skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Browse Basin project was originally going to be onshore - until the traditional land owners wouldn't release the land for somewhere in the tune for $3B AUD. Coupled with the budget blowout for the Gorgon Project building large LNG facilities in Australia will likely not happen again anytime soon.

The Prelude has had a lot of Australian engineering input but based on my experience working on the maintenance side with other FPSOs (especially those of Korean and Singaporan manufacture) there will be a lot of headaches with the Prelude.

Integrity control is at the top of the list for the Prelude design, but this may go the way of the Gorgon Project in terms of budget once they get it to the field. Last I heard there are still some issues with the field development side of things so even if they finish the vessel in time, it may be a while before production is able to go.
Hilary Mantel's short story about the (ahistorical) assassination of Margaret Thatcher was almost banned in the UK.

A contemporary story about the assassination of David Cameron would be unlikely to make it to the BBC.

A contemporary movie about same would never be funded.
You are right!It is perfectly fine to let your kids have fun with these elves because I believe but when your a teenager or adult you grow out of it!
The passport you use is irrelevant: if Cuban still considers you a citizen, and decides it wants you to do military service or something, you're screwed even if you entered on a US passport.

I'd recommend formally renouncing your Cuban citizenship (and getting the documentation to certify this) if you want to be 100% sure there are no hassles.
Why Sony should release the Interview online
He actually wasn't that passionate about enterprise stuff, but could clearly make it look like he was in important events like this. I think at this time, he was getting tired of NeXT and was looking to sell the company so he could focus on Pixar, or something like that. He was really tired of the computer business. I remember seeing an interview with him from around the same time period where the interviewer asked him to talk about NeXT's enterprise stuff and the response was something like "You don't really want to hear about that right? It's not really that interesting."
Better to compare it to other "in use" JVM languages (Java, Scala, Clojure, Nashorn).
The implications of a US response to this hack are limited by how much evidence the intelligence agencies are willing to provide - it's unlikely that they would want to divulge the details around their own penetration to North Korean networks.
Sony Scraps “The Interview” Movie
Real-time audio feature extraction with the Web Audio API
This article is glorious. A real goldmine for satire.

The sudden urgency inside the administration over the Sony issue came after a new threat was delivered this week to desktop computers at Sony’s offices that if “The Interview” was released on Dec. 25, “the world will be full of fear.” It continued: “Remember the 11th of September 2001. We recommend you to keep yourself distant from the places at that time.”

Won't anyone think of .. national security?
Or they can use it as an excuse for their decision to remove an already controversial film.
Silver lining is it's incredible press for The Interview, excellent crisis management by Sony's PR people. Apart from this Wired article all I've read is PR and political finger pointing.
Does systemd even work w/patched grsec kernel? Last I heard Spender was considering writing a security module to get deep hooks into the kernel to handle systemd, so I assumed systemd killed off any hope of more grsec/pax patches making it upstream.
A singular email example will always be missing a lot of context. Just because someones tone is nice and friendly doesn't mean there isn't a ton of subtext to what is being said. I'll give a few examples:

1. Saying that since no one has yet "paid for a team of people to do it" then it "must not be worth doing"

2. Sarcastically using info leak in quotes (see KASLR post in my original email for context on info leaks)

3. Repeatedly saying: if you discover a problem "I can help out with that" or "just let me know" when there is a long history of people doing exactly that and linux core devs including Greg K H largely ignoring them.

Etc, I could go on.

And this is all politics. I never said I was apolitical in the posts above. The whole reason people are saying it would take a team of people to submit patches is because politics.
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Sony yanks 'The Interview' after major theater chains bow to attack threat
There would need to be some pretty devastating event for investors to no longer believe that having millions of users doesn't have potential for a lot of value.

Myspace. Yahoo. AOL. Next, Twitter? You can get lots of users by giving stuff away. That doesn't always result in company value. Especially when it starts out free and is followed by heavy-handed attempts to "monetize" the users.
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Except that when you read the article, you find that the opposite is true.
I feel like you're intentionally changing the subject. On Venus you do not have 3 years, you have 3 hours, tops.

The 100x multiplier is clear when you only have 3 hours to do your experiments and get your telemetry back.
i think who ever brought down sony did the right thing. Who in the right mind would think making fun of a soverign nation is ok in the grandios scale that sony was about to do. Get ur brain on the right track and think!!
No, Sony just needs to hint about NK and let the media do the rest. The movie theatre threat is anonymous, right? So basically anyone else could just tag along for the ride.

