pwnguin's comments

What stops someone from designing a blue team technique that is just red team techniques applied to your own product prior to release? I suspect MS does exactly that, but red team productivity varies.

But what about the actual software question? What makes this different than redis hyper log log? Or statsite

Short selling is absurdly risky, but selling put options should probably remain allowed.

I'm not even sure Robinhood is falling. Yes they had to take out a billion dollar bridge loan, but that means their assets under management just shot up massively. And now that the frenzy is over, they repay the loan and keep the assets under management.

I'm not sure 'We have the technology to censor the internet, and it's okay to deploy it' is the message you want to give the CCP.

> In order to ensure that changes to systems can be attributed to responsible individuals, there is usually some kind of system that tracks and audits changes. One person will raise a ‘change record’, which will usually involve filling out an enormous form, and then this change must be ‘signed off’ by one or more other person to ensure that changes don’t happen without due oversight.

And in any other planet, we call that a 'Pull Request.' My first real tech job was a community college that really bought into the whole ITIL framework. Important changes typically had to go through a Change Management Board, which met weekly. Meanwhile, key authentication systems involved passing passwords from PHP to perl to bash to vbscript in cleartext, in such a way that dollar signs and other string interpolation sigils would be processed, and therefore were banned. The person who wrote this kludge is now in charge of IT security for the college. And there was no version control to speak of anywhere, definitely no puppet or chef or ansible. It worked, but there were pretty much monthly fuckups along the lines of 'and then the utility truck backed into our power distribution cabinet' or 'the SAN vendor's technician mentioned this is the third time this week he's been on site with a client to deploy this emergency stability patch,' or 'the new guy upgraded the antivirus running on our databases, and we can't roll back because nobody has the old installer anymore' or my personal favorite: 'this position requires oncall duties 24/7/365.'

The California model of rent control limits the amount you can raise rent on a tenant, and the reasons you can evict someone. Surprisingly, you can often transfer a lease to a family member, leading to situations where someone is living in a rented house originally rented to their grandparent.

It also leads to situations where an empty nester has spare bedrooms but cannot afford to move into a smaller rental unit, effectively taking bedrooms off the market and making prices higher for everyone. Presumably AirBNB relieves some of this pressure, though I seem to recall some landlords running sting operations in order to evict long term tenants and reset the market rate.

Over the past 30 years of SF rent control, this dynamic has created a group of people for whom in-fill redevelopment would be disastrous: they'd lose their rent control, and definitely can't live here anymore. Much of SF is pretty low density, and housing supply would come from building up. Doesn't need to be a 60 tower millenium tower deal. But you'll need to tear up some buildings to make it happen, and the cheapest properties are the ones under rent control. So anyone campaigning on a 'build baby build' platform is more or less running a platform of evicting the poor and/or elderly.

At it's core, rent control is treating the symptom of high prices rather than the disease of tight supply.

> But, I actually use vector layers with layer styles ALL THE TIME. I actually use text layers with layer styles ALL THE TIME. I actually use non destructive adjustment layers ALL THE TIME.

Just use Inkscape and call it a day?

> Do you think Sergey Brin ... is thinking to himself, "I'm really satisfied with how many people found trivial information about pop stars with our technology" or is he thinking, "how can I get even more people to click the top-most served ads?"

He's probably scared shitless that he has exactly one revenue stream worth talking about, and has no idea how to supplement it.

> Edit: http://support.mtgox.com/ now shows that their Zendesk account has been terminated (a new account can be registered at that address).

Reregistering that Zendesk account alone has to be worth something amusing =)

He worked in [biosimulation](https://simtk.org/users/ctj). A bio [here] claims he worked on 3D slicer, but I don't see any (such contribution)[https://github.com/Slicer/Slicer/graphs/contributors].

The PhD in question though is Computer Science, who's faculty ranks have (probably) not followed the same path you're charting for academia as a whole.

But should classes be hard for being hard's sake, or should they be hard when learning the material requires it?

I really need to do reading and research on this, but I'm pretty sure that's what Hidden Markov Models are for. You could watch a webpage go from HTML to javascript and back!

I'm pretty sure there's a file named /

I went to the version of this talk he gave at Java Symposium; his argument was that it can work for Clojure, where immutability and functional purity resolve some of the problems. Perhaps these discussions moved his position slightly.

Or maybe he just learned Clojure people are pedantic and it's more time efficient to agree rather than argue with them.

But properly understanding what? You can diagram the question all you want, but if you don't know the answer it's pointless, no? Wikipedia is just a source of data.

Given that Jeopardy focuses a lot on literature, I'd also throw in gutenburg project books. And probably a newspaper archive going way back, like the NYT.

Personally, I like Schiller (http://www.econ.yale.edu/~shiller/) more than Roubini. His record: he wrote a book called Irrational Exuberance, and the .com market promptly crashed. He wrote papers from 2003 to 2007 suggesting the housing bubble was real, what it's effects were and how it might be mitigated / avoided.

Where Roubini simply says we're all walking in the dark, Schiller is the rare critical eye who offers, in public, insight about where and how things are going wrong.

I wonder if their content was determined by A/B testing?