skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, you only pay the returns after you got funded. Except of contract enforcement in court, the investors have absolutely no way to force the company to pay up. That's what I meant by "legal obligations".

Of course, if you get yourself a reputation of not returning money to investors, you'll unlikely to get funded the next time, and if the investors have no way to force the company to pay dividends, they will fund few companies in the first place. The point is, maximizing salaries paid is a terrible metric, precisely because of bad incentives it creates.

> This applies only to companies that do not require capital to operate/grow.

But when they require capital to grow, you aren't returning the money to investors anyway -- what would be the point of that? The investors only expect the dividends once the capital needs of the company are satisfied, and once that happens, the company no longer needs the investors.
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>Is having a bunch of passwords that you don't actually know all in one place more secure than having a smaller bunch of passwords that you do actually know that, still, can at most be leaked one at a time?

It’s been repeatedly demonstrated that yes, it is.
for me, because when i first heard about it my options were Chef/Puppet (with Vagrant)... so Docker was much, much simpler to get started.

in the past years they've been adding a lot of complexity though... :meh:
Electronic password managers never made sense to me. While you can do more to secure a single target, it is a more valuable target and one mistake costs you all your passwords. For me a physical password journal is best. While it does make you vulnerable to physical attackers, the cost invest to target someone physically is so much higher that if I have to deal with that threat level I'm already a goner. Just have to hide it from the kids.
What is immoral is for companies to try to manipulate my computer into doing something that I don't want it to do. If they want to keep total control of their content then they should keep it exclusively on their computers, by sending it to my computer they are surrendering control of it.
And that's why I will never tell my kids he is real.
Money quote, though this may be slightly old news and this is just a summary of known information:

One of the most common questions regards
the possibility of remote exploitation.
We think that remote exploitation is possible
if the following conditions are true:
1. The target platform has AMT activated.
2. The attacker knows the AMT administrator
password or can use a vulnerability to
bypass authorization.
3. The BIOS is not password-protected (or
the attacker knows the password).
4. The BIOS can be configured to open up
write access to the ME region.
If all these conditions are met, there is no
reason why an attacker would not be able to
obtain access to the ME region remotely.

Also note that during startup, the ROM does
not check the version of firmware, leaving the
possibility that an attacker targeting an
up-to-date system could maliciously downgrade
ME to a vulnerable version.

That list of conditions does not seem incredibly unusual to me. Consumer hardware should have AMT disabled and be safe, but on business machines the highest bar is an AMT vuln, and given the huge size and apparently terrible code quality of the AMT I expect to be seeing auth bypasses for it on a regular basis.
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KeePass is anything but user friendly or convenient - it involves a lot of tinkering and not a lot of people have time, patience, or even know-how for that. It has never been and I don't see that happening in near future. In comparison LastPass is "sign up once, use everywhere".

1Password royally ignored every other platform other than the fruit company ecosystem for a really long time.

See, I am not speaking as a fanboy, I am not one. Just a satisfied user - I have really tried all other apps out there and for some reason or the other I kept coming back to LastPass.

Bitwarden came close to make me switch. OSS, polished, and seemingly with a business model. After checking on Elementary Firefox, iOS, Android apps when I went find its Safari extension (that's where I do my personal browsing) - it didn't exist, it still doesn't and the Github issue is clear that they will not be working on that [0] anytime soon. Also, I read a reddit comment that there was only one full time developer and this was few weeks ago[1]. Now I know it's an open source project but I want to use a service that is really ready to be used for my password management.

LastPass - it's not really entirely browser based, it's actually available everywhere - Windows, Linux, Mac, Chrome, Ff, Safari, IE, iOS, Android. You name it. And it has been on these various platforms since long. Sync, client side encryption, easy import from other apps, good extensions, decent support ticket TATs (even for free accounts), continuous development (however I must add that they have started to add bloat and useless gloss after the sale) - have really been consistent. This is what makes it a favourite option.

So when you say "better designed" I assume you mean better security architecture designed and yes it is ease of use with acceptable security for the most.

[0] https://github.com/bitwarden/browser/issues/17

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitwarden/comments/7htswv/how_many_...
The wealthy absolutely do not benefit from inflation, and lose the most money due to it in reality. Inflation depreciates the value of your liquidity, which is why every major company (except apple, it seems) dumps as much currency as possible into appreciable and tax deductible assets. However, that's more difficult for persons, and most of the super wealthy end up holding a plurality of their money on their person. Part of the reason for this is that they have enough money that they can't easily enter the market with a sizable amount of their total funds without moving the market against themselves.
This "problem" has precisely nothing to do with open source vs closed source. "Tell me the list of activities that are public" and "tell me the name of each activity as I launch it" are babies-first-app-analysis level and work equally well on open and closed source apps.

