skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In multiple threads now I've seen you express this sentiment. I just don't buy it. Vanguard hasn't had a leak like this. USAA hasn't had a leak like this. ETrade, Fidelity, etc, no leaks like this of which I'm aware (correct me if I'm wrong). These are big plodding institutions too. No leaks like this from Google nor Facebook nor Amazon. Maybe you're arguing it's just a matter of time, but I disagreee.

Equifax had a trivially easy architecture to break.

Minimally, the data should be on a separate set of servers protected by an API with rate limiting, and that API should be implemented on top of a different framework than the front-end servers to minimize the chance that a single flaw would open up the entire set of data. This isn't rocket science. Equifax is a multi-billion dollar company. They could and should have done better.

Please stop defending them?

Disclosure: I work for Yahoo (er, Verizon) since late 2013. I don't know the details of Yahoo's data leaks, but it was not as trivial as getting RCE on Yahoo's public facing servers.
and that someone can be their own subsidiary in a jurisdiction with dif. tax treatment
Principle of least surprise. techcrunch.com has a default experience, amp is secondary. Since we can't all read each others minds the default behavior should be to use the ...default.
It's because the leftism in the US comes from the puritanism, not the other way around. Most of the social justice ideas, some of the key tenets of the left ideology, have obvious parallels in Christianity. (And if you think that the animosity between many churches and most leftists refutes this, remember how different Christian confessions liked each other 100 years ago, let alone 400 years ago.)
Maybe patching is hard. But the real question is why one vuln in their web framework allowed unfettered access to basically all of their data. There are much deeper problems here than slow patching.
Just being investigated, losing all electronics, losing your job, losing friends, losing family, living in fear for months is bad enough that a framing is probably considered successful in the eyes of the framer whether or not it results in a trial.

It's like you're saying the rape doesn't count if nobody gets pregnant.
I'm curious if anyone can quantify the creation of new financial products and compare against GDP growth?

My recollection is post 2008 many economists were concluding that the hyper financialization of the economy was a detriment and was not actually creating long term value. Curious if ICO's, SPACs are as a result of loosening regulatory appetite as the political winds have changed and memories of pre-2008 start to recede.
10's of Gigaflops is now cheap and in your pocket. But, unlocking your phone is not a use case that's just a hoop you jump through before making a phone call etc.

The phone might happen to have an on board address book and calendar, but this was not a statement about access to computation. It's a statement about cost/benefit and use cases.
Can be within the same taxing authority. I've facilitated facility transfers and leaseback agreements in the US.

Edit: Yes, you can't seize what isn't owned.
What exactly is /amp/?
A Deep Dive into FreeBSD’s Kernel RNG (VBSDCON 2017) [pdf]
Ah, I see what you mean.
You're very welcome. Is that the video you were wanting?
To clarify, I completely agree. Maybe it was a dopey observation, but I was describing a situation where there is supposedly no victim.
In Tokyo it has a lot to do with the fact that you can totally trust strangers and there is virtually no crime.

People here, when they want to reserve a seat in a crowded place or a starbucks, they just throw their iphone on the table and leave it there to mark it is occupied.
Who says it needs to be compiled? Your trusted compiler can be a Basic script.

The dissertation likely addresses all your concerns. Sticking with the Basic example, say you wanted to see if tcc was vulnerable, but you don't trust gcc, icc, borland, clang, etc. either as compilers to use directly or as compilers to compile your trusted one.. And you don't want to write your own in Java or Python because you don't trust the VMs. Whip out an Altair BASIC binary from the 70s and write your compiler with that, just enough to compile tcc. Perform DCC. If the tcc source does not correspond with its binary, you'll know.
If avoiding suffering is the issue ten anyone can be murdered morally under the right conditions. I can stab you in your sleep (painlessly), and that would be fine according to this criterion.
> She sounded to me, exactly like a person who was given a budget that was effectively no budget, and then put into this role because people with a larger stake were sure that she would comply when they said "this is your budget, and not a penny more." I know exactly what that is like, because I have been made CIO and put in that position before.

