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Run the code below in python to find my email address

import base64 base64.b64decode('c3RlcGhlbnMuanNAZ21haWwuY29t')

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scott00··on Second body cam video of Baltimore cops manufacturing evidence discovered
It's not legal. Planting evidence is a much more serious crime than possession, so in cases where there's evidence of planting evidence, it doesn't make much sense to charge possession. In cases where there isn't planting going on, it never gets discovered. Police officers don't stop other police officers and search them.
scott00··on GPL Violations Related to Combining ZFS and Linux (2016)
Does building zfs.ko not involve #include ing some linux header files? Or is it all done via ABI?
scott00··on College students lost access to legal pot and started getting better grades
This was controlled for by the native students, who also experienced any improvement in the city's environment, but did not experience the ban.
scott00··on College students lost access to legal pot and started getting better grades
Does anybody know if you can take the pot out of the cafes or if you have to smoke it there? I wonder if it's not less pot smoking but less going out.
scott00··on Passwords Evolved: Authentication Guidance for the Modern Era
It's even more secure after you've lost your second factor.
scott00··on IPv6 Adoption
TP-Link is the worst... their enterprise WAP line doesn't support IPv6 at all. I've had IPv6 working out of the box on every piece of network hardware I've had since 2009. When I bought a new access point recently it didn't even occur to me that I needed to include it on my checklist of necessary features. Nope, no support.
scott00··on SEC Issues Report Concluding DAO Tokens, a Digital Asset, Were Securities
The analogy is necessarily inexact,ICOs are a new beast. But they don't have to be owners. Too many bond holders can make you public as well. If the tokens are securities and the sponsor/inventor/whatever is considered the issuer, lots of token holders is a problem for the issuer.
scott00··on SEC Issues Report Concluding DAO Tokens, a Digital Asset, Were Securities
This is not really true. Once a company exceeds a certain threshold of non-accredited owners, it automatically becomes a public company, and faces the same disclosure and controls requirements as a company that became public via IPO. That is why all competently written private stock offerings sell stock with heavy transfer restrictions, so that shareholders can't force management to take the company public.
scott00··on Soft U2F: A software-based U2F authenticator for macOS
Any plans for a Windows version?
scott00··on Soft U2F: A software-based U2F authenticator for macOS
Does this actually work for you? I could never get that to work. (Firefox 54 on Windows)
scott00··on As California’s labor shortage grows, farmers replace workers with robots
That study had some pretty serious flaws, most notably that it excluded workers employed by businesses with multiple locations.
scott00··on Extreme Commuting
Sleep needs vary. I honestly believe 5 hours a day long term would kill me. But I have friends who voluntarily sleep that little.
scott00··on Google relaunches Glass for businesses
> Why do doctors need Glass to record notes in the background? Couldn't any computer run that software?

The doctor doesn't really use it. It's just transmitting the doctor's view of the clinic to a remote assistant who can take notes for the doctor. Doctors frequently find it difficult to operate electronic health record systems at the same time as doing the actual doctoring. So they either accept providing lower quality care in order to take notes during the session, or do the notes after the session with the patient (in which case they see fewer patients and make less money).

scott00··on Goldman Sachs relaxes dress code for techs in fight for talent
Yeah, in the US cufflinks can come across as elitist or as a flaunting of wealth.
scott00··on Ask HN: What is your password management solution?
I'm partial to using a very broad dictionary: http://app.aspell.net/create?max_size=35&spelling=US&max_var....

It has 50,105 words. Gets you an extra 2.3 bits per word.

