skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly which employees in your organization have the ability to alter recovery email settings?

How many of those employees are there?

In what fashion do you audit and track the activities of those employees?

What training are these employees given to avoid social engineering? What firm provides the courseware?

What's the escalation process for complicated, non-no-brainer reset situations? If a support person isn't absolutely sure whether they should reset something, how do they get a second opinion?

Are the support people who are entitled and able to make these changes incentivized to close tickets as quickly as possible?

Do you monitor "out-of-process" changes to recovery email and password settings, so that you can see trends over time and by particular staff members?

Has any third party security firm assessed your service recently specifically for this attack vector, for instance by conducting social engineering testing against your support staff? What's the firm?

How are you MINIMIZING, rather than just improving, the "human factors" involved in assessing whether accounts can be altered based on anonymous incoming callers and requesters?

This is a HUGE, TERRIFYING vulnerability. Email providers are the single most important security service people use; if your email is compromised, many (most!) of your other services are compromised as well.
Amazon just pulled Twitch from Roku
Well hey, good luck! I withdraw my concerns (but maintain that SLS sucks).
Right, we don't want that.

I think it's technically possible to do the following:

1. I, as the blog owner, authorize this Facebook app to access my Facebook page.

2. I tell the Facebook app the URL of my blog.

3. That Facebook app watches my Facebook page for any posts linking to my blog.

4. When it detects a post on my page linking to my blog, it scans the comments of that post and automatically re-posts those comment to my blog's native comment system, outside the FB walled garden.

Ditto for a Twitter-authorized app.

This way, all the comments about my original content stick with the original content, rather than bound up in walled gardens.

While this all is technically possible, it probably breaks Facebook's terms of service.
Well, seemed like you worked for both of them, maybe you should write a couple letters.
Internet Content Moderation 101
> If you got fired from a job that had a potential $500M payday attached to it and only got a $25M severance package at the end of it, trust me, you'd be pretty bummed about it.

Trust me, I wouldn't be. I pity the person who is bummed to have only $25M.

> He negotiated a package and he delivered results. His interests as a CEO are aligned with the shareholders who risk their capital with ownership of the company. They trust the board and the CEO to increase the value of their investment.

Ever tried getting a CEO's compensation reduced as a shareholder? Warren Buffett describes it as follows: "the deck is stacked against investors when it comes to the CEO’s pay" [1].

[1] http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/2005ltr.pdf
What's to say Google doesn't pull YouTube API access from Roku or Kodi next? This salvo at Amazon isn't their first, and may not be their last.
Not if you use a contract that transfers ownership only with an on-chain payment. Even without that, you at least can't claim you lost the records, as these companies sometimes do.
fun fact Roku was spun out of netflix just so they could remain neutral https://www.fastcompany.com/3004709/inside-netflixs-project-...
I definitely remember reading about them. They're a good example of the type. It looks like they are transitioning their focus to The Debt Collective, which looks like some sort of play on collective bargaining instead?

https://debtcollective.org/
Possibly, but they have not given up on Windows. They came out with Linux for Windows. I can see them coming out with something like Windows for Android - a compatibility layer allowing e.g. Office for Windows ARM to run on Android phones.
No. This is not developing an app for a certain device.
High end android phones that use Qualcomm chips are closing in on $1,000. Pixel 2 XL, Samsung Note 8, Samsung S8, etc. Iphones and high end Android phones are priced pretty similarly.
Amazon removed the Chromecasts from the Amazon store.

Because Google refused to allow Amazon to cast to Chromecasts.

There was once a time when the Amazon Video and Netflix apps on Amazon Kindle Fire could stream to Chromecast, Google then changed their protocol to prevent that (you now need to use their proprietary library for it).

Amazon reacted by removing the Chromecast from their store.
The war may be older than you think. Amazon's platform is not the first Google has refused their APIs access to.
Why income tax is not "free cash" tax? I guess because it's massively easier to tax income than "free cash" and more exceptions you allow more avoidance you get. Most countries don't even have this system of deductions US has - there's just income tax, which usually is paid automatically by wage deduction, and some kind of sales/VAT tax for businesses, and very little opportunity to deduct any personal expenses. US uses deductions as policy tools, so they need a lot of it. But that's in no way the only way possible.
great, maybe you can provide evidence to back up your claim that gamers can (accurately) determine which party is in breach of a peering agreement
I agree. I think a different tone would be more valuable here...like something on why this is acceptable. We should all be ashamed for letting our world stoop so low, time and time again.
No. the network refers to the transit medium. Network non-neutrality would make it worse because comcast could decide you can't watch youtube or amazon video on any device.
>If traders lose faith in Tether, they would sell Tether and buy Bitcoin in a flight to safety. Bitcoin prices would rise as traders try to get out of Tether.