And I'm not sure why it's stupid to think that a, from the looks of it, low-quality movie would not benefit from a "ban". Great hype for the movie, Sony might as well ride it. There's no upside for them to stand up and say "nope, we just have poor security and someone did it for the lulz".
This is very interesting and well written article. Must admit that the fully online nature of the tools discourage rather than encourage in my case: why take the time to learn complexities of something as ephemeral as, what seems like, brand new web service? Especially when even large player like Google routinely retire whole platforms when they are not popular enough.

All the same, the tech itself seems solid and article is as mentioned superb so I'm really just beating the proverbial drum for proper distributed services here (or plain old offline capable apps).
Death of the Jackal! I think Hitchcock's 39 steps can count too, even if its not about a major figure. They're both great though. Political assassination has been a fiction trope since early literature, no?
He made it sound as though it is technologically trivial, as long as society and businesses would get behind the movement. I don't think that is the case from a security standpoint and also designing an api that would allow for widespread adoption.
Agree that outsourcing is necessary to scale, but the commission model does cost the landlord indirectly. The argument is not against the use of brokers but changing the fee structure so that the landlord earns more, tenant pays less, and broker is paid for time. Higher rent seems like an incentive to change.
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It seems like there are a lot fewer of us keyboard zealots these days. I've been hoping to see an update to my now 4-year-old HTC Desire Z. Physical keyboard, removable storage, and swappable SD cards are great - I really don't want to give any of those up.

I resigned myself to getting a new Nexus device since so few apps are coming out for Android 2.3 anymore, but then they came out with that 6" monster... I really have no idea what phone to upgrade to. Nobody makes a phone I want anymore.
Amnesty International is fairly well known for encouraging private citizens like you and like me to write letters to government officials of governments that hold "prisoners of conscience." I have done this before, and I should do this more often. When I lived in Taiwan in the early 1980s, under the former dictatorship there, I actually spoke in public at a speech contest for foreign students on the occasion of Sun Yat-sen's birthday on how much Taiwan then didn't live up to the ideals of the 1911 revolution in China as proclaimed by Sun.

I have got to look up how to join more direct communication to the reclusive government of north Korea, in my own name, recording my own return address, and making clear that I will not be pushed around by a regime of thugs. I have recently been following the suggestion of another Hacker News participant and have read the three-volume history of the Nazi regime by Richard Evans, the Third Reich trilogy. Evans notes in various places in his books that even the Nazis were responsive to international opinion on some issues. In the early period of the Nazi regime, Hitler used to receive personal letters from American eugenicists and segregationists who praised the policies of his regime. I don't want my not saying anything at all to be construed as consent or as fear of indicating disagreement with a dictator. I will have to openly and frequently express my disagreement with the world's remaining dictators until they all fall.

The North Korea Now website

http://www.northkoreanow.org/take-action-now/get-your-voice-...

provides advice on how to write letters that may have influence on the regime there. Sure enough, one part of the advice is to write to China, the country that does the most to prop up Kim Jung-un's regime. A letter to be broadcast by Free North Korea Radio

http://www.northkoreanow.org/now-accepting-letters-from-amer...

might also help. A Washington Post editorial from October 2014

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/north-koreas-leaders-...

lists other steps to take to express disagreement with the regime in north Korea.
You can see Christmas lights from space
I'm sure you could make it work, but back then fewer engineer-hours had gone into making interpreted languages fast, and hardware was slower. It was also common to run a website on one machine.

Tangentially related: https://twitter.com/GregB/status/27244912213

"> @spolsky: Digg: 200MM page views, 500 servers. Stack Overflow: 60MM page views, 5 servers. What am I missing? << That's the PHP factor"
Wouldn't it be simpler to just genetically engineer humans to have better night vision? :P
I read this as the commenter implying other places do criminalize the homeless more, not that criminalizing the homeless more is good or ideal. Simply pointing out that the reason you see more homeless around in SF is that it's not aggressively criminalized. Not sure why making that statement carries the implication that they should be criminalized.
Infosec is largely a ghetto populated by people who only think about one thing, and who think that one thing is the sexist, coolest, most important thing in the entire world. There are other such ghettoes and they all suffer from similar sorts of problems.

I normally avoid "me too" comments. But that's the most insightful comment I've seen this week for sure, and probably this month.
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Your assumption rests on the notion that the government = everyone, and that the people in power aren't focusing that money toward their own pockets. I'm not aware of a Socialist government that has ever existed that did anything but line their own pockets while the people starved and went without.