Are we really concerned about an exploit that requires somebody to have unlocked access to your phone?
I also think giving crew control is a factor. Rather than asking/telling individuals to open their shades you just control it. I guess this makes compliance with regulation easier.
Not necessarily -- the board decides that. Shareholders don't have anything directly to say as to how exactly company is operated, and for good reason -- if they did, they could be held liable for the company actions.
Ask HN: What do you look forward to doing in 2018?
I'm particularly looking forward to sitting down and strengthening my understanding of computer science topics, including networking and operating systems. I also want to delve more into mathematics and understand its rigor better.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2015/11/airplane-maintenance...
Slow zombies probably don’t pose a huge “where does the energy come from” problem.
The attack vectors against password managers tend to be more rare and more difficult to exploit.
Cut Gruber some slack. He needs to stay in Apple's graces.
Yeah, but didn't Uber do it because they were going for a huge headcount increase? They went from 50 engineers to 2000 in a year or so and they were facing all sorts of non tech issues such as shipping the org chart, engineer recruiting limitations (i.e. easier to recruit 2000 devs knowing any language than just 2000 Java devs), etc.

I don't think you can apply the lessons from a startup burning billions per year in many other places...
The issue is simple to understand: as population grows and technology grows even faster, there should be a steady stream of wealth increase. This has been observed as is obvious to everyone. However, if we allow the bulk of this wealth to be controlled by a tiny part of the population, we are creating a huge problem to current and to future generations. A hereditary oligarchy can be terrible to our civilization, and this is what we see forming nowadays. I am not against people participating in the creation of wealth and reaping the rewards, but these differences in wealth need to be leveled over time. Unfortunately, short-sighted politics of the US and other countries are giving more and more power to wealthy people so that they can amass more money without visible contributions to society.
The Echo Dot feels like a device from the future to most people outside of our bubble.

I have a 76 year old auntie. After setting it up and explaining to her how to use it, she was able to request that Alexa play her favorite pop song from when she was a teenager and it worked.

It worked despite:

- This was her first time using it and she's wildly not a computer person

- Her having a thick tagalog accent

- It was some fairly obscure song that hasn't been played on the radio for forever

She's blown away and assumes that it costs $1000s of dollars, because nothing else works like this so it must be horrendously expensive, but no it costs about what a decent alarm clock/radio costs.

Similarly, my young kids love it as well b/c they can request music, etc.

While the primary use in our house is music, a close second would be timers+alarms (for cooking, leaving the house, taking turns, waking up, etc.) they're so quick and easy to set up.
an x86 with the ME partially disabled (coreboot or similar, but it's not a 100% guarantee)

Or even x86 before it had ME at all, which means anything before ~Core 2 or so. AFAIK the Thinkpad x60 is one of those.
Yes. But that's a slightly different problem, and one that could potentially be solved in other ways (an extra runway at LHR, going to a different airport in another European capital if London is unwilling to make the changes needed to keep their airport competitive for connecting passengers transiting through, stuff like that).

Slot utilization at busy airports is one of the better pro-jumbo arguments going around at the moment, though. There's just not enough market pressure to cause airlines to push passengers away from direct flights and towards less popular routing options right now.
>It's been repeatedly demonstrated

Meaning you have consulted a sea of research that has compared the risk posed by password managers to keeping a mental catalogue of long, not-random-but-pretty-good character strings, using 2fa, and exercising proper security habits?

I don't think you could ever come to an objective conclusion, since the 99%-user doesn't have a near-autistic obsession with security like most of us.
Scarcity doesn't create value. A copy of my personal memoir is extremely scarce, yet the value is zero. Further, bitcoin only has the illusion of scarcity, and clearly that's enough, but as was demonstrated by BCH, the supply of coins can be trivially increased. Enthusiasts will argue "BCH is not BTC, they're two separate currencies", but this is missing the point that "crypo-tokens" are an unlimited resource that is artificially limited through a consensus that can change at any time.
My favourite sentence is:
Note: I've never actually tried this, so we'll just assume it works.
The answer is yes. For the large majority of users, the only thing that matters is that you never reuse your passwords. Since human beings cannot feasibly remember unique passwords for each service, password managers win.
Or perhaps locations of good sources of food, shelter and so forth
To the contrary, this view was held by the first apostles, who condemned this heresy as soon as in the first century.
Curious are the ways in which a world born of binary, "carries over" and manifests the very same patterns in broader social settings, into seemingly unrelated levels of abstraction. Similarity across scales.

Binary winner-take-all, all-or-nothing markets?

