skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://www.theverge.com/2016/10/31/13481502/windows-vulnerab...

> This is the first major invocation of the policy in the three years since it was put in place

http://venturebeat.com/2016/10/31/google-discloses-actively-...

> This is not the first time that Google has disclosed Windows vulnerabilities before a patch was ready. In fact, the company did this for Windows 8.1 twice in January 2015. Microsoft understandably wasn’t pleased, but this time around is even more serious. Both of those earlier vulnerabilities weren’t being actively exploited. [emphasis added]

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A longstanding policy doesn't make it a good one.
VIM :)
Scrubbing is the least of their issues. This list will make retroactively attributing attacks to the US a lot easier.

Assuming it's real, and not someone "framing" the US by releasing a list of their own relays.
Speaking as someone who has maintained some rather large NFS utilizing systems/datacenters in the last decade, and found it perfectly suitable to my needs, I'd be curious to why you'd say that?
Vivaldi hibernates background tabs natively. Can't remember the details. There are extensions, but they just swap the site with static page.
There were major problems with every demo I saw of the product. In one video, the camera lost tracking of the road due to lighting conditions not being favorable for contrast. In another, Hotz seemed far too amazed that the car properly took a gentle bend in the highway.

Confidence is not something I would assign to his product. Or any product that is a camera-only lane-follower.

That Holtz caves at the slightest thought of a regulator looking at his work easily shows how immature he is as an engineer.
> If anything, this just makes it worse

Makes what worse? There's no mention of other browsers (so how could this be an ad for Chrome? Is Edge vulnerable? Is Firefox?) and the plain implication is that Chrome on Windows 7 is indeed SOL.
My pet theory is that without the dictatorial control of Jobs, people like Ive are off the reservation and distracted by vanity Christmas tree design projects.

As a company, they're also wasting time and energy on designing the new building.

It's ridiculous that the company can't bother to do the basic product line maintenance that even dying companies like HP can do. Why are they making Mac Pros and Mac Minis?

It's an institutional hubris that is very dangerous.
> Rumor mill has it that SC has been struggling

It wasn't a rumor. Solar City was publicly traded and the struggles were documented.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspeculations/2015/09/09/eve...
That is a legal requirement. Emissions equipment has a higher warranty than the power train. With an electric car, it is all "emissions equipment".
They could have stamped a caveat just before the descriptions of the writing exercises:

"If you're already better at writing than Benjamin Franklin, feel free to disregard"
http://edition.cnn.com/2016/06/20/politics/us-advisers-wound...

Stop giving terrorists (Al-Nusra) advisors.
This frightens me a bit. In Australia, the introduction of camels, toads and various other plants and animals has devastated the countries ecology. New Zealand struggles to keep foreign invasive species out of their country.

I know this is suppose to target only one species that spreads a variety of diseases, but misquotes do serve a purpose. For one thing, they fight overpopulation by spreading disease. :-P But they are also a food source to many animals.

Even with all the careful planning and debate that's gone into this, I have a feeling there will be noticeable blowback from this effort.
What's wrong with NFS? If you need a shared, POSIX-compliant drive between multiple hosts, there's not really an alternative. Even the fairly new AWS Elastic File System service is just a NFS4.1-based managed service
The US is different? I'm sure if you polled Americans on the next UK election you'd get a very different answer.
If you want volumes that can be dynamically attached to any machine, you're not buying a SAN, and you're not in a cloud provider with a portable block storage abstraction, what do you propose?

About the only thing I can think of is Ceph, and it stands to reason there is a lot more NFS than Ceph expertise on the job market.
>all of which have to do with undermining the democracy and freedom of the American people.

Not american so genuinely curious since all I've heard about is the email server investigation but what are the 3 investigations and how do the investigations have to do with undermining democracy and freedom of the American people?
> Plug in a single cable, and you're connected to power, keyboard, display, network & mouse.

