skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> San Francisco-based Pinterest is the latest in a growing list of Silicon Valley companies that hosted or were exploited directly by the Russian disinformation campaign. The acknowledgement by Pinterest also highlights an essential truth of the internet that helped bolster the Russian agenda -- once content appears on a site or social network, it can be shared across the web by ordinary Americans in unpredictable ways and reach a far broader audience than its initial readership.

So basically the Russians adhered to the same philosophy as everyone in tech, no? Is it feasible that there servers siphoned social media data to create profiles on regular, everyday Americans? I could be waaayyy off-base but my ad-tech friends have spooked me into believing something like this is fairly easy to accomplish for American corporations who probably don't have the Russia-like resources.
Breaking news : pre-industrial civilisation had less material wealth than ours.
I'm looking to buy a basic 3D printer this week but have no significant knowledge. Mind linking the one you bought?
Font seems too big. Information density is low per viewport
But it's much easier to drop without endangering the company. And the question is specifically about Google.
Well OK, but that goes somewhat against my parent comment who was trying to show that things were worse then!
Paying parking tickets in SF. Input my license number and CC info and it would detect and pay parking tickets that came up. There is a CAPTCHA which was trivially solvable with Tessaract OCR.
SELinux is all about minimizing and isolating collateral damage after a service is compromised, so if you care about that at all I'd suggest leaving it on.

Also, it's probably the best protection from a zero-day exploit there is.
Evading detection is easy if you have the slightest clue of what you're doing. Antivirus evasion simply isn't difficult enough for this to be a reasonable explanation.
Being kind of curious, I fired up Safari's "private window", and it worked fine. I don't have FF on this box, but I do repro with Chrome. The detection is in article.js, and a quick glance indicates they're checking if the cookies get disabled. It would seem that Safari does that differently than FF or Chrome, and pass the test.
This is just a file sync. A good one. But 1500 employees for that? This goes way beyond my imagination.
My Morning
As dogfooding, when the office is more than 90% full, all employees will receive daily popups like this one: https://twitter.com/bobdegol/status/774627424801787904
Damn. I sure hope nothing happens to this famous tree that I grew up with in New Zealand:

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=that+wanaka+tree&tbm=isch
Some people don't share your views. So what? Why do you care?
When pressed, I've told people "I can, but I don't want to." Or "I used to do that, but I stopped when it got boring."

Or I'll propose that we swap professional services, and that usually shuts things down.
"It simply downloads all the files in your Google Drive into the current directory. After you make some changes to the local files, run grive again and it will upload your changes back to your Google Drive."

That's a far cry from

mount ~/gDrive/

with company-level support.
Ansible works quite well for automating docker deployments. Something still has to execute the docker commands to spin up a container/swarm/cluster/whatever. Better to have those commands be idempotent and checked in to version control.

http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/docker_container_modu...
Is scraping competitors’ public API’s out of the ordinary for technology companies? I was under the impression that Wal-Mart/Jet scraped Amazon and vice versa, similar to how retail chains employ “secret shoppers” to discover competitors’ prices.

I do remember a case where Craigslist sued a company for scraping its API and won. I wonder if it is invalidated by Weev’s subsequent acquittal.

They could be apples/oranges since the former is civil while the latter is criminal. Also, Craigslist was able to demonstrate damages, which were clearly linked; every visitor to the other company’s page was one that didn’t visit Craigslist. And there are clear copyright issues with scraping Craigslist and using that user-generated information to populate another website.
The leasing company might not have as much leverage as you think. Finding another reliable tenant to take over that much space at once would not be easy. Most likely it would need to be split up into multiple tenants, which means they would need to pay for a certain amount of renovation. It would be much easier and cheaper to have the current tenant stay.

Some companies own their own real estate, but that involves hiring a number of people dedicated to managing it. It might be more efficient to outsource that to a landlord.
There are probably also tax implications to one or the other depending on the company's situation.
You may want to add some spacing between the body text and the right sidebar. Right now, they run right up against each other.
I think you're taking liberties with the term "got rid of".

Those banks that we "got rid of" were just consolidated into other "too big to fail" banks. And even worse, the ones that survived learned that the White House and Congress will backstop them even when they crank up the risk, use corrupted ratings agencies, and sell mortgages of the worst quality to Fannie Mae + Freddie Mac.
Yeah what I'm saying is that I've already done so myself and have no need for SELinux. Proper network and VM isolation is far better than SELinux. I don't want it forced on me and will disable it. Not out of laziness, but due the lack of a purpose.
It's really interesting to look at the current stats:

http://zasfplan.sfplanning.org/ANLM/Office_Allocation_Stats....

Fun to see people playing the game... A lot of small allocation projects right in the high 49k sqft, as you would expect.

