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Highspot is hiring Principal, Senior, and Security Engineers

Location: Seattle, WA. Remote Possible

We're hiring Security Engineers at all levels for our Product Security team at Highspot.

Highspot is a rapidly growing Pre-IPO startup that recently achieved "Unicorn" status in Seattle. We're building security solutions for our platform today with an eye on the company that we will be as we double every year.

Highspot may be growing quickly, but we haven’t lost our inclusive, respectful, and team focused culture. We’re looking for passionate people from all backgrounds who want to learn everything they can. Our team supports each other to achieve our best work. We leave the team and company competition or try harder thinking at the door.

We encourage our team to build tools, speak at and attend conferences, and publish research. We heavily use and rely on Open Source tools and software and we want to build and contribute back to those tools and to develop new techniques to help our security industry grow and improve together.

If this sounds exciting to you and you’re interested in learning more about our team and what it takes to be part of an exceptional, passionate, technical security engineering team, please reach out.
We use tools to make our lives easier, make us more effective, and to help us get better security coverage quickly, but manual assessment and vulnerability hunting is where we will make the most impact.

Whether you're a seasoned pro or relatively new to security I encourage you to check out Highspot. Our tech stack is fun (React, Ruby, Clojure) and modern (AI/ML, interesting and complex systems) and we service millions of users and are growing super-fast.

You'll find more information on the specific job postings. We're also hiring a ton of other positions that you can find on our Careers page: https://www.highspot.com/careers/

*Security Engineer* - https://jobs.lever.co/highspot/2c36c5b2-feee-48f5-aed2-80fd3...

*Senior Security Engineer* - https://jobs.lever.co/highspot/d1f8016d-e2c8-448b-97a6-11cc6...

*Principal Security Engineer* - https://jobs.lever.co/highspot/d8b57286-1395-4bf5-81b3-fbcfb...
I wasn't discussing lifestyles, I was discussing the meaning of the term "FU money". Otherwise, I could say that with a good 17 seconds flat in the 100 meter dash I'm well on my way to the Olympics.
Not saving life but I directly and indirectly help dozen of people get into top companies. It's an amazing feeling when you see someone success because of you. To some extent, I felt like I'm reliving the offer experience over and over. In a way, I changed some people life and I felt oddly content.
I'm pretty sure that I pointed out that children here are well disciplined. Your anecdote about your German cousin is quite the opposite of the behaviour of children that I have observed here. I'm pretty sure that I did not say anything about hands off parenting either.

Children are socialized early here in Norway by a combination of parental and kindergarten influences generally resulting in self confident children who rarely throw tantrums and can from an early age be negotiated with.
If you flip flop your beliefs, then you don’t believe in anything, just following the trend. Call people “brainwashed” for refusing to change, but at least they have a ground they firmly stay on. Not to mention people finding random articles online and use them to “debunk” other people’s beliefs. If things were that simple, certain beliefs would not had survived through out the years.
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appreciate it and I can see how helpful VR could be for cerebral palsy patients.
When was the last time the federal government asserted national security privilege in a defamation suit?
I honestly don't understand why tech workers want unions.

We're extremely well compensated and are dictating changes like forever WFH. We have generous vacation, perks, 401k contribution, ...

I want to get promoted because I work hard, not because of seniority. I want to be able to switch jobs or positions and not have to start at the bottom of the ladder.

Why would we want this?

Edit:

Unions will put pressure on the United States' ability to compete with Europe and other nations. Labor will be less flexible, and it's likely that top talent will be paid much less. Costs, however, will increase and the entire US tech industry will suffer.

We'll switch from nimble meritocracy to a regulated and calcified follower. The rest of the world will catch up. I don't get how that's good for the US.

Also, seeing all of the Europeans in here commenting about an American issue is odd.
Sounds similar to Doctor V64. Although mainly used for piracy, it was also a much cheaper dev machine than Nintendo's official Silicon Graphics workstations.
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We value tenacity, humility, ingenuity and soul. In my interactions with my colleagues, these shine through on a daily basis.

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I don’t know UK law, but can a libel suit end in jail? Isn’t this civil versus criminal?
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Even if the case turns out your way, the laywer costs to fight the case in court may be large enough that settling is better for your. It doesn't matter which side of this you are on.
> The identities aren't even relevant to their respective stories.

I believe that depending on the situation and the individual or individuals allegedly responsible for these defamations, their identity might be very relevant. In the UK case, it seems it was someone noteworthy and rich enough that settling the case while paying 6 figures in damage was cheaper than the PR nightmare that would come with his identity being revealed.

Also, keep in mind that we live during times where cancel culture is raging very strong on social media, and people that make this claims can very easily lose their careers over stupid things they say online. I would say it is quite likely that the individuals themselves asked for anonymity in cases, and the attacked parties granted this so long as they don't repeat their behavior.
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You hit the nail on the head! And I’m from the US, so it’s not too Scandinavian. :)

What I found interesting was the spectacle of Mark Zuckerberg in front of congress. And yet no action whatsoever has come from it.

