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I reckon it depends on the degree of customization required for the solution.

You can sign up and AWS without any customization. Even if you spend $10k/month on AWS, you don't really need to talk to AWS to create a custom deployment (from what little I know of AWS - might be wrong).

But if you're talking about a solution that requires customization, or if you want volume discounts, you will want to speak to a salesperson.
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The mention that is varies by provider is notable. Apple encrypts End-to-end all iMessage chats, as well as FaceTime (VoIP) calls. None of the other providers on that list do that, so at least there's that.

Also, people here act like Apple jumped willingly onboard the PRISM program. You can bet your ass their arm was twisted by the government or they were taken into the program unknowingly (datacenter ISP taps, etc).
An update on this: all employees' posters and signs that have been part of the office for years have been taken down, and replaced with photos of HQ-based employees marching in various LGBTQ Pride parades (which is pretty controversial on its own), and photos of Bhuddist monks on stage at company events.

Marc Benioff is not so good at hiding his religious intolerance.
So Milton Friedman is unrespectable?
> A good example is a newsletter from say, Quora or Medium; Newsletters usually have links to a story or a news feed article. If this was done using plain text, the link would be one long mashup of characters, because they usually include an authentication token or something like that. In this case, using an html link or button is clearly the better option.

Well, that's a yet more hostile thing that one has to put up with. I follow news through newsletters, and I'd prefer they were in plain text and with normal links. My reader knows how to wrap lines and make link-like things in plain text clickable. But unfortunately if I wanted to enforce that I'd have to avoid news...
Well here in europe it didn't happen all at once. It was a gradual rolling of chip based cards, atms and terminals. There was a non-insignificant amount of time where some atms / pos terminals would reject your card because you/it didn't have the right technology.

But ultimately I think its the people themselves that demand more security from their banks. E.g. Bank one introduces chip based cards and more people choose that bank because they want more security. Then gradually some atms start to be "chip only", and banks start to see the chipless ones get all the skimmers and accelerate their replacement to lower costs which forces business to atart getting more pos terminals with chips to meet the demand of people with cards that have mag strip disabled.

Having more security seems to be what everybody wants and benefits from, its just that europe has smaller players which accelerates market forces in that direction, and meybe because european consumers just want more security in general.
wow, makes me realise how crazy expensive Australian prices are. Your price is .11 Euro/kWh (.16AUD). I'm paying .38AUD/kWh, almost 2.5 times more than you! Don't event get me started on gas prices. Last month my Gas+Electricity bill was $541.44. Insane.
That makes no sense. There has been a ton of research. C, needing to be backwards-compatible, can only implement a subset of that research. More modern languages, not having this burden, are free to implement the entirety of this research. Therefore, C can only be at most equal to new languages, and overwhelmingly likely worse.
> how indirect the chain of causality is

A monkey didn't sneak into his hotel room and take a happy snap. He sought them out and spent days with them, and handed his equipment to them. That's not 'indirect causality'.

By your reasoning, if I was to put a camera in a tumble-dryer and let it snap photos while spinning, those photos would not be mine because whilst I set up the circumstances, the actual photos were not specifically composed by me.

Far too much emphasis is placed here on who pressed the physical button, and not who brought everything together.
My father in law owns property in west Texas. No address just gps coordinates. He gets packages sent to a place in a nearby town.
I live in a house right on the dividing line of Portland's neighborhoods.

On one side of a street, the house would be 1 N Graham St, on the other side of the street, it would be 1 NE Graham St.

Needless to say, some confusion occurs. In addition, many times locations are referred to as being on 39th and Graham, for example. So you must specify very carefully that you live at Number 39 Northeast Graham St, "Not 39th and Graham, at the corner of Graham and Williams, on the Northeast side"

It's a bit of a hassle. But a nice neighborhood. My mirror-neighbors kindly forward me packages, and I return the favor. Saves everyone a lot of agony.

(This is leaving aside the area in Portland where, being east of the 'dividing line', but west of the river, the houses are numbered identically except with a leading zero. Many mapping systems truncate this leading zero. Ergo you end up ~15 blocks away)

From 63 NE Graham to 63 N Graham -
0.1 miles - https://goo.gl/maps/xPLNKLzWv652

From 10 SW Boundary St to 010 SW Boundary St - 98 feet - https://goo.gl/maps/FRCXuYKir3M2
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Compare this with Tesla's style, "Starting next week."
I bet there's someone on HN who's tried to renumber their house to zero to see how many systems it crashes.

