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by ig1 13y ago
From the documents published by the New York Times it seems that the NSA have introduced backdoors into VPN and SSL hardware crypto chips. There aren't that many major vendors who make such chips and undoubtedly people are going to be
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by ig1 13y ago
(in a previous life I worked in front office investment banking so had to undergo anti-fraud and anti-money laundering training as well as worked on general exposure risk issues) The problem is that fraud/risk (like tech security) is i
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by ig1 13y ago
Most of Paypal's competitors weren't wiped out by Paypal being good, they were wiped out because they weren't as good as handling risk and fraud as Paypal. They got wiped out by criminals. Paypal is risk averse, which means y
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London Based Swiftkey Raises $17.6m for Predictive Writing(forbes.com)
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by ig1 13y ago
You realize your smartphone almost certainly has metals mined or processed by children in dangerous and unhealthy work environments ?
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by ig1 13y ago
In either London or SF working for a funded (>Series A) startup you should be making more than that with designer & front-end skills. But in any case you should think about what you want to do longer term and use that to make your de
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by ig1 13y ago
Congrats
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by ig1 13y ago
When I helped run the grad recruitment team at Bloomberg, we definitely sent developers involved in hiring to help students improve their CVs, and we were far from the only company doing it.
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by ig1 13y ago
Universities often offer CV/interview practice sessions run by the recruitment team at major firms.
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by ig1 13y ago
Many universities offer such services to students but the take-up level is normally very low, so I'm not sure there's a huge market for it.
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by ig1 13y ago
The first thing you need to ask is if it's programming you're not enjoying or the role in the particular company that you're not enjoying. There are many roles which combine technical skills with people skills if that's
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by ig1 13y ago
Another option could be a practical attack on 128bit RC4. But I don't think the fact they're still using it means it hasn't been broken. Historically countries have sacrificed countless soldiers because saving them would have
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by ig1 13y ago
There's at least two other significant possibilities: 1) There's an attack against RSA which doesn't involve factorization 2) There's an attack against AES / Serpent / Twofish I'd say the second is conside
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by ig1 13y ago
You should have a look at: https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Threat_Risk_Modeling To understand the standard approaches to threat modelling. It should be trivial for someone to look at the documentation and quickly answe
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Seedcamp Releases Its Data For The Last 6 Years(techcrunch.com)
16 points by ig1 13y ago|2 comments
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by ig1 13y ago
First impression: * No details of threat model * No details of crypto protocols used * No discussion of how key exchange problem is solved * Makes misleading security claims "when you delete a sent message it will be removed from the r
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by ig1 13y ago
Plenty of VCs have funded pre-product startups, but generally such investments are based on factors such as the team, track-record, expertise, strong customer demand, etc. rather than just an idea.
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by ig1 13y ago
Your best solution might be to move to whatever country will be most likely to accept your asylum request (and preferably will let you continue to remotely work) and then apply for a work visa to a country with more of a tech scene.
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by ig1 13y ago
Let's assume for arguments sakes that Dr Nic's videos results in better outcomes ten years down the line but no-one wants to watch them. What's the solution ? - you can't force people to watch Dr Nic's videos, and e
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by ig1 13y ago
Someone whose maths teaching videos aren't very popular complains that hers videos are better than the videos which are popular. Khan academy isn't popular because he has money from Bill Gates, his videos were hugely popular on yo
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by ig1 13y ago
In practice they do, for example the Heilbronn Institute at Bristol University is funded by GCHQ: http://www.maths.bris.ac.uk/research/heilbronn_institute/
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by ig1 13y ago
Have you looked at Kaggle ? - it's a good place to learn as you can benchmark yourself against others and after a contest has closed there's normally a fair amount of post-game analysis as people share approaches.
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by ig1 13y ago
It will depend in the company, but in generally for internships/first jobs grades tend to be an important factor as there's little else distinguishing between most candidates. Some companies might have minimum grade policies which
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by ig1 13y ago
At the moment I believe ShowHN posts are negatively penalized by the front page scoring algorithm, something that was setup many many years ago when HN was a completely different community. Perhaps it's time to reverse that so ShowHN p
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by ig1 13y ago
I would assume they mean testing it for factors like taste, etc. which would be immediate rather than doing it for nutritional testing.
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by ig1 13y ago
Pretty much every company has confidential information. When a company administrator sells the internal address book to a recruiter or when a salesperson makes a copy of the prospects database before joining a competitor - that's leaki
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by ig1 13y ago
Vlad (the other cofounder) now appears to work for ZestFinance according to Linkedin. Daniel's profile is private on linkedin but doesn't show Skysheet in his headline (which I believe it used to). Startups can survive once the fo
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by ig1 13y ago
Given the founders now work at different companies I'd assume it's dead.
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Have you called their fraud line ?
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You need to start by asking the question "whose problem is this solving ?" - presumably the answer is "people who are failing to get interview because of poor CV presentation" so you need to figure out who those people a

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