skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is just rubbing salt in the self inflicted wounds.

I think that this could probably be the first real danger for Uber, especially if their self driving cars effort is killed.

The major costs in taxi operation are fuel and humans. Electricity solves the first, self driving second.

And they can even escape regulation if they present themselves as ultra short term rent a car service.
Quote from article:

'Although the emphasis varies, baizuo is used generally to describe those who “only care about topics such as immigration, minorities, LGBT and the environment” and “have no sense of real problems in the real world”; they are hypocritical humanitarians who advocate for peace and equality only to “satisfy their own feeling of moral superiority”; they are “obsessed with political correctness” to the extent that they “tolerate backwards Islamic values for the sake of multiculturalism”; they believe in the welfare state that “benefits only the idle and the free riders”; they are the “ignorant and arrogant westerners” who “pity the rest of the world and think they are saviours”.'
BURNED HIS HEAD WITH a LIGHTSABER
Depends on what it's for, I suppose. These have no ram or hdd. I'd spend $75 on a used Asus Chromebox instead. Then you get 2gb ram + 16gb ssd. And you can reflash it to run regular Linux. Has an open ram slot too.

Or, if you want a fast dev board, the Odroids are $35 to $60.
Reminds me... https://goo.gl/YF3zHl

However, truth be told: We didn't evolve for billions of years to die by a few common germs. There are, of course, more deadly ones that could definitely make you sick. Pick and choose your floor.
Correct. Apologies!
We agree about it being not JUST old Windows versions being affected.

I replied to your comment because the "old" Windows XP having no patch available was significant here, and I read your comment as saying "old" windows versions were not proportionally more responsible for WannaCry's rapid spread.

Windows XP is still the third largest version of Windows by current installed base (after Windows 10 and Windows 7).

The fact that Windows XP remained unpatched was significant, as there is notable overlap between Windows machines that aren't getting new security updates (at least within a month or two of their release) and Windows machines still running Windows XP.

This vulnerability was, in fact, unusually dangerous, relative to other Windows XP vulnerabilities that have come to light in the last 5 years, and the install base of the "older" Windows XP machines made a big difference in the ransomware's ability to spread.
It depends on what you want to do with a home server. Is it a home entertainment system with ready-to-use entertainment UI? A computer in a compact case no larger than the size of a modem/router with just an OS installed (Linux, Windows, Mac OSX)?

The former is popularly taken over by the integrated system within TV / media player (yes, many of the newest DVD & BlueRay media players do come with a better, surprisingly [1], integrated system), and you can play media like Netflix / YouTube from your mobile phone.

The latter is somewhat a customized solution, depending on what you do. I would run on my old laptop, or I can run on a raspberry Pi (which is capable of running HD video at 1080p), plus a large SSD network storage device (or use "cloud" if you have a good Internet connectivity).

There are plenty options out there, but for a $60 deal (USD) is pretty good. Most big brands can easily cost you $100+ with just Atom CPU in it. I wouldn't mind getting one though, if it becomes available again.

[1]: Samsung BD-JM57C Streaming Blu-ray Player (love it)
The microcontrollers that used to run these things were never particularly free, were they?

Is it worse just because the computers running them are now more powerful?
Undoubtedly the market for ride sharing built with autonomous vehicles will afford for multiple winners -- but this certainly looks like a strong contender for the first.
In my edit at the bottom of the comment you just replied to, I acknowledge that actually what you claim is a flaw in my argument is actually correct.

By purposefully misconstruing my comment as misogynistic, you find a genuine flaw: you are absolutely right, I made a mistake by appealing to "do you, a man, want to work in an office full of only men forever?" rather than, "should offices discriminate against women and not allow them equal opportunity?"

So even though you went out of your way to prove a point, actually we can improve how good of a place HN is for women through doing so.

If you had phrased it as follows: "Logicallee, I want to make sure that you do not accidentally imply that the primary reason for allowing women to work at tech workplaces is for the benefit of men - you may want to edit your statement which could be construed (or misconstrued) this way", then do you see how, especially after I acknowledged it and maybe edited my comment, we would end up with a safer, more welcoming place that takes women into better consideration?

So actually although you thought you were proving a flaw in my argument, what you were really doing is showing the strength of my argument by pointing out a flaw in a part of my comment that was not fundamental to the argument!

This may be hard to follow. Imagine if I said "People could improve their orthographie by using more common words, rather than obscure Greek and Latin words" and you pointed out that I misspelled orthography, but if I had written "spelling" I would have written it correctly. So in this case the flaw (mistake) in my phrasing would have actually strengthened it.

The flaw (mistake) in my verbiage that you point out actually strengthens my argument.

I know we are making really nuanced arguments but I hope you see what I mean! I did take the time to see what you mean.