There seem to be deeper natural forces at play; the proposed evil divide between the rich and poor just incidental symptom. Surface ripples in a powerful river.
I've had the XPS 13 for almost a year now for home use and it's been great. The form factor is pretty much perfect for me and it looks super sleek. Performance for coding is good, and even some games like Rocket League work pretty well. I had a 13" inch Air previously, and while the Dell trackpad is not quite as good, I much prefer the XPS.

The only downside that should put people off is the coil whine. Mine is thankfully present only when compiling large projects, but some people do report a constant whine. Also, I had to get the larger resolution screen which means you need to scale your desktop to be able to read anything. Another trade off is the 2x TB connection, but apparently it works OK for even external GPUs, something I've considered.

All in all, it's pretty well rounded for it's size and I'd recommend anyone looking for the form factor to consider it.
Who are these mysterious funders of the alt-right, in either Germany or the US?

Unlike the left, which does seem to have a few favorite donors concentrated high up amongst the elites, it doesn't appear that the alt-right has many friends in high places these days.

Unless you're trying to insinuate groups like the Koch Brothers and similar, but I've always been under the impression that most of the typical right wing donors were not in favor of things important to the alt-right, including lowered immigration, reversal of trade agreements, white nationalism, etc.
Is this the same airport that constantly made the news for its troublesome baggage system?

Edit: Yep - https://www.bizjournals.com/denver/blog/broadway_17th/2015/0...
If I fix your bike, and in exchange, you fix my bike, we're both richer in material terms than we were before.
In the meantime, a high level of technical proficiency is needed to defend against monolithic personal computing environments that are hostile by design.

* Assume personal computing environment is hostile

* Use an external firewall and have a whitelist-only policy

* Use an external NIDS

* Physically disable all hard-connected non-wired interconnectivity

Monitors and keyboards ("I leave message here on service but you do not call") still leak, of course, but this is a good start, and most people need to be concerned with practical attacks that could be carried out over the internet.

New Year's 2018 resolutions: 1) Review backup policy including backup testing procedures 2) Implement personal digital security measures

I've often thought that the current mentality of a "convenient" monolithic personal computing environment (whether an iPhone, laptop, or PC) doesn't properly assess threats.

When broadband internet first became popular in my area growing up, it was acceptable practice (and recommended by ISP's) to simply plug your non-firewall'ed DSL modem ethernet directly into your computer. It truly was unprotected sex in the worst possible way. Perhaps the next evolution will fundamentally reconsider personal computing design from a security-first perspective.
It's not possible to disable ME completely. See : https://twitter.com/rootkovska/status/939058475933544448
The central idea of capitalism is the extraction of surplus value via property relations and wage labor.

Voluntary exchange is not capitalism. Voluntary exchange has existed since the dawn of society. Capitalism is a form of production that developed with the industrial revolution. I can't tell if you've fallen for or are employing a sleazy equivocation.
Quantum computing and Bitcoin
Hah, yes well I guess it’s all about perspective. They’re not threatening war or pretending they will so - for a country - it’s mild.

But yeah, culturally speaking there’s a great animosity that’s true (while having strong ties as well, it’s a dichotomy)
I'm using resources to post here. My internet is coal powered. Is that not oppressive to everyone? It doesn't matter that the answers are trivial. The point is that everything is scarce. Freedom is a meaningless concept unless you codify it. Liberty and justice are fundamentally at odds with each other. That's why we form governments.
I've never thought of exercise as a way of prolonging life. I think modern medicine does a better job of that then me running 25 miles a week will ever do. Quality of life? I think exercise helps a lot with that. If nothing else it's a pleasurable experience on it's own terms. It's pleasing at the moment and in looking forward to or back on the time you've put in. It improves the quality of your life when you're not engaged as much as when you are.
Does the comparison not work if the smaller city is in Europe and he major hub is one of the ones in the US? Or even two US cities?

I think perhaps using London as an example is overshadowing the point being made. If you aren't aggregating passengers at hubs which you then use larger planes for the common leg of the journey, you don't need as many larger planes.
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Just to clarify this, because it took me a second, the point (if I understand you) is that your password is available to them at the point when you log in to their support forums. Particularly bad, because it's a site that hosts a ton of user content.

It's also really dumb, because the whole point of the product is to make it easy to not reuse passwords. They could have even had the signup process automatically create those accounts for you and insert the passwords into your vault, and it would have been just as easy for the user.
I've created a SGML DTD grammar for W3C HTML 5.1 validation at [1], and am in the process of adding 5.2. This is of course only for checking and normalizing HTML the markup language, rather than a reference for Web APIs and browser behaviors.

