skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting; Matt Levine claims the opposite is true, that a revolving door makes regulation harsher.

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-06-26/strict-regu...

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2016-04-12/mortgage-de...

http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2016-04-14/argentine-b...
Run your own projects (if they aren't important) on shared hosting like webfaction(supports python etc).

Manage 4 using fabric scripts.
That's exactly as much of a farce—it's just one that the authorities haven't cracked down on.
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I think you had to register. https://events.google.com/io2016/registration/apply/
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can't way to move into something more data oriented than css as cascading is powerful but confusing. this shows promise, still doesn't play very nice with outer transitions, i.e. http://cdn.makeagif.com/media/4-21-2016/oXAN7e.gif
Removing your account used to be very difficult too, I wonder if that changed
"It's not money, so I'm not gambling, so I don't have to feel back about gambling and losing"
I am curious if Netflix avoids Agile

What elements of the Agile Manifesto[1] do you disagree with, exactly?

[1]: http://agilemanifesto.org/
Paywalled for me here in the UK. I assume the title sums up the article?

Since I can't read the article, from anyone that can, how did they come to that figure? Is that just the cost of the exploit or..?

Cheers
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I think the unified memory is one of the big deals here. This makes working on large data sets much easier.
> Basically, regulators don't have the balls to go after the big guys.

Bernie would change that if given the opportunity.
Thanks for baiting me into listening to 30 seconds of crappy music to merely here "It's the money".
Thanks for putting "Intellectual Wannabe Inventor" in your profile, it wasn't clear from that comment.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=ATAP
Expanding upon this line of thought I am not sure their comment RE: storing data indexed in 32GB of RAM holds any meaning considering it requires a hop over the wire to access. Locally stored indexes on disk would likely be much faster.

I would imagine a smooth update mechanism could allow you to update file indexes without loosing too much agility on feature development but come with huge security gains.
It't a good thing HN doesn't have URL length restrictions, because that URL uses 403 characters to represent a URL that is 82 characters long.
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Python Recipe: Grab page, scrape table, download file
I disagree. Pinterest is different from other social networks in that it is about collecting content. With content being your secret sauce, you don't want to give it away for free. Anyone can bookmark an image, not anyone can find the perfect image. Pinterest gives you that super power.
Maybe just add a "(sic)" after "Wikipedia"
Yep, to me this says "do not work here, we work weekends due to poor planning and enjoy grinding our employees into a pulp".
"As well, I'm betting this will greatly reduce the costs of hosting the event and those funds can be used in a different way."

If it were a different company, maybe. But this is Google. They have effectively unlimited funds.
Next time they should just bring the phone to RSA and have their pick of vendor-booth-magician to decrypt it.
Excellent piece here. Does a great job of demonstrating "concept creep" from both liberal and conservative ideologies, and of describing how we got to this situation in the first place. The bullet points towards the end summarize the article perfectly:

>“by applying concepts of abuse, bullying, and trauma to less severe and clearly defined actions and events, and by increasingly including subjective elements into them, concept creep may release a flood of unjustified accusations and litigation, as well as excessive and disproportionate enforcement regimes.”

>“...concept creep can produce a kind of semantic dilution. If a concept expands to encompass less extreme phenomena... then its prototypical meaning is likely to shift... If trauma, for example, ceases to refer exclusively to terrifying events that are outside normal human experience, and is applied to less severe and more prevalent stresses, it will come to be seen in a more benign light.”

>“...by increasing the range of people who are defined as moral patients—people worthy of moral concern, based on their perceived capacity to suffer and be harmed—it risks reducing the range of people who see themselves as capable of moral agency.” There is a tendency “for more and more people to see themselves as victims who are defined by their suffering, vulnerability, and innocence...The flip-side of this expanding sense of victimhood would be a typecast assortment of moral villains: abusers, bullies, bigots, and traumatizers.”

>Expanding mental disorder “can pathologize normal experiences, generate over-diagnosis and over-treatment, and engender a sense of diminished agency.”

Of all these, I find the tendency towards victimhood particularly troubling. We're seeing a generation of kids growing up blaming everyone but themselves for their problems, and demanding that someone else change to solve their problems instead of learning the resiliency needed to survive and thrive. Couple that with the tribalism of said victims setting one group against the other, and we're setting ourselves up for civil unrest in the near future.
Cheaply blocking APT and malware like a boss: just spawn fake process they fear
Except Valve doesn't operate the redemption site, it's a third party.
I read it differently. My take away was that the SEC didn't have the _evidence_ to go after anyone but Fabricci.