We're really dancing on pinheads here, though.
This is amazing work! While watching the video, my jaw dropped when you selected "componetize." I'm looking forward to playing with this.
Until you find out no one really cares what you finish, and telling people before you start gets all the positive feedback without the hard work
Perhaps it's just me, but I feel I'm seeing more and more thinly veiled advertisement on HN.

I mean, almost every claim debatably, is an exaggeration or blatantly false.

As CFTM pointed out, the whole thing is a bunch of weak arguments for you to buy some old, out out lease hardware on ebay.

Or buy a known good product, spend the extra cash on the accessories you want, and get what you want.
(Related) How to Backdoor Diffie-Hellman

Discussion which contains a number of good comments about weakening DH: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11973365

Paper: http://eprint.iacr.org/2016/644
Why do many math books have so much detail and so little enlightenment? (2010)
This is a good reason to start your career in California, where the government protects you until you get enough professional experience to negotiate.
I think without: 1) Open Source software AND especially 2) significant financial incentives for finding and reporting bugs, it will be business as usual for the foreseeable future.
> Social Security are all paid for ahead of time

What the hell are you talking about? Your taxes now are not to finance your future social security when you retire.

You're in dream land if you think you have no cost to society because you have a 401k to live on when retired.
It's not about the registration status of the domain. It is about an HTTP request succeeding. The same functionality could be achieved by using a valid registered domain with server not listening on the desired port.
What makes an information regime oppressive vs. liberalising?
The thing is there really isn't a production ready alternative.
Rust in ring 0 isn't production ready -- a lot of language features needed to run in ring 0 are nightly only.
There are no widely used microkernels. Ironically, of the widely used operating systems in the world, Windows does the best job of running drivers in userland.
I buy all my books used :(
Holy crap, hadn't heard of this. Sounds like it's merged to master and coming down the pipe for 17.05. https://docs.docker.com/engine/userguide/eng-image/multistag...

This solves a major pain point for many people working w/ dockerfiles.
This malware was first released as part of a massive spam campaign, and then from there wormed its way onto other systems. It was definitely released on purpose.
Eset Nod32 Username and Password (15 May 2017)
In theory they are right. Basing your decision on counting these comments is as scientific as online polls.

My guess is that they're obligated to accept comments; lobbyists from both sides have already made all the points and the decision has already been made.
Google, one of the investors in Uber, seems hell bent on destroying it. Somewhere the marriage went sour.
AFRICANS IN THE TRAP OF HORRORS OF MODERN SLAVERY IN LIBYA
In an unusual move, after the worm statrted spreading MS released a patch to XP for this exploit.
> productivity increases increase the value of labor

We might be using terms in a different way here. This statement is true in one sense, and untrue in another sense.

When there is higher productivity, an hour of labor accomplishes more work. Employers are getting more bang for their buck - an hour of laborer pay accomplishes more work for the employer. (i.e. the employer is getting more value)

On the other hand, because it's possible to accomplish more work with less labor, the demand for that type of labor drops. This leads to depressed wages (i.e. the employee is getting less value). A good historical example of this was at the beginning of the industrial revolution, when power-looms caused weaver-labor to become nearly worthless https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_loom#Social_and_economic...

Many of the displaced workers became Luddites who wanted to smash the machines which put them out of work. You would think that being relieved from working would be a blessing, but not in their circumstance. Because the weavers' labor was so sharply devalued, they found it extremely difficult to sell their labor for enough money to eat.

The short-term effect isn't the whole story, of course. Textiles were incredibly cheap which did increase demand, and eventually led to the creation of (low-paying) jobs in textile factories. But even where things turn out fine in the long-term, the short-term disruption is not to be underestimated. Widespread unemployment due to power-looms caused riots.

> When everybody was a pitiful subsistence farmer, barely producing more than they needed to eat themselves, the price of labor was very low.

To the contrary, the price of labor then was incredibly high. As you say, serfs spent the majority of their time simply generating their own subsistence. Feudal lords were entitled to a portion of the serfs' labor, but it only amounted to a day or two out of the week. Consider the legions of subsistence farmers it would take to support specialized full-time jobs.

Once industrial agriculture started taking off, food was suddenly cheap and plentiful. This made sustenance much less expensive and freed up labor for other non-farming purposes.

> high labor prices tend to cause productivity increases as a way to avoid paying them

This I agree with! In fact I believe it expresses the same point that I'm trying to convey: increasing productivity means employers pay less for labor.

