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by nhf 10y ago
Google supports the U2F standard for logins through Chrome. It's a theoretically standardized browser API, but it's only been implemented in Chrome so far.
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by nhf 10y ago
You can use it as 2FA for your SSH installation too[1]. [1] https://www.yubico.com/why-yubico/for-businesses/computer-lo...
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I get your point, but that's a slightly inconvenient comparison. Shenzhen - Beijing is ~1200 miles, SF - NY is ~2600 miles. At the highest passenger rail speeds out there, the trip would probably end up being 12-18 hours.
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by nhf 10y ago
I live about 30 minutes from BOS by bus/rail. Let's say everything is timed perfectly: I get TSA Precheck, 10 minute curb-to-gate, 5 minute wait, boarding commences at T-20, first in line for takeoff. That means I leave for the ai
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They're working on a beacon-based train time system now [1]. Bluetooth beacons are installed on cars with trackside sensors as trains enter and exit stations. Station wi-fi is used to relay data about entering and exiting trains. Since
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by nhf 10y ago
90% of what's present in the boarding pass barcode (PDF417) is visible in plaintext on the actual document. The other 10% is relatively meaningless without access to the airline's systems (perhaps with the exception of FF numbers
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by nhf 10y ago
QNX was ahead of its time. I think it underpinned most versions of the BlackBerry OS and is used in cars / infotainment systems, but I think they would have made a killing in the IoT space if they had developed in another era.
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by nhf 10y ago
On a tangential note, "The robust beauty of improper linear models in decision making"[1] is probably one of my favorite papers on modeling and decision research. > Improper linear models are those in which the weights of the p
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by nhf 10y ago
Estonia has tried to do that with varying levels of success http://www.id.ee/public/The_Estonian_ID_Card_and_Digital_Sig...
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by nhf 10y ago
This was likely someone running a test / dev network using OpenBTS, which is open-source software for GSM base stations. The exact phrasing of that message is the default registration message for the software: https://github
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by nhf 10y ago
It's more like a "proxy" for your SIM card where it can act as its own SIM, or as a passthrough, depending on software settings.
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by nhf 10y ago
A point of clarification: you are able to use the car with a human operator in any ridesharing service. Tesla is saying that you can't share out your car on Uber's platform, with it operating at full autonomy, while you chill on y
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The last day of hot metal press before computers come in at The New York Times(aeon.co)
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I remember iDEN phones! I had a Motorola i355 for a while. Software sucked but the thing was an absolute tank. Plus, it was one of the rare "dumbphones" of the time to have integrated GPS, so I remember using it as a GPS tracker f
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by nhf 10y ago
From that contract that was linked elsewhere, the equipment being provided includes: > One (1) VX680 GPRS Terminal w/battery, thermal printer The VX680 is a mobile credit card terminal ( http://www.verifone.com/media&
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by nhf 11y ago
In all seriousness, I've only run into two groups that (in my personal experience) still use LJ: Eastern Europeans, especially Russians, and pop-culture related "creators" (which is the broad brush that I'm painting fan
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by nhf 11y ago
This guide is nice for people that are motivated, but a large chunk of users (probably the majority, but I have nothing to back that up except a guess) will only encrypt their emails when it's as frictionless as sending an unencrypted
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by nhf 11y ago
Signatures on credit cards are an interesting artifact. Planet Money did a nice podcast on signatures a year or two ago: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/08/29/344034815/episo... Apparent
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by nhf 11y ago
From the perspective of a current CMU student: the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) here is the responsible party here. Note that they are separate from the main ("academic") school of CS. They are a federally-funded research
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Scraped from archive.org: http://imgur.com/a/PlCfX
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If we're using fashion as an analogy, it's kind of a mixed bag. There's both this type of fashion: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/c0/66/12/c06612029... ...and this type of fashi
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by nhf 11y ago
I can definitely agree with both sides of this argument. People like things to just work—and people also like to be able to customize things. I could see this concept being used as a superpowered versioned of IFTTT if it gets baked into pro
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by nhf 11y ago
Yep! There's a lot of research going on in that area. For example, http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2702416 Some recent work on fusing machine learning with Mechanical Turk workers to create "sensors".
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by nhf 11y ago
It wouldn't have the cool art, but it wouldn't be too difficult to produce a first approximation of a similar website using existing frameworks like Bootstrap.
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by nhf 11y ago
Internet measurement is such a cool subfield. It's really astounding how much data is locked up within the nooks and crannies of digital activity.
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To be fair that's a pretty common tactic even here in the US. T-Mobile's cheaper "unlimited data" plans are 5GB of 3G/4G with aggressive traffic shaping afterwards that basically dings you down to 2G-ish speeds unle
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by nhf 11y ago
This presentation (GCHQ) specifically notes use of HDFS and Hadoop to process data: https://theintercept.com/document/2015/09/25/gchq-analytic-c...
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by nhf 11y ago
Sesame Workshop gets more resources and episodes, PBS gets to stop paying for Sesame Street. I don't think it's all that bad. It's not like it's going off the air on PBS any time soon.
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by nhf 11y ago
P2P by default except on the enterprise edition, in which case it's local network only. They also claim to disable P2P if they detect your internet connection is metered (I'm not sure how that's done).
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by nhf 11y ago
A plug for our paper, also at the SOUPS conference. We tackled a similar topic, but with a different method and broader focus (how experts and non-experts in general conceptualize the internet as a system): https://www.usenix.org

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