However, I really don't understand how Goldman would have profited from aiding Paulson & co. Goldman set up a security that let people bet for or against the housing market. It's similar to Vegas letting people bet on a sports match. Why would Vegas fix the game that other people were betting on? It's not like Goldman made more money because Abacus paid out to Paulson vs. the Germans.
It's one (a subset of) the authorities profit from. So the question is, which authorities are profiting from Valve's casino?
Well that's a big problem for any lawsuit, the uncertainty inherent in estimating this kind of hazard makes it much harder to prove that someone has been harmed in a legally sound manner. Each side can can get pretty much whatever conclusions they want by paying the right experts.

And in the absence of proof our court system is biased in favor of defendants (that's not exactly relevant to negotiations over this fine however since the EPA only has to prove that they broke regulations).

I'd guess that NOx can be a meaningful hazard in certain places with lots of cars and/or special geography (LA County for example) but almost nowhere else. I can't prove that hypothesis of course.
Yeah. You're absolutely right. I suppose working in "tech" is probably a more powerful distinction than working at a "tech company". For instance, if you work on the data science side of a political campaign, it's probably fair to say that you work in "tech".
Reposting since it wasn't answered earlier:

Even though I trust you, there's no way anyone can guarantee that a hacker won't get into your database and get my proprietary source code.

I'm no security expert but one way I can think of is creating an encryption system which works like this: all my source code will be stored encrypted on your (non-ephemeral) databases. The decryption key will be stored on my computer, and it'll be transferred to the server when I run Kite and destroyed as soon as I quit Kite. The key will be stored in your server only in an ephemeral storage (in-memory database etc.) Do you have something like this in the works?
> "we believe we will set industry standards that will be adopted across multiple categories of tools such as continuous integration and code review systems"

Excuse me? Why is that? It sounds like either they think they are programming wizards or they believe the CI folks are incompetent, none of which signals a company I would like to trust.
I'm sympathetic to the criticality of airport approaches, but also sympathetic to people flying drones above their own property to arbitrary heights while informing ATC (perhaps it's time to revisit that previous uncompensated aeronautical space grab). But this balance is orthogonal to what I'm arguing about.

In any industry that adopts treacherous computing, it spreads like cancer. Phones, cars, entertainment, payment cards. Assumptions of the user being hostile get baked into the design and business models, and must be fortified ever-harder over time. In a computing-based world, perverted cultures that mandate closed devices are simply incompatible with individual autonomy and self-reliance. "Selling" a device while retaining control over it is basically fraud.

Pragmatically, I'd be in favor of the "default config" coming with built-in geofencing to avoid thoughtless idiotic situations. But then the ability to change and fully remove that code must also be provided, ideally through well-documented reflashing process. Anything less creates the unavoidable centralizing path down the slippery slope, and from the users' perspective it hardly matters whether it's the manufacturer or government driving the process.
Many people complaining about security because of the nature of the 'cloud' here. This is what I thought when github came out as well. But look today, everyone has their code (supposedly their IP) on github. Ulitmately, kite's track record on the cloud will trump any security considerations.
For what it's worth.

Monsanto have now
agreed to provide royalty-free licenses for its
technologies to help fast-track the further
development and distribution of the rice.

Source: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2560613/pdf/1110...
> The Federal Bureau of Investigation paid more than $1 million for a hacking tool that opened the iPhone of a terrorist gunman in San Bernardino, Calif., the head of the agency said Thursday.

> Speaking at the Aspen Security Forum in London, FBI Director James Comey didn’t cite a precise figure for how much the government paid for the solution to cracking the phone but said it was more than his salary for the seven-plus years remaining in his term at the FBI.

> His annual salary is about $180,000 a year, so that comes to $1.26 million or more.

> “[We] paid a lot’’ for the hacking tool, Mr. Comey said. “But it was worth it.’’

I wonder how exactly it's worth it, given that nothing of interest of relevance was found on the device.
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Think Google X, but with 2 year instead of 10 year technologies.

example: https://www.google.com/atap/project-soli/
>I just don't like the idea of imposing licensing restrictions on farmers. It's a dark road that we don't need to go down.

For what it's worth I agree with you, but this is a political problem as it's congress that sets those rules. Also within the current regulatory environment, where it costs >$100MM to deregulate a GMO any other business model will be flawed.

My company (www.taxa.com) makes GMO plants which are not regulated for sale in the United States (which some people thing is a bad idea). But because we have so much lower cost of getting to market we've decided to follow a open source model. Our hope is that if we can continuously improve the product people will come back for the next generation version anyway. But we can only have this model because of the way our products are regulated.
I am not involved with Monsanto or the organizations you mentioned. From my position it looks like both sides take their contributions very seriously. One wants to safe humanity. The other tries to preserve earth and everyone else on it. Judgment should be left to future generations. Even then it might not accurately reflect our actions today. Such is life.

