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guava··on Two-factor paper passwords
To be fair to the author, he does write the following at the end of the post:

> PS If you are planning to do this... please consider using a password manager first.

which shows that he is aware that this is only a second-choice solution.

guava··on Finding the Tennis Suspects
That's the iPython notebook published by BuzzFeed showing their procedure.

Here's the link for the relevant notebook for this work: https://github.com/rkaplan/deanonymizing-tennis-suspects/blo...

guava··on Square stock drops 10%, is now less than IPO price
Additional noteworthy drops are Tesla (-5.93%) and Netflix (-7.12%).
guava··on The Jobs That Offer Great Work-Life Balance (and Some That Don't)
From my experience it seems like in many technical roles the work-life balance can be as good as you can afford to make it. There is an obvious trade-off between career development and maintaining a healthy work-life balance.
guava··on Lush cosmetics in YouTube address dispute
Slightly related, this isn't the first time Lush cosmetics have been involved in some kind of trademark dispute: http://www.cosmeticsdesign-europe.com/Regulation-Safety/Lush...
guava··on Submit.co – Where to get press coverage for your startup
The Google Doc is on comment only mode.
guava··on Drawscript – convert Illustrator shapes into code
For those wanting Objective-C, Swift or C#, PaintCode [1] seems to support SVG conversion.

[1] http://www.paintcodeapp.com/

guava··on Show HN: Visa Explorer – Salaries, lawyers, companies of all H-1B in the USA
Minor bug: the Home tab stays highlighted regardless of which page you are on: http://data.jobsintech.io/companies.

Good job otherwise!

guava··on CloudFlare “Interview Questions”
(Saving current progress in case someone abuses the page again: http://pastie.org/pastes/10182802/text [16:08 Monday, May 11, 2015 UTC].)
guava··on CloudFlare “Interview Questions”
Let's collaboratively collect the answers to these (trivia!) questions: http://collabedit.com/rsjy8
guava··on Removing EU roaming charges is a big deal (2014)
This is the small print for "Feel at Home": http://www.three.co.uk/Privacy_Cookies/Terms_Conditions?cont...

Points of interest:

* Unlimited data in the UK translates to 25GB

* "Three reserves the right to suspend the international roaming when in a selected destination if the customer’s use exceeds any of the above limits for two (2) months within a twelve (12) month period. The service will be reinstated once the customer returns to the UK."

* "This offer is intended to be used by UK residents travelling abroad, and Three reserves the right to suspend the service in the event the UK allowance is used exclusively abroad for three (3) months within a twelve (12) month period."

guava··on Online curl command line builder
It does seem to support custom headers, but as you stated doesn't support user agents, cookies, etc.
guava··on One instruction set computer
You will want a way of decreasing registers, hence the subtract parts of the single instruction sets.
guava··on Tupper's Self-Referential Formula
Numberphile video about this formula: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_s5RFgd59ao
guava··on Facebook Chats Are Being Scanned by a CIA Funded Company?
I think the user was questioning the link between In-Q-Tel and Facebook (rather than In-Q-Tel and the CIA).
guava··on Facebook Chats Are Being Scanned by a CIA Funded Company?
Facebook are deprecating XMPP [1].

  On April 30, 2014, we announced the deprecation of the XMPP Chat API as part of the release of Platform API v2.0. The service and API this document covers will no longer be available after April 30, 2015.

  Once version 1.0 is deprecated on April 30, 2015, chat.facebook.com and the xmpp_login permission will no longer be available.

  We recommend developers who have integrated with the XMPP Chat API deprecate this functionality from their apps before April 30, 2015 to avoid broken experiences.
[1] https://developers.facebook.com/docs/chat
guava··on Facebook Chats Are Being Scanned by a CIA Funded Company?
The key point here is that the links are scanned by a 3rd party who are not related to Facebook (as far as we know).
guava··on Voyage to Nowhere: The Amazon Kindle Story
The leadership principles mentioned in this post: http://www.amazon.com/Values-Careers-Homepage/b?node=2393650...
guava··on New Tesla 70D all-wheel drive, 240 mile range car for ~$75k
Prices in other countries:

  US: ~$75k
  Canada: ~C$86k = ~$68k
  UK: ~£55k = ~$80k
  France: ~€70k = ~$74k
  Australia (varies with territory): ~A$115k = ~$88k
guava··on How Teens Really Use Apps
WhatsApp is also owned by Facebook and this will further bump up their market share.
guava··on Paternoster
The video does not comment on the situation which arises when a car stops for a prolonged period, blocking the cars behind it. What would or should happen in this scenario?