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Here's the thing: if instead of spending your money, you invest it, guess what you end up doing with that money? Owning the means of production. Period.
> "If the message was "I baked cookies, come by my office if you'd like to try some" do you think this person would similarly be fired? "

Yes, immediately and for cause. Internal business apps at large companies are not your personal playground.
I don't care how much money I make - I shop at the cheap grocery store, pay attention to restaurant prices, look for deals, don't waste money. This is a good lifestyle no matter how much you make. It's called being frugal.
The http version can't access secure cookies; https with the wrong cert can use the secure cookies of the real https site.
I think you may want to take a closer look at how 1Password works. I'll give a quick rundown here, but our security white paper goes into much greater detail: https://1pw.ca/whitepaper

Your data is encrypted locally on your devices, it is never available in a decrypted form on any of our servers. A compromise of our servers would result in the attacker getting gibberish (encrypted data).

To decrypt that data the attacker will need both your Master Password and your Secret Key. A Secret Key is a 128-bit key generated locally on your device, your Master Password is a passphrase set by you. These two keys are combined and, to simplify greatly, used to decrypt your data.

The only way an attacker is going to acquire your Master Password and Secret Key are from your devices. Those are the only places those keys really exist.

Guessing both the Secret Key and a strong Master Password are effectively going to cost such a significant amount of money, or due to time and processing constraints, be infeasible.

An attack would have to be highly targeted. In other words, you would have to be a specific target to make any attack be worthwhile. If you believe you are likely to be the target of such a very specific attack you probably have a team of security personnel working for you who could better advise you than I could.

I'd really suggest looking into how we do things. The only feasible attack on your data would be through your devices, and any other password manager that stores data locally on your devices will be impacted the same exact way in this case.

Hope that helps but if you have questions please let me know and I'll do my best to help get you answers.

Kyle

1Password Security Team

Edit: apparently markdown isn't a thing here.
Completely unsellable to anyone with a time preference extending beyond next month.

But the remaining market is probably big enough.
No, this is just the truth of working at BigCorp. Most engineers can pretend office politics doesn't exist because they're working in primarily nonpolitical roles. But office politics exists, for any office. And unionization is political.
> Combine this with a fine for the publication if they failed to verify information with a reasonable effort...

Ain't gonna work, ever.

Who is going to impose and collect "the fine"? Who will judge what is a "reasonable" effort? How?

The only mechanism we have that is even close is libel lawsuits, and that's only when actual damage is done and demonstrable (sort-of, depending on if you can afford to retain an entire wing of lawyers, like Peter Thiel).
"...The very nature and purposes of Government make it impossible for administrative officials to represent fully or to bind the employer in mutual discussions with Government employee organizations. The employer is the whole people, who speak by means of laws enacted by their representatives in Congress. Accordingly, administrative officials and employees alike are governed and guided, and in many instances restricted, by laws which establish policies, procedures, or rules in personnel matters."

-FDR Letter on the Resolution of Federation of Federal Employees Against Strikes in Federal Service

I think we've seen this play out in how public unions now dominate policy discussions putting the public good as an often secondary consideration.
Yikes make room for someone who wants to do the job
How on earth is being notified of your legal rights "advocacy"?
It's because I wasn't using technology solely to communicate with real life friends, but moderating various forums and running my modchip business.

Of course someone who doesn't use a near-instant messaging service and knows that messages can't arrive anyway wouldn't stress about having it available.
Not cool to equate a notification of rights, to a crime (theft).
I'm constantly baffled by how anti-union many Americans are, how willing to give up their rights.
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I was struck, watching 延禧攻略, that traditional chinese medicine is heavily featured on the show and is always 100% effective. That's... not how we in America would usually depict period medicine in 18th-century Europe. We don't approach that level of effectiveness now.
I'm talking about custom domains. You can setup AWS to manage certs for mycompany.com (for example). When you do that they ought to give you a copy of the private key to *.mycompany.com. I am not talking about the amazonaws.com certs.
I think you’re both right. The combination of multiplying income while also saving more and more of that income is the key to jumping wealth levels.

It’s certainly possible to live a comfortable life on the cashiers plan but if the executive spent just half of their career living like the cashier then he would quickly pass up the cashier on the wealth ladder.
Do you have to re-apply the labels each year? If the battery dies, this wouldn't scale well for the labor involved to replace the labels each year?
It doesn't really matter if google would approve. There are a lot of activities that would not be organizationally approved, but are protected concerted activities and it would be unlawful to fire someone for.
I'm not sure I have sympathy for my fellow 10%ers who can't manage their 6 figure incomes.

Overspending is not an excuse. When you only need tens of thousands of dollars to live and thrive, anything beyond is excessive.

