HNHacker News
TopNewBestAskShowJobs

myf

19 karma · joined August 31, 2011

A citizen of the world, member of the Homo Sapiens
submissionscomments
myf··on Facebook Messenger begins testing end-to-end encryption using Signal Protocol
dumb question: how do we (know|prove) a message is encrypted with signal when we use facebook, google allo etc. etc.
myf··on Luakit: Fast, small, WebKit-based browser framework extensible by Lua
there was a talk about the state of luakit recently and the original author has created its dedicated organization and migrated the codebase. So there's some new interests in developing it future, adding webkit2 supports etc. this fork at https://github.com/aidanholm/luakit has seen some new developments on the webkit2 front.
myf··on Chinese Number Websites
it also uses a penguin as the mascot...
myf··on Lost city in Darfur
the airstrip was built by my friend martijn (https://github.com/MartijnR) when he worked as a construction expert with the Red Cross in Darfur. He had to "hire somebody to chase away goats before plane landing".
myf··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2013)
Modilabs, Columbia University -- New York City -- Full time

https://github.com/modilabs/jobs

We are a university lab under The Earth Institute at Columbia University. We are building open source softwares to help developments in various countries in the world with a kick of technology.

Currently we are involved in a data collection / analysis project in Nigeria, an infrastructure planner project for remote islands in Indonesia and many more. We also have a team in Narobi, Kenya with whom the New York team work very closely. Our stacks includes but not limited to python, javascript, django, nodejs and we are always looking forward for new technology.

We are looking for hackers who are passionate about the stuff that helps the world sucks a little less. If you are interested in hacking with us, traveling to the developing world, please go to the afromentioned github job repo to contact us.

myf··on Poll: Which RSS reader have you switched to?
third
myf··on Off-the-Record Messaging – encrypt your instant messages
Or you can use the Socilalist Millionaires' Protocol to exchange secret questions and answers that only both of you know http://www.cypherpunks.ca/otr/help/authenticate.php
myf··on llgo: compiler for Go, written in Go, using LLVM compiler infrastructure
gogo
myf··on Hacker School: Summer 2012 Applications Open + Etsy Scholarships
we want more women in this batch!
myf··on Learn to read a binary font by reading a story
the density reminds me of chinese
myf··on The Xinjiang Procedure
With no attempt to disapprove the medical~execution claim, there exists quite a number of over generalization of the political and cultural background of Uighurs and Xinjiang. The history told in the article was sort of misleading. I grew up with some of them and there are more content to the current situation. Please consult http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uyghur_people for a fuller understanding. I am no wiser than wikipedia.
myf··on It Pays to Know Ruby: New York City’s Top Tech Jobs (and Their Average Salary)
transportation is marked 127.5% of average US cost. I wonder if it's from the price of gas and knowing that people don't really drive to work as much in manhattan.
myf··on Galaxy Nexus Available In US
according to wirefly, verizon's basic plan is $60 per month for 450min and $30 additional for the basic basic data plan (4GB personal email only no idea what it means). That's a whopping $90 for a basic plan and I don't know if the data plan is viable to unleash Nexus Galaxy's power. Anything above that is going to be over $100 per phone. For comparison I just checkd out Sprint plan which is $70 per month with 450 min unlimited data. that's at least $20 per month and if you add the data plan you wanted it's easily going to be $40 difference per month. The unlocked version sells for $749 and with the verizon plan it sells for $189, which is $560 difference. With a $10GB data plan from verizon (seems to be the best discounted value) it costs $110/month from verizon yields a $40 difference per month. This will make up the difference ($560) in 14 mnoths. It mean this verizon offer is only cheaper if we are not forced to sign a two year contract and you are ought to migrate to some plans much cheaper as soon as you get the phone. Does it make sense?