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Yup, looks like a moderator fixed that one a while ago. Submitted title was 'Svgsus – Let's make svgs great again'. Not sure if that implied an online service but it was too baity for an HN title.
Regarding selective disclosure, at least Snowden and Greenwald made an attempt to keep people from getting killed. There's a big difference between leaking methods and leaking the identities of assets.
>I'm actually curious what is new within this. As it stands, NASA research pre-prints are available on the tech reports server

One big difference is that most journal will not allow papers to cite a pre-print paper. A lot of the pre-prints will have different names and differ slightly in content.
My impression from the article (and the quoted bit) is that you can't pay for support once your project is suspended.
Congrats to the Gitlab team for pushing this out the door so quickly!

Back when we built one of ZenHub’s [1] first features — task boards inside GitHub — we believed strongly that development teams needed a single source of truth in order to move faster and communicate better. That belief has underscored everything we’ve built since. It’s awesome to see further validation for this philosophy here with Gitlab!

[1] https://www.zenhub.com/
I was tired of hearing "we want people who have shipped at least two titles" (classic chicken and egg problem) around the year 2004-2006. So I took 10 months off to create a game/base game tech. I targeted the Game Boy Advance. I created everything but the compiler and a small utility that smacked an "I'm GBA software" header on the ROM. This included the asset pipeline, audio mixer, even the interrupts library. What this allowed me to do was hand my project to people during an interview, and when they asked what I did, to say "everything you see there, as well as the things you don't such as x, y, etc.". Finished portfolio projects are invaluable in this space -- so many people have unfinished projects/demos that having something finished/polished really makes you the exception (it shows extreme dedication/diligence -- see the ninety-ninety rule). You might not need to take it to the extreme that I did, but it's nice to avoid situations where you have as portfolio work only projects worked on with others for which you don't have very clear details on what exactly you did (otherwise, people will have little confidence in what parts you are actually responsible/deserve praise for, if any). Don't show up to a gamedev interview with only a binder of dragon drawings expecting a job. And understand that a lot of the educational programs at "tighten up the graphics on level 3" schools are almost exclusively in it for the money (vs. a sound/working skillset for you, as so many people are interested in the idea of game development as a career). If you're going to do the university thing, get strong foundations in computer science (not necessarily deep math or super-advanced algorithms, but sound foundational knowledge and experience). Don't try to skip the basics (C matters).
You keep telling yourself that they are in any way ethical. They are not.

Letting people get it "if they spend the retail value" is hardly generous or benevolent. Other people will have also spent a bunch of money, and if you haven't already spent a ton of money and the total spent on the auction will be outrageous. Never mind that if you don't spend the retail amount, you're just out money for nothing.

Unlike a legitimate auction site where if you don't win the auction you don't spend anything.
A staging server isn't a C&C server. Anyone who's ever broken into sites as a teenager or done pentesting for their career understands the concept: it's a shell on a server unrelated to you or your business, which you can log into from anywhere, and on which all your tools are built.

You typically don't run your exploits from your own machine, both because you don't want a single network hop between you and your target, and because your tools may be inconvenient to run on your own machine.
Just ordered it. I'm curious!
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> It's put me seriously off it vs. AWS.

Can't really compare, but AWS isn't great either.

I've experienced instances when an instance (1) shut down, (2) rebooted on it's own.

AWS support would point you to the SLA if you were to report the incident.
The number of times I ask people "to get coffee" and get the response that they "don't like to drink coffee" used to drive me up the wall. It's not about the coffee! It's never been about the coffee! Just buy something and chat! Haven't you read narrations in books where the writer describes how everyone buys something different? It's exactly like that! Do as you please!
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You, too, are rebutting an argument nobody is making.
Phoenix Startup Founder here. Central Phoenix is one of the best kept secrets in America - but after articles like this one the secret needs to get out. Central/downtown Phoenix, where many tech startups are located, allows a lifestyle and work environment that is unparalleled anywhere else in the country.

Cutting edge/super cheap hacker space incubator wet/dry labs- http://www.ceigateway.com, http://www.seedspot.com, http://www.cohoots.com

Great coffee/art/music/community- http://www.luxcoffee.com, http://www.artlinkphoenix.com, http://www.rooseveltrow.org, http://www.valleybarphx.com, http://www.crescentphx.com

Gorgeous, walk-able, affordable historic districts- http://www.willohistoricdistrict.com, http://www.windsorsquarephoenix.com, http://www.rooseveltneighborhood.org

July and August are the only months with truly hot weather, but San Francisco is a 90 minute flight away, and its a quick weekend trip to San Diego and LA, and a day trip to Flagstaff where its 30 degrees cooler. June and September bring cooler pleasant mornings and evenings, you are generally in your office midday anyway. October until May is truly gorgeous, the best weather in the country.