That's the root cause here. The same thing happens over and over. They find ways to save more money, get the rewards, and the rest of us get screwed.
Its not clear to me how this proves they are buying it? Is there some further background around this. Perhaps as other posters suggested, its for a client
Likewise in my circle of friends we used to quote this movie a lot.

But later it was elevated to an unassailable classic due to the ridiculous over-dubbing when it was shown on TV, replacing all the use of mother-fucker with melon-farmer.
When they are 5, it's the lost time in transit and gaps of wasted time.

When they get older there's a 4:1 prep:activity ratio. If your kid is going to play majors or minors in little league, you're doing multiple leagues, workshops and practicing. When he isn't doing that, you're dealing with little league politics.

Multiple activities means you never eat dinner at home, may not see siblings for days as well. You also never see your spouse. If your 7 year old is at dance until 7, you're stopping at chipotle and not getting home until 8. Your spouse is tucking in the 5 year old, who needs to go to bed at 7:30 to wake up at 6 to get to before school care.
If you read the full filing[0] you can see that there's plenty of gross stuff in there. Telling a female co-worker that you have a hard on because of her, that you can't concentrate and are going to go "rub one out" to clear your head isn't appropriate in a work environment. I sure wouldn't like something like that directed at me.

[0] https://techcrunch.com/2017/05/15/uploadvr-sued-over-rampant...
By your logic it's ok to eat a 3 month old fetus.
Pretty much anyone... Hetzner, Linode, Choopa
No, Heroku has a separate build step before it deploys to your dynos.
I haven't watched it yet, but I fetched a copy. (Edit: it looks like the first interview.)

If it matches the transcript, the one I'm looking for has the expression "resistance to the cloud is futile" in it (which I didn't see in the transcript.) It might have been the follow-up interview that had this phrase in it. From reading the first transcript, it looked pretty accurate from what I could remember.

It's too bad we don't have that transcript. I honestly can't remember much about that second interview. Didn't think I'd be here in this position today, trying to retrieve it for the public interest.

Edit: This one does have the quote about the Borg in it. So I remember absolutely nothing about Part 2 of the interview, and we still don't have a copy. But this is something I can't find anywhere else on the internet for now. Thanks!!!
Northern Indiana actually has relatively high penetration rates for residential solar installations largely thanks to the Amish/Old Order Mennonite communities in the area. In comparison to lighting your home with gas, solar and battery systems can look pretty cheap.

As others have pointed out, technology more likely to be accepted so long as it doesn't threaten the cohesion of the community.
Singer is definitively pro-abortion, for basically the reasons I mentioned. It's not terribly nuanced, it follows pretty directly from his basic ideas.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Singer#Abortion.2C_eutha...

I'm not super expert about it either (at best a casual armchair philosopher), but from what I know Singers philosophy isn't specifically about suffering, it's about weighing interests. He assumes that the desire to avoid pain is one of the more important interests, hence it takes priority most (but not all) of the time. It's not black and white, it's more of a calculus about weighing the different competing interests of individuals, with certain classes of interests being given more weight than others.

I think Singers arguments in favor of abortion actually go farther than what OP's post implied regarding the fetus' capacity to feel pain. Singer argues that a fetus is unable to have any self-interests (including the desire to avoid pain), hence the interests of the mother should be given priority. I think this is taking it too far myself; I can agree with the delineation of the fetus' capacity to feel pain, but it is not clear to me at what point (if any) Singer feels it would be immoral to abort a fetus.
Miller v. Dept of Corrections[0] is an example of how bad a toxic work environment can be.

