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This is fantastic. But why a reduction in Apple’s fee for AppStore distributed apps? I hope the rates drop to these globally.

It does. However people have a greater expectation of privacy on a device they own than on a cloud-based solution where they have voluntarily uploaded content.

If the fingerprints between an actual CSAM photo and a cropped/resized/grey-scaled version can match, it implies that the fingerprint is essentially composed of smaller fingerprints of tiny squares within a picture, as well as of fingerprints of the entire image in both its original as well as grey-scale form. It probably will also need to allow for rotation.

With all of these possibilities allowed, either the matching technology will miss most slightly-deformed matching images (criminals will quickly find effective minimal distortions), to avoid too many false positives, or will end up matching too many of people’s personal images that consist of their young kids in a state of undress (whose parents don’t have a picture or 2 of them in such a state from their childhood?).

So, either this technology is ineffective and not worth the potential misuse, or it is a grave threat to privacy.

This response is no inadequate that it is almost laughable.

They claim that their experts can listen to a small number of recordings of human speech directed at their devices. However, there is no telling what people might be speaking to their Google devices. I don't use Google Home, but given that it allows one to set reminders, etc., I would think that people could be saying pretty sensitive things, including phone numbers, addresses, credit card numbers, etc. which combined together can identify them uniquely or at least allow those bits of information to be misused.

Also, embedded in the figure of 0.2%, mentioned for the percentage of spoken interactions listened to, is the assumption that it is a very small number. However, that number implies that 1 out of every 500 interactions are listened to. For a family of 4 owning a Google Home, the number of spoken interactions with it in a year would easily run into thousands. Therefore, the experts at Google are listening to at least a handful of interactions every year for each family. Given the speech-to-text state-of-the-art, if these recordings are being converted to text and being stored, it would not be hard to group the recorded interactions per family and derive some identifiable information about them from it.

Although it is difficult to do so, maintaining your calm when faced by intimidation by government agents generally works out. Andreas did exactly the right thing - followed his gut calmly then, filed a case in the courts later.

This is great! It is a shame that Box and Dropbox need you to be a paying customer to be able to share password protected shared links.

Keeping them safe and healthy takes time. But, there are other things too. Teaching them to be good people, spending time with them to provide them with company and love (their friends aren't available round the clock). Bring up children is like being a small business owner. You nurture them so that they become solid, independent people when they grow up. The ROI is not money, but happiness, which is the ultimate goal of money.

Is it okay to put unnecessary stuff in the orbits around our or other planets? Isn't this space trash that can potentially be problematic for future endeavors? Are we creating problems for ourselves to satisfy our vanity?

This is a great move! Many a times, a company will set your salary by incrementing your current salary by 10% (say). This is demeaning. The future employer is basically saying that we want you to work for us at as low a wage as we can possibly pay, while not being stupid. Any negotiation comes back to why your existing salary is so low, implying that there must be something wrong with you.

The new law forces an open discussion where both sides can decide what they want to pay/earn and start the negotiation from there. The negotiation then follows the track of who has better opportunities. That is a better market dynamic. It will be interesting to see how this plays out when I look for my next job. :)

This is the way to bring jobs back to the US. Start with investing "small" sums of money to create an enterprise that will require manufacturing expertise in some area. The ecosystem will then expand. Other companies can then take advantage of the same expertise. Also, the radius of expertise will grow as supporting jobs crop up.

I had, in the past, found that a post was deleted. I was so enraged by that action that I had abandoned HN for almost a year. It wasn't my post. But, I found the action arbitrary. I do understand that it is important to keep the spirit of HN and actively discourage posts that might take HN the same way as infinite other internet forums. Since the guidelines cannot be clearly interpreted, there will always be some controversy about what should or should not have been removed. This case is different though, because the post was down-voted out by the community.

I have used their service many times and am in general not satisfied. Items are missed, the quality of produce picked is not the best, items ordered are not found and replaced, same day delivery is almost gone as an option now, the service fee of 10% stinks of mal-intent. Also, I am not sure how they will compete with Amazon Pantry/Prime or Google Express. The investment and valuation seem bloated.

These events could not have happened without the CEO himself setting an example and establishing an unwritten policy in the company about how to deal with such issues. It is not a matter of one person or team or manager or event. The series of events establish a pattern. The investigation will just be an eye-wash, with a gentle firing of a low level HR executive and some new internal policies that will be disregarded immediately.