There's a platform zero at King's Cross, along with the famous (not actually a platform) "Platform 9 and three quarters"
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Today in 2017, how likely are you to die

1. Because you can't afford food? Or because the harvest failed or was stolen?

2. Because you're infected by a disease that can't be treated?

3. Because an army invaded your city/town and killed all able-bodied men and sold everyone else into slavery?

4. Because a natural disaster occurred - a hurricane/earthquake/tsunami and you no longer have a roof above your head?

You show an appalling ignorance of history if you don't know that for all of recorded human history, death was always around the corner, even if you were one of the few people who were wealthy. Today the vast majority of humans simply do not have to worry about death _all the time_, like humans always have.

All of the problems you mentioned are totally legitimate and we should be using all of our resources in solving these problems. But please don't imply that quality of life isn't better than it was 100 years ago for most people.

> Big-mouthed delusional priests

And keep abuse to a minimum, especially when your comment is so low quality.
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True, but it would also perpetuate the stereotype of developers and techies as being a closed community of pretentious nerds.
You can't predict based on history without having a model that tells you how to extrapolate that history.
Quite the opposite. Everyone praises Karl Marx and Keynes, although they been proven wrong many times. Most Millenials think that Capitalism and freemarkets are evil, while Socialism is good. History has proven otherwise
Does tripling mean going from 1 to 3 or from 100 to 300? I even skimmed the article quickly but didn't see any reference to the scale here.
That's really scary stuff. http://www.dhmo.org/facts.html
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Interesting. I'm now down the GIS rabbithole of http://xml.coverpages.org/bs7666.html
Wait, but then if I hand my camera to someone and ask him to take my picture, I don't own the copyright of my own picture!
I used to live at a twin address, my parents still do. It was across the boundary of towns and the homes are 500m apart. Postcode is only 1 letter different at the end (e.g. AB1 1CD/AB1 1CE).

The only issues I remember was getting each other's mail, and we'd just walk over and post it manually to them.

We added a name to our property so we could use that in mailing addresses to help clarify.
Seems like one way to do that would be to offer opting out of ads, A/B testing for price. It'd let them find the balance between user-supported revenue and advertiser-supported revenue.
I believe comments can't be deleted after they've been replied to.
No Facebook == even more happy.

I deleted my Facebook account completely last fall. It was interesting to see what happened over the period of about a month. Two weeks in my spouse's status changed from "Married to Ollie" to "Married." About three weeks in I got a notice saying my account to pay for "boosting" posts was cancelled.

My FB fanboy brother is annoyed, because if he wants to tell me something he has to make an effort.

People don't "tag" me in pictures any more. I don't have to cope with the little burst of emotional juice when somebody pushes the little thumb button on something from me or about me.

And, the fake nuz just stopped. Hooray.
It may be fraud, but if it's possible, that's still a problem.

SSN can not be used as authorization, because it isn't secret information. And really, the same is true for credit card numbers; they're shared with too many parties to consider them secret.
Mozilla is rather big, isn't it? I wonder if this isn't a result of Mozilla being the kind of company that attracts the type of "activist" programmer to write this kind of stuff, and also having the work environment where you can get fanatic subcultures that just assert their beliefs.

This is not a dig at Mozilla specifically, this is a problem for any big company or organisation really.
I automatically delete anything with an attachment, that's so effective I didn't bother going any further with it.
That's one thing the org I work for does right.

We do have monthly tests, scans, and network BGP issues. And our governmental side has a different set of scans, which also include system security scans.

Whomever the oncall is, ends up doing them during the week. It's usually pretty quick, but can turn into a slog.

Oh, and all our machines are updated appropriately, not just the border machines. There are some services we're not able to adequately update, like FreeRadius - but for each of those we review the criticality and determine if we need the resources to make it work (aka: remote priv exploit)
First, as stated in the article Company B practically doesn't exist and if it gets closed, it can reappear as Company C next door. Second, because the people writing these laws didn't envision such greed and now there's too much lobbying money thrown around.
10 y.o. monolith product is hard to modify. We are building microservices around it, but quite many modifications still should be done in core and it is slow.
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are you sure your numbers are right? I'm looking at my last electricity bill and we used 450kWh in one month. And it's not summer here so no A/C and our water is gas heated. We're a household of 2+2 young kids. We turn off lights when not in use, medium sized, reasonably new fridge, no always on computers etc.

hard for me to imagine how anyone could find a 12x reduction in usage! I need to know your secret :)
Since one of the backdoor methods mentioned was introducing a memory safety bug (like a buffer overflow), one way to reduce the attack surface is to use a memory safe language.