[0] http://scocal.stanford.edu/opinion/miller-v-dept-corrections...
Building Blocks for Theoretical Computer Science
"We’re talking about a company that had 1500 employees, with just around a dozen on the infrastructure team" - what the rest 99% of the company is doing, marketing?
Hodl isn't an acronym:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=375643.0

132 pages of comments
I have global entry and feel the same. On the application they didn't ask for anything they didn't already have so it wasn't a big deal. Well worth it considering the included pre check.
Function level protection sounds reasonable
It's good that they used existing truck base and focussed only on the fuel. But I couldn't see any data on actual efficiency/mileage, the whole article was focussed on how big the battery was on the big truck. "Its size and strength ensure it can transport materials from a mountain ridge to a valley 20 times per day." Is the only data on it's efficiency ?
Agreed, I meant other than Oracle, MySQL/MariaDB and MSSQL, which are the top 3 anyway.
Is it really unthinkable that people would suffer being at the receiving end of all sorts of abuse?

The one story that always got me was a friend who went on a business trip with a CXO, who had "accidentally" forgotten to book a room her. He kindly offered her to crash in his suite. She refused–and later found out it had happened two at least two other women before.

This story about Upload actually sounds somewhat different. It's really more a juvenile culture as you'd see in high school or undergrad, possibly the result of the founders' age. It seems to be very much like typical middle school bullying, but with a sexual component on top.

The only redeeming fact I cling to is that every single company that actually made it big was either somewhat well-behaved from the start, because the people who are successful also tend not to be completely immoral. Or at least they adjusted rather quickly (Facebook comes to mind). Let's hope Uber doesn't prove me wrong.
> I can assure you that no German bureaucrat would use the term "Yanks".

Well then let me assure everybody your assurance is mistaken. Two examples:

> Wir haben den Amis ja was versprochen und Mitte März ist AL [Harald Fechner] dort.

and

> Das, was wir jetzt haben, wäre ein guter Stand, um mit den Experten der Amis zu reden.

When reading "Yanks", I automatically assumed it's a translation of "Ami". How would you translate it better? "Yankee" has negative and benign connotations, as does "Ami", and in this context they're clearly benign. While looking into the word I came across this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Yankees

> New York Press Sports Editor Jim Price coined the unofficial nickname Yankees (or "Yanks") for the club as early as 1904, because it was easier to fit in headlines and because "Yankee" was and is a commonly-used synonym for "American".

Where's the biggie?

bonus rant:

German bureaucrats use all sorts of words in all sorts of contexts. If you mean for public communications, you're right of course, but at the workplace and in internal emails all sorts of things are possible. It's not like repression and conformity generates civility, they just generates masks, a pretense of civility. That's why the stereotypical bureaucrat, nationality irrelevant, will sign off the murder of millions as long as the paperwork is in order, but apologize profusely if they spill their drink on your clothes, and that outwardly gentleman-like behavior is compensation supposed to ward off the inevitable collapse of a house of cards built on a sinkhole, not an actual expression of the inner reality.

Ask any high ranking prostitute who has the weirdest kinks or the most destructive fantasies. Maybe it won't be German bureaucrats, but it will be people who behave the total opposite in real life, and are considered super proper or even admirable. It usually won't be the guy who spits on the ground all the time and calls everybody names. Okay, maybe because he can't afford a prostitute, but at any rate, the idea that a German bureaucrat is less likely to be abusive than the average person just doesn't sit at all with me.
> The balancing between protection of the abused and individual freedom is easy to make: on one hand, you have children being raped, on the other hand, you have young lovers that may have to wait a few years before fucking. I would say the first goal has priority.

You can't just assume teenagers will wait because they're told to. I don't think that's even remotely realistic. The law (any law) has to be written in a way that protects those who break it with no ill intent. There's nothing "easy" about child sex laws.
> “Trust us, we'd never use it against the people it's supposed to protect” isn't enough.

