skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I were in charge of collecting encrypted data at the NSA, I would make sure that whatever keys were used by the CPU's AES instruction set would be copied and saved using the CPU firmware. Then that data could be sent out with the ME, or simply stored in case that computer was ever an object of interest. In that way, anything encrypted (using hardware) could be decrypted. Seems like it would be malpractice by the NSA not to collect AES keys at the hardware level.
>Kaspersky promptly identified the malware they were working on as malware and uploaded it?

If the news story is to be believed, Kaspersky was scanning for classified data using US intelligence codewords as a selector.

>I'm sort of surprised Kaspersky had servers vulnerable to Israel

I'm not, everyone's servers are vulnerable. Intelligence agencies can buy exploits. If they want in, they get in.

>but I'm really surprised it was acceptable for NSA TAO employees to do work on their personal machines.

I don't believe it is allowed. That said controlling access to data is hard, lots of people probably do work at home with classified stuff when they are told they shouldn't.
I can think of at least 1 reason why Israel would hack Kaspersky...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet#Discovery
Plot.ly is one of the largest, most widely used packages in the world of data science/visualization. If you haven't heard of Plot.ly, then you aren't the target audience for Google Data Studio anyway.
Depends on your IQ level. /s
There is also a lot more profit to be made in AIs Out To Get You than AIs acting in your self interest. Machines are turning out very capable of exploiting weaknesses in the human psyche, as the article talked about.
Eh? Stackdriver is a alive and kicking, even their PMs happily interact with customers on the google group and even SO. I've had positive interactions with them regarding some desired use-cases and workarounds until features are available. I'm much more pumped about StackDriver than CloudWatch logs although both have limitations.
Be careful of private (aka public) adjusters. They take a cut of your settlement. They can help you get more from insurance sometimes.... but if your house burns down with everything in it, you are likely maxing out. They can't get you more than you are insured for... but they will still take a cut.

There will for sure be people be swooping in like vultures after something like this to try to profit... Not all are bad, but I would just say, be careful.
The namedtuple is just a datastructure interface with psycopg2. For instance, you could write an arbitrary query "SELECT left.x AS cats, right.created_at FROM left JOIN right ON etc" and you'd get namedtuples with attrs `cats` and `created_at`. Similarly, you can insert namedtuples just like rows, since they are iterables, or as namedparameters with the nt._asdict() method. It's great!
The Conversational VC Pitch
I don't actually disagree with anything you have said there.

I was talking from a cost management point of view. If you would like to talk more about this(we're almost at the end of hn's threads haha), check my profile for my email :-) I'm guessing you're in the us(most hners are), so I can't exactly visit your place, but I would if I could :-)
Silently and Very Fast by Catherynne M. Valente, I felt like it really introduced emotion in an AI context,
I don't give my personal information to mean spirited bigots. I certainly reject any suggestion I provide evidence of my race as that seems like a Nazi tactic and rather unamerican.
It's not just the apps that Google explicitly "axes", there are also the ones that Google just stops paying attention to and they fade into nothingness. Google Voice comes to mind.

My company recently switched to Google suite of apps (Gmail, Hangouts, Calendar, etc) and soon after was given the heads up that we should expect minimal support/updated to Hangouts since Google is shifting their online chat efforts into Allo and Duo.
It's not just the apps that Google explicitly retires, there are also the ones that Google just stops paying attention to and they fade into nothingness. Google Voice comes to mind.

My company recently switched to Google suite of apps (Gmail, Hangouts, Calendar, etc) and soon after was given the heads up that we should expect minimal support/updates to Hangouts since Google is shifting their online chat efforts into Allo and Duo. We're now regretting that switch.
Rich people spend much less of their money on stuff than poor people do. Another thousand to a millionaire goes on the pile. Another thousand to a single mom goes on kids' shoes and car repairs.
> there's absolutely no reason why consumer devices should be burdened with these backdoors.

Beyond the obvious economy of scale argument, why don’t consumers want that? I thought things like Apple’s remote lock/wipe feature were selling points for anyonel concerned with theft.

