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Just talking to some swift/iOS devs that I've done some projects with the other day, and their workflow basically uses the JetBrains IDE and Xcode simultaneously - one for code and the other because the JetBrains offering apparently doesn't support storyboards (yet?). Coming from a backend perspective, it sounds pretty atrocious.
Then encryption wouldn't be doing what it's set out to do.
So developers of ransomware would build backdoors into their ransomware because the law requires them to?
An improved vendor abstraction layer might make porting easier but it still doesn't provide any incentive for vendors to actually update old devices. :(
Does any DNA survive that long? I thought I'd read somewhere that it gets destroyed relatively quickly.
What makes you think that any of the wireless networks will act as a enlightened monopoly?
Marxists.org has an archive of many of their writings:

https://www.marxists.org/subject/frankfurt-school/

And Horkheimer is of course famous for saying, "If you don't want to talk about capitalism then you had better keep quiet about fascism."
if your job is to keep a bunch of computers working, keeping the systems running is the goal. Deploying security patches quickly is not always considered a requirement.

Again, the problem is that rolling out patches quickly often leads to unplanned problems that can't be easily detected or rolled back from. That can cause problems worse than leaving security issues unpatched.
I'd like to believe that. But profits rule.

Smartphone usage must be pretty close to saturation point, in the developed world at least. Samsung, Apple etc release a new, expensive device every year, and it's natural that they are going to want existing customers to upgrade.

I think the only way Android users (of non-Google devices, that is) are going to get software upgrades is if Google somehow forces vendors to do it.
Personally, I prefer to install my updates manually, when I see fit and am glad that there are still systems that allow me to do so.
Erik Meijer a very engaging person! If I recall correctly, he spearheaded the Linq project for C# back in mid-2000s.

In particular, I suggest his Haskell lectures to anyone interesting by theoretical aspects of functional programming. https://channel9.msdn.com/Series/C9-Lectures-Erik-Meijer-Fun...
Online sources suggest that Finland, Norway, and Sweden all have strong blasphemy and/or hate speech laws (the subject of TFA, you may note). While Norway seems to not enforce their laws, Sweden and especially Finland do.
Yeah it's gross here too but at least all the "hate speech isn't free speech" signs here are wrong from a legal perspective. I also also don't like the nazi exception.
Productivity is usually value/worker or value/hour worked. There's no indication, as far as I'm aware, that value (inflation adjusted money) is a conserved quantity.

In fact, most of the productivity increases are in industries where the value produced is not directly coupled to the resourced consumed. The software industry is a great example.
Was this in planet Earth or somewhere else? I've been to over 1000 movies and have never seen it happening with me or anyone else.
How quickly some forget heartbleed.

The solution to malware is obscurity. Have an OS that no one wants to break into, and you won't be broken into.
There is also that. But as a very keen purveyor of /newest (I basically have every single thing come into a Slack channel) I am increasingly finding gems or even significant news that would have once done well on the front page just never reaching it. There is truly more cool stuff than we have room to show :-) That is a great opportunity as well, though.
How is it terrorism if the purpose is to get money?
Assuming that the criminal opts to use the encryption with an NSA backdoor and the victim is able to schedule time at their local NSA Genius Bar to recover their data.
From Henry Hazlitts 1946 classic "Economics in One Lesson":

You cannot make a man worth a given amount by making it illegal for anyone to offer him anything less. You merely deprive him of the right to earn the amount that his abilities and situation would permit him to earn, while you deprive the community even of the moderate services that he is capable of rendering. In brief, for a low wage you substitute unemployment. You do harm all around, with no comparable compensation.
Massive Ransomware Attack That's Hitting World Right Now Uses NSA's Exploit
If you want to review the check you're going to have to wait for a round trip. If not, just hand the card when the check comes or better yet, give them the card when you ask for the check.
Win10 Pro is more flexible, although you might have to drop down to Group Policy to do it. http://pureinfotech.com/defer-windows-10-upgrades-updates/ At the very least, the workstations can be pointed to internal WSUS servers which control the rollouts. I'm guessing that's how most of the currently-vulnerable computers stayed vulnerable until now.
Karen Sandler has an interesting story about medical devices and how they are, literally, putting her life on the line. She's both a lawyer and a hacker, and you should hear the stories she tells about how people distrust her for this and think she's trying to trick them when all she wants to do is learn about the software and hardware that is keeping her alive:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMKHqO28FcI
Thank you for your elaborate response. The point I wanted to pass, is that spending 2 billion euros per year for FOSS, paying developers and various-sized companies in EU, would make much more difference to our continent than giving this money to a single company for proprietary software.

Not only this wealth would be better distributed, but also FOSS would be widely accepted and a sought after career path. Additionally, in my experience at least, FOSS leads to better professionals. My limited sample, says that a junior developer that can read the source of the library he uses, grows to be a better senior developer than the one that can't.
Wouldn't the attackers just use a crypto scheme that didn't have a backdoor?
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Can anyone help me interpret the type signature Meijer used in his programming question? "Given a generic type:

Cont r a = (a -> r) -> r

Prove that this type forms a monad."

