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No one said anything about holding the CTO personally liable. The idea is to hold the company liable. This makes sense because the company is in the best position to prevent the bad outcome. If the company is always liable, it can find an optimal balance between the costs of security and the costs of breaches.

If the company is only liable when negligent, it is incentivized to minimize the cost of security to the bare non-negligent minimum. This pushes all the costs onto the people whose data are compromised. These people are not in a position to spend small amounts of money to dramatically lower the expected costs of breaches, so they just end up paying huge costs that cannot be mitigated.
I deleted my Facebook account a month or two ago and couldn't be happier with that decision. I hope everyone else does the same.
Awesome, two large media companies becoming one giant media company. This should concern everyone.
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TV has also changed dramatically in the last decade. With Netflix, Amazon Video, Youtube, etc (not strictly TV I guess but similar) it's possible to waste days on end binge-watching entire seasons of TV shows, in many cases ad-free. That was never possible in the past.
Blockchain/cryptocurrency is going to be really useful and valuable. It would be an enormous coincidence if much of that value wound up being tied to bitcoin though.
If you've "heard it", but you can't recall where, you should absolutely not believe your own claims. Either find the source again, or concede that you might have made it up. Because you are the easiest person to yourself to deceive into thinking something that isn't true.
Unless you have any predictive insight about when a bubble going to burst, it's essentially a meaningless term. Specifically, I mean, it doesn't tell you anything about what you should do. Suppose Bitcoin is a bubble but it won't burst until 2152. Well, in that case, I should buy it. If it's about to burst in the next few months to few years, then perhaps I should sell it. If you can't tell me when, then you can call it whatever you want, it's not an informative term.
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> It should be ensured that certain practices are followed in security

Let's not legislate specific practices.

Imagine if we had security legislation from 1995 to follow when programming today. Imagine trying to explain to senators why last year's XSS protection rules need updating. Imagine Oracle lobbying to get their database enshrined as the "security-compliant" one.

The law should focus on outcomes: if a site gets hacked and people are harmed, the site should be penalized.
No, but I trust people who put their money where their mouths are, more than random people shouting online with no skin in the game
This is exactly the problem with advertising as a business model. You necessarily have to make your product worse to make more money, and it becomes a balancing act. Subscription SaaS services on the other hand are free to make the product as clean and easy to use as possible.
<blink> is no longer supported by browsers, but with a few css declarations it works just fine.

Removing support for presentational markup does not mean a loss of information. Browsers will still render tags they don't recognize, and re-applying the styling of those tags is often trivial. (I mention <blink> because it's one of the more difficult, but not terribly so)

As the web evolved, our needs changed. Do we still need the <font> tag?
In the worst case (1 tx per channel) LN would actually double the # of tx.

I am really looking forward to LN being really tested, but the thing that worries me is that the security model relies on txing before a certain block. If we see a large amount of the traffic move from on chain to LN then we could get ourselves into a situation where there is a run on the chain to close channels. If there is a large market maker that attempts to steal from a channel that is being used to route many others we could see a mass closing of channels which could push the fees high enough to make it cost prohibitive.

LN isn't a panacea it actually changes the security model.
This chart shows nothing interesting and is hardly scientific. Of course by lining up price charts of various speculative bubbles they will roughly line up. The chart also intentially discards the first 4 years of Bitcoin trading data (2010-2013) where Bitcoin has actually gained the most. None of the other assets in the chart even remotely compare to Bitcoin's gains in these 4 years. Also, it should really use a log scale: http://bitcoin.zorinaq.com/price/
I always wonder how an opinion piece from WSJ or the economist can change the direction(few billion $) of the market to some extent. Especially in these markets which are partly running on mass hysteria.
You gave a good laugh thanks
Randy was forever telling people, without rancor, that they were full
of shit. That was the only way to get anything done in hacking. No one took
it personally.
Charlene's crowd most definitely did take it personally. It wasn't
being told that they were wrong that offended them, though. It was the
underlying assumption that a person could be right or wrong about _anything_.
So on the Night in Question the night-- of Avi's fateful call -- Randy had done
what he usually did, which was to withdraw from the conversation.

In the
Tolkien, not the endocrinological or Snow White sense, Randy is a Dwarf.
Tolkien's Dwarves were stout, taciturn, vaguely magical characters who spent
a lot of time in the dark hammering out beautiful things, e.g. Rings of
Power. Thinking of himself as a Dwarf who had hung up his war ax for a while
to go sojourning in the Shire, where he was surrounded by squabbling Hobbits
(i.e., Charlene's friends), had actually done a lot for Randy's peace of
mind over the years. He knew perfectly well that if he were stuck in
academia, these people, and the things they said, would seem momentous to
him. But where he came from, nobody had been taking these people seriously
for years. So he just withdrew from the conversation and drank his wine and
looked out over the Pacific surf and tried not to do anything really obvious
like shaking his head and rolling his eyes.