Especially because it's been so horribly abused in the past. Take this case in Manassas, Virginia. 17 year old texts a picture of his penis to his 15 year old girlfriend. The police find out, charge the 17 year old with distributing child pornography, and take pictures of his penis saying they need it for evidence[1]. They then get a warrant from the courts demanding that the 17 year old send them a picture of his erect penis[2]. And if he didn't comply:

> If he doesn't cooperate, the Manassas City Police Department has threatened to take him to a hospital and medically induce an erection with an injection, attorney Jessica Harbeson Foster toldThe Washington Post.

Eventually they backed off when it received widespread attention in the press. Later it turned out that the detective in charge of the case was a pedophile[3]:

> A Manassas City police detective, who was the lead investigator in a controversial teen “sexting” case last year, shot and killed himself outside his home Tuesday morning as police tried to arrest him for allegedly molesting two boys he met while coaching youth hockey in Prince William County.

When I read stories like this, I'm at a loss for words. No one in the justice system realized how terrible this is? Not only does this show the problem with giving law enforcement this kind of power, but I think it shows that we really need some sort of public advocacy department to monitor and go after this sort of abuse (someone to watch the watchmen).

The kid in the case got probation, by the way.

[1] http://time.com/2971033/virginia-police-search-warrant-photo...
[2] https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/07/09/virgin...
[3] https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/manassas-...
Find that adult, prove coercion, and you have a case.

No adult and no coercion — no case.
I believe you are mischaracterizing all liberals as a group.
From the last link, in 2016 "Proxy-Stack deployed at our edge PoPs to terminate SSL connections closer to our users".

Reminds me of the infamous "SSL added and removed here! :^)".

Does anyone know if there are any additional protections from snooping on their internal network?

edit: phrasing
Even today people with training in modes of therapy that are more or less theoretically divorced from Freudianism will say that "Freud is the basis of all therapy". He wasn't the first person to philosophize about the parts of the soul or the first person to offer therapy; but he was a very prolific writer and thinker early on in our attempts to bring a scientific understanding and therapeutic emphasis to what had previously been the province of religion and disinterested philosophers.

It is undeniable that he failed in many significant ways, but three basic ideas to seem to hold up:

* The transference and the counter-transference -- the patient projects on to the therapist and vice versa

* The defense mechanisms -- methods by which people seek to escape not from their situation but from their feelings about it

* The corrective emotional experience -- therapy provides a way, in part through the transference, for the patient to work through feelings that they otherwise deny themselves

Freud had many crazy ideas, too -- and both he and his successors devoted far too much time and effort to these crazy ones. Quit when you are ahead.
75 days? The report by Equifacks makes it sound like a one day delay from attack to taking the machine offline. Sneaky language.
TFA says Equifax learned of the breach by detecting anomalous traffic. I'd say there was an alarm, but it didn't do anything to actually stop the attack.
Credit Karma should not be trusted in any way shape or form

Read their ToS and privacy policy. Your data WILL be mined & your data be sold to marketers and third parties.

They are in this business of providing you "free" services, where you give up extremely valuable (otherwise inaccessible) financial data to marketers
A path we don't wan't the web to go, forced by Google for their own interest.
Coming from the Perl 6 project, it feels to me like design is a major part of modern computer languages, like Perl 6 and ES6+.

Perl 6 started with its design documents[0] -- the apocalypses led to the exegeses, which finally settled into a synopsis. The Perl 6 language itself is not any of these: The test suite defines the language, but the reasons they are the way they are came first. It has design features like hyperoperators to make parallel code easier to write -- which of course should encourage people to write parallel code.

Perl 5 is explicitly a postmodern language[1], and Perl 6 is the same but more. From my point of view, Python looks like it has a strong modernist philosophy. So I'm not really getting where OP is coming from.

[0]: https://design.perl6.org
[1]: http://www.wall.org/~larry/pm.html
She held another position as director of security, but no hands on technical roles ever. It really looks like the resume of a middle manager who moved to CSuite. I didn't see anything that indicated she was technical
That's a terrible caricature of the truth. Professionalism doesn't exclude being a human being. Read some transcript of, for example, Supreme Court deliberations (hardly suspect of being unprofessional), and you'll see plenty of banter/jokes etc.