Also, the large project pipeline is currently at negative seven million sqft. Looks like projects have to get in line early to try to secure space. Some projects are big enough to take more than one year of allocations!
Hmmm. I'm not sure. Trying to guess at a long term picture of economics is tricky, especially something as ethereal as a pension. Demographics seem to have taken most of the world by surprise, nevermind economics, and nevermind the politics of it all.

Over here, we're mostly hoping the French will come out of left field, surprise everyone and figure something out. Chances seem good, you know what they get like when they're stirred up.

Homesteaders heading west to get away from whingers were being replaced with irish people getting away from their own whingers. Both Ireland and New York still exist. Whingers too. Many localities set accounting books on fire along the routes. Maybe it's more a matter of perspective. You describe the past in terms of people doing things. The present, in much more numerical terms. But, crazy finances aren't new. People doing things isn't new.
oooooor 3) The Girl Scouts accepting boys in their organization. Am I the only progressive optimist in this crowd? :p
This is why I gave up on RSS. I wanted to read content quickly without having to navigate to a website.
My guess:

If they grow to be big enough, then they can move out at build their own campus. Equalises the leverage at that point.

Also, the lease term will be for more than a few years (IMO 5-10) and that’s good enough time to figure out growing plans.
Yes, but D also follows the convention of module names being mapped into the filesystem, or package name if it is a directory with a package.d file in it.
Chaosthebot:A social coding experiment that updates its own code democratically
Second this. I bought the PDF ebook years ago and still get an email once in a while with an updated version. Best $20 something I've spent in a long time (thanks Jeff!).
This idea (of the route to true AI) reminds me of the short story Crystal Nights by Greg Egan

http://ttapress.com/553/crystal-nights-by-greg-egan/

“What created the only example of consciousness we know of?” Daniel asked.

“Evolution.”

“Exactly. But I don’t want to wait three billion years, so I need to make the selection process a great deal more refined, and the sources of variation more targeted.”

Julie digested this. “You want to try to evolve true AI? Conscious, human-level AI?”

“Yes.” Daniel saw her mouth tightening, saw her struggling to measure her words before speaking.

“With respect, I don’t think you’ve thought that through.”

“On the contrary,” Daniel assured her. “I’ve been planning this for twenty years.”

“Evolution,” she said, “is about failure and death. Do you have any idea how many sentient creatures lived and died along the way to Homo sapiens? How much suffering was involved?”
It stands out if nothing else.
It's technically possible now with the Holo Lens.
I think it's important to point a critical eye at any treatment you consider. The pharma industry is not exactly someone I'd trust, either.
Private firms earn their reputations by their behavior. We have international / multi-national / NGO's which can exist beyond the politics of the nation states they reside in.

You should trust a firm to review your code not based on their nationality, but based on a wide criteria.

Included in that criteria for me would whether or not the organization is committed to the work of subverting your software through intelligence operations.

But, that's just an end-around because all countries with markets worth selling in have intelligence agencies which subvert AV and other software for clandestine purposes, so all nation states are excluded.

W.r.t Chinese auditors, because of their oppressive and authoritarian government which goes so much further than western governments to control business and speech, and which has a much deeper history of subverting any control structure outside of the Communist Party, I would certainly treat their work as suspect by nature, but if there were a Chinese auditing firm renowned for its quality, privacy and separation from their government, I don't see why I wouldn't consider it.
Huh, didn't know that Debian was missing ASLR. Any idea about the reasoning there?
" someone who would be placed into financial hardship by losing 50% of their net worth" would include most people in my estimation. Since privilege is relative, I used someone who is privileged relative to most people. The author claimed that "only the privileged can take risks", I demonstrated a situation where that isn't true.

Aside from that sentence, I mainly agreed with the author.
There is no spacing between the info box and the main text, this decreases readability for me.
Crazy idea: wrap it in tin foil. All or at least the sides from where the wind is blowing fire.
It's supposed to have a 1440p screen according to polygon. God only knows what "stand alone" means but the price doesn't seem totally insane. It simplifies it a great deal to take out the design constraints of a phone and the screens and processors (for basic streaming video over wifi) have been around for a few years now.

Still, it is surprising that the price would jump so far down from the price of a cellphone. I don't think it's a loss leader but I really doubt they have much of a profit margin. If that's the case this may be a bit of a gamble on VR being as massive as everyone (including myself) hopes it will be.
It was a few years ago that I used it but I found django-autocomplete-light pretty unfriendly and not very light. It was far easier to roll my own.
I agree with this. Trello could have added a lot more features, gone for Enterprise, but it would then have no longer been Trello.
I agree it seems weird.

Presumably relatively few of those people are really technical. The rest would be handling DMCA requests, support calls, enterprise sales, etc.

