Shanea93

Why does DDG only seem to search videos via Youtube, even with Safe Search set to off?

I live in the UK and with our internet laws here becoming more and more strict over the last few (and coming) years, I wanted an alternative to Google or Bing who both actively cooperate with the governments existing proclivity to censor things like Porn.

Bing's video search for pornography is absolutely fantastic, it's legitimately the one thing I use Bing for.

Anecdotally, I'm in the process of being sexually harassed by a director at the company I work for and choosing not reporting it. I plan to leave in a couple of months, my startup is in the final stages of closing a seed round - getting in to a sexual harassment lawsuit right now is the last thing I need in terms of stress and career.

The power dynamics are significantly different though, I don't feel at all in danger, I'm a 6'2 man who lifts weights in his spare time, so it's more of an annoyance than anything truly worrying. I understand that this person may go on to harass the next person who fills my role, but I simply have too much personally riding on the outcome of the present to leverage it in that way.

Adding to the UK perspective, the following companies all do it as well and are representative of both older and younger shoppers:

* Boohoo

* Pretty Little Thing

* Missguided

* Marks & Spencers (non-food)

* House of Fraser (under 20Kg)

* Debenhams

Outside of these, with "Collect Plus" now being next-to ubiquitous in the UK (over 6,000 participating stores) any store using Collect Plus (or DPDs Ship-to-shop) can offer free returns via the stores. As an example of how useful this is in general, the tiny corner shop on my street is a Collect Plus collection point.

This article is so unusually biased that it's twisting the truth to the point of presenting a false story.

The persisting idea that this was to protect children is such a lie, this was absolutely to protect Youtube from the backlash they've been receiving from advertisers who don't want their advert for toothpaste showing up next to a video discussing the best uses for anal beads or any US political opinion which doesn't firmly conform to being hard left (before I'm down-voted for saying that, as a British leftist, my personal brand of over-the-top semi-communism would make even the left-est of Americans feel a bit sick).

"It’s tried to enlist users to flag problem videos, and that backfired when trolls heard about the plan." - This is discussing how Youtube wanted to give users the ability to mass-flag groups of videos, as in flag multiple videos at once instead of individually. Trolls? This only effects content creators.

"But despite YouTube’s efforts, it didn’t notice YouTube megastar PewDiePie going rogue." - Almost straight away after the story broke, they canceled Felix's "Scare Pewdiepie" Youtube series contract before he had even had a chance to publicly respond to the (frankly ridiculous) claims that he was a Nazi sympathiser.

HSTS is currently used by 2.8% of all websites, up from 1.2% this time last year. [1] If people are using Qualys SSL Labs tool to check their "grade", they won't be awarded an A+ grade unless their HSTS max-age is at least 6 months [2], so I'm going to assume the average is somewhere close to that due to how common usage of that tool is.

My grandma still uses browser bookmarks, but I have no none-anecdotal source for this.

BoA could absolutely do all the things you just mentioned, but all of them are more difficult than simply replacing their certificate using Comodo or some other trusted root CA.

[1] https://w3techs.com/technologies/details/ce-hsts/all/all

[2] https://community.qualys.com/thread/15972

Your pricing is very reasonable and I've just placed your website at the top of my to-do list tomorrow morning, thanks for posting.

Absolutely, I totally get that, it's worth mentioning that we take our TLS implementation seriously (HSTS, no TLS1.0, etc) and score an A+ on SSLLabs test: http://i.imgur.com/QbH4YZS.png

The green bar with our company name in it translated in to a measurable conversion increase week for week from guest checkouts, so saying it's a waste of money isn't strictly true in our case.

We renewed recently, through our hosting provider who have Symantec in their certificate chain.

Perhaps it's neat for you, I just found out that our newly issued EV certificate status is being revoked in the next build of Chrome, so our expensive EV certificates may as well be $5 StartSSL certificates.

I imagine that there will be a lot of angry customers asking for refunds from Symantec/Verisign for certificates already issued which no longer conform to the offered product.

I copied the content here for anyone in a similar situation to the parent commenter: https://justpaste.it/14pz7

The HTML hidden in that mountain of div tags is remarkably well formed for the standard I see around on the "modern web".

This is great, really simple and easy to follow examples.

Would you be able to add some other examples such as interfacing with a database or making remote network requests over http?

As a European, I think of Europe as being similar to the United States: Each country is it's own state and part of a whole.

In my opinion, saying that if Germany were standalone they would have a stronger currency is the same as saying "If California were standalone they would have a stronger currency".

The US has its Mississippi, Europe has its Greece.