If you read actual examples it's pretty clear what people object to. It's not even that these are actual attempts to flirt or anything like that. Telling someone that you have an erection and concentrate because of her isn't flirting. It's a passive-agressive attempt to demean and hurt the other person.
Lack of IT incompetence is exceedingly rare in the antihardware industry.
At a CoLo I have the rack, managment, and hardware overhead too, though? Also fewer PoP.

EDIT: I guess I was talking about CloudFront specifically, not EC2. EC2 is pretty pricey.
Ya, this dump truck: 148 gal, compared to honda fit's 11 gal tank. That's like 13x. Tho the amount of energy on board only affects the range of the vehicle, so it's not that interesting.

http://www.ritchiespecs.com/specification?category=Articulat...
>Science has failed to define what a human life is ... It has not enumerated the qualities that make us human ... "this one is human, this one is still a pile of cells".

Those questions you pose is not really of scientific domain - they are actually equivalent reformulation of the religious question when/where "soul" is created (equivalence of the "soul" and "human" questions is established by the religious dogma that only humans have "soul"). Science has Cro-Magnons, Neanderthals, Australopithecus, etc... It is the question of religion domain whether Neanderthals or our common ancestors all the way to ancient apes were "humans"/"had soul". If notion of "soul" exists where did it appear between us and those cells $2B years ago to which each of us is connected through the continuous chain of bodies?
Space: Microsats Go Mass Market
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerated_Mobile_Pages
> Do python packages even list licenses?

Of course they do and it goes into the package classifiers.
I think the commenter knew that and was being cheeky with the acronym.
Given the vagueness of their statements about the 143M records which "may" have been affected, it seems likely that they weren't logging the relevant queries in any useful way, and that is definitely an architectural failure.
For those I need to run a VPS, which also costs money and has fewer PoP and more mangment overhead.

EDIT: I guess I was talking about CloudFront specifically, not EC2. EC2 is pretty pricey.
No, I think you're confused. I pointed out that:

* NSA is a top-tier state-sponsored actor.

* NSA doesn't leave chat logs, bitcoin transactions, or email logs lying around to be hacked.

* Another top-tier state-sponsored actor would act the same way (no chat logs).

* If a foreign state was behind those attacks, the NSA would not be able to find chat logs (because they don't exist).

* Therefore, your acceptance that the Kremlin was behind the attacks cannot depend on the NSA releasing that kind of evidence.

It's paradoxical. The evidence wouldn't exist if that fact held true. Honestly, I would be more suspicious if the NSA released the kind of evidence you were asking for.

Not to say it's true or false either. These are spy games, there's never 100% confidence...
> While cost is always something that we consider, our
> goal with our network expansion was to improve
> performance, reliability, flexibility and control
> for our users — which we have succeeded in doing,”
> a company spokesperson told TechCrunch.

Who believes this?

It was, easily noticable by everyone, wanting to reduce the
cost. Which is fine, everyone does so, so why not admit that
it was the primary impetus?

I would not want to outsource control over any larger company
that I were to run to other, even bigger companies.
I was also thinking that those numbers are really weird, for a company which does infrastructure(fileservers)-in-the-cloud. Obviously some devs doing software for various platforms, business-side folks and so forth. But 1500:12 is a really weird ratio, given the core function of the business. If they're not spending on infra staff... what staff are they spending on?
They moved most of their stuff away from AWS.
And god help you if you find yourself in the media crosshairs at any point. Which is even more likely if you go to trial since "paedophile gets community service/fine" is an absolute slam dunk of a headline and nobody other than the courts are going to give a shit whether you violently raped a kid in a dark alley or had someone download 3 videos on your badly secured wi-fi.
Price compare various CDNs. It's a commodity business. Fastly comes to mind, but we had quite a few outages with them at my last org.