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by diminish 11y ago
As an advertiser and publisher I resisted ad blockers for a long time and YouTube ads drove me so crazy that I had to install them feel finally.. So the guy who converted YouTube to a TV channel coated Google and all the publishers a huge s
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by diminish 11y ago
Can anyone do a rough cryptoanalysis of the code? It uses AES block cipher in CBC mode with a random iv. Which attacks is this open to? First, I suspect it's lacking a secure integrity check (MAC), so is weak against chosen ciphertext
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by diminish 11y ago
Can't Android Google voice keyboard be used as a speech-to-text interface and then the text can be used to trigger a command in a similar fashion?
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by diminish 11y ago
I'm having a hard time to understand if it's some kind of joke or a true project. Could someone explain what's it all about? It's also interesting that the parent path https://www.google.com/atap redirec
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by diminish 11y ago
This was the 2nd comment here at the beginning. Maybe there's tendency to downvote sibling comments? Also in the first version I had a grammar mistake. I wrote "Did anyone saw this coming?"
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by diminish 11y ago
Did anyone see this coming? Quite a successful secret by Google.
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by diminish 11y ago
Question for experts: why Browsers do not get the idea of updating changes the way react does automatically possibly with a start, stop transaction or better without.
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by diminish 11y ago
I also read 3.5" iPhone was the perfect size ergonomic for Asian hands but Apple gave up years of ergonomic study in favor of larger screens if earlier some people were right. The true victim of phablets will be iPad and tablets IMHO.
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by diminish 11y ago
> doing unneeded searches instead of typing the URL, etc. Did anyone else notice on non-mobile that chrome and later firefox address bar history was longer earlier. The history is slowly made shorter to push people typing and searching.
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by diminish 12y ago
After 3 years with xmonad I ve moved to i3 which is as a minimalistic WM is itself small and lightweight.
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Stolen discussions
7 points by diminish 12y ago|3 comments
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by diminish 12y ago
Could anyone develop some arguments for "gratuitous negativity". An attempt would focus on the adjective "gratuitous" which contains a lot of subjective bias and could be interpreted this way or that way depending who ru
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by diminish 12y ago
> You don't need encryption to provide integrity That's not really the point. With SHA1/MD5 etc you may only ensure integrity against random non-malicious errors. But think of a malicious attacker targeting existential for
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by diminish 12y ago
Ultimately to be on the safe side against all scenarios including chosen plaintext attacks and ensure integrity you'll need an authenticated encryption with encrypt-then-mac scheme. What always remains opens is the key sharing and iden
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by diminish 12y ago
I am managing a 7 digit banner ad budget which helps my client generate a profitable 8 digit income in education business. So no display advertising isn't dead for advertisers, because possibilities are more. The problem with Gigaom a
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by diminish 12y ago
Honestly, startup advice articles are lead collection tools for ycombinator and other accelerators targeting "fresh" audiences. You may see similar advice articles from VCs too; blogging makes them more visible and help attract
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by diminish 12y ago
Here's my guess for the future of the canvas web. JS will render to canvas. Later it will be discovered that the code becomes unmaintainable and multi tiered architectures will go in the browser/js with "BabyHTML" used a
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by diminish 12y ago
A mobile OS should not include X functionality, but should allow a mobile app to implement X functionality. But somehow due to competition for the platform, every company is more or less in the same race.
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Grand Convergence(communities-dominate.blogs.com)
1 points by diminish 12y ago|0 comments
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Impressive. All this impressive animation frameworks will end up bringing flash animations back to the mainstream web.
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by diminish 12y ago
I m monitoring several million MAU websites.. Smart phones are growing at the expense of tablets too. Especially the consensus on larger screen sizes boosted phone usage and cuts into tablet share.
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by diminish 12y ago
Yes, that thing was JVM, java.. It too escaped the browser and infiltrated the server..
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by diminish 12y ago
Yet another interesting side of Anselm's and Gödel's proof is that they leave the possibility open for us to be gods.
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by diminish 12y ago
It's possible to keep Dr. Dobbs alive by factory resetting back to the startup mode. Announce here some share in DDJ to an additional tech cofounder with some ideas to pivot the Dr. Dobbs. Apply to YC. Here's my offer: I'll
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by diminish 12y ago
Transactional installs are an advantage. I m trying to understand & brainstorm if any disadvantages exist especially with instances with multiple copies of every subcomponent. * Transactional updates across instances: Let's say I
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by diminish 12y ago
As a 10 year long Ubuntu user for servers, desktop, cloud etc I agree with both your comments. Ubuntu/canonical over announces and under delivers recently to the level of appearing not believable. I m still waiting for my Ubuntu phone,
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by diminish 12y ago
On HN Most discussions are stolen by remotely related comments.. This extension helps to dig them for me. Thanks.
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by diminish 12y ago
Recently implemented a Ruby C extension for format preserving encryption/decryption pair for unique code generation. From SHA-* family to AES to Siphash ( https://131002.net/siphash/siphash.pdf ) the wizardry, hoopl
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by diminish 12y ago
I am also stunned by the horrible usability of the web site. Who really inspires those people to make many UX mistake on one simple page?
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by diminish 12y ago
To make the case stronger we now need to move some few prominent "mean" tech figures to "not mean". Could it be that meanness and failure come in a vicious circle fortifying each other? Put in another way, as people beco

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