I suppose this might be a “feature” of the 12″ MacBook. Since there's only one port, it forces you to use a single-cable setup, and creates a market for accessories that fit this use case, which will also work with the MacBook Pro.
There have been many statistical analysis pointing out to potential election fraud due to the electronic counting of the votes. For those who missed it, here is a comprehensive report on potential election fraud during recent Democratic primaries: http://www.election-justice-usa.org/Democracy_Lost_Update1_E...

The last part is related to the electronic counting of the votes. Here what Fritz Scheuren, the 100th President of the American Statistical Association, had to say on the Democratic primaries “as a statistician, I find the results of the 2016 primary voting unusual. In fact, I found the patterns unexpected [and even] suspicious. There is a greater degree of smoothness in the outcomes than the roughness that is typical in raw/real data […] the difference between the reported totals, and our best estimate of the actual vote, varies considerably from state to state. However these differences are significant—sometimes more than 10%—and could change the outcome of the election”
> If Apple ever publicly committed to supporting wasm, as all the other companies did on day one, I haven't seen it, but maybe they eventually did.

They haven't made such a statement, but that's not unusual for them because their corporate policy is to "not make forward-looking statements". They do have representation in the WebAssembly W3C community group and do send representatives to the (rare) in-person summits that we've held. (Turns out the proverbial smoky back rooms do exist, it's just that smoking is not allowed).

This seems to be mainly an abundance of caution rather than obstinance or objection. It does seem that they have started working on an implementation, but we are careful not to put words into their mouths or read too much into that.

They were kept abreast of the planning this particular announcement and of late have ramped up their interest in settling design issues.
Understood on the tape you meant. Are you claiming Trump is the one who leaked it?
This is one of the better bespoke cloud efforts I've seen, but in their position -- given the decision to bet on Kubernetes -- I might've chosen OpenShift instead of rolling my own PaaS.

I've also seen the Jenkins-to-Nexus thing a few times, never particularly happily. That said, I don't have particularly deep experience in Java shops, so it's possible that it works really well in some places.

Disclosure: I work for Pivotal, we're the majority donors of engineering to Cloud Foundry, a PaaS competing with OpenShift.
I completely disagree.

Anyone can count along with a ballot box. Anyone can stand there all day and watch the box to ensure there is no tampering, they can count, recount, and recount again. Anyone can do this. Plumbers, programmers, doctors, the unemployed, the elderly, and even the illiterate. It can be counted by one person, or 100.

But when things go electronic, the number of people that can even understand it is cut down to programmers. And the number of those that could accurately vet the security of a program is even smaller. And even a perfect electronic system needs loopholes (you can't just disenfranchise voters because they forgot their password or don't have a computer), which means the ability of fraud is still there.

Paper works, and takes a LOT of resources to sway even one precinct (even just the fact that it requires purchase of physical materials ups the amount of cover up required), let alone a county, state, or the federal levels. And because of the number of people involved, if someone did try the chances they would be found out is pretty damn high.
> China has the same level of regulation as other industrialized countries.

I have to assume you've never driven or been driven in a major Chinese city, because while this may be technically true in practice it is very much not. Cars on the road in China are often lacking in terms of safety.

It is something of a moot point, because I don't see how any self driving car system could perform in Beijing traffic conditions. Basic concepts like lanes frequently go out the window.
Is there any reputable evidence that the US is supporting Al Nusra?
So, IMO (as a security researcher familiar with DNS) this article was pretty terrible.

Here's a mirror of the actual source site, with links to the "data". http://gdd.i2p.xyz/ "Data" in quotes because it's just easily falsifible text files. (From the content on the mirror, and this reddit account [1], I'm guessing that the original site was at http://gdd.i2p )

You can find a diagram [2] provided by "Tea Leaves" that purports to show what was going on. Tea Leaves claims to have access to logs from CDCServices (which are included on the mirror), who are the authoriative DNS servers for "Trump-Email.com". Tea Leaves also claims that Trump-Email.com is owned by Trump (with 100% certainty... because of the WHOIS record... you can form your own opinion on that).