I think part of the issue is that the very people who could push for legislation (the voters) are also the unwitting products of these companies (sold to their real customers the advertisers).

So the manipulation has gone so deep and been so effective the majority of people aren’t realizing what’s happening.
IME washing machines, dishwashers, washer-dryers all have relatively good repairability and good parts availability already (fridges too, though I've less experience of that). You even see them being scored on repairability or repair costs.

Have they addressed a problem that is largely absent?

It's hard to choose to repair when a secondhand replacement is as cheap though. Replaced a plastic pipe, and a hose on my dishwasher, delivered cost ~£50; same as a newer secondhand dishwasher. But at least I've kept it out of the waste stream for a couple more years.

Source: fixed all the white goods in my house several times over. I don't have anything recent though, so more recent products might be worse. There is a lot of part reuse, which is good.
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Wow, major kudos for a pretty imaginative and bold solution. I don't think it would work though. You'd end up with the biggest stakeholders in the fossil fuel industry, with the most to lose from it winding down, being the government and the tax payer. That's the mother of all conflicts of interest. Now the oil industry leadership aren't lobbying government, they are the government. Now all those oil industry workers you need to sack are government employees in civil service unions. What could possibly go wrong?
I know it's super easy for anyone to Google, but I feel like at least one reader will find this useful since I didn't see it mentioned anywhere in the discussion thread: TPM stands for Trusted Platform Module.

("TPM is an international standard for a secure cryptoprocessor, a dedicated microcontroller designed to secure hardware through integrated cryptographic keys." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_Platform_Module)
I’m talking about cases where the broadband is the bottleneck, obviously.

These are people who do not own a microwave or TV (they’re lucky to have a flush toilet) and their nearest neighbor is far enough away that the neighbor’s WiFi is undetectable, so the issues you mention do not apply. Yet they are told by an installer who does a physical visit to the place to put in a dish that choosing the 5GHz WiFi will make a difference. It won’t.
I was just re-reading the HN rules, and to clarify, I'm not a recruiter. I'm a quant consulting for the company. I'll be doing interviews, along with some others who were willing to help: one derivatives quant and two quant devs.
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Someone says this every time smart TVs get discussed, but has anyone ever cited a verifiable case of it actually being done, noting that it would clearly be illegal to do it in much of the world?

Now, if we're talking about the danger of devices incorporating their own wireless communications and phoning home on a network of their manufacturer's own choosing without the knowledge or consent of the owner, that is a serious risk, and one that IMHO should be mitigated by regulating it out of existence before it has any chance to become established practice.
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One could argue that the effectiveness of propaganda that stems from this viewpoint proves its premise.

Whether that makes propaganda of any given form justifiable is another matter.
Isn't Microsoft (MSSQL) also a major player in the DB space?
I don't think "offensive" and "defamatory" are really the same thing though. If I say "seaish is an asshole" then that's not very nice, but ... you know, I'm allowed to have that opinion for whatever reason ("everyone with two s's in their username is an asshole!")

But if I say "seaish is a pedophile and went to Asia for rentboys" then that's quite another thing (and these were among the claims that were made).

Not that the Twitter harassment of women in particular isn't an issue though; but I don't think it's really on the same level.
Not if the slow broadband is the bottleneck. It’s faster for accessing 192.168.0.1 and such but that’s about it.
The same documentary claims that it was the cigarette manufacturers who were looking to make more money from the other half of the population--women who at the time did not smoke as it was considered unladylike. Bernays was happy to spin a made up story to tap into that underdeveloped market. If you read that Wikipedia page closely you will find that he was happy to engage in projects that are hard to defend on moral grounds like setting up a fake news agency. He later rebranded propaganda as public relations, but his methods have not changed. His 'Propaganda' was admired by Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi minister of ... Propaganda.
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If you read the article,

> Poché, [...] lives in Manhattan [...] earning just under $50,000 a year.

That doesn't seem like "extremely well compensated"
It should be noted: Stephen Nolan is a Northern Irish presenter, and the trolling in question concerned whether his show gives an unfair amount of coverage to unionist positions, as opposed to nationalists. Personal security concerns are a big deal in this case, regardless of whether the anonymous figure is well-known or not. Settling here isn't necessarily just a PR move.
Everyone does that since forever and this isn't limited to a single political affiliation or even politics at all. By now this is a standard practice and I hope this isn't news for anybody.
I think it may be a side effect of the overwhelming size of the problem YouTube is dealing with.