I've found that there are very few "remote-working" companies in the United States who consider applicants from outside of the US - most of them have an "must be eligible to work in the US" disclaimer.

Some of the highest salaries in London for software engineers are for senior developers at Ecommerce companies built on Magento or building Wordpress websites for agencies.

The idea that PHP developers don't get paid much is erroneous, on average they probably do, but the peaks are just the same. I currently earn £70k "hacking" php in Magento and I'm based in Manchester where the cost of living is far lower.

There are only 70 start-up incubator visas available, so I assume competition is exceptionally fierce.

This aside, for the engineer visas, it requires getting a job offer from one of the "100+ leading French Start-Ups", which means you presumably have to pass whatever requirements those hiring managers impose on you as well.

In my opinion, all bugs are worth fixing, else you risk lazy or junior members of your team taking liberties with the severity of the bugs which don't need fixing.

I would go so far as to say that your first and second paragraphs are antithetical.

I agree and there are two sides to this coin: The people who don't realise that they are reviewing a product of someone's work and not the person, and the people who don't realise that the people reviewing them are reviewing a product of their work and not them.

Women in _tech_ being 50% of all hired applicants (assuming equality of ability on average) is not the same as women at _Palantir_ being 50% of all hired applicants.

The same goes for Asians. If 85% of people applying to Palantir are Asian and we continue to assume equality of ability, then 85% of hired applicants should be Asian.

I'm not saying that Palantir is discriminating, these are averages - I'm sure there are tech companies out there where 15% of applicants are Asian but 85% of the work-force is Asian.

Palantir is a business, it's here to make as much money as possible. If it can make more money by also recruiting international applicants, I see no reason why it shouldn't.

Because then the crawler would be making the assumption that the main page with the JS loader on it would never change. If it never loads that page and always assumes it should be requesting the XMLhttpRequest endpoints, then changes to the site as a whole might never be indexed.

Of course it is, they're just trying to hawk their product, there's valuable SEO "juice" to be had by linking their site to the keywords "Teamviewer Alternative".

I don't normally mind people advertising their own products when the article is actually good, but in this case it's vapid and empty, so it's hard to overlook.

That's just another form of age discrimination and is just as bad as the people who refuse to hire old people.

Some people prefer not to write raw SQL, opting instead to use predictable interfaces or abstractions.

Personally, I prefer to write SQL in my models as it just _makes sense_ to me, but I understand why some don't.

It appears that this happened a few days ago, but they only just sent me an email today informing me so I assume a few other people don't know as well. Probably not a bad shout to let your loved ones know that they should change their password (which they probably use everywhere) if they too have a love of Chicken.

Sorry, would you mind explaining why you consider it worse for women to "waste five or ten years of their lives"?

If it's truly unlimited, you just need really good food for one person.

I don't know, with unlimited Uber rides I could start a long distance delivery company:

Want to take a taxi from Manchester to London because you hate the train or want to arrive overnight? Fantastic, that'll be £50, even cheaper than taking the train and you don't have to take a taxi from the train station.

Need to same-day-deliver 50 tons of Plywood? Fantastic, I'll order 50 ubers and we'll move it a hundred KG per taxi and have it done by the end of the day, how does £250 sound? Cheap enough?

The power of the word "unlimited" is almost magical. Of course, Uber would go out of business pretty quickly so £1,000 / month wouldn't get them very far, but to me, it doesn't sound too overpriced. I just hope there's no fine-print.

It's a pretty good analogy for the United Kingdom, at least, with the recently passed Snoopers Charter which gives unlimited access to a large number of government agency to the browsing information for all citizens, with the exception of politicians.

I found it interesting to swap some of the words around to draw a corollary against governments spying on their own citizens:

Honestly, I don't think it really matters if your citizens are OK with it or not. They are still citizens and you are responsible for them.

If they are politicians and have a say in the service, then fine, that's another story.

But until then, I don't think it even matters. Seriously, I feel people just don't understand how the government feels.

> but needing to swipe in to enter a store is, I think, a very significant change to how we think of stores as public places.

CostCo rule #6: Your membership card must be shown on entering the warehouse and at the tills.

I don't think it's really that much of a change, this is already par for the course when it comes to bulk-purchase stores.

Another one of CostCo's rules:

> Parents are responsible for their children. They must be kept with them at all times.

And one last one:

> Members will be required to purchase any packages opened or damaged by them or their guests.

These are all pretty ubiquitous rules for this kind of store and I can't imagine people will really notice the difference. You'll use your card to swipe in you and your guests, when you leave as a group, your card will be charged.

If you come with someone who also wants to buy things, you jut enter one after the other instead of as a group.