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by brenden2 7y ago
Yep, it's a super difficult problem. Having the source code available, and being able to validate the builds yourself makes everything a lot easier. It's one of the reasons the Debian project has worked so hard at reproducible bui
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by brenden2 7y ago
If I can compile audited code from source myself, without any backdoors, then I can be reasonably assured there aren't any backdoors (excluding perhaps hardware level backdoors--but that's why we do the encryption in software). Im
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by brenden2 7y ago
I quit my (good paying) job to burn through my savings and start my own company because I want to fix this, so it's not everyone who behaves that way :)
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by brenden2 7y ago
Yep, the chat log backup basically renders WhatsApp completely insecure. They also constantly nag you inside the app to enable it. This is how they caught Michael Cohen (and presumably others). Unfortunately Signal does it, too.
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by brenden2 7y ago
FB's history suggests they have a culture of not blowing the whistle when shady things are going on. I suspect most people want to keep their $500k+/year jobs instead of sticking their necks out. My friends who work at FAANG are l
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by brenden2 7y ago
If the source code isn't available for audit by 3rd parties (or yourself), and you can't build it from source, then it was never really "secure" anyway. What lawmakers do or don't say is just noise. Platforms that r
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by brenden2 7y ago
Agreed. That's what I'm trying to do with my startup :)
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by brenden2 7y ago
Yep, my experience as well. There must be a better way. I think we're warming up for a war since browsers (Chrome and Safari at least) have slowly started making it harder to block ads, which I think will becoming a creeping normality.
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by brenden2 7y ago
Some feedback: - I think the shadows around the boxes are a bit too much. I'd pull those in a bit. - I'm skeptical of the links going to Amazon. Are they affiliate links? What about other bookstores? - I like the "stacks&quot
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by brenden2 7y ago
This is cool! It's like a wiki, but there's no structure imposed and everything's ephemeral. Would be interesting to see what happens over time. Some feedback for the author: it might be interesting to add a "I'm fe
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by brenden2 7y ago
I used to use Chef, have mostly switched to Ansible. Not sure about "dead in the water" but my experience has been that Ansible is a better tool.
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by brenden2 7y ago
It's really, really hard to do this when it goes against the bottom line, no matter how good of a person you are. The company will eventually act in ways that serve to increase revenue. Thus, if your incentives are misaligned, the acti
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by brenden2 7y ago
Certainly some people want those jobs. However if you talk to young people, most of them seem to be more interested in becoming Instagram famous than stamping out widgets for 40h a week.
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by brenden2 7y ago
What I meant was manufacturing jobs, not actual manufacturing output. Just didn't phrase it correctly. The government typically provides incentives under the condition of creating jobs, but they're trying to create jobs people don
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by brenden2 7y ago
My bad. You articulated it better than me.
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by brenden2 7y ago
Manufacturing jobs in the US has been on a long, steady decline[1]. My pet theory is that 1) people don't want these jobs and 2) people elsewhere (like China) are more willing to take manufacturing jobs because it provides a greater li
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by brenden2 7y ago
Thanks for the info! I'll try reaching out, but I'm probably too small of a fish for them to be interested :)
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by brenden2 7y ago
Yep, I think you hit the nail on the head. When it comes to new companies and business models, timing is super important. A great example of this was the dotcom boom where you saw a bunch of companies with (arguably) the right idea go bust,
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by brenden2 7y ago
Thanks!
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by brenden2 7y ago
I'm trying to prove this hypothesis wrong :) Obviously it's a big experiment. My belief is that with the right incentive system, and right messaging & social proof, you can fix the problem. We're not there yet, but we are
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by brenden2 7y ago
This is what keeps me up at night these days. Between information gerrymandering, the quest for increased engagement, uncanny valleys, de-platforming and so forth I wonder how it will affect our ability to avoid misinformation, have origina
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by brenden2 7y ago
The need for things like this is partly why I quit my job 6 months ago to start my own company (in profile). We need to start building companies and products that provide valuable communities and services (like social networks) without the
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by brenden2 7y ago
Depends on the terms of the contract :) The main pitfalls/problems are probably the cost associated with trying to do this, because you may need to hire a lawyer etc.
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by brenden2 7y ago
There's a trick around this which is called a forward contract. It's a contract that basically says you agree to transfer the stock in the future when you're able to do so, and in exchange you get cash now. It's almost l
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by brenden2 7y ago
I joined Airbnb back in 2013 and I remember feeling this way when I worked there. It always seemed like people were saying "the IPO is just around the corner!" but of course it still hasn't materialized. Anyway, it's nic
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by brenden2 7y ago
In my experience they nearly all require them. I've also encountered a couple cases where they said they didn't, and then someone gave me a coding challenge anyway. I've always been bad at these, which is super frustrating fo
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Ask HN: Feedback on Privacy-Focused Products
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by brenden2 7y ago
I've noticed this too. If you have a dog, you also learn very quickly just how many discarded chicken bones exist throughout the city (hint: it's more than you want it to be).
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by brenden2 7y ago
I have a dog, and when we're walking around I always notice all the cigarette butts on the ground (because my dog tries to eat everything off the ground so I have to watch). It doesn't surprise me that so much litter is just tobac