(As an aside, it doesn’t feel accurate to term this a backdoor without evidence that it’s being used without the owner’s consent)
Still vague. How about "Dreamhost Wins vs. DOJ, Protest Site Records Will Be Redacted"?
Thanks for the clarification. From my albeit perhaps restricted vantage point, a business that is both so small that it doesn't have an AP staff, but large enough that it has volumes of invoices, is a bit of a corner case. Could you give us more insight into what leads you to have such large numbers of invoices relative to your human count?

For a while I thought you might mean "receipts" rather than "invoices", as in retail transaction paper receipts. But then I remembered you deal with submission by email which seems inconsistent with a paper receipt flow.
I don’t get why no ssl? You almost have to go out of your way to not support it.
I agree. You should take pictures of any valuables you leave behind so it'd be easier to prove you owned them to the insurance. Take pictures of serial numbers when possible.
It’s Okay Not to Like Modern Art
Kaspersky should spin this into an ad campaign on how their machine learning malware A.I uncovered secret NSA malware and uploaded the files for analysis, thus, preventing another Stuxnet/Olympic Games outbreak.
Call the fire department.
I make it a point to rely on those services as little as possible, while maintaining some level of control. I do use Google, including their email, but keep a local storage copy. I don't have any social media accounts, by normal definitions of social media.

I try to rely on more open options, except where the value is such that I'll concede.

As for the political aspect, it's reaching the point where these monolithic entities are exerting power. I recently had the occasion to watch regular network news and the difference in tone, when compared to online news sources, is palpable.

What this will result in, I am not sure. I do think it marks a shift in culture and that our last election is just a signifier of the coming change.

I try to be charitable, so I will point out that it's not often we get to witness so much social change effected in just a single lifetime. Usually, abrupt changes are accompanied with violence, coups, and upheaval.

We shall see...
When I used to go out and get in fights I was always amazed by how much fun it was. Hard to explain, you have to experience it.
I agree with Fred on this, and am glad this is a trend. A "presentation" it static and unengaging for both sides: VC's can tune out and avoid eye contact. Entrepreneurs can act without thinking, helping to avoid stress. The results benefit no one.

It's been my experience in VC that few pitches which don't evolve into true conversations are effective. So one should plan to build conversion, to build a connection with your audience.

That said, I do like having slides to fall back on, or refer to, when needed. But I try to minimize the time that anyone looks at them, vs. at other people.
> then more or less passive listening until you change the subject.

The goal of a conversation is not to get to a subject on which you can pontificate. Quite the opposite! And there are options other than passive listening and oration. What about that famous other kind of listening, active listening?

The vast majority of conversation has either pedestrian ends, or no productive end at all. Whether you have something novel to say on a subject is one of the least important variables of all in a dialogue. The ability to ask questions, to seek a novel angle, to subtly flatter, are all far more important.

For example, that's why Terry Gross is a genius. Not because she is deeply knowledge about physics, or oil painting, or acting. But because she knows how to talk to people about things she's less familiar with.
React-static: ️  a progressive static-site framework for React
Article from 2015: "Israel, NSA May Have Hacked Antivirus Firm Kaspersky Lab"

https://www.tomsguide.com/us/kaspersky-hack-israel-nsa,news-...
There's no realistic spin for Kaspersky for anyone who wants to protect their data from the Russian government. True or not, the reputational damage is complete.
His figure is probably based on a study specifically addressed in link I provided. Look for "Bray and von Storch (2007) and Bray (2010)" and the critique of their results and methodologies.
Staying is an awful plan right up until the point where it isn't. That point depends on local factors like which roads you can take. If there is only one access road and it's in the fires path with no time to escape then you're better off taking your chances at home with a garden hose or swimming pool. A significant number of the black Saturday deaths were from people that left evacuation too late: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Saturday_bushfires
The DHS is "tin foil hatters"?

https://www.dhs.gov/news/2017/09/13/dhs-statement-issuance-b...