-- Cryptonomicon, 1999.
The reason I've been seeing people subscribe and save on Amazon was heavily predicated on the "save" portion and only slightly on the "don't have to go to the store" portion. But maybe my sample isn't representative.
And NowTV and Sky Go in the UK.
Science bitches.
Upvoted because we need more diversity of opinion here. We rarely hear the other side of issues and those with differing views are often derided in harsh language.

I'm not for Title II network neutrality. I think it will be used in inappropriate ways, as tends to happen with poorly understood laws.

I think it is easier to add network neutrality requirement than it is to roll them back, so I would favor moving slowly and deliberately with legislation explicitly crafted for modern technology in mind.

I think I could support a limited network neutrality, but I want companies to have the ability to shape traffic, have different billing strategies, etc.

One of the things that gets me is that those supporting NN are the same that supported a la carte billing for cable, two things that seem clearly at odds with each other.
In practice no practical language provides formal semantics for the entire language, only for restricted subsets of it i.e. particular styles within the language.
What wonderful news for you. I understand your caution. Now your whole life will be changed. Some people are so brave.
Science, it works bitches.
I don't think so

This machine is for designers and creative people.

A beefy Mac mini or powerful MacBook is what I need without a ridiculously high price tag.

Price wouldn't be such an issue if the thing was at all upgradable.
"Mathematically it fuses Maxwell’s Laws of Electromagnetism with Navier-Stokes for fluid flow (if that is insufficiently nauseating, relativistic and quantised complications are available upon request)."

Quote of the day, too!
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I wouldn't be surprised: a lot of Germans used to be East Germans, and the Stasi were pretty thorough in their surveillance. EDIT: Watch "The Lives of Others" when you get a chance. It's a great movie about relating to the subject.
- Replacing that 18-core Xeon with ThreadRipper 1950x: -2000 USD

- Buying that ECC RAM yourself: -600 USD

- Buying those NVMe SSDs yourself -600 USD

Enjoing your new, affordable workstation: priceless :)
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I agree with you, but I think an even better analogy would be a supermarket with automatic doors.

If someone was walked out of a supermarket and explicitly told that they were banned for life, and they tried to claim that the ban was lifted because the automatic doors opened for them, they'd be laughed out of court.

You could extend that further and say that the supermarket has a self-checkout. You may very well be able to walk through the automatic doors, grab something off the shelf, check it out yourself, and leave without anyone noticing you, but it's still trespassing if you've been banned from the store.
They _tricked_ others to take debt obligations for themselves. Since they took _all_ the Soviet properties as well.
I've noticed similar, that a lot of people here in SF live in a fairly-well-intentioned bubble and are super vocal sometimes to the point of socially castrating when you don't agree with them.
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To some extent I think you're right.

But the problem, just like with patents, is that there a many kinds of actors in our modern world, including large companies who couldn't really care less. A company like Disney would, I think, be more motivated by a 5 or 10 year copyright period, as it would require them to keep on producing and innovating.

If we're talking about great, innovative artists, I think few of them actually benefit much from the copyright system anyway.
Next time he's in China maybe he should think about donating some money to a local union and see how free the speech is there. I'm no fan of the Bay Area but comparing to China freedom of speech is a bit weird.
It sounds like you displeasure with incorrect use of 'exponential growth' may declining exponentially with your exposure to it.
I think this is a radical simplification of what is a complex problem. Genetic engineering as a whole is known to be an area strewn with moral hazards, and not least harks back to some of the darkest days of 20th century science.

Having an ethical outlook isn't a form of heresy, it's a form of societal safety. We need to accept that some of these ideas (probably not all - it's always difficult to get on the right side of the line) are inherently dangerous.

Particularly when we start involving healthcare, a "move fast/break things" type approach can be extremely detrimental, for example.
or you could just import all of it with one small command line program without even popping GUI on the screen? Doable in 3 seconds with a pendrive. This is a non story, autor somehow thinks his own computer should fight him.
Google did make Android free to head off Microsoft, but it was already very clear Apple was the primary competition. They were trying to take Microsoft’s place in the new Duopoly.
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You can do it fully in parallel. Imagine 1000 crypto units each producing 100 Mbps of key-stream. All on one ASIC.

Then all you need is to interleave the stream and XOR with the data to encrypt your 100Gbps stream.
I don't see a conflict between loops, list comprehensions and other shortcuts - use the syntax sugar where it makes the code simpler/easier to read, otherwise stick to plain loops.

