johnwyles

maybe this is old information but I thought it sent information back to Kite? This article is old but for what it's worth: https://qz.com/1043614/this-startup-learned-the-hard-way-tha...

Precisely! Albeit I am a bit surprised our infosec team seemingly haven't cracked down or made a stance just yet on Kite and other telemetry software for developers. That day will come soon I am sure :)

I'm sure there will be provisions in place for exceptions

I am not sure how you are the top comment when you are complaining about issues that generally are not relevant to the post, you didn't explain your "extinguished" shares, and you do not explain why it would not be worth it to go after them if they have done something to you...

However, your last comment holds up well and I echo that sentiment.

AND.... THREAD DEATH.

I have little clout but as an American who visited for 2 weeks during the whole Snowden ordeal I felt it kinda "meh" looking at the place through expatriation goggles at the time. Quito is a very religious and conservative city, Baños is a cute mountain village with a quiet reserved culture, and Guayaquil was the more liberal but raw and somewhat... "boisterous" city. Not sure that word fits but outside of smoking pot and surfing all day in the costal town of Montanita all day I would say it's not a great ex-pat country. Overall the country felt very religiously devout and not starting to hockey-stick (at the time anyway) on tech-forward business and culture. It also is an OPEC country so it is bogged down with corruption and political issues though it does seem to strive to stamp them out. However, if your goal is South America and you would like to expatriate and remain in tech, Chile would be the place I would recommend most for all the programs the government is pushing for startups. Much more to say but I'll just wrap up with that...

Removing SSH should be the goal though. If you follow the old Visible Ops book you also "Electrify the Fence" and introduce accountability, etc. If your goal is to see what a process is doing introduce tracing. If you need to add a "println()" then push that out as a change because the environment is changing from your altering of it. Because the tool doesn't exist yet that you need to SSH into a box doesn't mean it shouldn't - you have to instrument the tooling to prevent you from needing this adhoc ability. Admittedly it scares me still but ideally the end game is to never need to or have the ability to do so through a tool which has all the things you are looking for without allowing a human to be too human and miss a semi-colon.

1. You have to pay for those but the thinking goes that if you are at the complexity and scale of those problems you reach out to a TAM to sort them out for you (ie. $$$).

2. Give it time; this will evolve and it is still in its infancy. Like all things it is buggy in the beginning but as adoption hockey-sticks so too will the stability, documentation, etc.

3. Portability is traded for breadth of services and depth is gained through vendor lock-in and the one-size-fits-all package. Of your concerns I would say this one will be around for a long time or at least until a "conversion kit" is built to shoehorn all of your stuff into another provider allowing you to jump ship or test the waters elsewhere.

I am a veteran like you (20 years) and while you choose IaaS because you like the control most want to punt their problem to someone else and to pay for that.

If our goal is to get from LAX to JFK we could fly our own plane, charting our own course, looking up weather, doing engine checks, refueling, dealing with air traffic control. and we'll get there and be in full control the whole way. However most will pay to be shuttled in to a commercial airplane. Then of course there are some that are willing to pay more to have their own personal pilot get them there in a chartered aircraft where they are afforded a more tailored experience.

There are some really great pilots you can hire out there to do it all for you (or if you are in fact one yourself) but if the goal is to simply go from point A to point B in as little time as possible we don't have time to find, train, and rely on a single pilot or ourself to get there. We will take the hit and pay others to get us there.

That is what all this serverless non-sense is about if you ask me. The tradeoffs of simplicity and handing the busywork off to someone else is more enticing than the control we have in the process. Also, isn't it nice to be able to say, when you arrive late, that it was the airlines fault? :)

Wait. Even if you have access to the device how do you get app-to-app access of the underlying texts unless there is a hack unknown to Apple. I know there are barriers Apple has built in where developers cannot access the text messages because of many obvious reasons for abuse. Perhaps Pegasus knows of a "0 day" or multiple and use this? However, E2E encryption PLUS Apples security model around text messaging in iOS should prevent it.

This talk is all well and good between us here on Hackernews but I don't think your Joe Plumber really cares that these things are going on behind the curtains enough to vote about them, protest, or write his congressman. Look at the "uproar" Snowden caused - it just pushed these activities further under ground within US cyber intelligence.

Finally someone is going to jail for Javascript

I think you may still be missing the point. What is the harm in completely ignoring the stock options and negotiating strictly on base pay. I think stock options for the most part should be considered like free snacks in the workplace. "Nice-to-have", they taste better because they're free, and if all the sudden they get yanked you didn't stake any livelihood or change of circumstance for it. If they end up becoming something great - maybe you get a new espresso maker, extra bathrooms at work, or an office instead of an open desk. Rarely will stock options change your life that you shouldn't plan on them but a nice perk if they do as they are very infrequently life-changing by any measure.

There was a recent NPR segment highlighting also a program of Sweden for entrepreneurship of a six-month-leave where your job would be saved for you while you pursued a startup or business venture as well but I forget the name of the program in Sweden.