Tea Leaves also claims that only three IP addresses have made DNS requests for Trump-Email.com. Two of which (Tea Leaves claims) are associated with Alfa Bank in Russia, and one of which is associated with Spectrum Health. (See http://gdd.i2p.xyz/ for a conspiracy theorist rant about Spectrum Health.)

Tea Leaves claims -- but does not provide evidence for (neither does Slate) -- that mail1.Trump-Email.com somehow restricts access to only these IP addresses. Tea Leaves claims -- but also does not provide evidence for -- that the DNS records for Trump-Email.com were pulled after Alfa Bank was contacted for a statement.

I do recommend reading http://gdd.i2p.xyz/ if this is interesting to you.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/user/LeavesTeaLeaves

[2] https://imgur.com/SCv8X9n
As a white person, why would white nationalism not be in my interest?
Not a block device, so not having cgroups (read/write bps limiting + iops limiting) is one annoyance of NFS in large deployments
Another major difference:

iPhone was a platform. As more people bought the iphone,

- the phone became more attractive to 3rd party accessory makers (protective cases, cables, etc) and apps makers.

- the phone itself became more valuable to owners, as more complementary products became available.

- the phone became more valuable to Apple, who could get feedback and make the phone better.

The hockey stick on the analogous factors for Tesla is much shallower. The "complementary products" for owners of cars will be primarily recharge stations. Still few and far between.

There is no benefit to 3rd parties, that I see. No benefit to other stakeholders like utilities. And Tesla itself does not enjoy a growing, self-reinforcing cycle of value, as sales increase. It's really just economies of scale.
I messed around with oneops a bit and it's basically a bunch of tooling built around their own fork of chef.

It's almost impossible to just drop into an existing workflow without a whole team of people managing it.
It's not just Star Wars, the Evil Brit is a fairly common trope:

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/EvilBrit
What benefit does the migrants/refugees bring?
"...it’s simply not in widespread circulation."

And won't be under GPLv3. If your goals are to prevent others from locking up your code in proprietary products, and to give your code to the world, then this license is for you. If your goal is "widespread circulation," this is not the license you want.
> roofs are replaced by the majority of insured homeowners every 10 years or less

Well I was going to be astonished, but Google and Wikipedia seem to tell me US roofs are a consumable and usually asphalt!

Most UK roofs are tile, slate if older, and asphalt shingles reserved for sheds, garden structures etc. Tile lifespan should be 60+ years.

As much as I like the improved aesthetics I don't see the tiles making much dent in the UK apart from new builds. For exising build the UK approach to solar has been to slap panels on a frame over the existing roof. Sadly there are no planning restrictions on bad taste.

eg http://www.prescientpower.co.uk/sites/default/files/imagecac...
If you can't verify that the printed results have been counted correctly, it does not bring more guarantee. At least, the paper ballots should be kept and audited which is not the case in many States.
> The smaller communities exist as goodwill to make the high traffic portions seem more authentic.

What makes you think smaller communities exist out of goodwill? People are allowed to create subreddits, and whoever is interested joins the subreddit and engages (or just lurks). It has nothing to do with goodwill. It's fascinating how you spun your narrative to make it seem like "Reddit is owned by a mass media conglomerate" is an evil thing.
> there are regions where whole roofs are replaced by the majority of insured homeowners every 10 years or less.

cite?
I guess what confuses me is that most people with enough money to drive a Tesla keep it in a garage. I guess most offices probably don't have parking garages in suburbia, but I was surprised to hit control F "garage" on these comments and not see a single mention...