The Tether:Bitcoin rate would rise, but I’m not sure that the Bitcoin:USD price would follow suit.
> Google's philosophy is to "put users first and the rest will follow"

We can file that under "Meaningless Feel-Good Corporate Propaganda", right below "Don't be evil".
Amazon removed Chromecast devices from Amazon.com and refuses to support Chromecast protocol from their services. They also removed Apple TV devices at the same time.
god I mean it's everything from the guy's name to the setting ('sipping a hot beverage' in a 'palace hotel') compared to the content of his actual quote, which is incredibly presumptuous.
Is that a false equivalence?

A retailer chooses not to stock a product-their prerogative perhaps? There are plenty of places to buy a Chromecast.

A content provider withdraws access to it's service from consumers who have certain devices. This hurts consumers more than it does Amazon, perhaps?

In my view this is two companies demonstrating how they have become dangerous monopolies. Amazon has such a dominant online position that it is able to give its own product an unfair advantage merely by not selling the competition. I think the idea that you can be a manufacturer, and a retailer and own the marketplace (along with being the biggest hosting provider) as completely untenable long term.

Google on the other hand has put itself in the equivalent position of a TV station that blocks viewing from certain devices. Then add that you manufacture some of those devices? I hope the backlash from YouTube advertisers is colossal.

The individual action of Amazon vs Google here is kind of pathetic and I think Google come out looking worse. The real issue is the market dominance of these two companies. Time for a carve up
Google can not be in favor of non-neutral net. They would be among the first impacted by ISP restricting content providers. This has nothing to do about "user"'s freedom, but all to do about their own business model. It doesn't matter if it's good for the end-user, Google main focus is Google (and its shareholders), not Joe Blow.

Now, this would probably not be in the scope of NN and the FCC, but more of anti-trust laws.
Well, in this great country, you're perfectly welcome to start your own company and distribute 95% of the shares to your first 1000 employees.

Tell them they need to work for free for 4 years (or for far below market wages) in order to account for the capital contribution of their labor, comrade, and see how far that gets you.

Ben and Jerry's tried to cap CEO pay at 7x their lowest paid worker and soon realized that nobody wanted the job (or at least nobody that was qualified). Now their current CEO is taking home a whole lot more than that and he's not being paid in Chubby Hubby.

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/companies-follow-ben-jerrys-l...

"I'm talking about Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield and their iconoclastic Ben & Jerry's ice cream company.

But it's neither Cherry Garcia nor Phish Food that's on my mind right now—well, maybe just a little—as much as it is the social pact that Messrs. Cohen and Greenfield made with their employees at the start of their venture: From top to bottom, the pay ratio between the highest salaried executive and lowest-earning-worker would be no greater than 5 to 1.

To their credit, the ice cream kings kept to their pay scale deal for 16 years. At that point, Cohen was set to retire and no successor who was willing to accept B&J's compensation compact could be found.

End of an Era

So the bar was raised to 7 to 1 to attract new talent, and ultimately to 17 to 1 over the course of a half dozen years more. The company was then acquired by Unilever USA in 2000, after which the corporate cone of silence descended on what was once a very transparent practice."
Who says that it was just finished recently? There are a large number of things that go into projects like this, Windows could have been ported years ago, but they were not ready.
> They fired the second shot when they refused to make anything to stream from a kindle fire to a chromecast. That's literally a "amazon media playing thingy" and it can't stream to the market leader casting device.

Actually, Amazon had apps that did this.

Google changed the Chromecast protocol, and demanded that app developers use their proprietary library.

I once had an app that was affected by this, too. The fault is entirely with Google.
Google's philosophy is to "put users first and the rest will follow" [0] Amazon wants to be the world's most customer centric company. [1]

I would recommend you judge everyone, but particularly corporations, by the effect they have and not what some subset of their mouthpieces claim they are doing.
You might be thinking up riseup.net. They use Roundcube, they target a similar audience, and both have a cryptopunk-ish slant.
I’ve seen firsthand the amount of work that goes into building a complex, scalable system and the problem with your statements are that
1) It’s hard to measure at scale what each of your users cares about. This is especially true with “lightweight” interfaces - simpler UI means you have to carefully decide what you want to expose.
2) Generally the older software is, the more bloated it becomes - this is inescapable. The only real solution to this problem is full rewrites which rarely happen because they’re so expensive and time-consuming. By the time you ship an OS it might already have some bloat.
3) People like what they are used to. Remember the backlash with the Metro interface? Windows users would never get behind a major change to the Windows UI - everyone has been using it for almost 20 years now.
11% of Traffic on the Ethereum Blockchain Is Being Used to Breed Digital Cats
With YouTube TV and Prime Video coming to the Apple TV, it actually will be the one device that has everything.
This should quash anyone's doubts that Google is using YouTube to strengthen their monopoly.