Mao's China, Lenin & Stalin's USSR, old Vietnam, Cambodia under Pol Pot, Hugo's Venezuela, Fidel's Cuba, North Korea. It's the same story every time.
Btw, they have counterparts in the Ruby world: https://github.com/stympy/faker (which states to be a port from Perl) and https://github.com/thoughtbot/factory_girl
I use them in a Rails db/seed.rb file to create a new dev db every time I need new data to play with, especially after changes to the schema.
This is a bit off topic, but I'm amazed how understable the text is given that it has been translated by a machine, in a matter of seconds, for free.
Not suddenly, but maybe after the 4th or 5th replacement got assassinated in short order. Keep killing them as long as they remain hostage takers who don't surrender.
The NSA would have prevented any attacks, why are they worried...
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You're talking as if the dictators sit around, wondering about some sort of "SEO" to game their ranking on these lists.

The "life expectancy" figure can't be gamed, unless you out and out lie.

Here's a recent article for thought: http://www.wired.com/2010/04/cuban-health-lessons/
Is what Palestinians are up to in their spare time?
Hmm I was more impressed by PayPal's business tenacity than with their technical ingenuity. Along with the entrenched credit card companies they had to deal with fraud and organized crime.
The problem with assuming...

http://www.wired.com/2014/12/north-korea-did-not-hack-sony-p...

I find it funny how fast pop-media news jumps on top of a bandwagon without actual investigation.

Earlier we were being told "North Korea is definitely behind this". Right now everyone is saying "North Korea is probably not behind this".

Why bother with networks that just regurgitate information from other people? Don't push a point of view, just lay out actual facts and let the readers come to their conclusions as more information is made available.
Incredible press for a movie whose release they just canceled? The movie's getting a hell of a lot of attention; I'll grant you that. But I don't see how this helps the movie.

I know a lot of people are speculating that Sony has something up its sleeve, like a limited-time-only release right after Xmas, or early next year, or a digital release, etc. I'd consider that an extraordinarily slim to nil outside possibility. The material leaked in the Sony hack does not exactly give the impression that these guys are marketing geniuses. Just sayin'. :)

For what it's worth -- not saying you're suggesting this, just that I've now heard the theory a couple dozen times -- some people are speculating that Sony engineered this entire fiasco as a publicity stunt for the movie. That sort of thinking is beyond-the-pale naive. Sony doesn't want to be civilly or criminally liable for having doxxed thousands of its own employees. Believe me.
Don't worry, most 'terrorism' is about control of oil fields/pipelines. No terrorist will be stupid enough to blow up this.
Techreport.com has a great podcast (and website in general).
"Currently"

Is a strange straw man to invoke about a future technology.

Teleportation is also a strange analogy to make for what is essentially our current cancer treatments plus miniaturization which has a fairly clear roadmap.
Controversial with who? American audiences? I doubt it. What little controversy might exist over the film with American audiences is dwarfed by the controversy there was over even mundane family films like Harry Potter.

Sure, the North Koreans hate the film, but why do these cinema companies give half a shit? They weren't going to get North Korean ticket sales regardless of the movies content.
Freeing little kids from prisons isn't in good taste?
I think that much is clear, (the railway analogy), but the idea that tunnels are the main use case for semaphore signals is daft. All railways use variations on the principle of block signalling, where only one train is allowed on any section of track, even if successive trains are travelling in the same direction. This ensures safe separation of trains, which take some distance to stop.
Unemployment wasn't that low before the minimum wage was established. What was the primary source of unemployment then?
The difference between your unforeseeable future vs. the parent's is you could see a government doing the same decades ago, which means the technology was available that many decades ago to a private individual of sufficient resources.

His unforeseeable future wouldn't be possible because no entity could do it with sufficient resources and will right now according to him.
Get ready for the "we need to pass new cyber-laws to protect you" speeches. They're coming.
Not only that, but more physicians per capita isn't inherently a good thing.
I've honestly thought from the very beginning that the hackers had absolutely zero ties to the DPRK. Early on when people were curious on who did this and there was very little communication from the perpetrators I feel that the the only ties to North Korea was the speculation between the release date of the movie and the general speculation of Chinese and N. Korean IP addresses being increasingly prevalent in network attacks in recent years. I think the hackers glommed on to this speculation and are using it to increase the damage by playing on their (and our) fears.
I was certain that the story of NK being the actor here was just publicity, paid for by Sony to promote the film and capitalize on their hacking disaster. The release cancellation nixed the idea that Sony was behind the threats, but it still didn't point to NK's culpability. Any lunatic could have bombed any theater in the country next week and Sony would have been liable.

With these administration comments, is it more likely that NK was actually responsible? It's still possible that this will turn out to be the overblown suspicions of somebody unfamiliar with how digital attacks work, published too quickly because they fit the narrative. We've seen the state of journalistic fact checking lately, and even if this is the NYT, 'senior administration officials' isn't a bulletproof source. But it's also possible that we now live in an era where nations wage proxy digital war against corporations not just for theft but for ideology.