Witness the rise of self-checkout stations at grocery stores, as well as kiosks and automatic-burger flippers at fast food restaurants. The whole point of these innovations is to decrease the demand for such labor.
And one of the download button ads that I just checked (EasyPDFCombine) is "getting trough" 3 separate Google "reviews" if I understand correctly how this scheme works:

1. The misleading download button Google ad.

2. After clicking the ad they ask the user to install their extension from the Google Chrome Web Store [1].

3. After installation, the extension replaces new tab page with their own which includes a "custom" search engine "Enhanced by Google" [2].

4. PROFIT!!!? They make money when the user clicks a Google ad in their search results on that new tab page.

I'm not sure how it's worth it for Google because with the extension installed they are sharing part of their search results revenue with the owner of the extension compared to the users directly using the Google search when there is no extension to "hijack" it.

From the users perspective: Sure, it's not a ransomware level malware but it's still a PUP and the users are annoyed that they were "tricked" into installing it and their new tab page has been changed, as it can be seen in almost all of the reviews for their chrome extension, and almost all the first page google result for "EasyPDFCombine" is about how to remove this "virus".

It's the same decade old trick from the same company: Mindspark aka MyWebSearch aka Ask Toolbar and many more names.

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/easypdfcombine/kpo...

[2] http://hp.myway.com/portal/ttab02/index.html
> Anyone who thinks that these bodies ever change their mind due to the public comment periods is gullible.

If people didn't believe things like this we wouldn't have staunch Democrats and Republicans who never vote across party lines.
Post with more votes and made a few minutes earlier to this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14338328.
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Microsoft president blasts NSA for its role in WannaCry attack
Side note, I posted https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14334776 on custom support and MS quarterly earnings.
That is the issue that needs to be looked at more closely. And in a fantasy world the consumer is a separate entity from the worker. But a weak workforce means weak consumers.

Companies can talk about cost reducing by cutting their workforce all they want, but I wonder how many stop and think how that would negatively impact the purchasing power of their former employees.
The enterprise isn't the only place you'll find Java.

As much as the title pains me to type here (as a former C/C++/Assembly snob), I've been essentially a "Java programmer" for the past 5-6 years due to a focus on native Android development.
Likewise, the square root of 2 doesn't exist. (Write it out. How many sheets of paper will it take?)
That's not an helpful answer either
They'll probably say none of the comments can be reliable and throw them all out and push through their agenda.
As the world got safer it somehow got more scary.
Rust puts a reasonably large amount of effort into making shared memory concurrency safe. Move semantics, borrow checking and the Send/Sync traits combine to eliminate/reduce many of the pitfalls (e.g. data races) which motivated people to move away from shared memory. Additionally, Rust's semantics mean that things like actors/message passing and copy-on-write can be very efficient (e.g. move semantics means any copy-on-write overhead doesn't need to exist if the code will statically never read/write concurrently): http://blog.rust-lang.org/2015/04/10/Fearless-Concurrency.ht...

Of course, the fairly explicit nature of Rust is annoying/inappropriate for some tasks which don't need quite that level of control, but I think you're missing the power Rust brings to concurrency. (Of course, whether this particular article uses that power is a different question.)
If you're in a bigger company, the IT department may have some smaller PCs like this to get rid of. Mine gave a bunch out, I have a Dell optiplex - but instead of the thin client it's a small i3, with a 320gb hdd and 6gb ram. It's dead silent and runs all the home server things like a champ, oh - and it was free.

But I'd still own a number of raspberry pis since they're great for hacking or just to support a cool mission (in my opinion).
Offline general purpose computing remains.

When the network becomes free, all will be lost.
It's obvious to the tech community that net neutrality is a good thing. Let me pose a counter view in any case: what if verizon/comcast said they will give consumers a 75% discount should they be implement the anti-net neutrality way? After all, this is what Google/Facebook does. Give things away for free and their version of net-neutrality is they get to decide who pops up in the first page results above all (ads).
Yes, this won't affect a god damn thing - net neutrality is dead. I still submitted a public comment because I want the historical record to be clear, and as others have mentioned, the ferocity of the response may cause politicians to reconsider if for no other reason than to preserve their own asses.
Chrome doesn't support more than web extensions either, and I think Firefox have other benefits over Chrome. One is that it isn't from Google, another is that I don't like how Chrome seems to have become the new de facto standard browser. The first site I found when searching just now has Chrome usage at 61.2% and Firefox at 6.3% [0]. I don't like monopolies, so I won't switch to Chrome. I've also used Firefox since before it was called Firefox, so there's a certain amount of sentimentality and brand loyalty, even though I certainly don't agree with every decision they make.