I'm reading it as 'Container' passed 'r' and 'a' performs 'a' to 'r' which returns 'r'. (I'm guessing on verbs here)..

I've never come across a good way to read these type signatures.
Specialisation helps. Look at what the market wants, is paying well for, and is underserved by. Then you can just look for advertised contract gigs. It's also nice to have one or two contacts who funnel you work, but not essential, if you have an in-demand specialty.
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I would definitely extend this to running training as well, but I agree with the concept - for most people, it should be either transfer learning to adapt existing models to their data, or running training from scratch with currently known best practice methods, NN architectures and hyperparameters, but doing it on their particular datasets. Possibly by using mostly existing code and modifying mostly the data input/output routines.
@dang
Sorry, but isn't that the whole point of a comment system? Get people to discourse about their POVs and ideas? According to your logic, both sides should refrain from opposing each other.
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I was wondering the same thing. Butterflies, and even many dragonflies in a big Polish city where I live. I chalked it down to "we had more flowers". But it seems global ? And even in Poland, which uses relatively little pesticides ?
> really cool spacesuit looking thing

Look closer - its a fetching combo of fanny pack, boxer shorts, ice skates, ski goggles etc. pretty much the crap you wanted.
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Might work great in the summer, but growing up in Toronto, you really appreciate having that bus stop next to your house in February
A person will be more reliable than your phone regarding these basic information? Give me a break.
This is a chicken egg problem, where distros claim they want more users, but when they get users complaining about usability problems, users either get ignored, get ridiculed, or are told it works by design they should adapt.

So until there are just enough of a certain kind of user who can adapt, but still complain and insist on software becoming more usable, things can change.

And face it, both macOS and Windows have had persistent crappy UI/Ux of their own, it's just not as such a critical mass that people say f it, I'm going back to pencil and paper (which when it comes to proprietary voting systems, we should sooner be on pencil and paper).
Nearly 50% of Organizations Are Victims of Ransomware Attacks
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The problem with the gun analogy in your particular argument is that a 'cyber weapon' or exploit is the flip side of a flaw in normal software.

The NSA is in a very weird position because they have a task to protect the systems of the US (Information Assurance) but also to attack those of adversaries.

In this case I think they are legitimately to blame for failing to discharge their assurance duties. They've failed to properly calculate the risk of leaking the exploit and now US interests are harmed because of that failure. This is a direct result of stockpiling exploits and not exposing them to the respective software vendors. In my opinion the security of your own systems is more important the insecurity of that of your adversaries, which is why I believe that the hoarding is bad.
It's as native as can be, without being native. It's some amazing computational acrobatics, and it appears to be quite usable for development.
I think the increased ability to talk about depression is a more important factor in rising depression rates. Unless the old rates had a model to factor in unreported cases.
I'm not aware of public statements, I don't know why any big company would actually go on record as saying that. But what I described above is paraphrasing what I personally was told by a lawyer who worked for a big company.

Also, your own link shows that over time Apple has been shipping fewer and fewer GPL-licensed packages, and explicitly makes the case that Apple is trying to get rid of GPL-licensed software.

> People use GPL software, extensively.

People use all sorts of software. I have no idea why this statement is relevant to big companies shipping GPL software.

> Any use of GPL software is a compliment to the software authors.

I'm even more confused by the inclusion of this statement.
To be completely fair, it's not the NSA's fault that software has faults. Its the software manufacturers'.

The ethical concern here is whether the NSA should have reported the holes to the manufacturers and the failure to handle its privileged knowledge in a safe manner.
The logic is that encryption without a backdoor already exists, and no law can stop a criminal writing a virus from using that.
How does your required updates idea work with the carriers? Are you going to add a legal clause for them too?
He isn't known for being a fan of Unix.
In general I don't review the check until it's time to sign it. I've been told that's a bad habit but...well, if anything jumps out at me when I'm signing, I mention it then. And I think you might be surprised how many waiters seem to drop the check and simply leave.

I'm not talking about restaurants where you expect excellent service. I'm talking about restaurants where you can't take it as a given that they're going to be attentive to something you say when they put the check down.
> My problem with UBI is that all tests to date look great, but have only been done on a micro level. The fundamental issue I would like addressed is the macro scale inflation you would expect when redistributing trillions of dollars without commensurate economic value being created directly.

The thing is though, most people who would benefit from UBI are not currently generating enough economic value to live, or barely so, and many are probably not capable of doing so for any number of reasons. We can do this because:

> Money is a complicated subject, but essentially it represents a transfer of a future scarce resource. For commodities, the cost is essentially the sum of labor to generate it (either to mine the raw resources, build the factory, etc).

...the costs of all of these things are plummeting due previously to outsourcing, and now to automation. As manufacturing becomes more and more automated and the costs of these items continues to drop, you start seeing volume sales/renewing subscriptions being the only possible way to make money on some products.

