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Silicon Valley giants accused of avoiding over $100B in taxes in the last decade
I really want to be on board w/ the EFF because of all the good I see them doing on the legal side, but the PR department (or whoever writes for them) are just such a putoff. It makes me second-guess how effective they would be with my money. Obviously no org is perfect, I just really wish they would tone the language down to a more "level headed" message for the greater good.
The % is lower for corporations than for humans, because corporations intend to outlive humans.
That too. Contrary to popular opinion, it doesn't take that long to get Vim setup with plug-ins for everything I need (LaTeX, code folding / highlighting / auto-complete, especially for Python, color...). I just sync my .vimrc across machines, and am done.
Thanks. I'll check out soulver, it seems a bit linear though. I don't know about you but I'm looking for something that's more like plugging inputs into outputs and wiring up calcs than doing them line by line.
That simply doesn't work. If you want to build a reliable aircraft then you have to design around reliability from the beginning, starting with the basic product concept. Reliability isn't something you can add on at the end of the development cycle and achieve good results. Real aeronautical engineers have known this for decades.
NuCypher (YC S16) is hiring a lead engineer to help build a new cryptosystem
NuCypher is a cryptography company that builds privacy-preserving infrastructure and protocols.

A successful candidate does not need to have prior experience in cryptography as they will work very closely with a cryptographer to build out the system. However, they should be a quick learner and comfortable around math (e.g. linear algebra, probability, number theory).

A successful candidate will lead engineering for the new open-source cryptographic product from the ground up. They will work on problems at the forefront of cryptography and have a leadership role in design decisions of the system. As such, competency in algorithms and low-level design is a must. An interest in compilers and/or optimization would be nice to have. Given the nature of an early stage product, a successful candidate should work in a fast and iterative style when it comes to prototyping. They will be be motivated by solving tough open-ended problems. Additionally, they should be highly comfortable working in a system programming language such as C or Rust (whether through work experience or side projects).

We offer competitive compensation and a highly flexible working environment (remote-first, headquartered in San Francisco).

Responsibilities:

* Design and build the core infrastructure of a new cryptographic system (alongside a cryptographer);
* Lead the engineering side of the product;
* Implement cryptographic primitives (including zero-knowledge proofs and fully homomorphic encryption) and write robust, security-first code that will run in high-risk, adversarial environments;
* Contribute to research;
* Improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes.

Competencies:

* Proficient in a system programming language such as C or Rust (also open to those proficient in a functional programming language);
* Competency in algorithms and low-level design;
* Confidence working with multiple programming languages;
* Comfortable around math;
* Excellent communication skills and the ability to explain complex technical issues to a non-technical audience.

Bonus Points:

* Math background and/or strong interest in math;
* Background in compilers and/or optimization;
* Familiarity with applied cryptography and advanced cryptographic concepts like lattice-based cryptography and zero-knowledge proofs;
* Experience with designing and/or implementing large-scale distributed systems;
* Any experience, professional or amateur, working in security engineering, appsec, or other information security roles is a plus (hackers are welcome!).

Please send your CV and a code sample you’re proud of to careers@nucypher.com
Hacking GitHub with Unicode
Using this system would mean dedicating a total of at least 3x the length of each lecture to a given topic per day. With 3-4 classes per day, you wouldn't have time to do anything else and also sleep.
>loans represent a redistribution of real-world resources away from people who have worked for them and towards people who the banks like.

If these people have the resources, why do they need loans? And who is forcing them to do so?
Not just in Germany (where they are a legally accepted alternative to postal letters, which is a significant difference to emails!), also in Japan: https://www.noted.co.nz/money/money-business/japan-has-a-biz...
I support NGOs back in Russia from where I emigrated when I was 17, because I am more familiar with the state of things there and it makes me feel a tiny bit better knowing I can help at least somehow.

I donate to OVD-INFO, which helps unlucky residents of Russia who are victims of police/state injustice. They provide lawyers, general rights information for convicted people and have free hotline for those who find themselves repressed by police/state https://ovdinfo.org/

I also donate to https://nuzhnapomosh.ru which is an NGO that supports various charities that fill in the gaps left by Russia’s state support to people in need. My grandmother was ill with dementia and in most of Russia there is no even basic support for people with such difficult illnesses. Through this NGO I am able to choose that my donations go to an organization supporting families with bedridden family members.

I also support Charity:Water on events like birthdays and big holidays where I ask people to donate instead of giving me a gift. I like Charity:water because 100% of private (non-business) donations goes to build wells and provide clean water and because of the impact it has.

I also support organizations planting trees and preventing forest fires in a similar manner, on birthdays and big events. I simply love trees and forests.
China to continue world-leading orbital launch rate in 2020
The author appears, to me, to be looking for a solution to a symptom of a problem rather than at the problem itself.

