learn to touch type sooner. And it worked! It was really painful for the first two or three days. For each letter I was typing I started with the top left key and went through the keys one by one until I got to the correct key and then I used the backspace key to remove all of the letters I had typed which was not the one I was looking for. It was extremely annoying but it worked exactly as I had hoped it would.

Over time I've somewhat "unlearned" QWERTY, and for the first few years I was even carrying my TypeMatrix in my backpack pretty much at all times and in doing so I found it hard to use other keyboards even if I switched the computer to Dvorak.

After one of my keyboards broke due to wear from carrying it with me, I bought a new one but I stopped carrying it with me and started using whatever keyboard is available in Dvorak mode. I use the TypeMatrix at home and I have another one that I use at the office when I work but when I'm elsewhere I use for example the keyboard on my ThinkPad. Many keyboards will have QWERTY printed on them but since I am so proficient at touch typing Dvorak now I'm pretty much not looking at the keyboard at all anyway so it does no harm.

Anyway, point is, not being able to "cheat" by looking at the keyboard turned out to be a highly effective way to learn to touch type 100%.

- "Yes"

- "No, I stopped using Rust"

- "No, I've never used Rust"

When making a survey the alternatives for the answers are very important. I feel that none of these alternatives apply to me. That's bad. Unfortunate because I would have liked to participate in the survey.

I've done a little bit of beginner programming in Rust in order to try and learn the language. However I haven't yet used it to implement anything actually useful so I wouldn't say "yes, I use Rust". It's been a while since last I did something in Rust but I wouldn't say "no, I stopped using Rust" because to me that implies that I have decided that Rust is not for me, which is not something that I feel, I want to use it, I just keep pushing it down on the list of things to do because other more immediate desires and problems keep popping up.

https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/eriknstr/VoxelMode-2.5D/-...

Everything on every line after '#' on line 21 is the same save for backslashes and ":3" which are blue.

I guess I usually simply stop scrolling before I get to the very bottom of HN.

Just to be clear though, are we talking about a "next" link at the bottom of the page, or Reddit-style "continue" links for subtrees of comments beyond a certain depth?

Edit: The title has been changed again and now reads "Disabling Intel AMT on Windows". That's better and less confusing.

Neat bot. Twitter suggested a couple of related accounts which turned out to be cute as well.

@tiny_astro_naut - https://twitter.com/tiny_astro_naut

@tiny_mssn_ctrl - https://twitter.com/tiny_mssn_ctrl

Is SMAZ encoded data URL safe?

Off the top of my head:

- /u/colorizebot

- /u/RemindMeBot

- /u/AutoMod (special because it's been made an official part of reddit)

Here is the most recent snapshot from the IA Wayback Machine.

https://web.archive.org/web/20161028130628/https://www.ist-s...

The United States is the #2 top source of cyber attacks, accounting for about 10% of all malicious traffic in the world and with 17.12% of cyber attacks initiated from there.

What you need to look at is how much of the traffic that hits your servers specifically is malicious relative to the amount of traffic that is bringing you revenue. Then you decide what countries to block.

Seems from what was said above that this is something that has not been taken into account.