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by vzaliva 5y ago
In a "future without passwords" every signle web site will use their own app for 2FA, forcing you to install all of them. It should be possible to have one common open standard for "push" 2FA apps and let consumer chose
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by vzaliva 5y ago
Compare Twitter open approach to Instagram. Instagram does not have public API and 3rd party clients. That prevent any outside innovation (but allows to keep ad revenue in-house).
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by vzaliva 5y ago
I was recently cancellng my service at https://www.greenlightcard.com/ and it took me 30 min of my life. I was so annoyed about it. But this is an example how such laws could be useless unless they are enforced. I am in Cal
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by vzaliva 5y ago
I have a problem accessing video file shared on google drive with this extension enabled. Disabling it helped.
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by vzaliva 5y ago
They could have saved the same amount of money by not providing numerous office perks, limiting employee travel, and cramping employees into smaller offices (I think square footage at average home office is less that at Googlepex). So basic
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by vzaliva 6y ago
Here is some background for those who are not familiar with the rules of academic research in the US. Usually, any experiments involving human subjects are subject to Univesity Institutional Review Board (IRB) [1] approval. IRB should evalu
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by vzaliva 6y ago
I am curious about "compiler" attack they are mentioning. Looks like they compromized compiler used to build the code. Any more technical info on this aspect?
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by vzaliva 6y ago
I recall in Ukraine in nienties some mobile operators did not charge for the first few seconds of a call (I think it was 2 or 3). There was an art of communication around that...
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by vzaliva 6y ago
Stating the obivious (with quote from the areticle): "As an alternative to changing your number, you could try switching from WhatsApp to Signal, a popular, privacy-focussed instant messaging app. It’s very similar to WhatsApp but buil
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by vzaliva 6y ago
Why HN is promoting paywalled articles? I am the only person here who does not have WaPo subscription?
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by vzaliva 6y ago
I've spent a lot of time porting many Unix tools to Xenix 286 for internal use. It was a paintful process. Assumptions of 32-bit size of integers were common, build tools (make, C compiler) differ in subtle ways from common Unix ones,
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by vzaliva 6y ago
Warning: long-winded story with catchy title which is misleading. The only reference to weather is that the service was "dropping out during wet weather." No further explanation is provided. They also cite another problem due to &
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by vzaliva 6y ago
It is nice but it could not beat the power of Wolfram Alpha. The way I use it is from Firefox: 1. Add Search Engine via https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/wolfram-alpha... 2. Type = followed by ex
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by vzaliva 6y ago
I was first dissapointed when they close. Then I started using Feedly. It turns out quite well: I they are as powerfull, but I have one less entangelment with google ecosystem.
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by vzaliva 6y ago
I hope somebody is recording this stream. It could make an amazing time-lapse video later.
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by vzaliva 6y ago
While this policy is better than nothing, it is, as they admit, is imperfect. They may put their part of the profit to good use, but their service still provides an implicit benefit to an offending site. The damage caused by this second p
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by vzaliva 6y ago
I was assumung it was working like this all way along.
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by vzaliva 6y ago
Firefox Reade mode makes this page more readable. Otherwis 50% of your screen space is taken by non-informative graphics.
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by vzaliva 6y ago
In US you can sieze that many firearms raiding a random nightclub. :)
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by vzaliva 6y ago
The date in stipid US standard (mm/dd/yyyy) will confuse the hell of the rest of the world. Please use not US-centric ISO date format: yyyy-mm-dd.
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by vzaliva 6y ago
Many people do not realize that then they move their mouse cursor around the screen its trajectory is most likely smoothed with Kalman filter.
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by vzaliva 6y ago
The term "formally verified" could be misleading. Some people assume it means "100% bug free". Whenever someone claims something is formlally verified one should ask what properties were verified exactly. In this work th
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by vzaliva 6y ago
"According to the Vision Council of America, approximately 75% of adults use some sort of vision correction. About 64% of them wear eyeglasses, and about 11% wear contact lenses, either exclusively, or with glasses. Over half of all wo
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by vzaliva 6y ago
I love the idea of smartwatches and owned several ones starting wit Pebble. But since I need reading glasses to read small print I have to give up on them and go back to old-school watch with hands. It is just not practical to stop in the m
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by vzaliva 6y ago
Perhaps putting their brand name on thier bag in prominently visible location could have helped? Right now their bag have no visible branding and that allows scammers easily replace it with inferior product.
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by vzaliva 6y ago
no, it is not Russian cursive
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by vzaliva 6y ago
First of all, thank you for making this available. However without Search functionality the utility of this archive is very limited.
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by vzaliva 6y ago
Nice try, Facebook :)
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by vzaliva 6y ago
Around this age people get comfortable in their ways and many stop learning new things. Fight this. Learn and try new things professionally and personally. Get out of your comfort zone and try new stuff.
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by vzaliva 6y ago
I've stopped using xpdf years ago. It was OK, but got obsolette compared to other readers, like Evince.

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