Central Phoenix is one of the most liberal, inclusive, and open minded places in the country. Many from Phoenix are from someplace else originally so there is less of a nepotistic, "who you know" culture here than the Coasts. People here are extremely independent and very friendly.

Comparing urban Central Phoenix, where most startups are located, to to other towns an hour or more away in more suburban/rural areas is similar to comparing Palo Alto to a small agricultural town outside Silicon Valley. Its apples and oranges.
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I mean this in the best possible way, but Mozilla -- more often that not -- tends to go along with Google's direction with regard to web platform APIs, supported file formats, etc.

In my recollection, their most high-profile disagreement was over WebSQL vs IndexedDB, where IndexedDB was championed by Mozilla with fervor I have rarely seen -- or rather, Mozilla straight-up declared they would never support WebSQL -- and in the end IndexedDB actually won out.

There seems to be a general mutual reciprocity [1] between the Chrome and Firefox teams, although in a mercantilist sense of Chrome introducing all sorts of stuff all the time, and Firefox implements them also within a few versions.

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?status_whiteboard_t...
Keeping your comment in mind while reading http://www.sparxeng.com/blog/software/an-example-of-what-hig... from below was super helpful. Thank you.
The original Peter Principle book ends with a look at various degrees of dropping out and managing happiness before you reach your own success plateau. The book seems dated, but it's a classic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle
This makes me sad we don't do high density + low cost in the US.
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Please don't create batches of new accounts to use only for a comment or two. This breaks the fundamentals of the community here: HN threads are for individuals engaging in conversation. Anonymity is fine, of course, but there needs to be some sort of identity for people to relate to. Otherwise we might as well have no usernames at all, which would be an entirely different site.

It's particularly bad to do this within a single conversation.
Anyone notice that Github is getting dog slow lately? When browsing source trees it used to be lightning fast. They're trippin'.
What do you think "tailored access" is? Look at some of the better known former NSA hacking-division people in industry: they were all at NSA in their early 20s.

Then look at the unbelievably shoddy quality of these tools. Are you arguing also that they might themselves not be part of NSA's repertoire? Because I could make the same "opposite of tailored" argument about the tools themselves.
Every decision you've ever made has "killed" countless unknown alternative futures involving people that, as a result, you don't even know exist.
EC2 instances are meant to be ephemeral.
Most of the people I know who've been profitable day-trading have earned less than they would have in an index fund. They consider themselves successul because they're up 17% since 2014. Of course the market is up 22%, so they've actually lost money relatively to everyone else.

It's also easy to make a net return when the market is up. The trick is not losing your shirt when the market tanks.
> The number of times I ask people "to get coffee" and get the response that they "don't like to drink coffee" used to drive me up the wall. It's not about the coffee! It's never been about the coffee!

Everyone knows that. If you are accepting the culturally implied subtext but rejecting the specific superficial form, you say "I don't like coffee, but maybe we could..."

When people do a flat rejection, with no suggested alternative, its usually intended as a polite rejection of the culturally implied subtext, not merely the superficial form.
That's the recurring cost of the mask set, because they don't last forever. The setup cost of the mask however is very high.

As for logic design effort, verilog is verilog. Floor-planning and P&R is a bit more complex at lower nodes but that's mostly software. Also TSMC offers you standard cells to pop into your design.

Therefore most of that "design" cost is in the foundry making the fist set of masks for you, not the incremental mask cost. They're recouping their investment in the process, thus the price is extremely high for newer nodes.
To me it wasn't clear in the auction description if it's possible to increase a previous bid.

- If it's not possible, then the only strategy is to bid as late as possible: Suppose Group A bids $1000, Group B bids $1001. To win the auction Group A would have to transfer another $1002, making a total investement of $2003. Group C on the other hand only has to commit a total investement of $1002 to win at this point. Since the duration of the auction isn't known you would wait for everyone else to make a bid first, since the person to bid last is in the advantage. If everyone does that, this becomes the ultimate waiting game.

- If on the other hand it is possible to increase one's bid by just transfering the difference, then this is a tullock auction[1]: a classical example from game theory where the only rational strategy is not to bid at all (unless you are completely sure that nobody else will bid. As soon as you have two bidders, both behaving rationally would lead to both committing an infinite amount of money, one of them losing it all).

