Hacker News: nwh

New comment by nwh in "CVE-2014-7284: Lack of randomness in Linux kernel network secrets"

nwh — Thu, 02 Oct 2014 17:36:07 +0000

For something like CloudFlare which in itself is designed to be a security filter as well as a CDN, having people able to touch the origin server (if they can find it) would be highly undesirable.

New comment by nwh in "Immigration Crackdown on Digital Nomads in Chiang Mai, Thailand"

nwh — Wed, 01 Oct 2014 12:14:53 +0000

An Australian one is fine in the UK, you can even drive using one.

New comment by nwh in "I built a custom keyboard for iOS 8"

nwh — Sun, 28 Sep 2014 04:22:45 +0000

http://i.imgur.com/bSIhNOP.png

Big scary warning, I like it. Swiftkey does badger people to enable it though, so presumably it's sending a lot of data back to their servers as a business model. Nasty.

New comment by nwh in "I built a custom keyboard for iOS 8"

nwh — Sun, 28 Sep 2014 04:11:20 +0000

Can users see this flag?

New comment by nwh in "I built a custom keyboard for iOS 8"

nwh — Sun, 28 Sep 2014 04:10:00 +0000

I didn't mean to suggest that at all, I was commenting on the concept of having executable keyboards outside of the usual application sandbox rather than yours in particular.

New comment by nwh in "Material Design for Bootstrap"

nwh — Sun, 28 Sep 2014 04:08:09 +0000

That front page renders horribly in FireFox.

http://i.imgur.com/kfYvuiX.jpg

New comment by nwh in "Material Design for Bootstrap"

nwh — Sun, 28 Sep 2014 04:01:07 +0000

So "Material Design" is "Flat Design" with shadows?

I'm not sure I can quite get used to this particular theme at all. The colors are pretty gaudy, the main action buttons (brown and purple) particularly are almost unreadable to me. I couldn't find the input boxes at all even though they had a header, they just parse as horizontal rules rather than something I can click on an add text. I respect the effort that has gone into creating this, but on a fundamental level I don't feel this is a good step in interface design.

New comment by nwh in "I built a custom keyboard for iOS 8"

nwh — Sun, 28 Sep 2014 03:57:33 +0000

iOS8 keyboards still make me very uncomfortable. How many of them contain keyloggers?

It's not even if I have one installed, the people I communicate with will be using them too, and they can compromise me.

New comment by nwh in "[dead]"

nwh — Sat, 27 Sep 2014 14:33:40 +0000

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New comment by nwh in "Show HN: 123D Catch by AutoDesk – Create 3D scans of virtually any object"

nwh — Sat, 27 Sep 2014 05:09:37 +0000

They also publicly display everything you do with it.

New comment by nwh in "Bash 'shellshock' scan of the Internet"

nwh — Thu, 25 Sep 2014 02:43:47 +0000

Especially as it's actually executing code on other people's computers, you can't even really say it's just observation at that point.

New comment by nwh in "Manual – Custom exposure for your iPhone camera"

nwh — Tue, 23 Sep 2014 20:15:02 +0000

The "instructions" at the start of the app are a bit baffling. I spent a good few minutes looking at a screen that told me to tap and drag and a weird orange circle that keys popping up above the capture button. In fact the entire selection with the ISO and shutter speed are a little on the janky side, I'm having a good deal of trouble seeing what I'm actually selecting. It's more completely random than anything with the shutter speed as my thumb obscures the entire view. Weird control usability aside it seems fairly functional, I've wanted something like this for a while.

Do you have a privacy policy somewhere with details about the information you collect from the application? I was unable to find any on your website.

New comment by nwh in "MIT Students Battle State's Demand for Their Bitcoin Miner's Source Code"

nwh — Mon, 22 Sep 2014 16:30:55 +0000

The purchasing of this product presents a high risk of potential thought-crime.

New comment by nwh in "MIT Students Battle State's Demand for Their Bitcoin Miner's Source Code"

nwh — Mon, 22 Sep 2014 16:19:18 +0000

Under that definition a lot of things are too dangerous to own. That libc you're packing? You're heading for jail for that, you potential criminal.

New comment by nwh in "EBay under pressure as hacks continue"

nwh — Mon, 22 Sep 2014 16:03:52 +0000

It's unreasonable to expect that of people. URLs are maddeningly maddling to parse even if you know what is going on, if you don't it's almost impossible to explain it. Why is ebay.com.au different to ebay.com.au.edgesuite.net, should I worry if I see that? Why is edgesuite alright for hosting the images on? It's a rabbit warren of edge cases and exceptions that defied all normal levels of explanations.

New comment by nwh in "“We've been acquired and Twitpic will live on”"

nwh — Fri, 19 Sep 2014 04:29:07 +0000

That's correct. Archive Team was working on it but their crawlers got banned. TwitPic said something along the lines of them having a better solution, which I suppose was this.

New comment by nwh in "CircuitMaker: a free PCB design tool powered by Altium"

nwh — Wed, 17 Sep 2014 09:30:37 +0000

It's free as in "freemium". Unusable unless you spend a tonne of money on lots of little in-app purchases.

New comment by nwh in "Canon printer hacked to run Doom"

nwh — Mon, 15 Sep 2014 15:26:34 +0000

What's the driver support for dot matrix printers like in linux these days?

New comment by nwh in "A JPEG that becomes a PNG after AES encryption and a PDF after 3DES decryption"

nwh — Fri, 12 Sep 2014 03:21:57 +0000

People are going to be mighty confused if they try to use that, imgur re-encodes all of it's images uploaded.

New comment by nwh in "Apple Pay"

nwh — Tue, 09 Sep 2014 20:29:22 +0000

You use your fingerprint to activate the NFC, so they'd have to bash you over the head and cut off your fingers presumably.