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mkopinskyon Dropbox opening my docs?

Oh, and FTR, Excel gives a warning before opening the file. So they at least have thought through this vector (if you want to call it that).

mkopinskyon Dropbox opening my docs?

The HTML, DOC, and XLS files all have identical structure (though different content). They are all HTML, and Honey Docs is relying on Word/excel's parsing the HTML in those files to fetch the image (a 1px gif).

I downloaded the credit card Honeydoc. The content looks like:

    <html>Nicole  Davis  4556062729618215<br />
    Brian  Baker  4556767839126624<br />
    Patrick  Jones  4916615717158539<br />
    ....
    <br>
    <br>
    <br>
    ....
    <img src="https://honeydocs.herokuapp.com/img/html/202719bb5717d5621068780180abc593b0fedda692bd63727a510911d21fdcbf.gif">
    </html>

mkopinskyon Why you should not pirate Google’s geo APIs

Even if RMS started from a pragmatic standpoint, his position has clearly moved far beyond pragmatism.

mkopinskyon Android KitKat

Break me off a piece of that KitKat... ecosystem?

mkopinskyon Map of America's Racial Segregation

But you are also likely to live in the same neighborhood as your friends. So while living in a racially diverse neighborhood may not cause you to interact with people of other other races, it may be indicative if your group of friends is racially diverse.

mkopinskyon What happens when you use a standing desk for two years

How does the ergonomics of this work? The intellectual part of writing code may be improved, but physically typing the code while on the couch can't be a good thing.

(Typed while laying in bed, in a way that would certainly screw up my wrists if I did this long term.)

mkopinskyon Principles of Reactive Programming

While the course is running (at least for the course I'm currently enrolled in) every video has a download icon at the far right.

At times (for me), the time-based nature of coursera is a very good thing. If I know that I need to complete a homework by 1am Sunday night, which means I need to finish watching this week's videos by Thursday night, that means there's a chance I'll actually do so. Without that deadline (and with no money or grade on the line) HN or Reddit or other timewasters are far too tempting.

mkopinskyon Map of America's Racial Segregation

Thank you. I saw this article and had a feeling of "Hmm, where have I seen this before? The URL says 2013, but this is definitely old..." I think it must have Eric's flickr.

(Link somehow got truncated; it should be http://www.flickr.com/photos/walkingsf/sets/7215762481267496... )

mkopinskyon Map of America's Racial Segregation

Riding the subway means that as a white New Yorker, you will twice a day share a room with a black person. Whether you interact with them is another story - I'd venture that most people never say a word to anyone in the subway. To understand (likelihood of) interaction, neighborhood maps are one piece of the story, as would be (as mentioned elsewhere in the thread) workplace data.

mkopinskyon Unsupervised joke generation from big data

This provides a possible source for inspiration: Perhaps 9gag is not actually full of dumb people, but of dumb bots.

Faith in humanity restored?

If only it were so easy.

mkopinskyon My Doctor's Office Asked me to Lie (2011)

Even at chain stores in the US, one of the people behind the counter is a pharmacist who went to grad school for five years studying this stuff. (The person actually giving you your medication may only be a pharmacy tech, but they have to have a pharmacist behind the counter whenever they're open.)

mkopinskyon Fuck Off As A Service (FOAAS)

Can you set up dyndns on the box?

mkopinskyon Why Your Dog Can Get Vaccinated Against Lyme Disease And You Can’t

> most common infectious disease in New England

More common than flu, or the common cold? Really?

Perhaps you need to add a modifier such as "chronic" to your statement?

mkopinskyon How Google is Killing Organic Search

Do you have a comparable number for non-profit colleges? While I doubt it's 2.9, I'm sure it's still high.

mkopinskyon The 1-bit interface

Is this the case even with a large difference between fast and slow? I would imagine that there's a large intuitive difference between 1 Hz and 5 Hz, for example.

mkopinskyon Battery Swap [video]

Living in NYC, I actively aim to run low on fuel in New Jersey so I can save $.50 a gallon.

mkopinskyon LinkedIn suffers DNS hijack

You already upvoted him. No need to comment to that effect.

mkopinskyon NSA's Backdoor Key from Lotus Notes

Oh, people noticed that they disappeared. There were all kinds of vigils in support of at least one of the women. (Apparently, the kidnapper was even at some of these. This in my mind was the most bizarre fact of the whole story.)

mkopinskyon If you didn't cancel the credit card you used for linode.com, now is the time

Credit utilization is another element though. It's bad if you have too big a line of credit, but good if you have a historically low ratio of (debt/available credit).

mkopinskyon CEO Update

Or the dreaded meeting invite for "One-to-one". I remember the first time I had one of those, and hmm, it also included someone from HR. How is that one-to-one again?

mkopinskyon GeoGuessr: Guess the location from Google street view

Question is, were you dropped somewhere with or without a smartphone? :-)

My personal rule is absolutely no googling. I've been tempted to print out a list of all the phone area codes and take it with me in my virtual alien-ship-to-random-destinations since that is something I could actually do were I preparing for such a scenario.

mkopinskyon The Onion releases fartscroll.js

What kind of "Front end" developer are they looking for?

mkopinskyon A “simple” 3rd grade problem

If anything, the inside should have to make more revolutions. Since the whole bike is traveling at 10 MPH, at the point with the smaller radius, you'd need more revolutions to travel that same linear speed.

;-)

mkopinskyon A “simple” 3rd grade problem

The third option would be to chop off both "wings" and consider it as a square plus two triangles. That is often my instinct when I forget to do it with the mean length of the parallels.

mkopinskyon Last of a Breed: Postal Workers Who Decipher Bad Addresses

http://jeffkemponoracle.com/2010/03/23/sql-injection-license...

(Can't find the original source. This is one link of many.)

mkopinskyon Manchester City Council

The original title was "How government sites should be designed".

mkopinskyon Manchester City Council

While in general I approve of the policy here of renaming posts to match the title of the page, the change here done by the mods (to simply "Manchester City Council") makes the whole discussion make no sense. (The original title was "How government sites should be designed".)

mkopinskyon Year 2038 problem

Your "pull me out of retirement to fix mission critical bugs" policy, rather.

mkopinskyon CRAPCHA: Completely Ridiculous And Phony Captcha that Hassles for Amusement

I don't care if you prevent me from posting for 20 seconds, but if you make my laptop fan spin up, or cause my old computer to get unresponsive, especially if I have no clue why, I'm gonna be upset. I'm used to video sites slowing down the computer slightly, but if a simple blog does it, I'm gonna be confused, and possibly pissed.

mkopinskyon CRAPCHA: Completely Ridiculous And Phony Captcha that Hassles for Amusement

If any site grinds my CPU for 20 seconds before letting me post a comment, I am probably never going back again.