Hacker News: mikecb

New comment by mikecb in "Ask HN: What tools do you use for data munging and merging?"

mikecb — Mon, 13 Jan 2020 21:09:56 +0000

R+dplyr and trifacta (GCP Dataprep)

New comment by mikecb in "I scanned Austria"

mikecb — Sat, 09 Feb 2019 14:53:13 +0000

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

New comment by mikecb in "U.S. Oil Production Is 23 Years Ahead of Schedule"

mikecb — Fri, 25 Jan 2019 02:21:05 +0000

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.

New comment by mikecb in "Cloud Act – Improve law enforcement access to data stored across borders"

mikecb — Wed, 14 Mar 2018 19:44:23 +0000

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.)

New comment by mikecb in "SpaceX craft overshot Mars’ orbit and is headed to asteroid belt"

mikecb — Wed, 07 Feb 2018 16:46:25 +0000

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

New comment by mikecb in "SpaceX craft overshot Mars’ orbit and is headed to asteroid belt"

mikecb — Wed, 07 Feb 2018 16:24:31 +0000

Need an FAA license to launch, the US is signatory to various space treaties, etc.

New comment by mikecb in "The FastMail Security Mindset"

mikecb — Wed, 06 Dec 2017 12:35:58 +0000

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.

New comment by mikecb in "Open/R: Open routing for modern networks"

mikecb — Wed, 15 Nov 2017 23:25:20 +0000

http://www.opencompute.org/projects/networking/ ?

New comment by mikecb in "How should you build a high-performance column store for the 2020s?"

mikecb — Sat, 11 Nov 2017 18:54:56 +0000

Apache Beam, gRPC/protobuf, Kubernetes. There are examples besides Tensorflow.

New comment by mikecb in "How to use Let's Encypt with Google Cloud Platform"

mikecb — Tue, 25 Jul 2017 16:08:31 +0000

Click of a button certs with automated renewal is coming.

New comment by mikecb in "Linksys CherryBlossom Advisory"

mikecb — Thu, 22 Jun 2017 23:33:29 +0000

Need something with a TPM, like an Onhub/Google Wifi.

New comment by mikecb in "Google Cloud Platform expands to Australia with new Sydney region"

mikecb — Wed, 21 Jun 2017 09:37:58 +0000

AWS probably also uses Equinix facilities in many regions.

New comment by mikecb in "Google Cloud Platform expands to Australia with new Sydney region"

mikecb — Wed, 21 Jun 2017 01:54:26 +0000

Circumstantial evidence points to a strong Equinix partnership.

Google Cloud Platform expands to Australia with new Sydney region

mikecb — Tue, 20 Jun 2017 23:24:18 +0000

Article URL: https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2017/06/Google-Cloud-Region-in-Sydney.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14599396

Points: 94

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New comment by mikecb in "How to use BeyondCorp to ditch VPN, improve security and go to the cloud"

mikecb — Tue, 20 Jun 2017 22:10:40 +0000

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...

New comment by mikecb in "How to use BeyondCorp to ditch VPN, improve security and go to the cloud"

mikecb — Tue, 20 Jun 2017 21:52:39 +0000

When are we going to hear about further contextual auth capabilities coming to IAP? It's awesome.

New comment by mikecb in "New Singapore Google Cloud Platform region"

mikecb — Thu, 15 Jun 2017 09:51:16 +0000

London and Northern Virginia have also launched recently.

New comment by mikecb in "Five years of IPv6: whither the next five?"

mikecb — Tue, 06 Jun 2017 22:34:16 +0000

Well, partial at least. Appengine since 2010, cloudsql for a couple of years, and load balancers for the last few months.

New comment by mikecb in "Google – Project Shield – Free DDoS Protection"

mikecb — Fri, 26 May 2017 22:30:04 +0000

If you use GCP, you're using this system.

New comment by mikecb in "Google – Project Shield – Free DDoS Protection"

mikecb — Fri, 26 May 2017 22:11:07 +0000

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