They played the same dirty trick on Microsoft with Windows Phone and now they're doing the same with Amazon.
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HA equating this to net neutrality is like HUH and WHAT!

Google nor Amazon control the pipes and here in the US for home broadband it's a monopoly or a duopoly. With Net Neutrality gone my monopolistic broadband provider can start blocking sites, charging me to access different sites and etc. They can turn the Internet into the horrendous model and experience that is Cable TV.

No way is Google's actions here have anything to do with Net Neutrality. Rather in this instance a consumer can go just go ahead and buy another streaming device if they choose to do so. That's because there's competition and lots of it in this space vs. fast uncapped broadband.
In the scene which sets up the Marseillaise scene, Yvonne comes into the bar with the German officer and he orders the only drink mentioned by name in a movie with a whole lot of drinking, the French 75, named after the French WWI 75mm field gun.

gin, Champagne, lemon juice and sugar

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_75_(cocktail)

Yvonne finds her moral core when they play the Marseillaise just as Rick later finds his when he has to make a choice.
Would you mind linking to your PR? Would love to take a look.
This might be a non-issue. The only people who are likely to care about installing alternative operating systems are power users, and power users may still prefer to buy more powerful Intel systems.
I think the ideas is that Google has less of a reason to block Youtube on the Roku because they don't compete in any meaningful way.
And yet, somehow, you could buy a TV appropriate to your country from any television manufacturer and you could receive programming from a range of different television broadcasters for seventy years.
what about your pc?
> spaces to spark creativity with teammates

Uh oh. We know what that's code for.

> Focus and privacy can be found in a soundproof drop-in phone booth

If focus and privacy aren't properties of my primary, permanent space then I'm not considering it a viable employment option.
Or, y'know, they implemented an internal spot market, where encoding jobs can say "I'm willing to pay $X to encode right now". Other jobs bid $Y, and the scheduler can prioritize appropriately.

If true, that would be pretty interesting - priority is a common feature to implement on top of a naive scheduler, but 'nice' values are harder to connect to dollar amounts.

Unfortunately, the article doesn't go into any detail if that is, indeed, what they implemented.
Now to write a more detailed response. If this winds up out of order later, I first posted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15856609

Again, ghouse, I'm really really sorry about what happened to your account. It was wrong and we screwed up. As other comments have already noted, it was during the transition to a new security system which was designed precisely to remove the human factor from decision making.

I'm an Australian, and I'm a great fan of our "100 points of ID" system, which is designed to remove the human factor from identifying people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/100_point_check

While I wasn't aware of your account's issue at the time (and we'll be having some discussions internally about why not!), FastMail management were all aware that we needed to get the human factor out of decision making about account access, particularly since somebody tried to pull a similar swindle on our domains!

https://blog.fastmail.com/2014/04/10/when-two-factor-authent...

We spent a lot of 2016 and 2017 working on an automated account recovery system which allows recovery of locked accounts via a carefully audited set of automated steps, which includes a 24 hour lockout to allow the owner to notice an attempt on their account.

If this had existed in 2016 then we would have sent you there rather than having a human make a (poor in this case) judgement call!

https://www.fastmail.com/help/account/icantlogin.html
You're close, since fungibility affects spendability.

In terms of currency, fungibility essentially means that money of the same denomination is indistinguishable.

So if I had a $5 bill that I got from a marijuana dispensary, and another $5 bill that came from the Treasury, at the register both of them would be equally treated as $5.

In the case of Bitcoin, fungibility is a bit harder to have since any merchant can parse the block history and find where a Bitcoin came from.

Tangentially, this also relates to the notion of privacy, since if you gave me a Bitcoin, I could also find the address of your wallet, and see outgoing or processed transactions -- like, this is pretty bad if you used the same wallet to buy drugs.
Which... is pretty much how GPGPU started in the early 2000.
Sad/funny how we go through this cycle again.

It will be interesting to see if the industry will produce a standard for GPGPU in the browser. Giving that the desktop standard is less common than a proprietary standard.
Oh boy. After private prisons, private military contractors and private police forces, we've got yet another idea that shouldn't be left to private companies being outsourced to private companies.
These coin all employ some anonymity features. Some real shallow (such a Verge only routing traffic over TOR) and some more elaborate (such as ZCash with zero knowledge proofs).

If you define truly anonymous as having no way to see transaction addresses and amounts, no way to check balances and history and these features all active by default... it would leave you with Monero and Aeon.