The thing is, one can write memory safe code in C. The problem is the difficulty in verifying it is memory safe.

I've opined before that this is why, soon, people will demand that internet facing code be developed with a memory safe language.
>" Like us, you may notice important symbolism around teams in the new Atlassian logo – two people high-fiving, a mountain ready for teams to scale, or even the letter A formed from two pillars reinforcing each other."

Oh god, really? _really_?
If you assume competitive markets are "simpler" than uncompetitive markets this is certainly true. However it is questionable to me that this would actually be the case.

I think it's true by the Anna Karenina principle; there are many ways for a market to be uncompetitive.
> Most people, funnily enough, don't run background checks on other people

They don't do it because they're not employers/landlords/etc. and hence the need never arises, not because they somehow have a complete lack of understanding of the concept.

> and don't have a well-formed mental model of why they're necessary and what the security risks in using them are

They understand why they need to keep their bank passwords safe, and hence they can understand that they shouldn't enter it on someone else's website. They understand what a fake ID or passport is, and they understand why they shouldn't give their ID numbers to random strangers.

The specific examples I used are not the point. I explicitly said they're not perfect; they're just there to get a bigger point across. Look at the larger point. The point is people are already dealing with much more complicated stuff on a daily basis. They understand the concept of lying. They understand that identity theft can wreak havoc on their lives. They understand how to prevent it. So they can handle the concept of what it means to enter their credentials on the wrong site. It's not technical and it's not complicated, and it's not necessary for them to understand how exactly doing the wrong thing might lead to an undesirable result.

If you'd like to convince me that the average person can't understand this concept, at least support your claim by providing a link to a study or something that isn't based on a cherry-picked strawman version of what I've suggested? Surely someone's already looked into this kind of an approach and what you're saying isn't just pure speculation?
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Oh, great! I tried it a while ago and the setting was nowhere to be found!
This would be a flawed implementation. The method still works, you just have to be extremely careful to avoid exposing users through correlations when collecting anything more than a single value just once. The aforementioned RAPPOR paper[1] covers this in Section 6.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1407.6981
I've been plenty happy working in Windows/.NET land. As a developer.

As a home tinkerer I do agree with you. And glad Haskell and Linux are available for free.
All the tactics described in the article fall into the category called "growth".

Facebook has specialized Growth teams that come up with features like that in order to move metrics such as retention, signups, active advertisers.

It's one of the reasons Facebook is so successful and the number of people using it daily keeps growing, as well as revenue and stock price.

I believe most tech companies have teams 100% focused on growth.
Indeed, it's a good thing The Librarian didn't hear that...
Ah, OK. For people with active social lives though, phones are pretty hard to go without.
Is it really that big of a deal for the web browser engines?

What's the issue with the default apps? I believe you can now uninstall just about every one of them.
"Safe" languages make it harder to write some classes of bugs; this is good. I wonder, though, whether it's not a better return on investment to focus on sandboxing wherever possible? I can run curl in firejail right now with no code changes whatsoever. On supported systems, pledge() and SELinux rules can mitigate attacks with minimal effort. And we get to keep existing programs without investing the man-years to rewrite something that works.
LTE is radio. and WTF is decentralized radio? I don't think you can run a transmitter on the blockchain.
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Yes. In economics that's the context. But in terms of civics, I think the term is: voter apathy.
Pre-GPS, post E911: if a road has sequential numbers, the ambulance can pass 235 Edge-of-Town Road looking for 237 Edge-of-Town Road, slow down to 15 mph looking for the next driveway, and miss saving a life because 237 is literally 3 miles further.

The rationalizing plan associates numbers with distance, so 235 will be very close to 237 and a house 3 miles further will be numbered 873 or so, even with no other addresses in between.

As long as they are re-addressing, they also remove all twin addresses in the same ZIP code -- only one 125 Main St allowed per ZIP. Sometimes this means re-naming streets.