There are lots of upsides for future research and gained efficiency in the future though. Especially as electric moves toward big trucks down the road. (a semi full of solar panels could probably help propel the truck and save fuel etc.)
I'd agree, it's hard to beat if you need high bandwidth and low latency access to large data sets.
The (UK) Government IT Self-Harm Playbook
IBM: In 5 years, Watson A.I. will be behind your every decision
Sure, but there's a reason Trump was picked over the other Republicans in the primaries.
I also the socialization (and probably biological) factors also result in vastly different communications styles between men and women.
Er, yeah there is. If you park outside for a while at low temperatures, the regen will be limited until the battery warms up.
https://twitter.com/potus/status/722572830592794624

@vallesmarineris is you right?
Looks like a conveniently written policy for hitting their competitors with to me. What is certain is that Google pick and choose when to apply these disclosure time limits, they're not set in stone.
Well, this is sad. I miss the old Nitrous.io. The new updates they rolled out suck, and now that they are completely shutting down the service I'm just even more disappointed. Back to PythonAnywhere I suppose?
While the grandparent comment might be a little too emphatic, surrendering the flexibility of file stores in favour of object stores does lend itself to permitting nice non-functional properties.
> Youtube was around in 2005

1080p? Your point is invalid.

> and I had file sharing long before then

Oh, and how much storage did the typical user have ready access to?
" . . . sometimes called the Mid-Atlantic Accent, which is deeply offensive to those, like me, from the actual Mid-Atlantic . . . "

" . . . elocution class is wildly offensive to most of the modern linguists . . . "

What is it with this childish writing, being "deeply, wildly" offended at, instead of disagreeing with? Its the wrinting caliber of a young teen, and it seems to be popular.
editor@bloomberg.com
Uber Elevate [pdf]
I had a very interesting discussion about this subject a couple of weeks ago with a CTO of a big company.

I've commented before that Kube absolutely takes over the bigger more complex cloud installations out there, you can see how many companies are betting their infrastructure on it.

The only thing that I don't see is standardization of the cloud, just like what Amazon did. You see too many companies doing too many of the same things and reinventing the wheel.

Personally, I would love to see smaller installation as a standard of how to take things into the cloud as a cluster. Imagine what Heroku did to deployments. You can't beat this ease of use. Deis and Convox are both trying but not really "hitting it".

As for Walmart, absolutely stoked seeing it from them. This move and what the white-house did with the digital shows a lot of promise and hope. I wonder how much of this is on top of "older" management and how much is just complete restructuring.
I'd also add extreme fault intolerance. Even when you're mounting soft, or hard+intr, NFS failures have a way of requiring reboots to fully fix.
Do you have any evidence to support your worry? It seems to me that it's mostly unfounded. Nothing like what you describe has ever happened in the past.
Running multiple vagrant VMs, an IDE, Scala sbt, etc. - all at once.
Question to authors: do you have any graphics layer in-place? Or at least thoughts about its future architecture?

I am thinking about porting my Sciter [1] HTML/CSS UI Engine to an OS that can be used on small (IoT) devices. I think that HTML/CSS as a UI definition/declaration language is quite convenient.

[1] http://sciter.com
Thanks for writing about your experiences. Its a weak spot for most of us, and it was a refreshing kick in the butt, to get ourselves in gear about this topic which has been on our mind for a long time.

Its great to see more startup support in this weak area. I really hope replicated/gravitational succeed, and perhaps more articles can be written to help the rest of us reduce the procrastination or fear of taking the steps toward supporting enterprise.
I missed references in the article to Kelsey Grammer, the actor who portrayed Fraser Crane in the sitcom Fraser. That was how I became acquainted with the Mid-Atlantic accent, by researching Grammer's (or Fraser's to be more precise) distinctively snobby accent.

Fraser's lines and Grammer's interpretation probably deserve a place in the canons of American English accents and linguistics.
In credit card transactions a certain percentage of theft is expected and accounted for. It's built in to the price of using credit cards and buying goods.

There's no way voting for candidates can account for vote theft in the same way.
Under a rare bipartisan deal at the end of last year, the solar investment tax credit remains at 30% through the end of 2019, then declines to 26% and 22% in 2020 and 2021 respectively. After that, there's no investment tax credit for residential solar.

http://news.energysage.com/congress-extends-the-solar-tax-cr...
> The only thing that I don't see is standardization of the cloud, just like what Amazon did ... Deis and Convox are trying but not really "hitting it"

My colleagues at Red Hat might disagree, they're working on OpenShift.