> The Department is concerned about the ties between certain Kaspersky officials and Russian intelligence and other government agencies, and requirements under Russian law that allow Russian intelligence agencies to request or compel assistance from Kaspersky and to intercept communications transiting Russian networks. The risk that the Russian government, whether acting on its own or in collaboration with Kaspersky, could capitalize on access provided by Kaspersky products to compromise federal information and information systems directly implicates U.S. national security.
Truck driving is not the largest employment by major NAICS job classification. Instead you'll find that the ranking puts office & administrative, sales, and food services ahead of all transport. The final column is per-mille, not per-cent, contribution.

43-0000 Office and Administrative Support Occupations 22026080 156.881
41-0000 Sales and Related Occupations 14536530 103.537
35-0000 Food Preparation and Serving Related Occupations 12981720 92.462
53-0000 Transportation and Material Moving Occupations 9731790 69.315
51-0000 Production Occupations 9105650 64.855
25-0000 Education, Training, and Library Occupations 8636430 61.513
29-0000 Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations 8318500 59.249
47-0000 Construction and Extraction Occupations 5585420 39.782
49-0000 Installation, Maintenance, and Repair Occupations 5456640 38.865
39-0000 Personal Care and Service Occupations 4514960 32.158
37-0000 Building and Grounds Cleaning and Maintenance Occupations 4426090 31.525
15-0000 Computer and Mathematical Occupations 4165140 29.666
31-0000 Healthcare Support Occupations 4043480 28.800
33-0000 Protective Service Occupations 3386360 24.119
17-0000 Architecture and Engineering Occupations 2499050 17.799
21-0000 Community and Social Service Occupations 2019250 14.382
27-0000 Arts, Design, Entertainment, Sports, and Media Occupations 1902970 13.554
19-0000 Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations 1152840 8.211
23-0000 Legal Occupations 1075520 7.660
45-0000 Farming, Fishing, and Forestry Occupations 463640 3.302

Source:
https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_nat.htm

Edit: I'm perplexed by the downvotes. Care to explain yourself?
Yeah, sorry to break this to you, but that A11 isn't fairing too well against Android phones.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kpD3XCp49o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2G669OgskM0

Let's see how that A11 is on battery efficiency:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbSjUq_kvSM
A quick summary guys: https://summarybrew.com/p/drivers-can-get-porsches-on-demand...
Awesome and I applaud that decision. I think you'll be very happy with the quality.
I think you're drastically underestimating the difficulty involved in manuevering an eighteen wheeler around the premises of a typical business. There's no way it would be cost effective to train people for that so that they can spend most of their time doing something else.
What does the charge say on your customer's statement?
The Chinese Android forks probably outnumber all of the Unix forks. Additionally, every version of Android, built an OEM, is a fork of Android.
What’s my purpose?
Read the original New York Times story, it gives a lot more technical details on the hack than this one[0]. Assuming the Israeli and NYT accounts are to be believed, this was a very deliberate hack. Israel watched in real-time as Kaspersky sent out searches for NSA codename programs on all computers with Kaspersky AV installed (this was related to the whole Duqu 2.0 intrusion into Kaspersky's network that Kaspersky blogged about 2 years ago). And the NSA tools were some of the files reeled in from those searches.

That said, it's still extremely embarrassing. Why is someone from TAO taking this kind of work home?

0. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/10/technology/kaspersky-lab-...
> The only real annoyance with
> iOS is you can't set Chrome nor
> Maps as default applications.

Or indeed Gmail. Apple Fanboi that I am, I'd love to see them hit with an anti-competition suit in the UK that forced them to publish APIs to allow other apps to replace the core suite.
I believe in American English, "guys" just refers to a group of people.
There's some severe chicken and egg issues with this platform. One possible way to break the stalemate is to leverage existing communities. Twitch streamers sometimes have "movie nights" that might benefit from a site like this. Figure out how to integrate with twitch so the streamer can have some kind of unified presence across both sites and create/manage a social viewing experience.