[0] https://www.w3counter.com/globalstats.php
Inexperience. These ransomwares aren't written by good programmers. They're put together like lego by people who have barely graduated from copy-paste script kiddie level. For example it's pretty common that botnet C&C systems have basic SQL injection vulnerabilities etc. These people aren't security gurus, they just wait until there's a proof of concept exploit of some public vulnerability posted on a hacking forum/chat and then plug that into their prepackaged ransomware kit.
Depends on the consumer. The ones getting zero-rated video from AT&T would hate to see net neutrality rules. To them, it's bad.
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I've also posted this sign-up as a discussion if you want to leave any comments for everyone to see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14338456

There are also options like HN top 10: http://www.daemonology.net/hn-daily/

Or the ultra-cynical weekly antidote to HN: http://n-gate.com/
Yeah, exactly, peer review. If you read your parent's argument again, they explicitly mention that.
For those who haven't seen Bret Victor's incredible Inventing on Principle - I think you'd like this talk if you enjoyed Alan's: https://vimeo.com/36579366
Of course I'm serious. I don't know of a credible argument to the contrary.
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Sure, but that is something you can already do in a chroot jail.
Reminds me of what's happened to professional photography with the advent of digital cameras (+ Internet etc).

The barrier to entry is much lower and the skill-level required to do a moderately competent job has plummeted.
It will all implode eventually. And as the tech world likes to recycle things, we'll see some form of the late BBS early internet years again. Then it will all start over.

At least that's my hope. Just kind of clean house and start over.
I do this with some of the students I mentor, but it must depend on the students personality.

A rebellious student will be challenged by being told they're not allowed to do something.

A prideful or intellectually vain student will be stirred to action by being told something is impossible.

A timid student can be stirred into action by telling them you see greatness in them.

But you really have to get to know them before you decide which method to apply in a subtle matter, as an incorrect choice will be deleterious
Even commuting for almost an hour door to door, housing is very expensive. London has chronic money laundering, an out of control banking sector and a culture of rent seeking. That's why it's expensive.
Good info, thank you.

Apologies for the late follow-up.
That's possible but wouldn't there be evidence of this kind of arrangement? Authors need to document how to do it, I think.
What's your theory, that the author is actually the one selling the units on eBay?

TFA made a reasonable argument for why this was a great deal. I can't find any fault, and certainly it's not an ad.
*without
From someone of a Norwegian/Australian background, what the whole article describes is simply alien. People just aren't that selfish on a grand scale in either of my home countries.

Clearly, none of the non-voters ever read Matilda. Or understand that ultimately, the lack of public services will put everyone back.
Nice work! You know EDA is big business and for some reason their UI uniformly sucks. You should talk to Cadence about doing the front end for all their tools. You'd make millions and more importantly end an epoch of suffering.
The main thing that will be of interest to people about the comparison:

>Raspberry Pi, case, power adaptor AUD$73.26. Dell Optiplex FX160 around AUD$60

translated to USD:

>Raspberry Pi, case, power adaptor US $54.19. Dell Optiplex FX160 around US $44.39.

(I used Google to convert the currency, didn't look up prices.)
Here's the problem, thinking every job comes with a whiteboard test and needs you to know every sort algorithm as if you're going to build the next database. You know some Java and HTML and CSS? Great you'll either make it as a junior and become a awesome developer with those 8-9 hour days of new experience learning around other devs or you will flop. Maybe the question is how much does the industry generally tolerate as a junior dev? Forcing myself into the areas I hated or dreaded was what helped me the most. Realllly learn how the stack communicates.
> The major costs in taxi operation are fuel and humans.

What about vehicles themselves?
Google and Facebook are not monopolies, as ISPs are in many cases. You have options.

Internet service is also far more vital than Facebook.
They do a lot more now. They're often networked and remotely upgradeable.

Sure, you couldn't see the code in the microcontrollers in your old TV - the ones listening for IR signals and driving the LCD. But modern TVs do all of that and more; they have internet connections, some have cameras and microphones, etc.

And even if you couldn't see the code in your old pacemaker (which I would say was still a problem), your new one probably has wireless administration and firmware updates. Those likely have remotely exploitable security vulnerabilities[0], and even if you have one inside your body, you aren't allowed to look at the code yourself.

[0] https://www.engadget.com/2017/04/21/pacemaker-security-is-te...
It does make people less likely to want to buy the chip with the DRM though.
I know Uber still has higher market share overall, but this is another strike against them. I wonder what the end of the ongoing trial will bring...
Off-lease Dell PCs are great for this sort of thing. My AirPort Extreme isn't quite up to the task of routing a gigabit fiber connection with all the bells and whistles, so I got a Dell Precison T1700 off EBay. Quad core 3.2 Ghz Xeon e3 for $150!
There's something a little disquieting about hearing Usenet described as "a kind of proto-subreddit", but I guess I'm just getting old :(.
Fair enough but, like others have said, who do I fine when my Wordpress site gets pawned or for Shellshock, etc? I wish this problem was a simple as blaming/fining MS or Google.