My own rules for "list/dict comprehension" versus "loops" versus "generator expressions" are the following:

* use a loop where you are interested only in the side-effects or where it will make the code easier to read

* use generator expressions where you don't really need to instantiate a list, for example when you are just iterating over the result and throwing it away.

* use list or dict comprehensions where you need to build and save a list/dict and the resulting code does not resemble a lisp program (where the choice does not make the program harder to read).
Agreed, I have no idea what the OP might be referring to about Netflix. It's got a ton of competition, and has had an increasingly smaller selection of media due to companies pulling their own content to roll their own media services.

Netflix is becoming more of an HBO than anything. Hardly the holder of all media on the internet or some type of media monopoly.
I now live upstate where my barber charges $12 for a cut and shave.
https://blog.prototypr.io/google-and-the-resurgence-of-itali...

this article might help you understand what they're trying to achieve
This deal kills one streaming platform. We previously had Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon as the big players. Disney recently purchased BAMTech which does the streaming for MLB, HBO, NHL, WWE, ESPN, League of Legends, and others. After this purchase, Disney planned to create a streaming service with the BAMTech technology and Disney catalog in 2019. [1] That new service would be a strong instant competitor with Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon. Now BAMTech and Hulu have the same majority owners so it is unlikely that they ever come into direct competition with each other.

[1] - https://thewaltdisneycompany.com/walt-disney-company-acquire...
> While I agree, as a CTO I would be terrified if a data breach could hold me personally liable.

Personal liability is going too far, IMO.

> Mistakes should not be punished as long as there is not also negligence.

The problem with this is that you'd have to enshrine, in law, what "negligence" is. Technology changes too fast to put that into law.

"How many people got hurt and how badly?" is a question attorneys can reasonably address. "Was there sufficient input sanitization?" is not.
I've always wondered this. Even if you have $10k USD worth of BTC, you still need to find someone to buy it? What if you wanted to cash out $100k or $500k? At that point you need legal contracts, escrows, 3rd party verification, etc..
Isn't this just asking for your ideas to not be criticized?

Me: let's extend life

Someone else: If people live a lot longer it will be disastrous for the environment, so people working on this must be really unethical

Isn't this exactly how it's supposed to work? Why would Sam complain about an encounter like this?
If I tell my kid he can have a cookie in the afternoon but between then and now he eats a pound of cake, the cookie is coming off the table. If that makes me a liar then so be it. As the situation changes, I change my mind.
That struck me as ridiculous. If you piss off the mayor of SF you don't get disappeared, but that very much does happen in China.
The GPU might be overkill for developers (unless they're doing game dev or machine learning), but don't scoff at big core counts and fast disk I/O - they help a lot. And while it might not be strictly necessary, that 5K screen sure is nice and obviates a lot of the need for a second monitor. I think a convincing case could be made for developers to splurge on this.
People should be cautious when citing Taleb as an absolute authority. He envisions himself as an anti-intellectual, and doesn't mind talking out of his rear. I enjoyed his book Fooled by Randomness, but he repeatedly bashed "journalists" throughout---maybe an early indicator of the "fake news" movement even among those who should know better.

Anyone who proposed 98% certainty was ridiculous and should not be taken seriously either (there could be exceptions but I don't think so). It amounts to beating up a strawman.

But I just don't understand what that quoted paragraph means and how it proves that it was 50% or anything else. A forecast should go bankrupt before it gets to the final event, what? Dynamic time constraints meaning what exactly? I'm genuinely curious.

Maybe Taleb is just an intellectual god that my puny intellect will never completely understand, and I should just take him at his word, and I'm sure he would agree. But I remain skeptical of people who display open contempt for people (I used to follow him on Twitter) who require a better explanation to understand what they're saying.
>>As long as you accept that work for the sake of work is not the purpose of life

But I don't accept that! And I doubt I'm not alone in this country. I believe that you are the work you do. If you spend the majority of time doing it, then that's who you are and you should own it and be proud of it.
Or conversely, maybe we should listen to people who are pointing out that we arn't as free as we think we are, and people who we think are more constrained may not be.

It's a good thesis to try and prove.
This right here folks. This is how I would prefer government worked. Imagine putting the liability back on the corporation for confirming access because in place "protocols" that approved it?
After using ZSH I have that first feature and love it. I try to keep as much of my history as possible and it's amazing how much time you can save that way. Does that second feature not clutter up that history though?
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The cheese grater style Mac Pros were the best for developers. Still hasn't changed. They were reasonably priced, good looking boxes that you can open and upgrade. We don't care about compactness unless it's a laptop. Key feature is that we can open the box and there's room to add and change stuff inside. Otherwise it's not really 'Pro'. This is even more relevant when you have horsepower hungry stuff like VR.