Still seems like a lot of people. I think that a lot of the time, middle management argue for hiring staff because having lots of reports gives you credibility -> seniority -> more money. Sure, it reduces profits, but if the majority of your remuneration is salary then that doesn't matter.
Exposed Blockchain-Crypto files resold on Deep Web causing $40 Trillion collapse
Introducing Oculus Dash
it is an entreprise focused saas operation. 1500, most of them in sales or sales support, is justifiable.
Simulations can certainly be a way of doing science. Of course you have to ask how realistic the simulation is, but that's true of any model -- you always have to be aware of your simplifying assumptions.
If you're using Firefox, you're already trusting Mozilla every time you visit any page.
Symantec: "No, our code is audited professionally by the most reputable international firms along international standards of quality. You can review our audit reports and engage with the international body responsible for regulating audits to raise any concerns"

Foreign Gov. Customer: "But what I really want is for my tech spooks to scan pre-selected high value modules for already known and suspected zero day exploits for our own clandestine use"

Symantec: "...."
There can be tax advantages to having your office space show up as an operating expense rather than a capital expenditure.
It gave me a strong vibe of 80thies. Andy Warhol definitely had the influence on those chaps.
Bitcoin Is Retaking Its Place as King of the Cryptocurrencies
Here is the original Dropbox YC application from 2007: https://www.ycombinator.com/apply/dropbox/
Online dating is all about looks first and nothing else! You better look halfway decent or your going to hate Tinder and etc. If your a minority I bet it’s not a lot of fun either!
google extensions are basically all javascript :p and the styling is from https://semantic-ui.com/
backend is node
planning to make a simple mobile app so i can save stuff from my phone too.
i can do a more detailed writeup later on!
Yeah yeah. Every single time.
Title is a lie. Just like the cake was a lie.
I worked at a larger company and I heard they sold their property and leased it back from them. I was told it was a liquidity thing. I imagine it lets you focus on your company and lets you be more flexible if you do need to upgrade or downgrade.

When they lease a space, it's a contract, so they could put in favorable language for renewing the lease. Guinness brewery famously has a 9,000 year lease paying only £45 annually.
Buying a chunk of property is very cash expensive for a growth company.

If you think about it - do you want to invest in 'real estate' or your 'high growth business'. And buildings are very expensive so it would be a huge amount of cash. And cash-flow is always an issue in a growth company.

Of course, it would mostly be financed with a mortgage, but then you get into a weird balance sheet situation - massive asset, and if the company folds, or wants to move, what do you do with it? It's hard to just 'flip' a building. Do they want to 'manage a property' in that 'old area they used to be in'?

Aside from the operational/cash flow issues, it wonks up the companies metrics as well. This 'big ball of assets' can distort all the reporting metrics.

Companies really don't want to 'own' anything unless it's a totally core thing to their experience.

Long-term leases can be negotiated with future pricing in mind.

Think Hotels: Four Seasons and Fairmont don't even own most of their hotels! They get big, long-term funds (think Saudi sovereign funds) to buy the real estate, and then sing a super long term lease-deals and then the hotel is really just an 'operating company' with those physical asset off the balance sheet.

'Owning property' is usually a fundamentally different business than whatever is going on inside the buildings.

If you are a 'growth' company, your cash is almost always better used in your business.

If you are a 'massive fund' (or a bank) that needs to park gazillions of dollars around the world long-term and you want fairly low risk but some kind of return - you buy property.

Is one way to look at it.
Having used both, DRF is a lot more similar to standard Django. The views are similar, and the serializers work very similarly to forms so it feels a lot more consistent to use. I seem to remember a post a could of years back where they said they weren't going to be doing more active development in Tastypie, or something to that effect.
Exactly - isn't Salesforce's deal bigger?
What is it that Boy Scouts teaches that you don't think girls should be taught?
Since the Year of Linux on the Desktop has still not come, perhaps major distributions would be wise not to use that as a reason not to implement security features.

Last I checked, the Year of Linux on the Server has been every year for many, many years. And it's the servers and their vulnerabilities which are exposing tens of millions users information at a time, not individual Linux desktop users.
> If your household is too poor to afford a lot of the things that are taken for granted - a working kitchen, for example - having four neighbors work together to have one working kitchen they could all share and set up time slots to use would go a long way to getting out of poverty.

Poor people who have close enough personal relationships to justify trust share resources all the time (source: spent several years in my late childhood in a family on welfare in public housing.)

