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No I'm just saying that HS2 seems to be more of a contractor back-pocket filler than other more meaningful projects. The amount that has gone in to build a slightly faster trainline is obscene (plus it's not actually going to be faster for most people since it's probably going to stop outside London).

That doesn't really change anything with HS2 though since it'll be a decade before anyone can use the line.

I don't really get why it's such a high priority to expand the London commuter belt. Train lines may be at capacity but if more money was devolved into the northern regions so everyone doesn't have to commute to London maybe we could solve the problem in a cleaner and less costly way.

But then the contractors won't get their back pockets filled.

I don't even get why companies don't post expected salary range. It's a waste of time for everyone involved if there's a completely different expectation.

Sounds like the author doesn't know about Let's Encrypt. Pretty simple and free way to secure your site with no disadvantage and it kills OPs primary argument.

I can't be the only one that gets frustrated at these remote only career sites that don't display salary/day rate. It's such a waste of time for both parties to have to go through the hoops just to find out that the compensation is not worth it.

Stackoverflow does it best - provide a filter for jobs that don't provide compensation info.

What about 2 small keyboards, say 4 button on either side of the bottom screen? We can call it 3DS.

Other people are suggesting alternative platforms when you could simply have an AWS autoscaling group. If a server goes down it simply relaunches a saved image.

OP is me.

What is it? Oh god, it's another online dead man switch. Yeah but it's better (I think) and free (with the ability to pay if you want to). You can have it send an email, or download the app on either app store and receive notifications via push notifications. It even tracks your location if you want it to.

Why? There's a popular dead man's switch already out there (in fact there's a few) but they're old, dated, and limited. This has been a passion project for me that I've been building as a side project for nearly a year and today I completed the first thing that users might pay for - secure file storage that get released when your dead man's switch triggers.

I know what you're thinking for file storage - is it secure? How does it work? The short answer is - it's not secure unless the user encrypts the files and sends the decryption key to their chosen recipient (which is what I recommend in the 'Articles' section in a couple of written pieces).

Target audiences: Initially I wanted to target myself. I'm going travelling soon and I wanted a way to tell my family if something happened to me automatically and I wanted the ability to track my location as I travel through countries and then see a nice map at the end of it. So I made a nice side project that was fun for me to build. Then my friends said it was a good idea and I should have people sign up. Then other people said it would be useful for their elderly parents so they knew if something happened to them. Then other people said it would be useful for them on nights out in case anything happened to them on the walk home. Then other people said it would be useful to make sure their kids were ok when they're away from home. The problem with current services is that they're not that friendly to the ordinary user. There's no explanations, there's no guides. Services like this that can bring real benefit need to be simple which is what I hope I'm doing.

And THEN before I even marketed the product (this is my first 'official' marketing of the service) a domestic violence non-profit got in contact me with a request to create an alternative version of the app that could sit on a victims phone without raising suspicion from their abuser. They could then safely trigger their dead man's switch if they felt they needed to to automatically send an alert to their support network, or have it trigger if their phone gets destroyed. This is what I'll be working on next and it's partially what paying users will be funding - so I can work with charities for providing real benefit to people that need it. In the future? I want to keep adding features that fit the service that benefit people and provide a quality niche product.

About me: Obviously I'm not a designer. I'm a backend guy mostly with tons of experience in everything except design, so I keep the design simple.

I created https://www.deadmantracker.com and am implementing the reverse of this but your solution is a good alternative that I might support too.

The way I saw it working was: * Encrypt docs into a compressed archive

* Upload encrypted docs to service

* Distribute password for unencryption using something not build into the service (tell them via Signal, or Protonmail, or a piece of paper, or word of mouth)

* Link for encrypted archive only becomes available once the dead mans switch is triggered

In the same way a password could be uploaded and only released when the switch is triggered. A service just can't hold both parts.

Slight tangent on that off comment at the end - why did you cancel your other accounts? If Monzo services fail or briefly go down (which is a somewhat medium risk since they've had a couple this year which lasted days) you are screwed.

