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mikecb··on Ask HN: What tools do you use for data munging and merging?
R+dplyr and trifacta (GCP Dataprep)
mikecb··on I scanned Austria
Japan is doing this: https://www.zdnet.com/article/japanese-government-plans-to-h...

In the US, DHS does this for the federal government, as well as some state and private organizations: https://www.us-cert.gov/resources/ncats

mikecb··on U.S. Oil Production Is 23 Years Ahead of Schedule
Usually, Pigouvian taxes like the one OP was proposing are calculated to cover the complete externalized costs of the item being taxed. So in this case, it would include the costs of adjusting to climate change. This would make alternatives relatively cheaper, as well as raising revenue to support research and construction of new energy infrastructure, as well as point addressing of specific projects identified to reduce the impacts of climate change. Of course, this is all if you believe that the current political climate (not only in the US, but in large middle income economies as well) can support such taxes. And then you have to decide what the tax should be! Ultimately, cap and trade turn out to be far easier.
mikecb··on Cloud Act – Improve law enforcement access to data stored across borders
Because Congress' intentions are taken into account only after the actual text, and most of the time not at all (or they would have written their intentions clearly within the enforceable provisions.)
mikecb··on SpaceX craft overshot Mars’ orbit and is headed to asteroid belt
Do they not?

UNOOSA, Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, including the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies, Art. IX [1]:

"States Parties to the Treaty shall pursue studies of outer space, including the Moon and other celestial bodies, and conduct exploration of them so as to avoid their harmful contamination..."

Note that State parties are responsible for the actions of their nationals later in the paragraph.

Is the above wrong? I admit to not being a space person.

Edit: [1] http://www.unoosa.org/pdf/publications/STSPACE11E.pdf

mikecb··on SpaceX craft overshot Mars’ orbit and is headed to asteroid belt
Need an FAA license to launch, the US is signatory to various space treaties, etc.
mikecb··on The FastMail Security Mindset
I know that GSuite would like to differentiate its enterprise products by features, but allowing basic/business plans to force U2F would be great. Since it's also available in GCP's Cloud Identity product (which is free), I hope this is coming down the road.
mikecb··on Open/R: Open routing for modern networks
http://www.opencompute.org/projects/networking/ ?
mikecb··on How should you build a high-performance column store for the 2020s?
Apache Beam, gRPC/protobuf, Kubernetes. There are examples besides Tensorflow.
mikecb··on How to use Let's Encypt with Google Cloud Platform
Click of a button certs with automated renewal is coming.
mikecb··on Linksys CherryBlossom Advisory
Need something with a TPM, like an Onhub/Google Wifi.
mikecb··on Google Cloud Platform expands to Australia with new Sydney region
AWS probably also uses Equinix facilities in many regions.
mikecb··on Google Cloud Platform expands to Australia with new Sydney region
Circumstantial evidence points to a strong Equinix partnership.
mikecb··on How to use BeyondCorp to ditch VPN, improve security and go to the cloud
Haven't tried yet myself, but since the ingress resource is just an https load balancer, enable IAP on that. Like so: https://medium.com/@DazWilkin/google-cloud-iap-and-gke-c773d...

Edit more direct: https://cloud.google.com/iap/docs/container-engine-quickstar...

mikecb··on How to use BeyondCorp to ditch VPN, improve security and go to the cloud
When are we going to hear about further contextual auth capabilities coming to IAP? It's awesome.
mikecb··on New Singapore Google Cloud Platform region
London and Northern Virginia have also launched recently.
mikecb··on Five years of IPv6: whither the next five?
Well, partial at least. Appengine since 2010, cloudsql for a couple of years, and load balancers for the last few months.
mikecb··on Google – Project Shield – Free DDoS Protection
If you use GCP, you're using this system.
mikecb··on Google – Project Shield – Free DDoS Protection
This is what protected Brian Krebs pro bono after traffic grew too big for Akamai.

Great talk about it at Enigma earlier this year: https://youtu.be/ifp8l2yx7JA

mikecb··on Machine learning without centralized training data
Chrome used differential privacy far before Apple. See the RAPPOR paper.
mikecb··on Espresso – Google’s peering edge architecture
And here's 2014, which was on the Andromeda NFV stack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4gOZrUwWmc

And B4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVNlXg0iN-g

mikecb··on FBI arrests author of NanoCore after it was pirated and abused by hackers
There's a long tradition there, wasn't BO2K non-ironically marketed as a system admin tool?
mikecb··on A new home for Google Open Source
I routinely click through the google and gcp orgs, and I hadn't seen quite a few of these, a couple of which I'd really like to use. Congrats!
mikecb··on LastPass RCE vulnerability fixed
Concern about code quality is legitimate, and vulns discovered is one metric for that, but I worry that hopping to the unreviewed (and therefore lacking vuln disclosures) app is even worse. But I don't use lastpass.
mikecb··on Google’s DeepMind made ‘inexcusable’ errors handling UK health data, says report
Interestingly, Deepmind's Ben Laurie has been working on certificate transparency-like tech to permit a verifiable audit log of access to data like this, precisely for this purpose: https://qz.com/929833/googles-goog-deepmind-is-using-blockch...

If you want to take a look at the underlying technology, take a look at https://github.com/google/trillian

mikecb··on Google Family Link
Several services do this, including google and amazon:

https://support.google.com/googleplay/answer/7007852?hl=en

mikecb··on Google Identity-Aware Proxy
Part of the announcement was that additional contextual auth capabilities would be added.
mikecb··on Secure Computing for Journalists
Many people who find bugs for a living would argue the opposite.
mikecb··on Google launches Meet, an enterprise-friendly version of Hangouts
This is just the next iteration of hangouts, which was already pivoting to enterprise, re-branded. Kinda necessary, since hangouts doesn't really suggest business use.
mikecb··on Ask HN: Is S3 down?
or was it? dun dun
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