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YurtleTheTurtleon Welcome to Black Hat, where the attendees are the threat

Lots of infosec and cybersecurity professionals go. I assume they make up the largest group of attendees.

YurtleTheTurtleon Apple and Google Face Growing Revolt Over App Store ‘Tax’

Apple Pay and app store/itunes payments are completely separate. I had apple pay set-up for awhile and when I went to purchase an app, itunes wouldn't accept apple pay and I had to re-enter all my CC information into itunes.

YurtleTheTurtleon Machine Learning in Google Bigquery

Oracle has had linear regression for well over a decade now.

YurtleTheTurtleon Tesla Plunges After a Conference Call

He doesn't want to admit they company will need to raise money later this year.

YurtleTheTurtleon How a Political Engineering Firm Exposed Their Code Base

And I'm sure you will provide ample evidence of this "vote rigging."

YurtleTheTurtleon Tesla announces biggest quarterly loss

Tesla was founded in 2003 and they aren't close to mass production yet.

YurtleTheTurtleon Alphabet's earnings miss profit estimates as spending grows

The economist agrees with you.

https://www.economist.com/news/business/21735029-stockmarket...

"Imagine if advertising spending really did rise to 1.8% of GDP in America by 2027. Most firms’ costs would have to rise, cutting total corporate profits (excluding those of ad platforms) from about 6.5% to 5.7% of GDP, the kind of drop normally associated with a recession. Alternatively, imagine if the firms in the S&P 500 index (excluding ad platforms) bore all the additional cost of the advertising boom. Their combined return on capital would drop from the present 10% to 8%, at or just below their cost of capital. America Inc would go from being the world’s greatest profit machine to flirting with Japanese-style financial-zombie status"

YurtleTheTurtleon Wi-Fi startup Eero lays off 30 employees

It's also a security nightmare unless you are trained network engineer who can configure the thing properly.

YurtleTheTurtleon Tesla's Model 3 volume production target pushed back again

So have they been lying to investors?

YurtleTheTurtleon Reading privileged memory with a side-channel

Note that's not a legal requirement. That's just a policy many companies have to lower the risk of insider trading.

YurtleTheTurtleon Ask HN: Any open source code/materials on predicting future crimes based on data?

https://www.propublica.org/article/machine-bias-risk-assessm...

Food for thought on how incredibly biased these effort can be.

YurtleTheTurtleon Apple is close to acquiring Shazam, sources say

I thought most companies were moving towards NN for this. Doesn't Shazam rely on a ton of audio processing and not NNs? Seems like a backward move.

YurtleTheTurtleon Meg Whitman to Step Down as HPE CEO

Can you explain how his links in any way support his argument that D's implement policy specifically to avoid voting R? Seems like you just want to perpetuate a victim-hood narrative that doesn't exist.

YurtleTheTurtleon Meg Whitman to Step Down as HPE CEO

Not sure what your links have to do with voting D or R. Specifically I don't see how either link has anything to do with "avoiding putting a checkmark next to a (R)"

YurtleTheTurtleon Tesla's mass firings spread to SolarCity

California is at will but they do have specific laws and procedures for mass firings and layoffs. I think Tesla is trying to skirt these by calling them performance related instead of layoffs. (And to protect their stock price from having to admit they can't afford all their workers.)

YurtleTheTurtleon Tesla's mass firings spread to SolarCity

No it's preempting going broke. Especially since Elon is one of the combined companies biggest creditors and has his own personal finances deeply entwined with that of the company. (See also Sears / Eddie Lampert)

YurtleTheTurtleon Detect.location: Access iOS location data without actually having access

There should be separate permissions for just photos vs photos with exif data.