The house I grew up in changed from 85 to 421; our neighbor on the left was 417 and on the right was 435.
I think this issue is actually secondary to the issue that somehow PETA was able to insert itself as having standing for representing this particular animal and not just the rights of animals in general - IIRC they claimed they had gone out and found the exact monkey (and done what, sought its opinion on the matter? Provided legal advice?).
Possibly. Or maybe whatever they have is so boring they can't be bothered to ask me for more. I share very little personal stuff on Facebook. Actually none at all, now that I think about it. Most of my profile is empty.
> Over 99.5% of the email I receive is either plaintext or renders perfectly legible in plain.

Is that representative? Where do you get email from? Did you change preferences on things like mailing lists in order to get to that percentage?

Also: what kind of client do you use? iOS mail does send plain text emails as text/plain (which is fantastic) but if you look at e.g. inbox (gmail) it doesn't even allow sending plain text emails as far as I'm aware.
It would be similar to trying to move a truck by hitting it very very hard with a hammer.
Quite a lot, and it’s not just Norton. Google does the same, and pays companies to secretly include Chrome in their installers and auto-updaters, like they included the Google Toolbars before.

Here’s an interview with the VLC developers, where the VLC developers complain how Google tried to get them to secretly install Chrome with it, and offered enormous amounts of money, but they obviously said no: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWx1P93nS0c&t=48s
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Good point - I was experiencing a bunch of fraud from the Phillippines and thought the Russian example was too cliched. I'll tweak the example to be more consistent.
Thanks. I love the examples.
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Among the never signed up group. It was unappealing to begin with, and it's been increasingly unlikely as, with stories like this, I learn how much worse it's been getting.

I also find people who ask for my facebook account or try to get me to join are the same people I find least interesting and I'm less willing to spend my time with.
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You said:

> Maybe you are just clumsy or careless.

People with physical restrictions, muscle deterioration, neural impairment can have difficulty with fine motor control, and drop things. Implying that someone is 'clumsy' is implicitly judging their physical ability.

Additionally, modern smartphones are fragile (glass fronts, water damage) and discreet (wallet sized). They are broken more often than old dumbphones, and get left behind/dropped into inaccessible places.

> The world is full of small, fragile things.

Those things usually don't cost hundreds of dollars AND are an everyday item. You don't carry your fine china to the shops in case you have the need for a cup of tea, and watches are water/shock resistant (& are physically tethered to you).

Who are you arguing against? No one said that people shouldn't have phones; just that their cost/risk benefit of phones has convinced them to stick beneath a certain price point.
I was about to say exactly the same thing. This stinks of desperation on Facebook's part to keep their metrics swinging up and to the right. They are acutely aware that any levelling off in these metrics will have a knock on effect for their share price.

Whilst I don't use Facebook, and dislike the social impact that Facebook has brought about (acknowledging the amazing precedents Facebook has set too of course) I do wonder how they get around this. There are only so many humans on the planet that they can play these engagement tricks on. The number of new users and amount of engagement will have to level off at some point.

I'd love to hear what Facebook plan to do to continue to "grow" in the the sense that shareholders are kept happy when they reach this saturation point.
Stallman, captain tinfoil hat, is not a reputable source for this sort of thing.
If you have very simple concepts such as "thesis-antithesis-synthesis", "yin and yang", or "sheeps and wolves", then the conceptualization will apply to almost everything. That doesn't mean much, though.
> Company A doesn't want to hire employees because employees have rights. Instead, they hire temps from Company B who abuses their employees' rights

See also related (and discussed on here if I am not mistaken): To Understand Rising Inequality, Consider the Janitors at Two Top Companies, Then and Now (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/03/upshot/to-understand-risi...)

Even companies that do not want to abuse their employees' rights do it at the end for all externalized jobs (cleaning or food related jobs, especially)
I remember reading an article in The Atlantic from less than 5 years ago describing an ongoing naming effort in West Virginia: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/01/where-t...

> West Virginia entrusted most of the mapping project to individual counties, tasking 911 directors with naming thousands of streets. Different directors subscribed to different naming philosophies. Mercer County’s director pulled names from local history books and Scrabble Web sites. Others Google-Mapped out-of-state towns for inspiration. Some directors gave residents the right to name their own streets, despite the risk that future generations would have to endure, in the case of one town, Crunchy Granola Road. In Raleigh County, some communities named their streets after Disney characters or Vietnam War battles.