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Re:Dow Jones’ watchlist of 2.4M high-risk clients has leaked on Wednesday February 27, 2019 @07:08PM (#19268028)
Am I missing something or is misconfiguring your cloud the way to go if you're a vendor of an osint product?

Information from public sources - no liability? No DJ customer details - no loss of business? Bob Diachenko discovered it - so no dumps floating around? 3rd responsible - remains unnamed, no brand damage? Free sample included in the high traffic TC article

It probably was not intentional, but could Dow Jones have benefited from this press overall?

Re:The Zipper Rule on German Roads on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @12:46AM (#19083239)
Kiwis have this rule, signs saying "Take this tip: merge like a zip!" (think of it said in a happy kiwi accent). Driving in Australia without the rule, merging gets personal quickly.
Re:TensorFlow Distributions on Tuesday December 05, 2017 @07:48PM (#15857613)

  "TensorFlow Distributions is widely used in diverse
  applications. It is used by production systems within
  Google and by Google Brain and DeepMind for research
  prototypes. It is the backend for Edward"

  Some docs:
  https://www.tensorflow.org/api_docs/python/tf/distributions
  https://www.tensorflow.org/api_docs/python/tf/distributions/bijectors
Thanks Dustin and the Google team!
Re:Efficient Air-Conditioning Beams Heat into Space on Tuesday September 05, 2017 @05:15PM (#15179182)
Re:LogDevice: a distributed data store for logs on Thursday August 31, 2017 @11:42PM (#15145953)
Similarities to CORFU / Tango design (see Zlog post: http://noahdesu.github.io/2014/10/26/corfu-on-ceph.html).

Edit: This is a good thing