Good joke. Sounds like you haven't used windows since ME.

I think electronic non-regulated centralized payment systems are worrying. However if they are de-centralized there are less things to worry about. As long as the community is verifiably in control of the validators/nodes then a central authority cannot impose and block your account.

You're basically hiring an AWS devops position since you don't need to manage anything yourself. Great for the small startup but not so great for the already established enterprise that has some devops guys anyway.

It's not GDPR's fault that websites have awful user experience. If they really cared about privacy then they wouldn't use popups that required multiple clicks to remove tracking cookies.

I also hate this pricing structure. It's usually one of the big things that will make me fork over cash to a competitor instead.

You need a bank account with Paypal still. This is direct payment into your personal virtual wallet (supposedly not linked to your real identity) avoiding all banks.

Same with Monzo banking app (UK). You buy something from Amazon that goes over a certain threshold: Browser: "Waiting for third party auth". Phone: "Hey did you approve this purchase? Yes/No". Very user friendly, intuitive anti-fraud measure.

This criticism is valid but it's not a problem blockchain is trying to solve. It merely acts as a way to have immutable records. Regardless of if you use a blockchain solution or not, the fact that real world corruption or ignorance can lead to rogue data is an issue that exists in both cases.

Sounds like someone hasn't been keeping up with recent bitcoin tech and is merely repeating lines from Dec 2017.

Not sure what your definition of free internet is, but mine is one where the users are free, not the businesses.

The EU is very consumer protection focused, which is very different from the US. It's just a point of view I don't see how you can perceive it as entitlement. Not everyone knows how privacy works and how much data is available by not using a VPN.

Only without consent from the user. Previously it was an ethically grey area to be logging IP addresses anyway. If you are preventing malicious use, then that is allowed as long as you are not using that data outside of the bounds of the user's consent.

If, however, a company is storing IP addresses to identify users without their consent and are found to be specifically targeting them without their consent, then that is a misuse of data.

You are right that companies will be paying for this for a long time and it does take effort to comply, but if that's what it takes to protect user data, increase security across the board to prevent data breaches and kill off the players that never should be in the business to begin with then I'm all for it.

You don't need to get access to a lot of machines. Because the chain is long and obscure, there's no way to be verifiable, and even if there was that chain would require specialist infallible programmers to ensure nothing has been tampered with.

I'm not sure how you can argue that obscurity is a strong method of security when one machine in the country could be compromised, or the counting method code could be compromised, or the programmer verifying the code could be compromised, or the distribution system of voting machines could be compromised, or any part inside the voting machines could be compromised (e.g. the touch interface), or the voting machine remains secure during the voting period (i.e. voters are tampering with it on poll day).

What's wrong with 'local'? Serverless is a terrible word to describe this.

Well the UK government doesn't get a vote on TTIP... I mean it's a reason to not vote for a Brexit if anything since then they WOULD get a vote to secure a trade deal privately with the US if the UK left the EU.

Yeah those environmental and consumer protection laws are a joke (just to name 2 minor things).

Wrong. UKIP and Labour hold the majority seats for the UK in the EUP and they're both against TTIP.

They probably are. But there's a fair few ministers that are still criticising it. The bad guys here are the EU Commission, not the Parliament. It's important to know which side we need to be supporting because often people blame the government.

Examples:

* UK MP on transparency - http://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/feb/18/mps-can-view...

* German MP on what is NOT in the documents - http://www.waronwant.org/media/what-i-didn%E2%80%99t-read-tt...

Note that TTIP still has to be agreed upon by the EU Parliament. Personally I don't really care what the lobbyists are writing in secret. At some point they have to present to the EUP (where we actually have representation) and they have been very consistent at shutting down the crap that the corporations try to get through.

It's not that secret. It's secret while they work on it, sure, but I've watched countless debates with the Commission vs. EUP. I still have faith that Parliament can protect us (and if not then there's still public outrage and protest if TTIP is ridiculous).