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by bostik 6y ago
Smarkets | Full Time | ONSITE [REMOTE during the plague] (London, UK; also Downtown LA, California) We're a modern betting exchange, going technology first to enable proper price competition in a field of fat commissions. Join a small
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by bostik 6y ago
When I held the information security basics course back in the university, I always made sure the grading scale was included on the exam sheet. 55% to pass, 95% for top grade. Because of its wide applicability to business environments overa
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by bostik 6y ago
I have a suggestion for ground rules as far tooling is concerned. 1. If it requires a GUI, at any stage at all, it's broken. 2. Unless it's controllable through scripting, it's unfit for purpose. 3. If it doesn't support
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by bostik 6y ago
One additional data point, with my DPO hat on. BankID is both an authentication and user information service system. Swedish customers can sign up with BankID, and the beauty of the setup is that we are exposed to less private information
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by bostik 6y ago
> Scenario B: malware keeps reinfecting system 5 minutes after reboot. You remove the malware. Reboot. Your system is clean. ... for about 5 minutes. This is very close to what happened with the Slammer worm.[0] It was in-memory only,
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Looks a bit like Cuisinart. Costs about the same too, the only difference being that Cuisinart has a temperature quick select on buttons (85° and 100°C), and the lid opens from a button above the handle. The lid button is surprisingly nice
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Or as Shakespeare put it, "The Hell is empty and all the devils are here."
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Har, this reminds me of an old bit that nicely distills both the mindset and spelling differences across the pond. UK native, upon seeing the word "color" thinks: "Aha, US spelling!" US native, upon seeing the word &quot
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by bostik 6y ago
Couldn't get to Dianne Morgan in 40 guesses. The closest it got was to ask in sequence whether the character was British, blonde, an actor and a comedian. Not many probably know the person in question with her real name - but almost ev
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Oh wow, Metropoli is still alive? I haven't seen that domain in ages. I was actually active on the BBS back in the day, years before WWW came on the scene and blew up the internet. Hell, I think my first widely known email address woul
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by bostik 6y ago
Smarkets | Full Time | ONSITE [REMOTE during the plague] (London, UK; also Downtown LA, California) We're a modern betting exchange, going technology first to enable proper price competition in a field of fat commissions. Join a small
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by bostik 6y ago
Reputable prediction markets don't offer contracts where they themselves, or someone in general, could profit from human misery. Disclosure: I work for one.
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On a large scale, it's basic physics. The jet streams are driven by temperature gradient: warm air from equatorial regions flows to the cold poles, warming up the regions inbetween. The planet is not heating up uniformly, poles are hea
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This has been going on for more than a decade. I recommend to read at least the opening chapter: https://insertcredit.com/2011/09/22/who-killed-videogames-a-... Yep, I've pasted that link in the past. It
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> a bank can only charge the most appropriate interest rate for the market to bear. The market can remain irrational longer than you can stay alive.
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Back before the plague, we used to include a short presentation round for senior hires on the final day. After all, a senior engineer is expected to occasionally explain and simplify potentially complex issues to people outside their immedi
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It is. The watershed publicity moment was in 2010, when the research paper came out.[0] It took another 6-7 years before the news percolated high enough in the political chain, and now both NIST and NCSC recommend against the outdated pract
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I would be careful when playing around with a viral queue mechanism. You need to be very clear (even if only for yourself) with your own incentives why you're using the strategy. It can work well if you're filtering for high-quali
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> The company would, according to the article, "carry the same authority as a county, including the ability to impose taxes, [...] So, 21st century feudal fiefdoms?
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> This is HN, and we want the web advertising industry to go away. Not go away. Just have their ability to invade privacy spayed and neutered. If it makes the industry smaller in aggregate, I'll take that as a beneficial side effe
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This reads like a classic Dilbert strip. Sure, we all know 9 out of 10 projects fail. Let's make sure we only ever begin the 1 that doesn't.
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Think about it this way: if you choose to wear a helmet, you already have done a personal risk evaluation. You are also, with a high probability, an avid cyclist. You are more likely to invest in quality equipment. On the other hand, if y
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I skimmed the paper and read it as an improved passive attack against ESNI and Do{T,H} setups. There's nothing really new, other than QUIC making it easier to identify the destinations. Traffic analysis is a harsh villain.
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I've coined a term for these FANGA interviews: Epiphany Lottery. You need to come up with the correct answer in less than 2 minutes, twice, within 45 minutes. Because it runs twice, you will only have 15 minutes to write up the code to
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In a sibling thread someone already coined the term "spite investing". I'm personally into boring index and ETF vehicles, but I am stocking up on something right now: popcorn.
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Not going to defend RH, but I have some insight with regards to corporate communications. A company in panic fire extuingisher mode has to put out some type of announcement. RH did. Twice in one day. I can believe the first one was a canned
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Funny thing is, there might be a way out if we changed the incentives. Because let's be clear: FB, Twitter, YouTube, ... (and to a slightly lesser degree, Google) - they are all media distributors and opinion amplifiers. Much like tra
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> * The antivirus industry is the biggest player of the modern adware/malware crisis.* This is so true it hurts. Veracode releases an annual report ("State of Software Security"), part as marketing material, part as an ind
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Phishing has been commoditised, the criminals don't write their own pages anymore. In fact the phishing toolkits have been doing TOTP passthrough/relay for a few years now. For the attacker, it's a nice feature: victim could
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> not having to deal with sales people. This aspect does not get nearly the attention it deserves. Unless your product is an exceptionally well focused developer tool, it will take months, and sometime multiple quarters, to see whether

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