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While I would certainly hope that it prevents spread too, I believe that the vaccine is only proven to prevent Covid-19 (the disease), and not to prevent the spread of SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes it).

According to statcounter.com [1] there are over 4x as many Catalina users as there are Mojave users (62% vs 14% of MacOS users), so I think it's just that the people complaining about Catalina are louder.

Anecdotally, I'm using Mojave and experienced this issue, a person I was trying to have a Zoom call with was experiencing the same issue on their Mojave.

I think there are enough comments scattered across Hacker News to safely conclude that it affected Mojave too - although it's possible the timeout behaviour / error handling is different to Catalina.

[1] https://gs.statcounter.com/macos-version-market-share/deskto...

These two suggestions strike remarkably close to a fun university project I did, which featured chewing motions and Kinect-powered eye-contact :)

ROBERt (Recycling-Of-Bottles Encouragement Robot) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j02o4AaIu9w

Turns out a lot of humans will stick their arm inside just to see what happens!

I wasn't really trying to comment on their overall trustworthiness - I just don't think you have to stretch very far to imagine how a conversation between ≥1 Zoom employee who genuinely does care about privacy ("our users are demanding E2EE") and law enforcement agencies ("we demand or are entitled to certain powers") might have resulted in the offering being announced today.

Isn't it fair to say that this brings Zoom more-or-less exactly in line with the privacy vs law enforcement balance of a normal telephone call?

Writing from the UK, I'm reasonably sure that (a) all my phone calls are not recorded and (b) the phone number and duration of every call absolutely is recorded (this has to be shown on your phone bill!) and is available to the police when needed.

Speculating further, with the right court orders / warrants the normal E2E encryption algorithm for a particular user could be replaced with a "law enforcement decryptable" one and, hey presto, it's a Zoom equivalent of a proportionate wiretap that only covers future calls. Certainly a lot better than encrypting the calls of all users with such an algorithm "just in case".

It's worth noting that the hijacker pushed a malicious version of 1.6.x

Version 1.7.0 was released to rubygems on 8th July 2014, and 2.0.0 on 2nd July 2016, so anyone who has started using rest-client or run a `bundle update` recently is unlikely to be affected.

The impact could have been significantly greater had the hijacker pushed a new versions of 1.8.x or 2.x as well, so it's very fortunate the breach was spotted now.

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Usually Heroku mentions a specific region in any status updates that don't affect all regions. For example, a status update 11 days ago stated "We're currently seeing increased routing latency in the US region. Investigation is underway."

AFAIK this outage only affected dyno restarting (which may have been triggered by a number of reasons) and creation of new dynos. Perhaps your EU dynos were lucky enough to not have done either of these things during the outage?

Unfortunately I'd have to disagree. Production applications belonging to paying customers are completely down - I don't think "Elevated Build and API Error Rates" quite does it justice.

Note: The applications in question have had zero interactions (deploys, restarts, scaling, etc.) which might have caused their dynos to be unallocated/re-provisioned within Heroku's own service.

In the last 5 minutes my paid dynos have just gone completely offline. Heroku's status page is doing a very poor job of reflecting that.

I can't help but be a little surprised that Heroku's entire build system is disabled by an S3 failure in one region. Now I'm unable to add a notice about the issues to my site's HTML...

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It's worth noting that each custom build includes a commented line with a URL to download the latest version with the same custom set of detects. A great timesaver!

It's worth noting that the carrier it returns and the brand of network aren't necessarily the same - at least here in the UK.

For example the Giffgaff network is carried by O2, and a UK landline rented through Twilio appears to be carried by Jersey Telecom.

Looking in the README, it appears that this OS X branch is part of the main repository. The page for it is at https://code.launchpad.net/~suv-lp/inkscape/osxmenu

The idea of testing the merge commit is a great one. Even if the test suite is able to catch the 'logical conflict' mentioned in the article, current solutions will only catch the conflict after it's merged into master.

Of course, it's not too hard for the person responsible for merging the pull request to replicate this themselves (branch off master, merge in feature branch, run tests).

To me, including "mobile-first" as one of your key value proposition seems a little odd.

My immediate reaction was to wonder whether any mobile browsers aren't mobile-first? From my (incomplete) knowledge of smartphone browsers they all feature interfaces designed for smartphones and smartphones alone.

There must be a better word to use in your tagline - I notice you decided on using "Truly Mobile" further down ;)

Yes, after seeing many familiar gems in the graphic I was almost surprised to see that hakiri gave my Gemfile.lock an 'all clear'.

The should be able to calculate what percentage of these would still be vulnerable if fully updated - now that would be an interesting stat!

Great to see these guys are now out of Beta!

While their real-time Extractors aren't quite as quick as doing it yourself, we've found them to be particularly useful for sites requiring JavaScript and/or cookies to use.

It's also worth mentioning that it's quick to get started. You can start playing around with real data without having to dig into a site's URL structure, and then write your own scraper later if needed.

All of the communication methods mentioned in the 'tips' section have proved invaluable for me personally, and really set Stripe apart from many companies. They're fantastically accessible. Need a quick response? Ask on the IRC chat. Think the API isn't right? Have a discussion. Library missing something? Fork it and maybe submit a pull request.

The one thing that makes me consider switching is the lack of bank transfers in the UK (which isn't a problem unique to Stripe).

At first glance it seems to be the same as Heroku's Preboot functionality.

Heroku docs: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/labs-preboot

I don't see any new features being launched here, but it's a nice landing page that sets out the value proposition and use cases for marketplaces more clearly. Yet again making me wish that the Transfers API was available in Europe!

This is also commonly used in Europe (Verified by Visa and Mastercard Securecode collectively being known as 3D Secure)

It's not a doodle, it's a footer.

And for those who for whatever reason cannot see it on Google, it reads: "The practice of sport is a human right. Every individual must have the possibility of practicing sport, without discrimination of any kind and in the Olympic spirit, which requires mutual understanding with a spirit of friendship, solidarity and fair play." –Olympic Charter

Yep, both Twitter and Facebook's apps seemed to start asking for this permission around the same time - they seem to be oblivious to how scary "Read your text messages" sounds to anyone vaguely concerned about privacy. I'm holding off on updating for now.

The information in that article is incorrect. The Café at Google Campus is (and has always been) free to use, although the tea and coffee is indeed paid separately. Alternatively you can pay to become a 'Resident' on the other floors where you can enjoy free tea and coffee.

I think the author was hoping to encourage startups out of the free seats! ;)

[1] - Campus London FAQ - http://www.campuslondon.com/faq/

[2] - Campus London Price List (managed by TechHub) - http://www.techhub.com/blog/types-of-membership/

As nice as new features are, I do wish you'd work on bringing all of your existing features to non-US customers first!

Your international support is definitely better than most payment processors (Balanced I'm looking at you), but it's been over six months since you introduced Transfers to US customers. I'd love to know if there is a technical/legal reason behind this? The US has a number marketplace payment solutions but I've yet to come across any European ones.

Given huge number of possible molecules and the relatively slow nature of wafting them around the room, I suspect they plan to pack a lot more that 1 bit of information in each molecule!

It doesn't seem to have been a problem for http://vine-videos.com

They're ranking 2nd on Google for the term 'vine', and even have the Vine logo as their favicon and next to their listing!