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by marco1 11y ago
I don't see any name-calling, just honest questions and criticism. There are already quite a few reviews in the press where the authors probably did a better job than I could do: http://www.theguardian.com/books/20
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by marco1 11y ago
Not personally, in any case, as I'm not the author. But important topics usually get the points and thus visibility they deserve, which leaves the question if this book does not deserve it or has just been ignored. Apart from that, you
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by marco1 11y ago
HN users, most being technical, are rather beneficiaries than victims of the internet as discussed. So it's not particularly far-fetched to think that we all, collectively, have avoided this topic and rejected the criticism.
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Is HN Scared of Discussing Andrew Keen's 'The Internet Is Not the Answer'?
6 points by marco1 11y ago|17 comments
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by marco1 11y ago
No, it's actually KeePass for Android that doesn't give you any other way to do this. You can't store your files in the app-private directories yourself without rooting your device. KeePass just asks for a path to a password
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KeePass – weak on Android (and it's Android's fault)
5 points by marco1 11y ago|2 comments
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Ask HN: Why Does IdenTrust Support Let's Encrypt?
1 points by marco1 11y ago|0 comments
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by marco1 11y ago
Thanks for asking, I should have made this clearer, both here and in the documentation. This library is for building native Android apps (written in Java) that can talk to a Meteor server via their DDP protocol. On the other hand, Meteor&
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by marco1 11y ago
Sounds good, thanks! Such an in-memory database seems quite important for productivity, so I will definitely consider this. Read access could be implemented in a first step, while the semantics would still have to be discussed. I think writ
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by marco1 11y ago
Thanks! I've thought about this already but wasn't sure what to do. In its original JavaScript implementation, Meteor has Minimongo, as you said. But building such an interface in Java would lose all the convenience, wouldn't
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Show HN: Meteor client for Android(github.com)
52 points by marco1 11y ago|6 comments
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by marco1 11y ago
Same here, one of your competitors ;) What are you doing with the Graph API 2.X in your app? You can only get the birthdays for friends who also use that same app (a very small share, generally, if you aren't as big as Facebook) and yo
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Show HN: Geodata for cities, countries and airports in JSON and CSV(github.com)
2 points by marco1 12y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Awesome F-Droid(github.com)
1 points by marco1 12y ago|0 comments
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by marco1 12y ago
Of course, it is used for tracking. Fingerprinting and evercookies are the means to identify users, referers are one of the many things that you then track, assigned to those user identifiers. Apart from that, inadvertently leaking inform
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by marco1 12y ago
You can change everything on the web if you only give service operators enough time to adjust their sites.
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by marco1 12y ago
Exactly, there's no reason to keep the referer. But deprecation is necessary, so that the tons of websites that (wrongly) rely on the referer can adapt.
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by marco1 12y ago
The Tor project is not in the position to change or deprecate such things. On the contrary, if Chrome or Firefox would deprecate the referer, we could get rid of it, gradually. The same is true for the worrisome behaviour of `window.name`.
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by marco1 12y ago
> What is the state of Referer in modern browsers? Referers are still sent in all popular browers and expose information that is not necessary at all. > Why keep it? I can't think of any reason. Can you? > Would removing it br
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It's time to abolish the HTTP referer
12 points by marco1 12y ago|14 comments
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Show HN: Android WebView subclass that “just works”(github.com)
1 points by marco1 12y ago|0 comments
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by marco1 12y ago
Many other apps hash phone numbers to "suggest" security and privacy as well, e.g. Secret. Other apps don't even bother to create the hashes and send the plain text phone numbers, e.g. WhatsApp.
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by marco1 12y ago
"To perform user-based analytics, Flurry needs some way of keep tracking of individual users. Yik Yak gave them the only user identification they have available: the userID." And, while reading the article, we all probably were: &
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by marco1 12y ago
They're hosted on AWS and probably using server name indication (SNI) for their SSL. Android's version of HttpClient is outdated (and won't be upgraded [1]). This is why SNI is not supported in that library and this may be wh
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by marco1 12y ago
The first may definitely be true, i.e. their legacy code base may be a heavier burden that some other companies'. Don't know about Peter Thiel, if there's still influence on today's work. Anyway, it's mostly program
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Why does PayPal have so many bugs and security issues?
7 points by marco1 12y ago|5 comments
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by marco1 12y ago
XMedia Recode [1] can do all this as well. Looks quite similar as well, by the way. But of course, it's not open-source, while Handbrake is. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMedia_Recode
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by marco1 12y ago
That does only work with Gmail, doesn't it? I don't think this is that widespread yet, so few companies (if any) will remove the part after the plus.
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by marco1 12y ago
There's also PleaseJS: https://github.com/Fooidge/PleaseJS
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by marco1 12y ago
If they don't want to endorse Google, why do they endorse Amazon instead of using Azure? Anyway, how will updates be handled if we download the APK from their website manually?

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