skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If it wasn't for minimum wages, companies would make deals to pay workers lower and lower and there would be nowhere to work for a decent salary.

You outlaw collusion to lower wages and let the market work.
Start a new competitor that pays better?
Many of the researchers already test to see if they work on XP.

You could do what you said but it's pretty expensive and only works for a bulk deal at around $200/PC/year with a large number of PCs at a minimum.
> You can probably make that argument for slavery too.

Uber is consensual.
Where will you be moving?

We're also weighing our options but haven't made a decision yet on whether and where we're going to go.
Telefonica to Shut Down Computers Amid Massive Ransomware Outbreak
Great article, even for those with some experience already.

Thought I'd drop this here: site I helped create that uses d3 to create interactive visualizations from csv files https://www.sizzleanalytics.com/
Mysterium Releases Whitepaper Showcasing Ethereum-Based Decentralised VPN
Did the invention of printing press made them a monopoly? Google does not generate information; they facilitate it. The more the information is free, the more it will be converted to knowledge by these same schools and students. Your comparison of it to your values of buying things for yourself, is misleading.
To be honest, Alpine Linux based containers on Kubernetes are so amazingly stable, and "just works", it’s amazing.

But yes. One issue anywhere, and I can upgrade everything again.
Your points are only meaningful if you think the goal of life is to have a job. When you realize others have different goals, then you'll be getting somewhere. Are you aware that penicillin was discovered by accident therefore it must not work... that's the argument you're making; it doesn't matter why something started if it turned out to be valuable in the end.
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This is a great business move, the children probably have no option but to provide their personal information to Google.
I wonder. Would the delivery guy be happier to have no deliveries during a snowstorm (and thus no tips, or possibly no hours)? Maybe if their needs are well backstopped by the government. But otherwise perhaps not.
> how stupid were the malware authors to ...

They were clever enough to execute this attack, collect over £160k according to the last estimate I've seen (likely way more now), and achieve that in one day. You seem to underestimate them including assumptions that this was simply missed. There are many potential scenarios where this is beneficial to the authors.
The registered domain gwea.com: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/05/12/stolen-nsa-...

Edit: I'm not so sure now. The whois record seems to suggest recent activity:

Domain Name: GWEA.COM
Registrar: 22NET, INC.
Sponsoring Registrar IANA ID: 1555
Whois Server: whois.22.cn
Referral URL: http://www.22.cn
Name Server: PK3.22.CN
Name Server: PK4.22.CN
Status: clientDeleteProhibited https://icann.org/epp#clientDeleteProhibited
Status: clientTransferProhibited https://icann.org/epp#clientTransferProhibited
Updated Date: 18-mar-2017
Creation Date: 17-mar-1999
Expiration Date: 17-mar-2018
They do, it's called custom support, but it's very expensive (think six figures)
Does anyone know if any non-MS implementation like samba is vuln?
I wonder Is there gonna be a response from Uber to that? I mean, except for prohibiting hiring journalists :) ?
Used Wolt and Foodora (in Finland). The Wolt people usually use cars for delivery. Wonder how that factors in the profit calculations for the delivery person.

Anyhow, I'm really wondering how any one of these companies can survive when the VC subsidies run out. There have been other food delivery services here before them but the have been shut down for being too expensive.
On the other hand they had actual employees and paid their taxes etc.
Wonder how much tax avoidance is possible for foodora/wolt workers, or how much the corporations do "tax structuring" which seems to be all the rage nowadays for hipster startups.
OneDrive works, if one wants to use it. It just came too late.
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‘Nobody’s got to use the Internet’: A GOP lawmaker’s response to Web privacy
Awesome; what's your business model and current validation (e.g. prototype, revenue, metrics)?
>> This is silly. You should (almost) never optimize low-level numerical building-block routines for code style at the expense of performance.
>> The proper thing to do is make a generic library function for evaluating Chebyshev polynomials, and then pass in the polynomial coefficients and the values to evaluate in arrays.

It's funny that you express concern for performance and then advocate creating a generic function and passing everything as parameters. For things like the function in question, doing straight line code is usually the best way. Optimization should consist of what the author did - find the simplest mathematical expressions to calculate the answer and just write them down.

On the other hand, if for some reason a program is really doing this calculation over and over your approach (worrying about data flow and parallelism) may become preferable. I just haven't seen a case where sin(x) is used that much ;-)
Firmware update for Amcrest cameras results in connection to cloud servers
Unless it is, which it sometimes is.
It's cute that you think that everyone has the ability and finances to start a competitor :)

Spoiler: if you're driving for uber, or delivering for uber eats, you are not in the category of population that has:

a) any chance of starting a company

b) any chance of that company succeeding against a giant.