I know my peers that overspend, I weep for them. I don't envy the limo you take, I feel bad that those things are where you find pleasure.
General Magic, also unrelated to GE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Magic
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As Skrebbel already mentioned VC firms rarely acquire companies outright, but it is typical that in such transactions VCs are on the selling side and PE parties are on the buying side.

So let's take it as read that you meant PE, in that case, it depends is the usual answer. There are quite a few examples of PE funds buying companies and letting them run as autonomous as possible with positive results and there are examples of PE funds buying a company outright or a controlling interest who then become 'backseat drivers' but without the relevant experience. In those cases - especially if the PE party consists mostly of accountants and financial people - it usually does not take long before the effects become visible. But there are a great many players and the majority of them is both well intentioned and ends up with positive results. The ones you hear and read about in the newspapers are not really representative for the PE market as a whole, that's just the news' habit of focusing on the trainwreck.

PE fund returns nX to their LPs versus PE fund buys controlling stake in struggling company and runs it into the ground after loading it up with debt. Which headline do you think will attract more eyeballs?
Supply will equal Demand at some price. If prices rise, some recreational use will go away.
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> In this article's terminology, I think that slider controls "IAD"

Of course it does; obviously the slider doesn't move your pupils. But it's meant to compensate for your personal average IPD. I think you're right that the collimated images section probably explains the result, though.
I hate being negative but this article, despite its good intent, just tries to force some very shallow abstractions to the point where it's ridiculous ...

On the first example of levels, it's funny that 'guys that can eat where they want' are on the same level (3) as 'billionaries'.

Then goes on with the very old (and wrong) belief that for a high net worth individual 50K is chump change and equivalent to a normal guy throwing away a dollar ...

Then the "improved" levels do not really make sense as levels: travel freedom can be much more than expensive than house freedom, for sure!; also, one could engage in a philantrophic cause without belonging at the absolute peak of wealth.

Another one is how at the highest level in his chart, he uses the expression "What are prices?", implying that people at the highest bracket just do not look at price tags anymore. Honestly, plenty of rich people live fairly frugal lives, while on the other end plenty of people at the bottom spend in a lot of things without thinking twice about the cost and its impact on their lives.

And then there is no advice on how to actually climb such arbitrarily defined ladder ...
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From 2017 to 2018 they nearly tripled revenue, probably a reflection of the price changes that many in this thread have complained about.

The problem is that since then their growth has completely stalled out and is projected to be under 5% for both this year and next year.

While their revenue tops out over $1B their net profit is pretty slim.

Post acquisition expect to see a lot of cuts to improve cash flow as operations are slashed across the board, and depending on how the acquisition is funded it won't be a surprise to see the company burdened with a bunch of debt.

Then PE will either try to return cash through net income, or more likely than not relist the company after two - five years when the restructuring is complete and the company has a more financially interesting profile, akin to what happened with Ping Identity.

In an ideal world they will also try to increase revenue growth as well, so I wouldn't be surprised to see some more price increases coming down the line as well.
You are glad a 3rd party is selling your DNA data to a pharmaco giant without express consent because your relative has a disease?

What?
She didn't weaponise a neutral extension. The extension was already weaponised. It already pushed notifications to users when they visited flagged URLs. She probably just changed a config file to add a new rule and message, 1 line.
> “Mark is friends with Peter Thiel and a lot of Republicans,” said a former Facebook employee who worked in its political group. “It’s a reality people aren’t willing to accept.”

Friends. With Republicans. The horror.
> She didn’t just make a judgement call. She went way outside her role imo.

That's not so much a matter of opinion as of what her role is, exactly. I don't know. Do you?
Even Snopes knows that's false.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/fox-skews/

But nice try...
Facebook is so full of themselves - they think they can run the world etc. Doesn't hurt that the mainstream media are (baselessly) convinced of it. Corbyn's campaign heavily dominated social media in the UK and it turned to a catastrophe. The rules for posting on their pages and using their API have become obnoxiously stupid. few days ago i got a request asking about a surge in calls to their API 5 years ago, as if i can remember (or give a shit about their API access for that matter). the witch hunting has gone out of hand , but i m loving to watch facebook and everyone else bursting in flames over who can manipulate the most. bring it on
So...a couple of these posts are about climbing the income ladder. If you want to climb the wealth ladder here’s my advice. Buy a single-family home, in an area with good schools, that you can afford with a 30 year fixed mortgage. You will need 20% down, so you won’t be able to reach the “food freedom” or “travel freedom” levels as described here until your home purchase is completed. This is almost foolproof over the long term.
>Kerouac stood for things that made (and still make) the consumer bourgeois middle class tremble.