There's also a lot of good content on youtube that might benefit from a social viewing experience either with an existing community or just between friends. Allow an easy mechanism to view a video in sync with an integrated chat and cam.
Yes, it takes a bit more cognitive processing to follow, but I feel that the idea of the piece couldn't have been expressed much more clearly, given that the subject is so abstract.

The level of abstraction reminds me of Baudrillard's _Simulacra and Simulation_. Now _that's_ a tough read (though it should tickle the fancy of any HN'ers not already familiar.)

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

http://www.naturalthinker.net/trl/texts/Baudrillard,Jean/sim...
I don't think Tableau uses spark. They have their own server side data engine (from their earlier acquisition oh HyPer).
During Hurricane Matthew, Fedex delivered a package to my door while the island I live on was under a mandatory evacuation order. The package got destroyed. My advice is to contact the sender and have them put a hold on it.
My experience has been more with the non-gaming stuff and I fully intend to start exploring that space as a creator. What worries me about supporting Mac is the antique 3D hardware (excluding recent announcements). Irrespective of whether the content is a game or an experience/tool, it is still 3D. This has most-certainly changed but is expensive and not yet pervasive.
That complaint has been around as long as there have been lazy students. When lazy students find themselves in a class taught by a foreigner with a thick accent, they almost invariably blame the accent (barely speaks English) for their own failures, which, as often as not, probably have more to do with students' own laziness.
Good news.

But now, sadly, we need a service (i.e. Chrome extension?) that rates the depth of the pockets (and the size of "the stones") of the company hosting a site we're about to visit.

That aside, it there was smart and kbown way to picking hosting that's - more or less - beyond the reach of such things? Would AWS have been as upstanding as DH?
Don’t be like Ada
Minix? Are you kidding me? That is amazingly funny and depressing at the same time. So Andy Tanenbaum got the last laugh on Linus after all. Thanks to this ME garbage, Minix is running simultaneously on the same hardware as the vast majority of modern of Linux machines. Cue Alanis Morissette.

Some background, for anyone not familiar:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanenbaum%E2%80%93Torvalds_deb...
The same could be said for leaving is an awful plan until it isn't.

I don't disagree with you, it's risky either way, and I only have my own personal experience to go from (which was dense bush to near the house), so I can't give op a definite plan. Not without knowing a lot more than I do, what I do know though, is leaving 24 hours before it arrives, is a lot safer than either of the previous options. Worst case scenario ario, a little fuel is wasted.
Is this really a win for DreamHost (and other internet service providers)?

> DreamHost has been deputized to redact sensitive information

If DH was deputized to do this on behalf of the government, what limits are there to deputizing DH to do something else, possibly more nefarious, on behalf of the government? Why can't the DoJ now "deputize" Apple to produce the iOS with the backdoor?

Also important, who pays for the employee time for this? What about the opportunity cost of moving an employee off of her main duties onto this other duty that has no revenue benefit? Did this ruling just create an unfunded mandate for private businesses?

> We see this as an absolute victory not just for DreamHost, but for online service providers throughout America and for internet users around the world.

I think this statement requires far more analysis before it can be made.

EDIT: Oh good, Orin Kerr has started tweeting about this. I'd trust his judgment on the legal matters more than my armchair lawyering. https://twitter.com/OrinKerr/status/917923510462435328
This is a shocking attitude. Assuming that a highly skilled software developer is more likely to have body odor, have poor social skills, be alcoholic, be sexually creepy, etc., is shocking to me.

Hiring managers that have this attitude are not the next Steve Jobs, that's for sure.

Steve Jobs specifically looked for the "multiplier factor" when hiring:
In choosing key members of his team, he looks for the multiplier factor of excellence. Truly outstanding designers, engineers and managers, he says, are not just 10 percent, 20 percent or 30 percent better than merely very good ones, but 10 times better. Their contributions, he adds, are the raw material of “aha” products, which make users rethink their notions of, say, a music player or cellphone.