To me this sounds like fairly ordinary crankery, overstating the case for Ivermectin but not causing immediate harm. But there's a lot of stuff that is causing immediate harm, at a time when other conspiracy theories have led to violence. They're trying to crack down on it, and discovering that there's just way, way, way too much.

So they banned something, and stepped in it. Except that they really don't care, because they're too big to care. It's spun as being a conspiracy, but I suspect it's more a Hanlon's Razor case.

COVID is a genuine crisis and they've got a sincere interest in not being a primary source of lies about it. They're really sensitive about that after having put up with a prominent conspiracy theorist for far, far longer than they would have had he not held high political office.

At this point I'm not really sure what their percentage is in keeping this banned. It may be that they just don't care. That's almost certainly the case with your community meeting. It tripped some poorly-programmed sensor, and it matters way more to you than it does to them.
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Damages is a legal term of art that implies a finding of fault in a judicial proceeding and a corresponding award by the court/arbitrator/etc. This is not that: no fault/guilt need be admitted (though it was here). It's just a contract to accept a certain amount of money and in exchange to not proceed with a lawsuit.
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It's challenging to change a belief if you don't actually want to. Things are usually much easier if you want to do them.
Aka the only read that matters. Charity breeds wiggle room for actual hate groups.

Similarly, depending on the conference, naming your talk "Make X great/Y again", even ironically, may be grounds for a ban from the conference, under the same rubric: normalizing hate speech.
That's what Romanovs also thought.
We are hoping to provide software-only packages as well however at the moment, most wearables actually don't provide the realtime peak-to-peak heart rate interval data required to do the type of closed loop biofeedback we do. Once wearables are able to support this type of data we would love to provide Flowly software-only.
Looks like your DM's on twitter are off. hit me up @appscurry
According to the Forbes article I linked, they selectively invest in policies that will likely see a payout (old people with health issues) and ignore the rest. They then pay the premiums to keep the policies alive until they can cash out.
Part of it might be that consumers want smart TVs, but it's definitely the case that consumers are very price-sensitive when it comes to TVs, and that selling ad space (and selling/leveraging data gained by stalking your users—why this shit is legal is beyond me) on an integrated OS lets you sell at, or even under, the cost to deliver the hardware, and remain profitable.

This is also why it's really, really hard to build a Roku competitor starting from 0, without a lot of starting capital. You won't be able to match them on price, and also won't yet have the scale to subsidize your own devices with ad sales, so you'll need to sell at a loss (remember: you also need to get onto shelves in stores to compete, and they'll have harsh price requirements, calibrated by what your ad- and spyware-subsidized competitors are selling for, if you want shelf-space with an unknown brand) for quite a while.
Agree. In Spain, in the inner Castilles you get up to 43 to 46C on Summer and -5 to -10C on Winter.

At the Mediterranean coast, you get temps from 10-15C to 33C at the Eastern one and over 40C at the Southern one.
FWIW, while the money may seem big it’s not out of line for the industry, especially given that the role looks to require a decent level of experience.
I haven't fully grokked it myself. But it relates to the concept and implementation of a Lisp reader.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisp_reader

"Unlike most programming languages, Lisp supports parse-time execution of programs, called "read macros" or "reader macros". These are used to extend the syntax either in universal or program-specific ways."

read-string is a convenience over calling read itself as it will take a string rather than needing you to create a java.io.PushbackReader yourself.

As such read and read-string were implemented as core to Clojure's self interpretation and implementation, not as part of a general safe serialization API.

Unfortunately the temptation was to reach for read-string for de-serialization in general as it was so convenient and in the core. In a dev setting where you control and trust all input that is fine. In other contexts it definitely is not!
Depends on working conditions and if they're required to work in high cost area or not.
I have this idea for a long time: a separate page with predefined "algorithms" which you use the Youtube API to query video selection.
You can change the algorithm any time, and it shows videos similar to the YouTube home page, but the search results are based only on the selected algorithm.
That is an example that US defamation law would cover as well.

For public figures, normally you have to demonstrate actual malice to win a defamation case. But there are certain things that are defamation per se, in other words are always considered defamation unless they're true. The list differs per state, but things like calling someone a pedophile is always on it.

Fun fact: saying someone was gay used to be considered defamation per se.
I'm not sure that's true - or rather, I think it's exaggerated. First, truth is generally a defence to defamation, and costs follow the cause in the UK so a losing party would generally be required to pay both parties' costs. Now, defamation suits can still be costly and painful even if you are in the right, so they do surely have some chilling effect. But the risk and likely cost of trying to silence legitimate criticisms with frivolous defamation lawsuits is quite high.

Second, defamation suits are public, and often make for juicy headlines. If you really want to silence your critics, dragging them into a public forum to repeat their claims in front of a load of reporters is probably not the best way to do it.
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Every government in existence, including that of the United States, arbitrates speech and fact. That's why perjury and false advertising are illegal, for instance.
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