That also seems terribly misinformed...Kerouac if nothing else was a self-loathing member of the consumer bourgeois middle class.

He was a college educated author who "got his kicks" hanging out with people the middle class traditionally looked down on, and he went on road trips by bumming money from his aunt. Yet, Kerouac is shown to have no conviction in his own beliefs as he continually abandons these very people at the first sign of threatening his good times.
Jack Kerouac was not privileged and lived in poverty most of his life.

Safe to say you’re not very fun at parties.
The "oiler" thing sounds stupid, sure, and overstaffing in general is a fair concern. But, devil's advocate, how much time and money would be wasted if an essential machine broke and there wasn't a mechanic standing around ready to spring into action? How many people would be seriously or fatally injured in a year without a helper on those "An extra person is required..." tasks?

I don't know the answers. Some of them legitimately may be useless sinecures, but it's worth keeping in mind that what looks like redundant waste is sometimes an important guard against some kind of failure. Just because it isn't always used doesn't mean that it's not worthwhile.
It was the SR-71 that used star positions I guess.

SR-71 Astroinertial Navigation System (ANS)
https://airandspace.si.edu/collection-objects/sr-71-astroine...
Depends on the country I guess. In Italy very long term fixed interest rate mortgages are common. In UK most mortgages have a very short (2-4 years) fixed interest period and have to be renegotiated after that.
Interesting how important an animal's diet can be, something I didn't fully appreciate.

Also it's nice to see accounts of how science semi-functioned historically. I'm fascinated by the role of human-factors in our attempts at objective-science.
Most people have it wrong. While salary increases are necessary, they are not sufficient. You need to save and invest aggressively. I'm not talking saving 10%. I'm talking 30%, 40%, maybe even more, if you want to achieve financial independence in under 15 to 20 years.

The first few years, maybe the first decade, are tough. After that, it becomes self sustaining: you eventually make more in gains (unrealized, ideally) than you do working.
Well, at this point the NY Times is basically a tabloid too, so...
Ask HN: CS, still a good career in 3-5 years?
I am currently in an undergraduate university considered "elite" in US. CS is the most popular major. My friends have switched from finance & medicine to CS majors - for the money and because it's obviously a good idea to do so right now. All the worries my classmates have is how to get an internship at FAANG. Again not that they'll do interesting work (which is rarely the case), but for the resume item...

I've been coding for half my life, out of pure interest for the building things and never got into it for the money. CS career being obviously a good choice and every smart kid I know majoring in it, mostly for the cash, honestly makes me worried about the future of the field in terms of whether it'll still be a good career in the future. I think smart people will do good work, just for the wrong reasons ($) and this might impact the field negatively. In 5 years maybe things will still be okay, but if the trend continues for 10 years? Will CS become unsustainable hours like working in the quantitive funds or unsustainable competition and workload like in medicine, or both?

PG has said something along the lines of "if everyone thinks something is a good idea, it's probably a bad idea" and Peter Thiel's competition theory where profits get competed away if everyone's doing the same thing are two ideas I think most about.

What does HN think?
Totally understand about the B2B thing,

Regarding BLE -- is that really a limitation though? Even if the hardware / API won't give you a good indication of signal strength, surely there is nothing stopping you from taking a timestamp, sending a packet to the BT device, taking a second timestamp when the response arrives from the device, and using t2 - t1 to measure "strength"? There are papers on how people have been able to triangulate a physical location based on three ping times -- this seems a lot simpler as it's the 1-D version of that problem. Worst case scenario you need a nano-second precision clock, but the principle should still work.
The problem is, she insisted to the world (and presumably to Google as well) that she did nothing wrong here. This is a pretty minor thing to fire someone over - but what other option does a company have, when someone makes it clear that they refuse to behave properly?
Yeah, the go/ is a shortener for goto.google.com/, and is the main way of sharing links internally.
Not a good article.

There are three steps on the wealth ladder:

1. Wage slave - Most people will never leave this step, no matter how many ugly Merc SUVs they own or first-class flights they've taken.

2. FU Money - This person has enough money set aside to walk if they don't like a job or a customer.

3. F-Everyone Money - This person doesn't need to work at all.
I 120% recommend MAKEFLAGS += --no-builtin-rules

If I could rewrite history, I would make those builtin rules nicely, explicitly, importable. No magic when I'm trying to teach make, please.
Gotta disagree, I have personally watched people spend away 2-300k a year for decades. It's easily millions, especially considering the ROI of the markets since the 80s.
related/recent article from the Times: The Price of Recycling Old Laptops: Toxic Fumes in Thailand’s Lungs
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/08/world/asia/e-waste-thaila...
I assume you have numbers showing the total number of whiners like me are an acceptable loss, but I find dropping that feature inexplicable, honestly.
About three million Syrians have become refugees in Europe, and the xenophobic politics that resulted have caused a lot of problems. I'm not sure where the Bangladeshis are going to go; India isn't going to take them.
Yes, 3.81 is GPLv2 or later, 3.82 is GPLv3.
Sounds like Trump wants some wins related to the Elder Abuse Prevention and Prosecution Act (EAPPA):

[“Protecting our senior citizens from criminals who target them is one of the Trump Administration’s highest priorities”](https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-announces-...)