My more immediate colleagues at Pivotal, IBM, SAP, Microsoft, Google, Cisco, Dell-EMC, VMWare et al might disagree too. We're working on Cloud Foundry and BOSH.

Disclosure: I work for Pivotal.
Those that faked UL approval tags should have been removed immediately.
I guess it can look however you want it to look, if you've already decided that you know the truth.
The law of the jungle is fine, but it won't preclude a shitty self-driving car from crashing through your living room and killing one of your kids. It's one thing to suffer harm to yourself, it is quite another to go through losing a child to something like that. I know, randomness, blah blah blah.
more on the fake multifactor: http://ithipster.com/34.html
If you knew that 99% of other NFL teams didn't want your team to hire a particular coach, would you see this as an indicator that he is a poor choice?

99% of the world benefits from the US making poor trade deals.
Saturn, Saab...
Yes.

And who do you think these U.S. advisors were helping, really? The Syrian army?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-hughes/us-support-for-...

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/america-siding-w...

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-usa-equipme...

http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/715977/al-nusra-us-armin...
For the people I know, it seems more of an overabundance of caution vibe. A bit more like "Let's have a third SUV, in case one breaks down and we suddenly both need to drive multiple people to different hospitals across snow covered rocky terrain."
In the top 3 most insightful pieces of journalism I have read in 2016. Whatever your opinion on Julian Assange, this is a fascinating look into details of how power structures are evolving in the 21st century. Makes me think the government has a much tighter pulse on what's going on than I had previously thought. Perhaps part of the trick is they want you to think they're idiots.
The paper ballots that were punch cards caused problems.

The paper ballots that were marked and optically scanned caused no problems and were easy and fast to recount.

Some counties in FL had the old punch card ballots, some had the optically scanned. All of the problems were with the punch card ballots. And with the lawyers arguing over hanging chads and other nonsense.
Mexico?
80% of the time it worked every time.
I can't imagine that Microsoft have refused to fix this vulnerability though, otherwise this would have been mentioned in the blog post.

There's no good reason for Google not to respect coordinated disclosure here. Making an arbitrarily tight deadline their policy isn't protecting users.
So why can't this be used instead of LIDAR for Self-Driving cars?

Experts?
Startups – do these steps before you start marketing your site
I cannot fathom why anybody would build a new house and put asphalt shingles on it. Steel is far superior, and not much more expensive up-front, and likely cheaper over its lifetime. Most asphalt shingles only have a lifetime of 20-30 years, while steel will last double that easily.

Also, I grew up in the Northeast. Snow slides right off steel roofing. It sticks to shingles, especially if you have any ice build-up. Unless you have a relatively steep roof pitch, you have to get up on the roof in the winter and clear the snow off. With steel, you wait for a warmer day, and it slides on its own.
OpenShift origin looks very promising for sure. That's the thing though, you still see too many people not using it.

Here are things that should be standard (IMHO) and you shouldn't reinvent

1. Underlying infrastructure auto scaling (Google, AWS)
2. Service Discovery
3. DNS (internal and external for multiple sources)
4. Networking

The real issue that I feel no-one really answered is who's this for. If a SRE is the target audience than there's a lot more we're missing as a community.
I read part 1,2,3,4 and found multiple issues with this article. In part 2 they show results for alaska with fractional numbers. What isn't clear is that it's actually results from part 4 where they edited the access DB to change the numbers to match set percentages they wanted.

Second reading those emails in part 2 it seems they are discussing that the per candidate numbers in weighted elections (when the machines are used for those) then adding them they show totals with one less digit. But that only matters if they have fractional parts which they haven't shown to have happened in a real election.

There doesn't seem to be any proof of actual fraud here. Just a bunch of suppositions.
What was the value proposition of this (and other services that are still alive)?

We can already use git to store code in the cloud AND do so only when we want to. Was it the containerized environment? Even in that case why wouldn't they provide some sort of "dropbox for coding" type of service instead?
They were. All of them were removed, and Amazon demanded documentation in order to reinstate them.