Because you don't have any money. Because Uber pays you like crap.
Okay replace slavery with indentured servitude. Does that sound any better?
I drive for Uber on the side despite my real job paying 7x more per hour. It's mostly an excuse to get out of the house and drive my car with someone else paying for the gas.
A couple personal anecdotes related to this: I volunteer at a school to help maintain around 300 iPads and ~20 iMacs. It's awful. (I am a longtime Mac user at home BTW). The management tools around updating the iPads, installing apps, and configuring users are all terrible, unreliable and old. It leads to teacher frustration and less use of the equipment in the classroom. The only thing worse are the windows computers, which are in such bad shape that they just stopped using them.

An example: To install an app for all students on the iPads, we need to plug them all in to a big USB hub, then connect a Mac with management software to it and run a sync procedure. It fails on about 10% of the devices, so we run it again. Each run takes several minutes. There are over-the-air methods for doing this, but they're corporate solutions not provided by Apple and are pretty expensive.

So given all that, if ChromeBooks promise per-user customization and document storage with much simpler administration, it's no wonder they're taking over.
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So "Gitorials" comes from "git tutorials"?

How would they name a CLI tutorials site?
Here's a related HN discussion from earlier this year about a story published on nrk.no:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13309624
> I heard from a Nonchalance employee that Jeff had said he thought we were "entitled," that he was angry because he'd given us a $2 million gift we didn't appreciate properly.

This is the heart of the matter, I think. While it's speculation, it appears what went wrong is that Hull failed to delineate the 'business' from the rest of it.

The way he feels would strike me as odd (at best) if I hadn't experienced something similar myself. More than once.

On at least two occasions (the rest are vaguer) I started some business venture where the impetus was largely philanthropic/idealistic. Both times the end result was messy for everyone involved and largely unproductive. While the specifics were different, I think the main reason why things went South was that I mixed business with pleasure. I shat where I ate.

I'm not saying it's impossible or inadvisable to turn your dream into a business, or do business that you enjoy too, or start a business with your romantic partner for that matter. Rather, I think it's crucial to clearly delineate, and write down on paper, and discuss with everyone involved, which parts of the endeavor are business and which are not. And perhaps more importantly to discuss whether it's possible to separate these things in the first place.
You're talking about engineers. Of course you need to understand some formulas if you're going to be an engineer. But for most of the people who aren't going to do that, they're useless.
There's an awful lot of network-connected, really badly written, often unsupported software in healthcare, that uses proprietary formats. VDI doesn't save you if what's on the other end has to be Windows XP to run your shitty software that'd cost your IT department's entire budget for a year to replace and retrain users.
Majority of UK workers blindly open email attachments
And what would the UK software developers do? It's not always possible to move.
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Rural in usa does not necessarily mean "rural" all rural routes i know use postal trucks. They dont have any businessess and share an office with business routes
Microsoft Security Bulletin MS17-010 – Critical
Chrome book is indeed a real killer product, not just for schools but for average home users as well.

Microsoft used to have a Briefcase icon on desktops for offline file syncing. It used to work for those who used it effectively (it was under used of course). But yes, Dropbox went further than anyone else.
"But, probably the most important channel of adjustment is through reductions in
labor turnover, which yield significant cost savings to employers."

If this is the case, you'd think employers would have an incentive to raise wages on their own without requiring a law.
Support Scottish Independence and move north! Burgeoning games dev industry, along with a couple of unicorn startups based here, and a much more left-leaning government.
The strange mix of reasons why Bitcoin is setting new price records
Was the domain ever named?

Found it www.iuqerfsodp9ifjaposdfjhgosurijfaewrwergwea.com
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My bank charges 20DKK (~$3) for a SEPA transaction. I'd be really interested if you could show me a Danish bank that offers free SEPA transfers.

As for dispute resolution, I think it would be appropriate for this to be a third protocol layer -- on top of VISA-style clearing. I see no reason the clearing layer should handle this as well (and incorporating it into the Bitcoin layer would be true insanity, in my opinion). Nor do I see a reason it should be difficult. Costly, perhaps, but it's a simple matter of finding a mutually trusted third party, who won't release funds to the merchant until the consumer has received the goods.
Hello - Interesting to think this through! The GPU has its own bus and I think sends data to its cores according to the CUDA instructions that it is given.

