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This reminds me of what happened to the financial services Cantor Fitzgerald after 9/11, just replacing a system with hundreds of lost employees:

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/19/magazine/the-secret-life-...


I was at CF (at new offices, obviously) briefly a couple weeks after 9/11.

They had backups and were able to recover data and systems.

By the time I got there, they were somewhat functional.

The biggest problems were the lack of knowledgeable personnel, not lost data or systems.


Thanks for sharing, for some reason I think about this story a lot. It must have been such an emotionally difficult time for everyone involved in piecing back together their processes.


>Thanks for sharing, for some reason I think about this story a lot. It must have been such an emotionally difficult time for everyone involved in piecing back together their processes.

I was there as a consultant and didn't know anyone there when I went.

I won't provide any details out of respect for those fine people, but the grief was so thick, you could have cut it with a knife. As I said, I didn't know anyone who was there (or wasn't there) but after a day, I wanted to cry.


Hi Tara, this looks like it solves some of the limitations we've run into using Stripe Connect with ACH, which is very exciting! Will existing platforms using Stripe Connect eventually be able to add Stripe Treasury for existing users?


definitely! we want to make it as easy as possible for existing Stripe Connect users to add Treasury functionality for their connected accounts. Request an invite [0] (the product team is personally monitoring this queue) and let's chat about what you're looking to do!

0. https://stripe.com/treasury#request-invite

edit: added a space


does anyone have a similar info sheet for the US trial?


Linguistica 360 has news in slow ____ for a number of languages

https://www.linguistica360.com/


Fittingly, the wikipedia page for this startup [1] warns:

> This article appears to contain a large number of buzzwords.

Wikipedia's definition sure falls neatly into the author's thesis:

> ...often have much of the original technical meaning removed through fashionable use, being simply used to impress others... Examples of overworked business buzzwords include synergy, vertical, dynamic, cyber and strategy...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vision_Critical


...and posted on HN ~16:47


Posting a link to HN takes 10 seconds. Writing a news article doens't.


Based on their privacy issues, influence scandal, etc. its scary to imagine what the company looks like without the best and brightest.


I think about this a lot too. All companies eventually decline or go through rough patches. A Google that's fighting for survival and losing money would be much more open to working with the Chinese government or selling user data to the highest bidder.

Trusting these entities based on their noble intentions today makes no sense to me if there's no legal agreement or regulation to restrain them tomorrow, when they get desperate.


Same could be said for Google


Lmao. Very good point.


If nothing else fighting the suit means guaranteed real estate on every major news source for months to come as it plays out


This seems like it's an essentially universal constant for Musk, whether he settles or not. Being in the news is not difficult for him, so it hardly seems likely that this was an important variable in the decision. Nor does it seem like the decision will affect his ability to get in the news.


My point is more for Tesla being in the news than Musk. If the two are split an uninteresting, board appointed CEO will need a different marketing strategy as Musk will likely take the soap opera effect with him.


Systrom and Krieger built Instagram the product, Zuckerberg built Instagram the business


Sheryl Sandberg, a really good sales team, and a bunch of shit-hot engineers in ads built IG, the business.

Zuckerberg tends to avoid monetisation, leaving that to Sales (i.e. Sheryl) and Ads.


Sorry, you got it wrong.

Sheryl is not in to sales. And, zuck is all about business but he don't think about monetisation until that product have at least a billion users [1].

The real person behind instagram's monetisation success - https://finance.yahoo.com/news/meet-man-helped-facebook-brin...

[1] - https://www.businessinsider.com/zuckerberg-products-need-1-b...


No offence, but Sheryl heads up sales and ops (the head of Sales, David Fischer, reports to her), and will go visit big clients to sell them on FB ads/new products (of which IG was a good case).

I'm aware that Mark (he doesn't like zuck anymore, apparently) thinks that, but he focuses on product much much much much more than monetisation (there's an apocryphal story that suggests he said that ads weren't part of his vision for FB to an internal sales conference in about 2009-10).

Finally, I would credit the engineers in Ads a whole lot more than Mr Weil (to my recollection, all of the stuff that ended up making IG money was in place before he joined).

Source: worked for FB for a long time.


and thus Zuckerberg - Instagram’s real CEO


Do you have a link to the docs that shows this? From what I can find on their site [1] it only supports a few of the protocols:

-Static Password

-HMAC-SHA1 Challenge-Response

-OATH-TOTP (Yubico Authenticator)

[1] https://support.yubico.com/support/solutions/articles/150000...


It works very well for TOTP, just initialize all the keys at the same time. You can also print the qr code on paper as an additional layer of backup which makes it easier to add a new key if you destroy yours. Obviously if it was lost, you’d want to invalidate that and reset it up, but if run over by a truck and you’re holding the pieces, it’s easier than setting up all of them again.


IMHO the YubiKey is not useful for any of those. It's excellent for storing OpenPGP keys and U2F, reasonably good for X.509 (as much as expected for X.509 I guess), and not good for much else. Using it for TOTP IMHO makes no sense, it's better to use your phone.


Using it for TOTP makes sense if you have more than one phone or want to use TOTP on your desktop through Yubico authenticator.


Authy is excellent for this. I've got it on my phone and tablet. I'm reluctant to use it on my desktop because I don't want to type in a huge password but I regard my 2015 MacBook as less secure than my devices that are protected by touch. You might be OK with that or have a laptop with touch ID.


Exactly. Additionally phones can be rooted and that exposes the underlying secret but Yubikeys are tamper resistant.


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