The original question posed is basically innocuous, and is only made a problem by the environment.

If one gets to the point of wondering how to offer help without setting off a spiral of despair and insecurity, there are deeper issues that need to be rooted out. I also claim, anecdotally, to have seen this sort of improvement happen and think it is generally a thing that is possible to do, and isn't some core part of the human condition (at least to the degree described in the article).
It's pretty easy to say 'no, I will not connect my personal phone to the corporate network in exchange for allowing my employer to remotely manage my personal phone'.

Get a second company phone like anyone with a sliver of opsec intelligence does.
In a truly civilized society, people don't generally steal things from each other.

If theft is a big problem in your society, then it isn't really that civilized.
My best guess about why that idea has so much staying power is that it's useful for consoling oneself after having been failed by mainstream language education.

The people I know of who've successfully learned a second language that way are invariably characters on TV shows. Having spent much of the past few years of my life helping two small children learn their first language, I have my doubts about whether the "immersion is magic" approach is really even the most efficient way to pick up language number one.
> an unknown alien species

Not necessarily for aliens ... but why not keep a backup in a safe place outside the dangers of earthlings ?

OTOH, I think a sufficiently advanced alien intelligence will be able to decipher the information structures we use regardless of differences in technology. It's possible though there will be missing links in that archive, which will need to be supplemented with a primary secondary and high school curriculim.
Imagine having time off from work, leaving your work phone off/at home, but still able to check online topo maps/restaurants/flights/weather/connect with people with your normal phone.

It can be annoying, or not. Depends a lot on personality, type of work, boss etc.
But work profile can require the installation of a device policy, right? I know I have a device policy installed, and I can't think why I would have done that if setting up the work profile didn't require it. Although as it happens the policy I have on my device only allows wiping the work profile, as you say.
Not if she consented to allowing her employer to do so.

My own employer has us sign an additional document (an addendum to my employment agreement) to get email/calendaring on our personal devices.

(Also my employer is in a regulated industry - trading - where if we talk about work-related stuff on personal devices that don't go through work's logging proxy, the SEC can start digging through my personal text messages in an investigation, in some fashion. I don't know precisely how this works legally, and I hope to never find out.)
In the cambridge ma area we have "food for free" which might be similar to what you were talking about. But it doesn't send food outside the community.

https://foodforfree.org/about-us/
A Plan to Decentralize Bitcoin Mining Again Is Gaining Ground
I agree to that, not just it kills local job market, it is exploiting foreign workers. I read Theranos' account, and I imagined many Indian workers kept working because they had no choice to say No.
The moment they say no, they will lose their job, and getting a H1B sponsoring job in 60 days? Ain't nobody got (enough) time for that!
No, that is a movie lie. You can learn stuff during total immersion, but you can also learn nothing while being totally immersed. It doesn't affect your learning.
Because you or anyone is most likely to search for relatively popular books. So those books will have a multiple copies. But for every popular book, there are many unpopular, but still useful books, that only have a single copy.
Fahrenheit 451 is a very, very different book from 1984. Pleasure and an obsession with non-offense eventually lead to where they were in that story.
Interestingly, the etymology seems to go:

1. ἄλογος (alogos, Greek for unsayable or unreasonable)

2. irrationalis (Latin translation of ἄλογος)

3. rationalis (Latin backformation)

4. irrational/rational (English translation)

5. ratio (English backformation)

Steps 3 and 5, the backformations, are perhaps in the opposite direction one would expect.

https://english.stackexchange.com/a/218079
First, the compiler and framework come from the same vendor, so it's perfectly fine to blame them. Unless you consider things like compilers and frameworks to be independent subjects capable of being blamed.

Second, whether the behavior is defined or undefined, the compiler has no business touching arguments that the code didn't tell it to touch. If it does so, it isn't fit for purpose and can be criticised as being unfit for purpose.

And the C standard is very clear and adamant that being in compliance with the standard is not, and in many ways cannot be, equivalent to being fit for purpose.

Last not least, I think we are probably not going to agree as to whether dereferencing unused arguments is a valid response to the presence of undefined behavior. See

https://blog.metaobject.com/2018/07/a-one-word-change-to-c-s...
It’s pretty normal to test features in one market and then roll it out and solve scaling issues or bugs that crop up. If you have a flawless strategy to scale and roll out a big bug free release across the globe I’m sure a lot of people would be interested in that.