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/31/weekinreview/31lohr.html
You have it backwards. Their App Store has a monopoly on distribution of apps for iPhones. I can't publish my app somewhere else, which means I have to get Apple's permission for anything I want to publish (to non jail-broken phones).
They also have huge catalogs of 0-days and unreleased exploits, probably, in addition to human intelligence sources within major AV, infrastructure tech companies.
From the middle no, but it's been done from the end - you just have to plan the makeup of your train.
The 996 turbo is currently an awesome deal. The regular ones are a good deal but one needs to check up on the service history.

Weird tidbit: I once put a 993 engine into a 996 rwd chassis and fit very well. The old 993 mount fit rather well and only needed some modifications to work. The engine had a 930 tranny bolted on (g50) and it fit perfectly as well. Of onlt that car were finished some day...
> No programmer I know would want to use a visual programming language at all, even with an option to fall into a full text-based programming language.

This is something that a lot of game and graphics programmers are doing already. UE4 uses Blueprints[0] now, with the ability for programmers to drop into C++ for more control.

I also think that having multiple ways to interact with programming languages is awesome from an accessibility perspective too.

[0] https://docs.unrealengine.com/latest/INT/Engine/Blueprints/
>line-by-line in c++

I don't understand how/why people do this? the languages are so different I can't imagine doing it - libraries, control structures, types! what exactly are you prototyping then? just the shape of the code?
> The DHS is "tin foil hatters"?

Yes?

To be fair, that is kind of their job. I don't suppose their precept says that they should be paranoid and believing in conspiracy theories - in those exact words. But, that seems to be how it is manifest.
History of Disrepair at Penn station
Companies with only one product are very likely to shut that product down when they go out of business or are acquired.
A friend and I spent the better part of our programming course trying to build a Slime Volleyball clone in QBasic, I remember. Good times.
This looks like it.
It's a very nicely integrated stack though, and there's no MS lock-in anymore: it's all open-source, you can use VSCode or 3rd-party IDEs to code, and you can run it on Linux.
That still has the unwanted connotation so I've adopted cperciva's suggestion.
Admittedly, I don't have data to provide you. I can only tell you my observations based on a rather large social circle I'm exposed to and just the sheer frequency that the wealthy engage in white collar crime.
Do you honestly believe that corporate raiders such as Nelson Peltz, Carl Icahn, Henry Kravis provided billions in value added, you are naive at best.
Do you also believe the Russian oligarchs made their money in a moral way?
Insider trading, market manipulation, Bribery (aka lobbying), fraud, etc..... That's how most people become billionaires.
Can you reverse-bubble websites?
Am I missing something here? Isn't the notch already taken up by FaceID sensors/front-facing camera? It isn't really "extra screen real estate".

I do like the idea of a separate indicator for system-wide security events though. Perhaps an LED indicator although that doesn't seem very Apple-like.
as someone that does not live in SF, it is mind boggling that a city with such a high concentration of wealth, talent (both technical and non-technical) and visionaries supposedly (not trying to be trite) trying to make the world a better place have arguably failed miserably to make their own city a better place... Silicon Valley's PeaceFair parody seems to ring true here
I don't know anything of the group, but it sounds like law enforcement was able to obtain adequate information on people plotting violent attacks, so the system works!
Without ssl all that data can be observed in transit between your read-only schema and the consuming service. There's very low risk to integrity (i.e. nobody can modify data via read-only methods), but complete list of confidentiality.
At this point, I don't think there is anything simple you can do for translations in Android. Some of the translations are loaded outside of app context, and app developers may not know which ones those are. Allowing the files to be compressed in the apk would require support in the Android system, and there are a billion devices already shipped that don't know how to do that.

If you can tell what strings need to be in the old way and what can be done differently, you could do any number of easy things to compress the strings that don't need to be accessible by the system.
At 3k / month you could buy a new one in under 3 years. Looking at resale prices a ~2-5 year lease would only be ~1k / month.

However, if you are say taking the summer off to do a road trip then I could see spending quite a bit more to avoid a long term obligation.