I think your latter guess is correct. SRE@Uber = Ops + DevOps + DBA + DCOps + ... . I spoke with their recruiter recently.

I have generally been skeptical about joining Uber. I was in the job market a couple of months back and was always apprehensive when interacting with their HR. I have received recruiting mails from them indicating that I would be lucky to work at Uber, instead of the opposite tone in general. Uber is probably losing many potential employees due to this.

There is no answer to the retort that Uber is successful. If that was the only guiding light for humanity, then we should just be living as savages surviving on who can punch the hardest.

Unfortunately, your response seems very political and not objective.

It got converted into white money by getting deposited into banks through other (mostly poor) people's accounts. Hence, a sum of 5 million rupees was distributed among 20 people (mostly domestic helps, gardeners, chauffeurs, etc). Each account's deposit is small enough to not raise suspicion. These amounts will slowly be withdrawn.

In addition, bank managers also acted in complicity with rich black money holders by documenting that their currency bills were actually exchanged by multiple ordinary folk, whose IDs' copies (necessary proof for exchanging) exist in large numbers at any bank.

I totally got your point. I am playing Devil's Advocate to those who are recommending going to the other extreme and spending enormous amount of money for employee retention, including a significant increase in per employee salary.

The money that they can spend per employee is 1.57M / # total employees. Not, 1.57M / # of employees who left. They don't know who will leave. Their cost of good initiatives will be spread over all their employees.

This article missed the fact that the cost to the company in trying to keep the employees who will leave every year might be greater than the cost of losing them. For e.g., in the example given in the article, the company loses 1.57 million due to employee turnover. However, who knows how much the company might have to spend to keep those employees from leaving. The cost would be high because the effort spent on employee retention is spread over all employees, even those who won't leave. Hence, even a small expense per employee, might end up costing more than the cost of losing certain percent of them.

Raising the minimum wage is a welcome move to counter abuse of this visa. However, the minimum level needs to be set based on the city of employment and it's living cost. It cannot be a flat rate.

The response of the company to create a case where they want to discredit the complainant is fairly standard. They want to protect themselves.

Unless there is someone at the top that takes these matter seriously on a personal level and has communicated it to his subordinates, senior management in general only pays lip service to taking such matters seriously. These are complex matters and every one wants to get on with their work, rather than deal with the problem.

Tim Cook, I would expect, would have sent the message about taking such matters seriously. It seems like someone between him and the victim decided to add his "personal expertise" to this case and mishandled it completely.

Since this is a community that cares equally about new ventures and technology, a direct pointer to a new venture makes sense. The community is getting introduced to the venture directly and is free to click around to understand more.

I use osquery for linux at my job. But I find its regex capabilities for specifying paths and various file names very restrictive. I really want to use this for FIM.

One of the most important open-source projects in my view. Great work!

This is so needed in California. My past personal experience and my friends' experience in the Bay Area shows how hard the recruiters can push for the current salary. What they are saying is that we will give you a 10% raise from your current salary, but not what you and we can agree on is your market price. This is so against letting the markets figure it out.

Love the suggestion. So many times have minor suggestions from managers killed the enthusiasm for a project because it feels like the manager can't think about or appreciate the bigger picture. In fact, it looks like he is only trying to own the success of the project by picking on non-important stuff.

I tried using Homejoy multiple times but decided against it each time. The reasons varied from their cost, to not getting specific enough services, etc. I think they lacked in implementation, at least a little bit.

I am one of those people who followed the path (and was told to) of "study hard, get a good job, work hard till retirement, spend wisely, ...". A few years back, I realized that one important thing nobody taught me during my childhood is that a very important part of everyone's life is to provide value to others in exchange for money that you live by.

At that time, I decided to teach my children about this. One of the ways I have thought of doing this is to ask my children to start earning a small amount of money early in life by providing value to others in ethical ways. I am glad to read that the author, who can be considered an expert at managing personal money, is being successful at a similar experiment.

The longer my career gets, the more I realize this to be true. This also has the added disadvantage that the employers take the employees lightly. In a family, the head of the family has more power than others. If employers considered an employee's duration at the company more as a contract, then they would also work harder to keep the other party satisfied with the contract. Unfortunately, the relationship is tilted in favor of the employer due to the fact that a loss of employment generally has worse consequences for the employee that for the employer.