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BCM43··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2018)
The bachelors degree requirement isn't flexible?
BCM43··on In Raising the World’s I.Q., the Secret’s in the Salt (2006)
My understand is in general in the United States it's not enough of an issue to require you to buy iodized salt.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/21/well/eat/should-we-be-buy...

BCM43··on The FastMail Security Mindset
For most providers, like Protonmail, the decryption password is the same as your login password. I'm curious what scenario you see allowing someone other than the provider to get access to your mailbox but not also your decryption key.
BCM43··on iOS Privacy: Easily get a user's Apple ID password, just by asking
Do you have a source for this? I've not heard this before. The Wikipedia article on FQDN doesn't mention ti.
BCM43··on Mailspring: A fork of Nylas Mail by one of the original authors
It's gone for IMAP. Gmail and other instances still contact the Nylas cloud servers, though there are plans to remove those calls.
BCM43··on Inside the Madness at Evergreen State
You know that loans and scholarships exist, right?
BCM43··on Why does Google Play need constant GPS?
I highly doubt the "evil" in "don't be evil" was meant to refer to selling your location history to kidnapping gangs.
BCM43··on Why does Google Play need constant GPS?
Not actively using (as in not having it up on the screen), or not having it installed at all?
BCM43··on Building fast.com
What does testmy.net show?
BCM43··on Profits are too high. America needs a giant dose of competition
Care to explain the problems with those statements?
BCM43··on Linux Foundation quietly drops community representation
"Linux would have never been as successful if someone like rms would have called the shots."

I'm not sure how you can think that when GNU, which is the operating system for just about every single server running Linux, was started by RMS.

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

BCM43··on DOJ defers payments to local police agencies through asset forfeiture program
Yes, I think they should have to charge you with a crime. If they're sure enough that you took it, they should be able to get a conviction. If they're not, they shouldn't take it.
BCM43··on dd – Destroyer of Disks (2008)
When is that useful?
BCM43··on Apple tells U.S. judge 'impossible' to unlock new iPhones
Is it possible to image the HSM somehow?
BCM43··on See what Hacker News looked like on the day you joined
Cool, top story for me was "Experiment: No Comment Scores"

https://web.archive.org/web/20090929084547/http://news.ycomb...

BCM43··on Next Chrome Update Will Block SHA-1 Certificates
My understanding is that if the cert is valid for less that three months, it's still marked as OK for now. That cert is valid for 3/19/15-6/16/15.
BCM43··on How Unreliable is UDP?
A walks UDP packet bar a into.
BCM43··on A message from Tim Cook about Apple’s commitment to your privacy
That's assuming you can't clone it, and try on 1000 devices at the same time, correct?
BCM43··on Elevator Hacking: From the Pit to the Penthouse [video]
Nope. It's a 2 hour stream of facts from what I understand.
BCM43··on Busy NYC Restaurant Solves Major Mystery by Reviewing Old Surveillance
Actual link: http://newyork.craigslist.org/mnh/rnr/4562386373.html
BCM43··on Why is Netflix Buffering? Dispelling the Congestion Myth
But the connections consumers have are non-symmetrical. Almost none are able to upload at HD-quality speeds.
BCM43··on Programmer excuses
Similar:

http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ballard/bofh/bofhserver.pl

BCM43··on Google’s Balloon Internet Experiment, One Year Later
Really? I'm curious how hard it would be to shoot one down.
BCM43··on 42.zip (2004)
What? A lot of spam filters will block zip files and the like, include free software and company run ones.
BCM43··on Feedly gets hit by DDoS attack, refuses to give in to blackmail
It's already been fixed. Newer version of NTP don't reply with more data than it gets sent, so you can't use the server for amplification. It's servers that have not been updated that are issues.
BCM43··on Mailbox.org gpg encrypted €1,- email solution now in english.
I'm not sure how much work that is, but I'm guessing it's a lot for every $10,000 a month you get. I'm also guessing you can't share the same domain.
BCM43··on LibreSSL – An OpenSSL replacement
Yes, OpenSSL has an advertising clause that is incompatible with the GPL.

https://people.gnome.org/~markmc/openssl-and-the-gpl.html

BCM43··on DoS exploit in openssl (Debian stable only)
It's not. It's not in oldstable, but it is in everything after.

https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2014/msg00...

BCM43··on Update on Julie Horvath's Departure
>It's pretty standard practice to place employees on paid leave while serious complaints are investigated.

Employees? Sure. Founders? I've not heard of that before.

BCM43··on KeePass: OpenSource Password Manager
assword is similar.

http://finestructure.net/assword/

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