This would be a strange new state of affairs. I wonder how long before corporations are fighting back? If, say, Samsung's expected value for government reconstruction contracts following NK's fall was in the tens of billions, how difficult would it be for them to cause a couple military installations, power plants, or leaders' flights to explode and make regime change more likely?
>In light of the decision by the majority of our exhibitors not to show the film The Interview, we have decided not to move forward with the planned December 25 theatrical release. We respect and understand our partners’ decision and, of course, completely share their paramount interest in the safety of employees and theater-goers.

Source: http://deadline.com/2014/12/sony-scraps-the-interview-120132...

Reddit discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/2pmasy/its_official...

It's #1 on /r/all, comments are not that insightful.
A lot of people might see it now, who otherwise wouldn't have.
The date picker includes return date.
Government policy is heavily affected by cultural heterogeneity.
Don't worry about it.

* Unless you are starting a company in the exact same business right now.
So you have one instance of something _almost_ being banned in the UK (is that even true?), followed by two hypothetical situations.

Aside from being a rather flimsy argument in general, what does any of that have to do with the US? The parent referenced President Obama.
"Synthetic biology" in technical usage refers to custom sequences which are written on a computer then chemically assembled ex vivo. This is a widely used technique. It is distinct from the technique of extracting and amplifying a sequence from one organism and inserting it into another, although the results produced can be similar.

Source: I work in a molecular biology lab.
You say that they're designed for incredible fit but how can that be possible when there are only three size variations? People come in more than three sizes, after all. And are these available in women's sizes at all?
Not to put too fine a point on it, Sony's security practices were so negligent, anyone could have done it. The tools used were very unimpressive and easily available.

The evidence linking this to any nation-state at all at the moment is incredibly weak, bordering on non-existent.
How many North Koreans "sleeper agents" do we actually have inside the USA, that companies see this as a legitimate threat?

Shutting down an event because someone is able to say "remember Sept 11" says more about our own government than it does theirs. We should not be at the point where anybody can cause a disturbance for something they don't like just by uttering threats.
Ok, so they could sue non-US sites reposting the hacked information I guess.
“Our Work Has Been Violated and Exposed”
No. Scala has neither operator overloading nor any kind of rampant form of it.
When I saw "translate.google.com" in the URL, for some reason I had a feeling it was going to be in Russian... I don't know if it's a cultural thing for Russians to be reverse-engineers, but there certainly seem to be a lot of them.

This reminds me of http://breaknes.com/info , which judging from the style of the diagrams might be done by the same person. There's been a ton of transistor-level RE on the NES, but I hadn't seen it done for the PS1 until now. The level of attention to detail is amazing. It's also interesting that they're using Logisim, which is often regarded as a "toy"-level/educational logic simulator (it has some pretty limiting features that make it rather unsuitable for real diagrammatic logic design.)
If it was possible, I'd place a bet that the NSA know's who's responsible but likes to sit back and watch chaos unfold between the media and politicians.
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Did you read the sentence literally right after your quoted text?

> That suggests, but does not prove that that the same group or individuals may have been behind both attacks.
If you look at where Amazon decided to build it's headquarters (South Lake Union in Seattle), and how it decided to significantly expand it, you'll see how much of a gamble they are making as a company. South Lake Union was never meant to be a tech sector (historically it has been a center for biomedical research, but the influx of computing solutions has challenged the need of space in biomed research labs) - and is known for grid lock and poor traffic patterns. But Amazon is going full forward: they are building more cafeterias, more offices, more parking.

It is my opinion that Amazon will live or die by this decision. Seattle is the fastest growing (per capita) city in the United States and already has had (for decades) a housing, traffic and parking problem. The plans that Seattle has to expand public transportation do not include plans which will help the chokehold situation in SLU.

Currently Amazon only works because: the cost of housing versus the income from Amazon is balanced with the insane hours they demand of their employees and the traffic that is only helped by the odd hours that employees end up working. As the price of housing increases, especially in those areas with easy access to Amazon HQ, and as the traffic situation becomes worse, and as Amazon burns out both its reputation and potential long term employees, the long term prospects of Amazon's HQ IMHO are not very good. The more employees are squeezed and the less they are compensated, the more the pressure to work must come not from compensation but from political pressure - but I think other opportunities in the area will drastically outperform Amazon in terms of compensation and work-life balance in this world, so I expect Amazon to falter.
You need a mentor.

Freelancing as a junior dev is not a good move. Find a full time position somewhere that will train you and give you access to more experienced developers.
As I understand it, the only way for an American citizen to legally travel to Cuba is through specially designated cultural exchange programs.