Now, lots of poor people don't have close relationships with people with resources to share, and arms-length contracts with resort to the courts for enforcement don't work for them when personal trust isn't enough, because they can't afford the cost and delays of enforcement.
> File-sharing giant Dropbox has signed the biggest lease in San Francisco history, an agreement for 736,000 square feet, the entirety of a new office complex under construction in the southwest corner of Mission Bay. [...] The space will represent an expansion for Dropbox, which occupies 182,000 square feet at 333 Brannan St., a building Kilroy also owns, as well as 115,000 square feet at 345 Brannan. Dropbox currently has about 1,500 employees and 102 job openings in San Francisco, according to its website.

So, they currently have ~300k square feet. They are expanding to a space with 736k square feet. And they have 102 job openings posted, which they were all filled would expand their workforce by less than 10%. What exactly do they need all this new space for? Even if they have huge plans to somehow expand their filesharing business, doubling their workforce at this point seems quite optimistic.
Low level machine setup (e.g. user accounts, log shipping, backups, sshd etc.); configuring systems and services that don't make sense in containers; and now, with ansible-container, container management.

Also, not every org has (or would want) to go 100% 'all in' on containers. Any hybrid infrastructure will always need configuration management tools like Ansible, Chef or Salt.
> xenophobes, racists and very easily collectively agree not to speak about stuff they dislike / feel threatens some imaginary dominance / endanger their prejudices

You've just described most groups of people, particularly in the older age brackets. People are afraid of what they don't understand and generally dislike change and unpredictability.

That's not to say that xenophobes/prejudiced people can't produce anything interesting or worthy of admiration. Isolation in many ways has led to interesting solutions to problems, and the preservation of culture can have benefits just as it has disadvantages.
Meanwhile my own government in it's infinite stupidity is storing confidential tax records on US owned clouds. Apparently they haven't revised their 1950s policy that the Americans are the good guys.

Say what you want about Russians but they know how the game is played. And they are good at it too.
Goldman Has a New Way for You to Bet on the Next Banking Crisis
Would you mind expanding on that please? I'm really curious about the role of configuration management tools in a containerized world.
I'm sure a lot of them would if they could afford it.
Joules Consumed / Head would be a harder-to-calculate but also much more interesting measure than GDP. It would also make it easier to talk about the uncertainty in the estimates, still capture food, transport and shelter to some degree.
There’s a ton of stuff around that though. Tens of thousands of paying customers need support. Credit card teams. Data center guys. Guys to right deployment tools. Security guys to monitor the credit card system. Hacking together a proof of concept is simple, running a big business is complicated.
> If you're running FF from a VM as your daily driver, there's something not right somewhere I think.

I am. QubesOS is a similar setup that runs applications in Xen VMs for security. I think you can do GPU passthrough but it's not recommended. At this point I don't think I would ever go back to running a browser "bare", even if there were no bugs, being able to have complete control over it (e.g. pausing, blocking network access, etc.) is a godsend.

I think the idea that "it'll push GPU makers to be secure" is weak. We're so far from that point it's not even on the horizon.
I honestly thought this was going to be about some sort of sorting algorithm I hadn't heard about until it was already outdated.
A pharmacist says he's filled Alzheimer's prescriptions for members of Congress
Serious question: is it "risk" when you have literally nothing to lose?
You could charge for this if you expanded it out to other areas and websites. Might have to work with the data providers to ensure you're not breaking their TOS by scraping their websites, though.
There are books on how to do all of those things.

But also, the detail with which the action is expressed in the text matters -- lies, deception, violence, etc feature in enough graphic detail to extrapolate the mechanics based on other things you know. We all did that as children, learning by examples.

If a book described the sight of a person riding a bicycle -- legs pumping, hands on the bars, sitting on it, etc -- and the feel of riding a bicycle -- the burn in your thigh muscles, ache in lungs, pounding heart -- then I'd wager you'd have a pretty good idea of how to get starting riding a bicycle.

And if you happened to be a supergenius athlete, who just didn't know how to ride a bike, you probably could do a reasonable job of it on your first go based on my shitty description alone.

That's the problem with trying to hide these ideas -- they're not actually very complicated and even moderate descriptions suffice to suss out the mechanics if you understand basic facts about the world.

For something like lying -- if you read all of classical literature, you would have a master degree in lies and their societal uses.
You’re aware of the irony in posting this, right?
It’s a highway in California. It’s implied.
>>> That's a cute idea, but it doesn't take more than a few minutes of reading the news, or a few hours of first hand observation, to find plenty of examples where people very much do not treat everyone outside their ≤ 200 person tribe “the same, regardless of ethnicity

Um... Yeah, exactly. What's your point? It was a point of gossip to marry someone from the next village. So yeah, strangers were bad.

>>> The grandparent post refers to culture and ethnicity (the latter being an identity of shared culture) not genetics.

So... Like what is the relationship between a homogenous culture and crime rate again?!

You actually think people wouldn't kill themselves because they are from the same culture?