I'm hazy about how instructions get to the GPU... I guess the cpu us is executing the OS and the then gets instructions to load the program from disk and then into the execution space in the GPU's memory. I think that the CPU then pushes data into the GPU's memory space for execution and reads results out from the GPU memory according to synchronisation instructions in its program?
The alternative is for Uber to invest in increased productivity, just like other industries. Making each worked hour give more return. They could supply better bikes, as another poster suggested less downtime for drivers, better algorithms to cut the length of the routes, higher fees for customers... I'm sure there are clever people that can figure it out.
Android Banking Trojan spreads across Turkey with hundreds of victims
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That's HexRays in IDA. Pretty nice but damn expensive.
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Take up farming, or something.

Or, you know, annihilate the Tories, hold the state to account and prevent this shit from happening.
Maybe Rocketchat?
Here is an example:

https://jugad2.blogspot.in/2016/09/calling-simple-c-function...
>Tooltips aren't always used.

Well, those would be bad interfaces. But the standard in OS X and Windows apps is to have tooltips.

>A further complication is that people tend to copyright icons, so the icons from one app to the next are substantially different.

Is that a thing? They might not be able to show the exact same design, but they'd still be able to show a floppy disk or trash can or whatever.

That said, OSes could (and some do) provide standard sets of icons to be used across apps, and only special app-specific actions should have custom icons.
You got it all backwards. AMD64 is a complete revamp which happens to support x86 in its legacy mode.

Server people care for 64-bit address spaces, and that's a feature introduced by AMD64 which is not available in x86.
Then they should still work at $4/h or whatever and the government should top them off to $10/h with basic income or welfare.

It's more efficient and humane than basically telling them they're worthless and they should just stay unemployed.
> Upgrade early and often.

This is my motto. I have the suspicion that Microsoft and other companies don't QA older software as hard as their latest & greatest.

Some folks say I'm crazy but I auto-approve all security updates in WSUS. In 5 years at my company, updates have only broken important software twice. In both cases I just uninstalled the updates with WSUS and everything was okay. In today's environment, I feel that the risk of not patching is greater than the risk of patching—even when you consider buggy software.
One of the security people quoted speaks of the concern over new models of attack that may be on the horizon. I agree that it does not make any sense to make being ready to pay a ransom your primary preparedness, but it seems reasonable as a last-ditch response if you have a generally sound security infrastructure. For one thing, the latter would reduce the chances of the sort of follow-on attack that you posit, and that risk may well be secondary to the certainty of being crippled by an actual attack-in-progress.

Anyway, regardless of the merits of the strategy, it appears to be an established fact in some cases.
People think that the world a is a prefect black and white place where everything that works is prefect and everything else is garbage.

Typically, the person reporting this sort of %^&* has an agenda, ranging from "fixit fixit fixit" to "I only buy the competition and so should you". The knowledge is good to have you just have if you are into doing crazy old things with new hardware. But the hyperbolic "the world is ending" bit you should just ignore.
Physics Girl on PBS Digital Studios reported on an experiment using this technique.

NEW RESULTS! Cosmic Quantum Bell Test
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6WxIblKVZI
re-write it in C++
If there is no revenue stream, where do the resources to fix security issues come from?
smh.com.au is the Sydney Morning Herald. It has some of the best news in Sydney but I hate the website. When I follow a link like this one and the article is interesting, I invariably forget to check the ads. When I get started reading, there always seems to be a movie with audio that will start playing off the screen.
I understand. I'm just pointing out why the article smells like bs and is technically invalid in many ways. Including the fact that police will not help you with a DDoS and is largely irrelevant in the discussion (apart from post mortem / following up after the attack). Also banks are playing with cryptocurrencies for quite a while now. London banks have ideas of private blockchains as well. Nobody would think it's suspicious that they buy some.

The may be some truth in there, but this is a popular tech post. I'd look for more details than the guardian provides.
> Anyhow, I'm really wondering how any one of these companies can survive when the VC subsidies run out.

The one with the biggest amount of $$$ and the (relatively) lowest cash burn will prevail, and once the competition is shot, raise the prices by (ab)using the now dominant position.

This is then followed by either an IPO or acquisition.
So would you describe Sweden as a place with poor quality social safety nets?

According to the article people who want to deliver have at least two choices and one pays significantly more than the other because Uber doesn't have enough volume right now and the volume they do have tends to go to people who have been delivering for some time.

The article says that with Foodora you can make more money starting out, but they schedule when you work. With Uber you just work whenever you want. People trying to decide which service they want to work for are going to use those factors to make a decision. I think it is hard to claim it is exploitative when people clearly have a choice where they work. Keep in mind Sweden doesn't have particularly high unemployment either, so there are a lot of other options out there in addition to these two.
Thousands of Norwegians log off from God thanks to one-click Web form (2016)
Can somebody explain how this will work? AFAIK it does not even check for obvious things such as vmware processes running in the background.
Solar works fine. That's probably the first product they should become self sufficient making.
> Population will grow exponentially until something bounds it.