So just from a game theory standpoint nobody would actually bid in this auction. Add to this the very likely possibility that the public leak contains all data they have and that this auction is a scam, and this isn't attractive at all.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_auction (Dollar auctions are a two-player example of Tullock auctions)
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Yeah, but that's "let us get coffee" which is normal. The unusual language being highlighted here is "ask to get coffee" without specifying "together" or "with them". Without that, I parse "get coffee" as an instruction, thus meaning asking them to go and buy some coffee for you.
I imagine if the NSA knows of a zero day that its systems are patched against it or at least their IPS blocks that attack.
GitHub has a better container in their CSS. GitLab defaults to letting text lines be overly long and this just makes the whole thing feel uncomfortable even if you think you don't mind it. Otherwise, I think GitLab is largely alright UI.
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I'm a big fan of "self-destructing cookies" for firefox. It automatically clears your cookie cache when you leave websites, unless you add exceptions.
> While the tech industry like to cast aspersions about the FBI and how idiotic they are, I think this perception is wrong. I don't think they could possibly have access to the resources they do and be stupid.

I responded to an FBI call for recruits to staff up their cybercrime divisions after 9/11, and was in their recruitment pipeline for two and a half years.

Based on my experiences during that period, I have no problem believing that they are stupid.
Event driven trades are definitely not done by humans, especially when they are scheduled such a economic releases or some other periodically released number. These are all computer driven. (I have written these for HFT shops for years now.)

Working on the pro side too, I also just hold ETFs mostly. No way an amateur day trader beats me at my job except by luck or finding trades too small for me to really care about.
Reporting it as spam impacts their entire operation. Disabling tracking only helps yourself.
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Stop worrying about how old you are. It doesn't matter what Evariste Galois did by the time he was twenty; that won't help you do a thing. Only doing things helps you do a thing.

On that note, virtually everything anyone enjoys was made or influenced by humans. Humans write novels; humans make statues; humans make books about nature walks. You're a human; you can make things.
>What advantage does this have over a regular DAW (other than being free)?

Absolutely nothing, and wasn't meant to at all. The purpose of this is is not to be practical, it's to make some noise with React.
I have yet to understand where this kanban board stuff makes sense. Apparently, the Agile philosophy [0] introduced this to the software development world. Most implementations (Gitlab, Wekan) seem to miss central features (limits, cycle time stats).

I guess those boards serve as a issue tracker extension for short term development? How does that improve the process? Why do you need that on top of an issue tracker? Replacing the issue tracker is probably not idea?

[0] https://www.atlassian.com/agile/kanban
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This is a perfect example of why I refuse to use Google Cloud. Google in the past has put me through similar automated loops with Adwords and Adsense. Even disabling an Adwords account for 2 weeks for reasons I still do not completely understand. After weeks of trying to get a hold of the right person and being pushed through a ton of different channels, it was finally re-instated with a generic apology and still no concrete reason as to why.

I have learned that it is way too risky relying on Google services for crucial business operations.
> How long until tech companies need to start offering free housing to attract talent to move to SF?

To do that they would have to build housing, and if you get permission to start building then you don't need to give it away as things should start to correct themselves.

NIMBYs don't want that though.
The issue boards are a big deal, so congrats on getting that out!

I've said this before, but one huge thing you guys could do that would draw in a lot of companies to Gitlab EE is if you supported custom issue fields [1][2] with various field types. That feels like a pretty logical place to go from here, so I hope you guys are strongly considering it.

[1] https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/8988
[2] https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/14884
Financial firms dislike the idea of letting money sit idle, unless they are getting negative rates. What happens to that $300+ billion ~ $3.6 trillion collateral? I'm sure it will find its way into an investment as well.
> All this information is serialized onto pretty much 5 channels

Says who? Just because you can invent categories doesn't mean you've identified channels. That would be like walking up to a computer, say "pictures, sounds, storage", and assume that the computer must contain 3 enormous channels dedicated to each type of information.
I generally avoid travelling to Arizona because I'm likely to be racially profiled and I don't feel like carrying my proof of residency around with me at all times. I've had plenty enough of that in my life already and don't feel the need to reward a state that seems to actively encourage it with my tax dollars.
When I was about 16, I read Larry Niven's _A World Out of Time_. It left me with very mixed feelings about the matter. Unfortunately all the times I had the means to sign up for such, I didn't have the desire to.

Tell me, what would you do if your spouse had no interest in cryonics but you did? It complicates the decision a lot.
>Notional values can not be usefully compared between asset classes.

it is the same asset class - unsecured put options. Granted some of those CDS and derivatives are bought as real hedge/insurance, the rest [ most ] are just "casino" bets. (It is a hedge/insurance if the buyer of the put option owns the interest in the underlying asset and the amount of that put option isn't larger than the amount of the interest owned by the buyer in that underlying asset.)

>Comparing $1T of CDS to $493T of derivatives is like comparing Fahrenheit numbers to Celsius numbers.

nope. For the reason described above.