What we all can do today is respect our opponents. Their values do not align with ours. That does not make them evil. Let’s call them misguided.
Sounds like a failure of imagination. There are all sorts of interesting things you can do with an 'obsolete' iPad, even if just to use it as a wifi kiosk for something else.
No, Valve sells scratch-off tickets. Or if you like, they give you the ticket ("case") and sell you the coin to scratch it with ("key"). Same thing.

They're not directly involved in the sports betting aspect, but they'd be running an illegal lottery without the fiction that their digital goods have no real world value, which is the same fiction maintained by the betting houses.

It stretches credibility to say they aren't very involved.
The ammo for the virtual one is a lot cheaper. I met a gun collector who liked to play Call of Duty because it had guns he owned in real-life, but in real-life he could only use them at the range or in case of zombie apocalypse. I told him I played Team Fortress 2 and explained what it was and he said "I don't like fantasy games". So there are people out there who try to collect the real and virtual versions in pairs.
I'm nto sure exactly how these things work but would it not be possible to get the phone GPS and then determine the position of the drone relative to that using whatever wireless tech it's using to communicate? Probably not 100% accurate but it might be good enough to say 'this drone is within 100m of a no-fly zone, stop it.'
> My take away was that the SEC didn't have the _evidence_ to go after anyone but Fabricci.

"Nor had they questioned top bankers in Goldman’s mortgage businesses or any of the bank’s senior executives. Even more surprising to Kidney, the agency had not taken testimony from John Paulson, the key figure at his eponymous hedge fund."

An investigator that doesn't ask questions will have a hard time finding evidence.
I watched some YT videos and seems ok for me. US server from Romania.
> unless you really want to poke the thumbs up "yes, this alert is still valid" button.

Which is precisely what the app encourages people to do.
No paywall link: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/fbi-paid-more-than-1-million-for...
The smug style in American liberalism
Ubuntu MATE 16.04 is exceptionally sane
Really, they need a GitHub Enterprise like offering. A local Kite instance to run behind the enterprise firewall that allows control of updating (for those that view that as a hard requirement, as some should), that you can point your Kite client to. Kite still gets their rapid iteration and rollout, and enterprise clients don't get left out due to security. Not to mention Kite would probably make a small fortune on licensing.
Blaming the gambling that's occurring on the virtual goods is quite silly. People aren't gambling the e-guns because they want them, they have a dollar value associated with them. This gambling could just as easily occur with bitcoin.
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Very strange you were downvoted. It's Google's 'Advanced Technology and Projects' group. Incubator run by an ex-DARPA guy. Projects are given two years.
Yes, I have made my choice. And frankly, it isn't Python at all.

But the fact of the matter is that Python 3 is being actively developed, whereas Python 2 is in maintenance mode, and for how much longer? One of these days, Python 2 will become unsupported, and at that time you either finally move to Python 3, or you fork -- at which point you're no longer, strictly-speaking, programming in Python.

You're right that it's also lazy for people to simply demand Python 3 support from the PyPy project without being willing to invest in the effort. I have nothing to add to that, really.

I should also add that I'm probably one of the laziest programmers to ever exist, so I'm not trying to demonstrate superiority or anything like that. I'm simply pointing out that refusing to use Python 3 just because it hasn't seen much uptake only perpetuates the problem.
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Were they going to pay Apple if they had somehow forced them to do the deed?
While those would help with consumer confidence, the reason the EULA probably disclaims all that is because the data is very hard to track down.

It may be on magnetic tape backup in archives. Do they have to dig out each roll of tape each time for each customer who wants to erase a segment of their data?

It may be indexed or used as input to shape a larger or disconnected part of the software. It shows up in logs, and therefore in archived statistics analysis. It may have been copied and modified incrementally by a dozen other users. Should all these developments from user data be destroyed because they are based on old data with a delete request?

Perhaps an opt-in to a feature that doesn't back up or analyze your data for an hour could help prevent "committed the password to version control" accidents. But it would need to be opt-in, because the whole point of Kite is that your code is indexed in real time, right?
I want this so bad.
How come? Does Pulse do that to Dells?
I have a fermi board which, despite worse numbers, easily outpaces a kepler and maxwell board, for my workload.

So, yeah, those tables are hype too. I am asking about benchmarks on real workloads.
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A big part of the USA's fondness for carriers is the ability to project political strength around the World. Its often described as four and a half acres of US sovereignty, ninety thousand tons of diplomacy. In other words, to project intent and avoid conflict.

They also make fantastic (if expensive) disaster relief platforms.
The resistive properties of coal are no surprise (7 orders of magnitude) since resistors have been made from carbon film and carbon composite for 50 years. I think the big problem there is whether the coal has a consistent resistence.

They talk about how much work it is to purify silicon, but won't the same problem exist for coal? Any semiconductor has to be doped to form transistors, diodes, etc. It also has to be pure so that the tiny geometries used for these devices can be reliably transferred from the masks.