Sadly, the FBI is apparently not in the business of going after the king pin either. They are prosecuting the low level money mules, who are either unwilling or unable to comprehend the need to cease and desist after a letter from the FBI.
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@dang - arguably misleading title, please consider renaming to “Bloomberg LP fined €5m for publishing fake press release”. Current title can be read that Michael Bloomberg was personally fined.
Good question, maybe one day we’ll find a way to increase dopamine production and not have brain chemistry react to it the same way it does now. Which is to say, elevate mood without dependency, it doesn’t even have to be a chemical.
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I think it is incredible that she is 21 and already fired by Google.
What's the plan for when grandma develops dementia? The paranoia will make her unwilling to part with her beloved firearm...do we just wait until she murders a family member or home health aid?

That seems like a much more important question than bickering over precisely which firearm grandma should have as she slides into dementia.

https://khn.org/news/dementia-and-gun-safety-when-should-agi...
Sorry, my mistake :)
Ah thanks. Was hoping for an easier hack but it sounds as bad as I expected.
This is also a man who bought a huge remote property in NZ (and went so far as to get NZ citizenship) as insurance in case the world goes to shit.

I've read/seen many interviews with people who've known him in the past and very few people have nice things to say about him as a human being, but all agree he's got a "unique" view of things.
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I can not seem to find any energy to be against Google here, a 21 year old individual working at one of the most prominent and successful business in the world, making more money per year than a vast amount of the global (not to mention national population) does something that will certainly subject her to reprimand and I am expected to feel some negativity toward Google. I am stuck outside of SV, as a middle age person with many, many hundreds of commits to open source projects, a descent of non-professional experience in software engineering, but because I do not have a BS or Masters in computer science and am over the age of 35 there is no chance I can ever get hired at Google (or any other FAANG realistically). If some of these ardent unionization workers end up fighting loudly and publicly and Google decides they will not deal with some nascent Software Engineer’s Union, maybe I and people like me stuck outside the valley will be able to gladly make boat loads of money working long hours for these thankless corporate taskmasters, while just sitting down and doing our jobs on whatever the company decides it wants to spend its money on, I will gladly work on Maven or Dragonfly or dark as patterns, whatever, I just want to be relevant to the industry not stuck away doing the same job for peanuts until I can afford to retire.

Rant over - but seriously, I don’t have a problem putting aside any personal feelings or beliefs to achieve my employers goal, that is what employment is. Spiers apparently decided that the security position allowed for this action and did it. Google did not want this type of behavior from an employee in that position. She knew Google management wasn’t going to approve, she assumed that risk.
that's someone whose job is on the line being polite about a board member's political activism.

the less polite way to put it would be that Peter Thiel is balls-deep in all kinds of dark-money republican activism and would really prefer to keep Russian propaganda all over facebook because it's advantageous for his tax rates.
Mormon Church has misled members on $100B tax-exempt investment fund
"not everyone can afford to take a week off work"

even if you can, financially, it's often hard to do so mentally/emotionally. if you're taking time away from work, that means no income - whether you desperately need it or not may be immaterial to the mental state you've built for yourself.
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He wasn’t acting like an asshole just for fun. This is a naive interpretation.

Have y’all even tried reading the wiki, at least?
he is right. it is not because ads are not favorable to your agenda that you should ban them. what kind of democracy are we living in. California is a world outside of reality
This is very reminiscent of laws regarding jury nullification, and how the practice may be legal, but in some jurisdictions / cases it can be illegal to inform a jury of that fact.
Vote accordingly.
A highly relevant read, to accompany “On the road” is “Hell’s Angels” by hunter s Thompson. I read them as a pair of books that examine both sides of that era. “fear and loathing in Las Vegas” pretty much closes the door on the Beat Generation, but, I think Hells Angels offers more insight into the times.
> you still get wealthy

Do you think the bad habits go away just because you succeeded? That’s not how life works, and the evidence is people who win the lottery.
Sounds like you would give consent if asked, and I applaud you for that. Myself I gladly donate blood for free to help others. I don’t however feel that either of those willful good deeds should be viewed as arguments supporting that people should have their blood extracted or data sold without consent.