>Comparing either of those to GDP is like comparing Fahrenheit and Calories.

nope again. Because US GDP was significantly larger, it was able to pay off those put options in 2008 (on behalf of AIG and the others well connected ... err ... system critical)
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>As an answer to sibling comments: if your Emacs clone doesn't support elisp, then it's not a replacement because the elisp code out there is the #1 selling point of Emacs.

For some. For others a clone that does 20% of what Emacs does and has a few nice plugins could be enough.
It's nice that the article is open access and even includes the R code use to perform the analysis

[1] http://www.nature.com/ncomms/2016/160816/ncomms12474/full/nc...

[2] http://www.nature.com/article-assets/npg/ncomms/2016/160816/...
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Also, know that the majority of game developers stay in the industry for only a few years (it's not always the dreamy job it sounds like). And an extremely high percentage of games (I have heard 90%+, I would say around 95% at least if you count all of the small titles) are not profitable. If you're still interested, I wish you the best (you're in for a lot of interesting work)!
In the ted talk, he doesn't explain why this is not just a correlation. Maybe there is something else that makes you happy and makes one better at having relationships. For exemple, someone who has anxiety disorder will not be good with relationships and most probably will be unhappy. But the root cause of unhappines is anxiety.
I think GH gives off this impression because the UI looks like it has more stuff going on at the same time. It's probably an illusion caused by GH's design having more contrast between elements. GL is trying to look minimalistic like a clean sheet of paper. But that's kind of my issue with GL's interface: the contrast between elements is so low that it really looks like a blank sheet of white paper. But it's not paper, it's an active screen, so it feels very straining. Sometimes I feel like it's burning my eyes. I get used to it after a while, but it's an issue.
Yeah, after that I told him (as calmly as I could coming off the adrenaline from almost getting hit) something to the effect of "You have your kids with you, I'm just trying to get home like you and I'm required to ride on the road". He actually shut up and apologized pretty quickly.
Isn't it really hot and sunny ?
> This transaction breaks a core promise using the internet: just because I visit a website doesn’t mean I consent to getting spam from it.

No it doesn't. There is no core privacy premise of the internet, and certainly not one that everybody used it signed up for.

I'm not condoning this behavior, but we're in territory that we don't have prior art for. It used to be totally fine for one shopkeeper to mention to another that he saw a customer looking for a particular item. When you do it at scale, the old rules don't apply.

If you think it's spam, hit the spam button in gmail and get rid of it. Use an adblocker. Talk to your congressman about data privacy and sharing laws, because we don't have anything that's effective. Frankly, continue to write Medium posts, because it raises awareness :) But, I disagree with the notion that this is a solved problem with bad actors, because we're in unknown waters.
Previous discussion:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4292598
“The suburbs“ is not "inside the city". That was his whole point: cars from outside should behave like guests, not like they own the place.
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hostile doesn't even begin to describe it - there's outright hatred (and alot of ignorance of supply/demand). Sadly, we're getting to the point where people would rather make the housing problem even worse, rather than allow more tech people or anyone else for that matter to move into the city.

Just lately they passed proposition C, which will reduce the overall housing supply even more.
I guess this shouldn't be too surprising considering the fraction of our waking lives that we spend in work, driving to or from work, or lunching at work.
Well, I stick all that under the heading of eugenics anyway. I don't care how it's achieved, but we need better people.
There's definitely science behind it, it's called stylometry:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stylometry

Here's an example of an open-source project designed to counter stylometric analysis:
https://github.com/psal/anonymouth

With how much caution they are taking against a nation-state adversary, I think it a bit short-sighted to think that this is just "a racist idiot's idea of a joke".
Since using Asana, one feature I want in every project management / issue management tool is the @mention [0]. Asana's @mention allows you to link other tasks or issues very conveniently. Just like HipChat's commands feature mentioned in your release notes, Asana's @mention feature is extremely convenient.

[0]: https://asana.com/guide/help/fundamentals/text
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In principle, yes. I remember being left with a positive impression after viewing the first Material Design demo. None of those features materialised in practice, though.
Excellent post!

How would you handle the following?
-> On the last stretch of a trip, your destination is in the middle of the block. Do you ride to the corner and then walk your bike to the destination or reduce speed and ride on the sidewalk?
That's the best 2 sentence summary of the politics around technology and security I've seen so far!
It's really irritating when somebody recommends a book that really interests me but I simply can't afford it here in India. My wish list is getting longer and longer with each new book costing more than the cost of a whole weeks worth of meals. Not one to download PDFs illegally or to read them on Kindle, which again is not guaranteed to be within my means, I greatly limited in my accessibility to paperbacks of my liking.