scott00··on 'Living Drug' That Fights Cancer by Harnessing Immune System Clears Key Hurdle
Quite a lot actually. US defense spending in 2014 was $614 billion, 3.5% of GDP. US healthcare spending in 2014 was estimated by the world bank as 17.1% of GDP.
scott00··on How much do hackers at the CIA/NSA/FBI make?
Can you explain this to the unenlightened? Is employment at a national security organization somehow indicated in the DMV database or whatever it is that cops look you up in?
scott00··on Everything I Wish I’d Known Before I Started Demoing SaaS
Twilio has a reputation for giving a killer API demo. Check out https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11985368 and the links in comments within.
scott00··on Terark (YC W17) is a profitable database compression company based in Beijing
Is the compression geared towards any particular type of data? Seems like compression that would work well on, say, blog posts, may not work as well on, say, tick-level data from a stock exchange.
scott00··on Supreme Court Says People Can’t Be Banned From The Internet
I take a different reading of clause 3. The main criteria is "Allows users to create Web pages or personal profiles that contain information". The restrictions following that are prefaced by "such as"... which is a very weird word choice for legal stuff. Usually you see stuff like "including but not limited to the following" or "including all of the following". So a bit of a wild card, but the common usage of such as is to preface representative but not exhaustive examples. So I don't think a site has to fit all of the such as criteria to be included, or even any of it. It just has to have pages with information of a type similar to the given examples, which I think Hacker News profiles clearly has.
scott00··on Wells Fargo Is Accused of Making Improper Changes to Mortgages
The most specific allegation is that they extended the maturity of the loan, which as a consequence lowered the minimum payment. Under normal circumstances, and with clear communication to the borrower, this is a change that can only be better for the borrower; they can continue to pay on the old schedule, or pay less on the new schedule over more time without going into default. However, many of the borrowers were in bankruptcy at the time of the change. During this process they were not in control of their own assets; the bankruptcy trustee was paying their bills for them. If the bankruptcy trustee paid the new lower minimum payment, it would result in the borrower paying more in interest than they otherwise might have.
scott00··on Ask HN: Alternatives to Yubikey?
The Feitian ePass: https://www.amazon.com/Feitian-ePass-NFC-FIDO-Security/dp/B0...

Can't vouch for it (either product or support), but it exists.

scott00··on Hackers Are Hijacking Phone Numbers and Breaking into Email, Bank Accounts
Why do you think he personally prosecuted it? His name's on the complaint, but it's on all the complaints referenced in their press releases. The press release says the case "was investigated and is being prosecuted by the Attorney General’s Fraud Unit".
scott00··on Ask HN: How do I earn money as a teenage programmer?
I think most advice on how to start freelancing applies to you despite your age; it's just going to be a little harder for you than for a more experienced and/or older person. There's a ton of advice on this topic in previous discussions here. See https://www.google.com/search?q=start+freelancing+site%3Anew.... I think it's very doable though.

I'd also caution you not to focus on freelancing to the extent that it hurts your schoolwork. If you want to program as a career, graduating from a top 10 CS school will open a lot of doors for you, and I would make laying the groundwork for that your primary goal.

scott00··on Whiteboard Interviews Suck, Get Good at Them Anyway
My mental model of how candidates with a CS degree do on a whiteboard interview is something like score = (grade in data structures class) + (grade in algorithms class) - k(time since undergrad) + b(time spent studying for interview). I'm curious if you think that's a good model, and if it is, would it be easier to just look at their grades in those classes, or if you actually care about the amount of time spent studying.
scott00··on The great self-esteem con
That's your choice, as a parent. You're going to attempt to manipulate the child into certain behaviors whether you think of it in scientific terms or not. Might as well do it effectively.
scott00··on SQRL – Secure Quick Reliable Login
The problem with this is the backup codes are different for each service. With one service, I can keep a backup card in my wallet, another in my house, and another at somebody else's house in a different city, giving me very high assurance of availability in the event of token loss or destruction. I can't maintain that level of backup for every service I sign up for.

Even multiple tokens isn't a good solution for lots of services, since you need possession of the token to enroll.

scott00··on How to Improve a Legacy Codebase
I don't completely understand your warning to stick with the existing version control environment. Just because you switch development to git doesn't mean you delete the old CVS archive. Isn't consulting the old archive sufficient whenever you're doing a significant historical investigation?
scott00··on Chipotle Reports Findings from Investigation of Payment Card Security Incident
Not a lawyer, but you probably do have cause for a lawsuit. Search "credit card data breach class action" and find lawyers/law firms who have handled similar cases in the past. If your data was compromised by a deep pocketed company and it was a large scale breach you can probably find a lawyer to file a class action on contingency.
scott00··on Show HN: 15-question programming quiz with answers
Is this intended to be taken with access to references and a python interpreter, or closed book?
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