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You might be thinking of a "fraud alert", which is different than a "credit freeze" => https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/blog/2017/09/fraud-alert-or-cre...

Yeah, I have a Firefox extension with around 50k installs, and get emails every so often from people offering to monetize it.

Here's an excerpt from a recent one, from Nick at NJB Brands Sales:

> We offer .50 CTR (per 1,000) traffic and can use each unique IP up to 10 times a day. There is no limitation to what we will purchase other than the cap per unique IP. We offer flexible payment options via PayPal, Bitcoin, WesternUnion or Check. Payment can be done every 1 day, 7 days or 30 days.

Really? I've used the ps4 YouTube app a bunch to watch videos, and movies purchased from the play store. My phone can cast to it as well. Seems to work as well as the Netflix app. I've had more issues with the ps4 store app honestly.

Whole Foods was already abusing their position by setting strict quality standards for foods they carried, and reducing the requirements for their own 365 brand.

Nice advice, though my experience doesn't resonate with #5. I always priced by the hour, but charged by the minute. Tools like Harvest made this easy. If there was a chance to reduce billable time spent by changing the spec a bit, I'd let clients know. Clients seemed to really appreciated this, and I was making enough to buy a house in California, a couple hours away from SF.

You didn't mention the largest voting block, voters who don't strongly identify with either party.

Out of curiosity, why did you remark on the Fruit Loops shake? Could it be due to an ad campaign that started prior to your remark, and continues after it?

Per second, with a one minute minimum [1].

[1] https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/09/extending-per-s...

How would you prefer to activate the Homes, out of curiosity?

If you have time, please elaborate on what you'd like to see.

“The best way to express it is that everything you see on Netflix up until the play button is on AWS, the actual video is delivered through our CDN,” Netflix spokesperson Joris Evers said.

http://www.networkworld.com/article/3037428/cloud-computing/...

In July, Anvato joined Google. They're using Google Cloud to power video processing solutions for customers like NBCUniversal and Univision.

http://www.anvato.com/anvato-joins-google/

> We’re particularly pleased that the environment we’ve worked with Blizzard to construct will be open and available to all researchers next year.

This is awesome. I've only ever reached the Platinum league in Starcraft II (1v1), but I'd almost feel more driven to create bots to (hopefully) surpass that skill level, than actually playing the game.

It is interesting how these releases were timed to start right after Bernie Sanders conceded.

Let's say your approach was ideal. Is it possible the interviewer wanted to see how you'd solve the problem, if your first solution was off the table?

Pretty close. They'd present a problem, then expand on it. The problems would keep evolving, so that kept it engaging. Then at a certain point, they'd say we're done, we're about out of time, etc - and we'd have a few minutes to chat about life, technology, etc.

Thank you, Gayle & HackerRank!

Recently, with help from Cracking the Coding Interview and HackerRank, I was able to pass some fun yet challenging technical screens with Google, Facebook, and Uber.

> There's always a multitude of ways to get something done, and it's up to you to decide what tool will do it best

Well said.

By the way, what is Netflix's take on Promises vs RxJS?

> Java isn't something a guy on the street would recognize but if you were writing to a lay audience, would you describe the Oracle v. Google as involving a "little known programming language?

If it barely entered the public consciousness, sure.

In the case of Java though, I think it's actually more recognizable than this committee, which personally I'd never heard of. Between the Oracle vs. Google lawsuit, the browser plugin vulnerabilities, and Java just being such a popular computer language... I'd assume a lot of laypeople have heard of it. Though many might not realize JavaScript is a different language.

Might just be "incidental collection". https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/758637-lesson-4-job-...

Looking forward to 2-factor authentication in npm! For what it's worth, I find Google Authenticator offers a user better experience than text message based MFA.

Personally, I liked the music. Maybe the music could be optional. Might be a cool feature to add, if there's time.

I would love an async/await feature. Though generators have been added, and they are currently optimization killers in V8: https://github.com/petkaantonov/bluebird/wiki/Optimization-k...

Corporations can sue you, whereas governments can do a lot more.

That's a great change!

What you are describing is inevitable, unless we fight for better laws in America. For instance, accessing email older than 180 days currently doesn't require a warrant.

I helped Demand Progress build a website to promote a fix, the Email Privacy Act. The act actually has 310 cosponsors, which is more than any other bill in the House! The website goes into greater detail: https://savethefourth.net/

We have to choose our battles, and I think this is a good one. By the way, please feel free to send a PR / issue on GitHub: https://github.com/demand-progress/ecpa-www

> How about the security issue with WebRTC where the browser leaks the IP address

Yes, even if the user is behind a VPN, WebRTC will expose their ISP-given public IP. Luckily Firefox allows WebRTC to be disabled. Recently they added a new setting that alleviates that leak for the majority of VPN users, while allowing WebRTC to still be enabled. Would be awesome if Chrome allowed WebRTC to be disabled as well.

Thanks for the heads up on Rand Paul's campaign. I liked hearing his POV in the debates.

My comment was actually referring to Bernie Sanders. You're right though, Rand Paul did a lot to fight the "Freedom" Act.

Net neutrality is an important issue for many posters on Hacker News.