It's only a matter of time before Win 10 Unix features mature, and it makes me migrate back to Windows.
Fiat currencies are still reasonably stable compared to actual goods right now. I know that can and has changed in the past (pre/post WWII germany), but at the moment, they are not in a bubble. Not at the same level that bitcoin is, anyway.

How do I know this? Well, because I can still get a gallon of milk or loaf of bread for ~$3. If I put that $3 into bitcoin, I'd get some fraction of a coin (roughly 0.0001). Which is all well and good until the bubble bursts, and suddenly milk is worth 0.1 bitcoins. Did milk suddenly become 1000x more valuable? No, bitcoin lost value.

This is something I don't understand about people who say they "cashed out of fiat currency". Fiat currency is still what everything is valued by. The value of a gallon is milk is relatively stable. Compared to this, fiat fluctuates a little, and bitcoin is a drunk on a rollercoaster.

Which, if you consider fiat currencies to be a bubble, would make me even more concerned for bitcoin as it is a bubble within a bubble.
Thank you Sam for speaking out about this.

Every few months living in the Bay reminds me of the importance of Paul Graham's http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html .

The constant pursuit of ideological purity in the Bay, the desire for diversity of skin tones and orientations, but not of ideas, taking offense as a viable way of establishing social hierarchies. It's all very tiring.
The issue in Type 1 Diabetes is autoimmune destruction of the islets of Langerhans, so the therapy would need to target the immune system.
It kind of is, and you can see how real-world countries behave when pushed more towards the UBI end-goal. You can then figure out whether to put faith in society or not.
Taking extreme sports and jobs into consideration, and the fact that space is considered more and more as a lucrative destination for profit making, I think that human beings will be the first to do most of the ground breaking work. Virgin Galactic, the SpaceX moon flyby, etc. are meant for tourists, hence the different approach to absolute safety. I think the public's acceptance of the dangers of space, and the thrill/benefits of confronting them will come before we get to the point of having the necessary robot tech to make significant progress without humans on site. Then again if you consider things like Andy Weir's The Martian you realise that's a likely scenario of the kind of spending that might happen in the case of a stranded astronaut after a disaster, sending more afterwards would still be a financial decision rather than one of public opinion regarding safety however, and in my opinion the tech and financial support for these sorts of missions is going to be up to it in a few years.
On the Internet, the conversation about mainstream piracy goes all the way back to Napster (1999).
And then there's RiaBlocks which looks the most promising currently. I hope it gets a rigorous security review though. IOTA, Byteball, Steem, BitShares etc. don't really cut it IMO. Cardano also has reasonable plans for scalability.
You usually get to withdraw a reasonable amount of living expenses (for which you need to produce receipts - they let me have £100, which is nowhere near enough to live on). They said after 1 year I could have the rest back. I've got 3 months left to wait...
You are correct, they are essential to the health of forests. The massive 1988 fire in Yellowstone, was a direct result of humans intervening.

https://blog.suny.edu/2013/08/ask-an-expert-why-are-wildfire...
You do not need any passwords to import all of it (Cookies/Passwords) if you are already logged in. Chrome uses Windows DPAPI to encrypt it on the disk, its automagically decrypted when logged in.
No, but when they ask them to leave and they still take a coffee cup they are.

But that's not the point, the point is it's possible to give something for free and also refuse to give it to everyone under any circumstance.

They didn't give me a free cup of coffee and someone could reasonably mistake me for a homeless person based on my (lack of) fashion sense but that doesn't mean I could just reach over the counter and grab a cup because I saw them give one to somebody else when I walked through the door.
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With the upper limit of 128 gigabytes, it's definitely a love letter to people who want to use slack.
That's my current biggest problem with UBI. We are not even close to post-scarce.
you read my mind, that fear is why I think I should invest. My gut says 'this is like 1999'. On my Facebook feed there is one kid who is a tech support agent who has become a 'bitcoin daytrader' and a music video model who posts screenshots of prices every every other day. It seems everyone and their mom will be getting into it in 2018.

You never think we could both be wrong and are missing something? Just curious.
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The unintended effect of GDPR, like other regulations aimed at particular industries, will be to entrench incumbents like Facebook and insulate them against competition.
TensorFlow, why was python the chosen language?
This sounds like the Joe Kennedy Shoe Shine story.
I'm quite happy with the various vendor pages, including internet explorer/edge.

But since I'm not developing for a single browser (outside of my day job that is) I'm going to use the aggregate site that shows all of them at once.