Call me skeptical, but the material to make purified silicon is more abundant than coal (and cheaper to mine). I think this will ultimately prove cost prohibitive.
To me this raises a question about selling security vulnerabilities to state actors in general (in the context of the Facebook vulnerability thread where the standard discussion about value is being hashed out).

Specifically, I live in the UK and one of the complaints law enforcement has is that US companies can (and do) totally ignore valid court orders because they don't apply in the US (reddit being an arbitrary concrete example).

So, what would be the impact of GCHQ setting up a scheme where you can sell vulnerabilities to them (assuming they do the legwork to make it legal)? Would it violate some kind of trade agreement? I assume at minimum it would harm diplomatic relations given the pressure the big companies would exert on the US to push back.
If my mission were to take out a carrier group, and I had a budget of $100M, I would go a slightly different direction.

I'd shop Alibaba for 300 hp diesel outboard motors, and rigid-hull hydroplaning inflatable boats with at least 2000 kg maximum cargo weight. Then I'd build some one-ton armor-penetrating bombs and 19 times that number of cheap decoys. My engineers would rig up the steering and throttle controls to some servos, connected to a system-on-a-chip, connected to some cheap sensors that could determine distance and direction to nearby objects and discriminate between big ship and little boat.

The software on the SOC would have a flocking/schooling AI that would maintain separation between vessels while seeking to maneuver the bows of many small boats into contact with any large ship. Any boat carrying a non-decoy bomb detonates it on contact. It would be about as complex as an insect brain.

For bonus points, the boats would be spitting flares, smoke, mylar helium balloons, and chaff everywhere as they approach. Perhaps a few would conceal a conventional torpedo.

As you say, the hard part is getting the weapons to the targets. With a setup like this, you really need to have the carrier group come to you. The inflatables can certainly outrun a carrier, but they have much shorter range. Perhaps the boats could be deployed by submarines?

I think each decoy boat could probably be deployed for less than $2000. The bomb boats would be that, plus the cost of the bomb. There would be no radios to jam. There's no particular reason the drones need to be airborne, other than for speed and maneuverability, and you're trading that in for sheer numbers (40000+) anyway. Besides that, it's a lot easier to float a one-ton bomb than it is to fly it, and it would do more damage at or below the waterline than on a deck.

If US carrier groups are not wargaming this type of scenario, they probably should, both as underway-at-sea and in-the-harbor attacks.
> People downloading and seeding this are doing nothing wrong.

You should consider the argument you'd make that downloading, possessing, and publishing (if seeding) US government employee credentials doesn't violate the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.

Copyright violations are one thing. The US government has unending resources. And they've had no problems whatsoever extraditing people from countries all over the world (including Canada and Germany) for computer crimes: https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/2-4-14%20Rama...
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See last line. Nobody's getting into wrecks because of Waze.
I am working on a greenfield project right now utilizing MemSQL and so far its pretty solid. We haven't gone to production yet, so no concrete results to report.

The cool thing about it, compared to other in-memory tools, is that its communications protocol is identical to MySQL, therefore MySQL Workbench, MySQL Cli tools, all tools work with MemSQL out of the box.
It's true. The surface of the Moon is a lot less peaceful than it seems. If you process the image, you can tell the affected area from a single meteorite strike is much bigger than the crater itself:

http://www.astrobin.com/full/220884/0/
Ask HN: Are your tickets highly nested?
I think in trees, and all my product design/management outlines end up being highly nested. The trouble is, none of the project management software I've tried seems to work this way.

For instance, here's what just one feature of a typical project outline looks like for me:

- Customer Service

- TBD: Ticketing/Support integration
- Complete account setup
- User account creation
- Organization & Site setup
- Configuration
- Provisioning
- Billing
- Credit Card processing
- Data model
- Tax Service
- Reporting
- Tax report
- sales report
- credit report
- settlement report

I want to be able to arbitrarily nest tickets and have the parents automatically become containers that show the progress of the children. Here's an ultra-simplified example: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ghsoft.treetask

The leaf tickets are individual, actionable tasks that can be assigned to a person. The parents are really organizational containers that help owners understand the scope, complexity and structure of a set of features.

Some platforms allow parenting tickets (like JIRA), but they don't give you a way to see this simple, clear outline with progress for each container. I really like the looks and features of Clubhouse.io and Sprintly, but I don't want to start paying for something unless I can this kind of high-level outline of an entire project milestone.

What am I missing?
McAfee offered to do it free of charge. Should have took him up on that, rather than wast $1M.
Why does the device need to be on-premise? Would a Github Enterprise-like setup, where you have a dedicated Kite instance/VPS at their datacenter, work for you?