Just like Disney+ that started in the Netherlands months before starting in the US.
This 100%. Think of all the "bad" or "clunky" products out there (not to say that this is a bad product, it's a great idea) that we use every day at work - this is why there's the saying "Sales cures all."
I disagree. You don't lose hardware level flexibility, you gain hardware level flexibility. "Oh you wanted to only use 256GB memory and X CPU cycles during this time period, unless Y event occurs in which case boost to 1024GB and 4X CPU cycles? And then prioritize which jobs to dynamically scale back in order to make room? Since all your gear is homogeneous and uses a sane management scheduler that's now possible". You don't get that using disparate hardware typically.
Internet Archive - not sure I need to explain why. They are just such a positive force.

PBS - one of the last remaining bastion of positive programming, especially for my kids
Life expectancy in the US keeps going down
"For every problem there is a solution that is simple, neat — and wrong."

I start with the basic assumption that the person I am talking to has spent more time thinking about the problem than I have, which is a good one because I have just walked in. Therefore, if they did not do the Thing Which Is Obvious To Me, there must be a reason for it. I try to work out what that is and volunteer that as "I'm guessing $reason played a factor?"

Once you begin treating a person as someone you have something to learn something from, everything changes. It has been difficult to do this at times but it pays off so frequently I have little reason to recommend against it. If I have to ask someone on a help line for something, I will briefly explain myself and ask, "If you were me, what would you do?" I watch in amazement as someone who has been used as a speech-recognition front-end for a flowchart brings expertise, insight, and judgment to the situation.

The reason I do this is because I have been asked "why didn't you just ..." so often by people who are looking for the simple solution every time and exist in this constant welter of disappointment that the world might be slightly more complex than plugging things together tend to look at you in this resentful, exasperated manner as if you, personally, are withholding the Easy Way Out. I just do not want to do that to other people, having been on the receiving end of it myself so often.

You will run into people who have overlooked the obvious but that will be much rarer than you would imagine.
You should not have much problem requesting any of those via inter library loan.
I mute my work chat when I am on vacation and I never have email notification for work emails anyway. Having a separate phone wouldn't really move the needle on that, at least for me.
I'm pretty skeptical the numbers are anywhere in that neighborhood. But if they are, that's a stunning success.
It is a net perk because phone calling or mobile messaging is inevitably part of work and you don't want to buy your own separate phone. It's only awkward for anyone who isn't used to having two phones.
Its amazing when you find out who are actually your friends, and who just likes you at their parties, or associated with their event.
a pod would be more like 50-75 sq ft, just enough for a bed and maybe a side table (with communal bathrooms; shared kitchen optional).

300 sq ft is a quite livable studio apartment, with enough room for a bathroom and (compact) kitchen.

with that said, yes, any additional housing is better than none.
Another way to look at it:

Watching Firefox leverage its reputation as a privacy and security advocate is helpful for many people who care, but are not technically inclined.
Well, if an employee can access that data then they can access it. The whole point of Google calendars is that they are wide open, so I find it hard to believe that Google has always taken information security very seriously.
You can't add on safety. It has to be designed that way from the start. For example, on airplanes it's safer to have the wings below the cockpit because it gives the pilot more visibility. If you weren't thinking about that when you designed the plane you would be hard-pressed to make that change.
I noticed this yesterday while shopping for cyber Monday deals. If you want to load up a server with drives, perhaps the external drives can be removed from their cases and used internally?
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> The FBI advocates installing security updates and customising privacy options

That doesn't work when the manufacturer of the smart TV you got 3 years ago stopped providing updates 4 years ago. Then your nephew found a list of all the vulnerabilities it has.
I'm way below the technical skill average on HN, so can I prevale upon someone to correct me?

This is just a vpn right? My existing vpn is already putting all device traffic through its servers (though it would actually be nice to turn it off for some apps, as I can't order takeaway because everyone thinks I'm in Iceland).

And its $5 a month, which is about what I already pay.

Plus its not available except on windows 10 (where its beta).

And its US only

What is Firefox/Mozilla offering me here that I don't get from NordVpn (who I hifhly recommend)?
Right - I guess my point is why harp on one statistic as if that is supposed to make us feel good about what's going, when the reality is we don't know and the article is more of a "heads up". I think the article tries to head off most of the doom and gloom early on saying:

The danger isn’t immediate. But some regulators and investors say the borrowing has gone on too long and could send financial markets plunging when the next recession hits, dealing the real economy a blow at a time when it already would be wobbling.
This person chose...

Did they really choose? Do you think they said to themselves, "Gosh, I love living dangerously and the way I'm going to get my thrill-seeking on this time is to keep my personal photos where they'll be auto-erased if I'm fired, woohoo!"

Obviously, no, they didn't say that, think that, or do that, and your comment is (and go ahead HN and downvote me for this), pure fucking evil because it blames the victim here. It is evil to expect people to dwell in the fine print of their relationships when that fine print is used to hurt them. Human beings can and should expect dignity, respect, and compassion from people, and when they are abused they deserve support, encouragement, and justice, not a goddamned dog-pile.

