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by usmannk 8y ago
Went into this thinking it was about the X Window System[1]. Pleasantly surprised! Lots of cool stuff here. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Window_System
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by usmannk 8y ago
I think they are explaining why they would rather play online; those are the two options and both not preferable.
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by usmannk 8y ago
>Remember When AT&T sent a paper copy of every image you downloaded on your iPhone in a bill? I'd never heard of that, fascinating. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/300-page_iPhone_bill
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by usmannk 8y ago
Does this mean that you are storing plaintext passwords in the db? The hashes should be the same length regardless of the password length.
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by usmannk 9y ago
Not quite. The paradoxical fact is that if you pick a random point in time, it’s expected that there is 20 minutes between that point and the next block. Even if there’s already been 20 minutes since the previous block! Edit: woops! See bel
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by usmannk 9y ago
Potentially unrelated but having run events with Apple as a sponsor in the past, they are especially stringent on how/if they allow you to use their logo or branding. We were also forced to go this route.
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by usmannk 9y ago
It's very feasible to reverse engineer the Android APK for Facebook and replace the cert with your own. https://serializethoughts.com/2016/08/18/bypassing-ssl-pinni... http://blog.dewhurstsecu
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by usmannk 9y ago
I think they're asking how to create the asymmetry and if the imperfections in the calculations are exploited to do so.
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by usmannk 9y ago
They meant the book Design Patterns https://www.amazon.com/Design-Patterns-Elements-Reusable-Obj...
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by usmannk 9y ago
> I'm surprised Forbes would publish it Unfortunately much of Forbes has become nothing but a fancy blog, very much akin to Business Insider. With the amount of "contributors" posting to the site nowadays the Forbes name i
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by usmannk 9y ago
I'm reluctant to apply this mindset to the tech, or at least SV tech, industry. While it's common practice to hop jobs every 2-5 years, it seems to be more for new or different opportunities (Different sized company, a new domain,
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by usmannk 9y ago
Yeah, but the color of that dialog should probably be changed. On a quick glance it blends in.
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by usmannk 9y ago
Adsense policy: "Examples of unacceptable pages include ... Automatically generated content without manual review or curation" Article: "People will be involved in the curation and editing of the stories"
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by usmannk 9y ago
The payload is encrypted with the bank's public key but it can only be decrypted with their private key. This is the basis of public key cryptography [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public-key_cryptography
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by usmannk 10y ago
I could see his comment just fine. What's the evidence of an HN shadowban?
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by usmannk 10y ago
That request being blocked is fine. The error is due to the star POST request on Github being blocked. The endpoint in question is https://github.com/googleanalytics/autotrack/star . Your ad blocker uses string mat
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by usmannk 10y ago
What is the topic of the website, if you don't mind?
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by usmannk 10y ago
Heads up, you listed 2 different email addresses.
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by usmannk 10y ago
This is ridiculous. How does one go about deriving something like this? Really impressive.
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Amazon is planning to open grocery stores for its Amazon Fresh customers(theverge.com)
2 points by usmannk 10y ago|0 comments
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by usmannk 10y ago
Searching for "essentials" seems to do the trick.
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by usmannk 10y ago
Non mobile: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/28/magazine/turning-instagram...
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by usmannk 10y ago
Was this hidden from the front page?
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by usmannk 10y ago
Is the protocol described in Aaronson's algorithm actually sound? I can't seem to make sense of it myself. An example sequence would help.
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by usmannk 10y ago
What could you expect as a freelancing contractor? Assuming you've previously done mobile work at a Facebook/Google/Apple/Microsoft tier company.
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by usmannk 10y ago
tl;dr: Send a message on Facebook messenger, grab its id, and you can alter it by sending more messages with the same id. Seems simple enough to probably have been abused by many.
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Facebook MaliciousChat: Changing messages after the fact(blog.checkpoint.com)
1 points by usmannk 10y ago|1 comments
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by usmannk 10y ago
Python isn't nearly at the level of C++ or Java there, at least not any more.
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by usmannk 10y ago
They /can/ but I've found that almost every team I've interacted with sticks with the style recommended by g4 lint.
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by usmannk 10y ago
>Are they arbitraging by buying cheap porn ads then selling higher priced ads to the same traffic? Exactly. An advertiser like Walmart won't buy ads on a porn site so toastedballs is buying ads on porn sites then showing the high qu

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