Of course other differences exist, such as vulnerable crytography (Zcoin), a potentially flawed "trusted setup" (ZCash, ZenCash), etc
This is exactly the way it was until W's FCC changed it removing wholesale line sharing regulations by declaring ISPs information services.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2007/10/appeals-court-up...
Do the flagship phones have thin margins? The S8, N8, Pixel, LG30?? I don't think so. The lower end Android devices do, but they will not be using this chip.
iPad 1st gen built in YouTube app (iOS 5) is also out of commission. Probably cause they couldn't show ads on that API version.
could be that you subscribe to different filter lists.
Would you say that this is generally the type of model people are campaigning for in the U.S. when "free college" is mentioned? Years ago, I had initially assumed people were applying that phrase the to the current U.S. model, where almost anyone can get into somewhere, as long as they can pay (not just tuition, but living expenses and time as well), with some programs being very easy, and they wanted all of that covered.
The only thing both companies have in common is to grow and extract as much profits as possible.

Maybe it helps them sleep better at night but don't fall for the corporate PR BS that they're changing the world for the better.
It essentially comes down to bitrate. Even with 1080p, there's still a noticeable bump in quality when you go from the "just enough" streaming bitrate to the "here just have the whole thing" version from a local disk.

Both versions still decode to a 1080p (or 4k) frame, but the local version means you don't have to compress it quite as much.
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"Well, in this great country, you're perfectly welcome to start your own company and distribute 95% of the shares to your first 1000 employees."

That is a cop-out answer that shows that you're not interested in discussing the issue. If you don't see an issue with corporate greed in the world today, that's your prerogative, but don't make it to seem like those who do are the ones who don't know what they're talking about.
There's really no such thing as an indefensible missile, just like there's no such thing as an impenetrable computer network. Difficult to defend against, those exist. Missiles with an extremely low probability that we can physically intercept, those exist. But defending against a missile starts as soon as a possibility of launch occurs, and you can bet that a lot of people spend a lot of time figuring out how to defend against "indefensible." They aren't perfect, but they aren't going to bat .000 either.
It still is pretty sweet for polyglot developers.
For posterity, profile reads:

> Former Google and AWS product manager.
Which app were you using for this? the MS RDP app? I was trying it but couldn't get it to work in my LAN when my windows 10 was using usb tethering. Maybe I'll try again with a proper access point.
Google can block YouTube wherever it wishes because their YouTube clients are either:

- first-party, so they make them on platforms where they wish to be present on, and conversely withdraw from platforms on which they no longer wish to be present; or,

- third-party, such they are bound by the YouTube API Services Terms of Service [1], which reserves their right to terminate any client for specifically enumerated reasons, or any or no reason at all.

[1] https://developers.google.com/youtube/terms/api-services-ter...
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This is a senior position, and we are really looking forward to the impact this new position will have on our team.

Our core stack is LAMP, but we build solutions in new technologies every day. If we were going to describe the strengths and skills of our ideal candidate, it would look something like this:

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- Experienced in PHP

- Javascript & front end JS frameworks

- SQL, Data modeling & Data Visualization

- Networking / Scaling / Systems-level experience

- Experience with Web Servers / Architecture

- Great Communication Skills

- Enjoys mentoring junior devs, open to some Pair Programming

- Experience using APIs

- Adept at understanding the business's needs and personal desires and how those can merge well to get great work done

Learn more about the position and apply here: https://www.servicedirect.com/careers
Amazon Route 53 Releases Auto Naming API for Service Name Management/Discovery
The Verge's article from 2016 says "laptops are expected to be the first devices", and brings up Windows RT as the predecessor, just as I mentioned it:

https://www.theverge.com/2016/12/7/13866936/microsoft-window...
Oh my God, how very crappy of Amazon to do this?
Amazon took all products that can't stream Amazon content off their store.

Google Cast players can't stream Amazon content because Amazon hasn't implemented the Cast SDK in their app.

Amazon doesn't implement the Cast SDK because their flavor of Android eschews Google Play Services which is required for the Cast SDK on Android.

Google doesn't license the Google Play Services to Amazon because....

We can go around for a while...
> refuses to support Chromecast protocol from their services

That’s a funny claim, considering Google intentionally has changed the protocol several times, to prevent any third party implementation of the protocol – including Amazons, and many Open Source libraries for it.

I was building an open source library for it when these changes happened, and I can tell you, it’s not pretty.

The only way to actually reliably stream to Chromecast, and to receive Chromecast streams, is with Google’s proprietary library for it. On Android, this is included in the Google Play Services.

Obviously, on Amazon Kindles, these aren’t preinstalled (due to their restrictive terms), so Amazon had their own implementation (which, as mentioned, Google acted against)
The network only refers to the transit medium if your premise is that the power to control content lie with one particular interest group instead of another.

What's special about Twitter that they get to decide who can use their computers, routers, switches and so on, whereas level-3 is not allowed to do the same?