You people blame ER patients who get stuck with $100k+ bills even though they have insurance because, hey, they didn't read the fine print and didn't refuse care from out-of-network providers. You're like the bank that, in 2002 when my father was dying, charged me a $35 overdraft fee to cover a $1 overage when I was broke and trying to get him something from the store, instead of just refusing the charge. You know what they said? I should check my balance before every purchase and refused to turn off "overdraft protection".

I hope you get a big, big dose of your own medicine.
Its in 71 on macOS (and maybe Linux), but its disabled by default. In about:config, search for picture-in-picture, and enable everything except for always-show (unless you want that). If you right-click a video, there will be a new picture-in-picture option. For Youtube, you need to double-right-click to bring up Firefox's right-click menu.
The device policy is simple. If you add a Corp account to any phone it's subject to device policy, including wipeout after you get fired. It's very obvious when you enroll.
what about...

sorry, whataboutism is not helpful or does not add any extra info into the current discussion. It actually tries to devalue the current discussion.

Smart TVs is a very established and popular device, so a study showing how it is a security concern is definitely helpful
AWS MSK and Lenses – Kafka Delivered in Days Not Months
The DA (and others) are a lot more likely to care about this if it gains press attention — preferably national and preferably well beyond the HN audience. Keep sending those emails to the DA, by all means. But if anything happens to this deal, it’s going to be 100% driven by press attention.
ftp://ftp.cpuc.ca.gov/News_and_Outreach/I1906015%20Appendix%20A%20SED%20Camp%20Fire%20Investigation%20Report%20REDACTED.pdf for a link
Markdown is plain text.

The output of Markdown processing is not.

Markdown is intended to be readable without processing as its syntax is mostly based on plain text email conventions. You should consider the ability to process Markdown to another output format to be an almost incidental benefit to using Markdown, rather than its primary function; meaning, Markdown syntax conveys semantics even without processing.

Its line behavior is based on plain text email client conventions, and plain text editor behavior, which many do not by default perform line wrapping, nor necessarily should, depending on user preference. Meaning, a Markdown file should be readable with line wrapping turned off, hence why it consumes line breaks, unless you use two spaces at the end of a line to override this behavior. (Think of the two spaces as an invisible rendering hint to Markdown processors.)

Email line length specifications: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2822#section-2.1.1
"Why didn't you use [proposed x]": high risk of seeming like the beginning of a tiring argument.

"I never thought about using [used y]": maybe not true, but sometimes it's more important to be humble than right. You invite them to explain why they used it, or ask what you would use instead.

The difference is the first comes with implications, while the latter beats implications over the head with a shovel and invites the askee to help you bury the body.
By using the product, you are incentiviaing the behavior. There is no free lunch. Either you abstain, or you make the problem worse.
Signal Technology Foundation because they provide a solid messaging app. https://signal.org/donate/
I gave up on having my work accounts on my phone. I just don't check work emails or messages on the weekend or at lunch. If anything actually urgent comes up, they have my phone number and can call or text me.

This was mostly out of laziness; I have relatively low patience for doing lots of fiddly configuration on a new device, and don't like the bother of setting up a second account on my phone whenever I get a new one. The only real downside is when I go to a meeting, forget which room I was going to, and need to get out a laptop or go back to my desk to figure out where I was going.

But it's done wonders for my work-life balance and just not thinking about my job when I'm not actually working.
Also, email addresses ARE case sensitive. While the domain name is not case sensitive (but of course, domain names only contain ASCII characters!), the local part of email addresses ARE case sensitive, and <John@foo.com> can be very different from <john@foo.com>!
No. It depends only on developers. If they would start embeding it into format, they would break the rules. If not, it would work.
Should Unicode be able to represent Egyptian Hieroglyphs? The lack of similar facilities for Egyptian is why Unicode is useless for representing hieroglyphs, despite having a goodly number of signs encoded.
Thanks, I'd be happy to implement that. Can you please email me? My email is in my profile.
Could you allocate a memory dynamically inside your BPF program?
Azure Secure Networking in Brussels
Ads are the most benign thing FB does. If that was the only issue, nobody would care.
Help My airplane was fixed with duct tape
Who "rushed" them? Families? Wives? Greed?
Aren't these tangents? I didn't say that they shouldn't have shot him, just that it clearly wasn't necessary to shoot him in order to remove the threat. (It's obviously possible to apprehend someone armed only with a knife without shooting them.)
What do you think is wrong with EFF's message?
It has been like this for years. You'll often see people refer to "shucking" them, taking the drives out to use in a NAS.
Over half of Google's workforce are contractors. Google does not provide a mobile device to contractors. The options for TVC's are to let Google control a personal device or take a significant productivity hit and opt-out of mobile email, chat, and docs.