> is it justified or lawful to make it a crime for you to do so?

Certainly not. My point above yours although you were not replying to it is asking a question I'd like to also ask you. We clearly have a very clear definition on what intent is and how that is the resounding factor considered in such a case. However, do we simply do nothing because it's the nature of the project itself to be distributed and immutable history through time. We clearly cannot change the overwhelming applications that technology has so my guess is the only way this is dealt with is a few easy low-hanging fruit items can be done to safeguard against it and if anyone is caught operating outside of that with the sole intent of some illegal activity then we deal with it like we would any other case of illegal materials being found in someone's possession. The nice thing here is that everything is traceable given enough time and calculating power and that this person can theoretically be caught, even if at one point they were to have paid cash for coins with someone off the street. Good old detective work can kick in from there.

I guess I am more curious if these instances can be used to shoehorn law enforcement or the federal agencies into areas that hinder the full capability of the various blockchain applications. I remember back to the San Bernardino shooters cell phone needing to be unlocked and how nail-biting it was that Apple might give away that they had a secret backdoor they were willing to give out to all of our horror. Likewise I hope this doesn't go that same route, and it seems really unlikely, that something such as this would slow the progress of these technologies - not building a backdoor but slowly down transactions to check for illegal content essentially.

This comment is why I came to comment myself. You cannot remove these types of things once they are baked in they are there for good unless there is some very complex math involved in somehow safely removing or flagging this section of the blockchain but then that would defeat the purpose of the whole cryptographically secure nature of it.

Second is you can stomp down on websites that search the blockchain for text, images, videos, illegal documents, etc. However that is not solving the issue directly. However that is hurting a lot of positive potentially interesting uses on account of the very small percentage of abuses. What you essentially have is a GIANT public whiteboard but you've given everyone a permanent marker. If you can control the content that goes in very directly (doing some AI analysis on photos for example) then there will always be a subversive tactic like the XOR one mentioned above, etc.

I suppose the real reason I comment here is that I cannot forsee anyway that these things will not happen and will not continue to happen. Like with ThePirateBay I suppose you have to go after the sites that make it convenient to find this information rather than trying to solve the problem in the blockchain itself _somehow_, which I think we can pretty much agree from a security standpoint and tech-forward approach would render the whole concept of blockchain dubious.

well think of the other possibly bigger perk: they get your business and loyalty again in the future at a discount since the card was given as an enticing amount (e.g. "$50" but after markup is only really $28 to the business).

> does a privacy maximalist mentality needs to be imposed on everyone?

I kinda think so, yeah. Everyone flies past the privacy stuff, or gives compromises, or is traded free Farmville points, or given extra coins, or a new shiny feature in exchange for it, their friends are on it, their celebrity is on it, etc.

People will opt-in for all those reasons not realizing or seeing what they gave up or its consequences.

Fork it and submit him a PR!

This doesn't require multiple cameras at all. It requires multiple (>1) photos of the same subject/setting from slightly different angles. If you have a subject that is moving fast you need a higher shutter speed and a quick succession of photos in order to build this but it's doable. But as you allude to ideally you could take the photos precisely at the same time using multiple cameras. It's really not that much unlike how The Matrix effect was done really.

You said nothing that wasn't painfully obvious. My point is to build the backend right so you don't have to rewrite it again later. The time investment in the beginning will pay dividends as you scale (unless you are just mocking up or making an MVP)

Honest question about the graph because I haven't had my coffee yet: doesn't this red spike simply mean the 2018 levels returned to the 2016 levels?

I saw that too! They can label the team names but cannot name the other objects "Players" and "Football"?

I would say from what I have seen in articles surfacing now and then that the NBA has some of the best data analysis and breakdown of players and such. You might look into the companies or efforts doing this for an analog.

These guys (SportsVU) popped up last time I read about 5 years ago (looks like they did some of the recent WC as well?):

https://www.stats.com/2018-world-cup/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SportVU

Same and about the same timeline.

It's not CCP? Because Iceland is not a member of the EU although I suppose they could be subject to this somehow(?)

As I said above: hire someone new or invest the time to learn the language. Just because someone knows how to make a cute scarf using duct tape, safety scissors, and Elmers glue doesn't mean they should be building your backend driving the company 95 mph with seatbelts, airbags, and a chassis with crumple-zones.

My $0.02 but that is NOT a reason to use JS on the backend. That is an argument to cross-train or hire someone. It's like saying "We only had an expert on building houses made with straw so we chose straw." Because they know the language doesn't mean for one moment that that will make a good background there are so many concepts, services, paradigms and best practices that the language is probably the least of importance other than it should be something solid, robust, and battle tested which I would argue against with most JS backends although some are fairly well understood.

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whew! so many future and present half-finished projects should start disappearing (including mine)! woohoo!

say what now? are you basically just saying location aware pricing? that is nothing nuanced of course - look no further than any fundamental supply chain management firm - it is the crux of their business.