[1]: http://sgmljs.net/docs/w3c-html51-dtd.html
You don't need any data to support that fact, any regular person can see for themselves that this is true just by looking at their own situation and that of their family members, friends, neighbors and acquaintances.
Do they ask you to confirm your master password over the phone so they can check on their end and see if they can reproduce the issue?
I'd have it all under one listing with the job title you're looking to have for the next two years going forward.

Put a short list of some of your more well-known clients and then a list of technologies you've worked with that you suspect future clients will be willing to pay well for in the coming two years.

Three sentences, your future clients will thank you for not emailing them a wall of text.

I don't see CVs as needing to be detailed catalogues and LinkedIn and Blogs are better places for keyword stuffing.
Both companies have questionably trustworthy executives, aggressive expansions, and a cloud computing platform.

To me, the biggest difference is Google's biggest successes (Search, Gmail, and Android) come from giving something for free in order to increase ad revenue. Amazon's biggest successes (Amazon.com, AWS) come from selling things to me and profiting from the margin.
Do you have a source for that?

I’m particularly interested because I’m due to fly on a British Airways 747 in a couple of weeks to the US.

As an aside, BA appears to have the largest remaining passenger 747 fleet[0] and doesn’t plan to fully retire them until 2024.

[0] https://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/last-ba-747-400-t...
"Does it need to provide 4x the utility to be worth 4x the price? No."

Exactly! This fallacy of comparing ratios rather than differences in price is extremely common, totally unjustified, and causes people lots of harm from bad spending decisions in both directions. $100 extra is $100 extra whether attached to a small purchase or a big one.

The correct comparison is (as you say) between the benefit/cost of the extra spending and the benefit/cost of other marginal purchases you would consider. Comparing to the benefit/cost of the "base" purchase (the basic smartphone in this case), which may be very high because that purchase is not marginal for you, is just wrong.
Everything but the baggage system.
The First Rule of Leadership by Ben Horowitz
You have a third group: hungry sharks who saw the feeding frenzy and are tantalizing at ripping the shirts off of the backs of the first two groups.
How much of this opinion is coming from being involved in the management of companies vs news articles tuned to generate outrage so that they can generate clicks?
> The ban is not about values, it is about not being able to acceptably vet who is entering the country when they originate from certain areas.

My spouse is an Iranian national and affected by the ban. I'm from Germany, where we live. Why can't the Trump administration vet her, given that previous administrations could and did?
Every password manager allow you to copy/paste your password. This is NOT a solution.
Speaking of monsters from the Id, Forbidden Planet was another excellent piece of SciFi with a consistent logical framework.

(Also: Leslie Nielsen's first starring role).
Pretty cool language but there's no way to save your work in the app.
> Inflation depreciates the value of your liquidity, which is why every major company (except apple, it seems) dumps as much currency as possible into appreciable and tax deductible assets.

When you read stories that Apple (or whoever) has $X billion "in cash" it's not actual cash. They keep some around in money markets and the like for near term expenses, but the majority is in bonds that pay more than inflation. In fact, if Apple were classified as a bond fund they would be the largest in the world:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-05-04/apple-buy...
What does this company actually do? I read through their site and it's just really vague, to me at least.
> What went wrong? This year I didn't have as much to blog about. In 2016 I had five popular posts (1 2 3 4 5), while in 2017 I only managed two (1 2). The posts tend to send a lot of high-quality traffic, so the impact was bigger than you might expect. I haven't figured out how to invent posts from thin air when I simply have nothing new to share.

benmu if you're reading, what about doing shorter but more regular posts on life in Japan from your family's or just your perspective?

(That being said, I'm much worse than you on blog posts; something I will correct starting now.)

> Tried paid YouTube ads, and while I did get some subscribers, in the end they were just too expensive to keep running. Tweaking the ads was very time consuming and expensive (but fun).

Instead of paying for Youtube ads, why not just do your own candy videos instead?
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I hear people saying this a ton, aside from the slow face unlock, I haven't experienced many glitches. What am I not doing wrong? Is there a specific gesture to trigger one of these bugs (genuine question)?
I think you underestimate how useful it is. After our phones our Echo is probably the second most used consumer tech gadget we have (laptop is used more for work, but less at home).

We have a Harmony remote, so we turn on/off our entertainment center and lights with the Echo. While I make breakfast I get my news update from it. My son plays music with it while doing little projects.

I'm actually surprised at the number of people who have them who really like them.
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[2] That's nothing. When I was kid I walked 5 miles each way to school. Needless to say - uphill both ways.
> Taking action, based on the what you've learned while talking directly to people.

If you don't talk to people, then you're oblivious to which actions you actually need to take. You may then end up doing things that have neutral or even negative value.

I'm very skeptical of any manager who never does 1-1s with their direct reports. Such a person is probably more of a project manager than an actual people manager.

(I'm not disagreeing with you, just adding more perspective.)