Tech companies and 17 govts sign up to Christchurch Call

Tech companies and 17 govts sign up to Christchurch Call

Tech company and world leaders have signed an unprecedented Christchurch Call agreement to eliminate terrorist and violent extremist content online. The meeting, the first of its kind, in Paris overnight saw all of the major technology companies, 17 countries and the European Commission sign up to the call initiated by Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and French President Emmanuel Macron, in the wake of the Christchurch attack that killed 51 people. New Zealand and global investors worth more than $NZ5 trillion are uniting to put pressure on companies who have signed up to the Christchurch Call.

Source: www.rnz.co.nz

Making Playgrounds a Little More Dangerous

Making Playgrounds a Little More Dangerous

The Yard, for kids 6 through 13, lacks the usual monkey bars, slides and swings. The paint ed wooden gate is low to disco urage adults from inadvertently wandering in. Despite a steady rain on Saturday, the opening day for the season, The Yard was a hive of activity.

Source: www.nytimes.com

The global trade in junk and trash

The global trade in junk and trash

At the moment, the cost of sending a forty-foot shipping container of discarded plastics from the Port of Los Angeles to Port Klang, Malaysia (where many of California’s plastic exports are heading since China’s restrictions on imports), is roughly $1,200. DS: Your previous book, Junkyard Planet, was about the global industrial trade in scrap (or recyclables) and your upcoming book is about globalized trails of secondhand commodities – everything from clothes to collectables. What happened then was shocking: as global consumer demand crashed, Chinese factories stopped buying recyclables (and other raw materials), forcing some cities in developed countries to landfill their scrap paper.

Source: discardstudies.com

Almost every speed limit is too low (2017)

Almost every speed limit is too low (2017)

The choice of the 85th percentile speed is a data-driven conclusion—as noted lieutenant Megge and speed limit resources like the Michigan State Police’s guide—that has been established by the consistent findings of years of traffic studies. One member pointed us to a 1992 report by the US Department of Transportation on the “Effects of Raising and Lowering Speed Limits,” which, beside making the same arguments described above, noted that the majority of highway agencies set speed limits below the 85th percentile, leading over 50% of motorists to drive “in technical violation of the speed limit laws.” Why speed limits are low
If you peruse the websites of state’s departments of transportation, you’ll often find a very technocratic explanation of the 85th percentile principle.

Source: qz.com

Hacker News Front Page Trends

Hacker News Front Page Trends

For a given search, the y-axis can display the percentage or number of all front page items that match the search term, the cumulative score of matching front page items, or the percentage of total front page score that the matching items represent. The easiest way to explain them is with examples: – titles that include the word “machine” and the word “learning” – titles that include the word “machine” but not the word “learning” – titles that include the phrase “machine learning” or the word “ML” Titles are converted to using PostgreSQL’s built-in text search configuration. Exact match, case insensitive uses a PostgreSQL regular expression to match the contents of each search term within word boundaries: Note that this makes use of a trigram index, as opposed to full text search, which uses a full text GIN index.

Source: toddwschneider.com

Human Interest (YC S15, Formerly Captain401) Is Hiring a Product Manager

Human Interest (YC S15, Formerly Captain401) Is Hiring a Product Manager

We’ve built an automated, paperless 401(k) that makes it possible for small and medium-sized businesses to offer a 401(k) benefit to their employees — something that only 14% of them are able to do today. In doing so, we’re empowering businesses of any size to safeguard the financial futures of their employees. As an employee benefits company, benefits are very important to us, and Human Interest’s philosophy is to be generous when it comes to employees’ wellness.

Source: humaninterest.com

Close to 735k Fraudulently Obtained IP Addresses Uncovered and Revoked

Close to 735k Fraudulently Obtained IP Addresses Uncovered and Revoked

“A company in South Carolina obtained and utilized 11 shelf companies across the United States, and intentionally created false aliases purporting to be officers of those companies, to induce ARIN into issuing the fraudulently sought IPv4 resources and approving related transfers and reassignments of these addresses. “The indictment alleges that since February 2014, Golestan and Micfo created and utilized ‘Channel Partners,’ which purported to consist of several individual businesses, all of whom acquired the right to IP addresses from the American Registry of Internet Numbers (ARIN). The indictment alleges that Golestan and Micfo fabricated the true nature of the Channel Partners, including creating false officers and deceptive websites for the businesses, which were in turn used to deceive ARIN and to fraudulently obtain IP address rights from ARIN.

Source: www.circleid.com

Almost every speed limit is too low

Almost every speed limit is too low

The choice of the 85th percentile speed is a data-driven conclusion—as noted lieutenant Megge and speed limit resources like the Michigan State Police’s guide—that has been established by the consistent findings of years of traffic studies. One member pointed us to a 1992 report by the US Department of Transportation on the “Effects of Raising and Lowering Speed Limits,” which, beside making the same arguments described above, noted that the majority of highway agencies set speed limits below the 85th percentile, leading over 50% of motorists to drive “in technical violation of the speed limit laws.” Why speed limits are low
If you peruse the websites of state’s departments of transportation, you’ll often find a very technocratic explanation of the 85th percentile principle.

Source: qz.com

Google now allows using gVisor virtualization in Kubernetes Engine

Google now allows using gVisor virtualization in Kubernetes Engine

At Google Cloud Next ‘19 we announced GKE Sandbox in beta, a new feature in Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) that increases the security and isolation of your containers by adding an extra layer between your containers and host OS. In addition to limiting potential attacks, GKE Sandbox helps teams running multi-tenant clusters, such as SaaS providers, who often execute unknown or untrusted code. “GKE Sandbox’s userland kernel acts as a firewall between applications and the cluster node’s kernel, preventing a compromised application from exploiting other applications through it,” said Jones.

Source: cloud.google.com