troeks's comments

On: Italy and South Korea virus outbreaks reveal dispa...

[troeks]

The first death in Norway was yesterday, an elderly person.

I tried looking up some numbers on severe cases, but the Norwegian Institute of Public Health webpages are currently experiencing some DNS issues.

[taeric → troeks]

Late responding, but if you find anything, I am still interested!

On: Ask HN: What are the hottest startups related to b...

[troeks]

Nøgne Ø in Norway has a non-alcoholic stout called Inferial Stout. It's a really strange beast.

On: Using the USB-C port and adapters on your MacBook ...

[troeks]

Quite a lot of phones support wireless charging these days.

[seanp2k2 → troeks]

Which, the newest 2 Nexus phones and the Palm Pre? 0 iPhones can do wireless charging, and those are pretty popular. Wireless charging still also requires a big dock thing to be plugged in to USB or mains power; it's not as if all (or any, that I'm aware of) laptops have a built-in zone which charges anything you lay down on it.

[ryanwatkins → seanp2k2]

The Galaxy S6 and a bunch of others, including some HTC Droids, 8X and others, LG G3, many Lumia devices, Blackberry Z30 and Classic. But yes, not the iPhone.

On: How to Beat Procrastination

[troeks]

I just want to mention that this article was previously discussed back in February: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2185174

[13rules → troeks]

Yeah, but a lot of us put off reading it until now.

On: WTFs by programming language repository on github

[troeks]

Looking at the search results[1] it mostly seems to be the same code being found in different repositories/forks. One of the most forked Lua repositories contains an add-on with a 8 localization keys named SoundWTF for example.

[1] https://github.com/search?type=Code&language=Lua&q=w...

On: Stopping Screenlock Smudge Attacks On Android

[troeks]

On the vertical PIN one: Wouldn't it be better to use something similar to the default PIN input and randomize the position of the numbers?

It shouldn't be too hard to catch someone PIN when they enter it on a static vertical list. Then again, neither is it on the default static PIN grid.

[moxie → troeks]

We considered this, but decided that people want to use muscle memory in order to quickly unlock their screens, rather than hunting for the correct digits in a randomized layout. This allows you to quickly go through the motions, and only adds one extra gesture.

[pagekalisedown → moxie]

But security is the whole point isn't it? Seems to me that having them hunt for the correct digits is the right thing to do.

[afterburner → pagekalisedown]

Not being annoyed every time you unlock the phone is often a higher priority. Especially when you have to opt in.

[teejae → pagekalisedown]

Security and usability are 2 orthogonal design choices.