That's only true if fertility rates stay above the replacement fertility rates. As nations become more developed, fertility rates tend to fall. In the EU-28 the fertility rate was 1.58
children per woman in 2015, well below the replacement rate of 2 [1]. India's fell from 5.9 in 1960 to 2.4 in 2015 [2].

> There's going to have to be competition for resources, and those who lose out will die. We may as well get used to that now.

Your Malthusian view is outdated. We can easily feed and shelter the current population (and projected peak population) for the foreseeable future.

[1] http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/tgm/table.do?tab=table&init=1&l...

[2] http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.TFRT.IN?
Some do, like Costco paying cashiers well over minimum wage to improve service and turnover.
Well, those in the UK should fight for their livelihood. Educating people, organizing a movement, blacking out their own websites with a message, etc.
I feel like this will be an issue in the US in the future with the popularity of names like Aiden, Brayden, Jayden etc. over the last few years.
If you have any concrete ideas and reside in Europe, ideally the Northern area, send me an email!
I read recently that by some DNA Samples you can trace your origin back to certain local groups- shouldnt that be possible with the sample taken here. How accurate would this be?

Example:
https://www.ancestry.com/dna/
This has been debunked many times. Even with no magnetic field an atmosphere can last thousands of years.
We can't rocket, semiconductor or aerospace
Perhaps, as long as those units are air gapped (i.e., not Internet connected, with no physically unsecured I/O ports).
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You should try TestFlight, I think you can have a lot of free users for a large number of poeple.
Humans also memorize - what a cat is, what a dog is, a giraffe.

Sure, we can apply even higher level features, and we can generalize from a picture of a cat to a black&white or text description of it.

But we still memorize a lot.
From my own experience, if you're using angles much at all you're doing it wrong. First, the cube angle should be reduced to reasonable range quite often. Better in 3d is to use a different representation for orientation - a matrix or a quaternion are common and both should be "normalized" regularly. These also have the advantage of eliminating trig functions from the code.

In my day job doing motor control, I track shaft angle using a 16 bit fixed-point integer. It wraps around perfectly and I've got an awesome sin(x) function that takes -32768 to 32767 as input (equivalent to -pi to +pi) and returns a fixed point value in a few operations.

It's all a matter of using a representation that make whatever you're doing easy to compute.
Back in the real world, the job exists without Uber - delivery drivers have existed for a long, long time. Deliveroo, Uber Eats, etc have primarily just shifted work away from individual restaurants employing drivers to the Uber model.
If that is the case then you would expect that the article would talk about how busy Uber Eats was. Instead it says the opposite. He didn't make money because not many people were using the service.

He lays out two ways people can work in delivery. One pays significantly less for starting out, but doesn't require you to work specific shifts. The other lets you work whenever you want, but you are very much subject to what demand comes in. You have a lot more consistency when you don't have control over your schedule.
Interesting

>* I's probably hard to find millions of people ready to sentence themselves into very low life standards and lower life expectancy once the hype wears off.*

Have you seen how billions of humanity live today? There are always going to be millions of people looking for a better something somewhere. Doesn't mean they will find it
> identfied

Are you saying you didn't add any other identification to match the print to your identity? ie. the system really identified, not merely verified?
https://www.nrk.no/dokumentar/gaten-i-isdalen-1.13182053
In New York City, it is illegal to move between subway cars, by using the end doors.
But then you are looking at the wrong thing: You are no logger profiling/debugging Javascript but the Javascript runtime. Those tools do tell you the Javascript part, why do you say "superficial"?

Example (memory profiling with heap snapshots): https://developers.google.com/web/tools/chrome-devtools/memo...

Profiling functions (V8, Chrome, using the CPU Profiler): https://developers.google.com/web/tools/chrome-devtools/rend...

What is missing there, I can see how long each function took, even more so when I combine it with the flame chart?

I assume you are still talking about the Javascript part. What the C++ based subsystem does can be examined using tools for that language on the respective platform.
If there was a chromebook that came with a SIM card and an unlimited data plan, worldwide, I would buy it in a heartbeat and replace my Macbook. I like the idea of cloud storage, the ability to instantly log onto a new machine and have everything there. This critically depends on 100% connectivity though.
This is probably taking his off-hand remarks too seriously, but I don't think anyone really uses the quadratic equation for anything. Quadratic functions definitely come up, and the derivation of the quadratic formula is definitely useful to learn, but the formula itself seems like a mathematical dead end.

In general I think being forced to learn things with no clear application is part of why the school system fails so many people.