> If no economic resource is being added to the economy, then you are just devaluing money. That is usually very regressive, and in this case could be made worse by people slightly reducing their economic labor because of the extra income stream. I could see this leading to a bad cycle, where any economic gains due to increasing UBI are later undermined.

This is my one beef with UBI and the one thing that does make me worry about it, but the way I see it is that whatever effect this does have the overall value of the currency cannot possibly approach the effects that the results of borrowing and printing currency to fund things like the outrageous defense budget (of the US) do, the economic benefits of which are muddy at best.

For me this is both an issue of economics -and- of people. To me, in a country as rich as mine it's embarrassing that we still have such vast areas of the country that look more like the slums of Brazil than the cities they're usually parked next to. It's also the simple fact that if you continue to displace more and more people, as we've done, who are too old/not smart enough to change careers, eventually something is going to give. Frankly I pitch UBI as how we avoid the second Civil War, where instead of North vs South, we have Urban vs Rural when the much larger (and better armed) population gets tired of the cities and their nonchalant attitude towards their plight.

These are legit questions and I hope we get better answers than mine (I'm no economist), but speaking as someone on the higher end of the income brackets who would never see a dime from UBI, I really don't think continuing to pretend that the rich can keep on getting richer and the poor poorer is a good plan. When it comes right down to it, there are more of the poor than the rich, and the cash won't save you when they break down your door with pitchforks.
I really don't understand why ideas like the Negative Income Tax aren't being considered before Universal Basic Income. In that scenario, the government just sets an income floor and pays the difference (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_income_tax).

UBI makes little sense whenever someone making 500K a year still gets it unconditionally. The marginal utility of that is nil, but its tax implications are massive (how do you even fund something like that in today's economy).
Personally I wouldn't bother working very hard if income tax was 100%.
Or a product that has positively impacted the lives of most of those 1.5 billion people, as evidenced by the fact that they use it daily.
> It feels good as a designer who's not able to easily contribute to the open source community.

You would be surprised how helpful it is to simply offer design insights for free. A lot of projects are maintainted by programmers who have zero design notions and who are not even aware of the little things.

Offering a free mockup to an open-source project is also very valuable.
My critical contention is that those counterbalancing forces are going away because Large companies have the following vectors:

1. Invest in small companies broadly enough so they get key insight so they can acquire before they become a threat. See GV, Intel Ventures etc...

2. Overwhelm small companies through brute force if they can't acquire. See: Facebook vs Snap

3. Invest in internal moonshots that startups can't compete with. See: Google X

In previous times, big monoliths didn't have the foresight to do this or weren't agile enough to restructure internally. I think the way AFGAM operates and has proven they can pivot at scale, using their market dominance to change that whole equation.
Adding another example, just the other day a video blogger in Russia has been convicted for 3 years (suspended sentence) for the "crime" of filming a video of playing Pokemon Go in a church. [1] He spent more than half a year in jail while the case was "investigated". Religion is a vile, vile thing. It's non-believers who need to be protected from the "believers".

[1] https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2017/05/11/russian...
Half life of 521 years.
Who has the keys to the backdoor? How do you force the ransomware authors not to use the good encryption?
War is not about killing your enemy and breaking his things. That is the job of warriors, but not how you win a war.

It would immensely benefit the US in a war with Europe to silently snoop on all those systems and act like we couldn't. Use the information to perform lower cost higher gain military operations.

Killing the populace En masse makes nothing but enemies, but leveraging information can make you friends. Imagine if the US used is massive infiltration to find people sympathetic to its cause and gave them guns and bombs with Russian labeling. Those people do most of the damage in the country and we swoop in with targeted precision bombing and cost effective troop deployments to arrest huge amounts of heads of states and legislatures. We could defeat Europe in a year and at least some portions of Europeans would thank us. Then we move on to the part the US sucks at, occupying.
Two others are https://blockchain.info/address/115p7UMMngoj1pMvkpHijcRdfJNX... and https://blockchain.info/address/12t9YDPgwueZ9NyMgw519p7AA8is...
You know, trillions are raided from communities and stashed offshore untouched instead of being reinvested locally, this makes entire continents poorer; on the other hand, it is common sense today to give people the basic to survive instead of having them fleeing, migrating and becoming criminals. You may even avoid paper money, just give all a credit card to buy the minimum daily dietary without withdrawal allowance. Otherwise history says that there will be wars.
Ah, good point. I'll update it so it's more clear. Registration is open until the competition starts.

No limits on registrations :)
From the documentation:

"Maps an old state to a new state inside a state monad. The old state is thrown away."

https://hackage.haskell.org/package/mtl-2.2.1/docs/Control-M...
> Text is the clearest thing you can put on a button

Here here!

When I use a new bit of software one of my first acts is to try to change all the 'friendly' icons to text only.
You're absolutely right, but theres no other solution that's feasible. If we don't have some form of UBI, I'm willing to bet in 20-30 years we're looking at another French revolution.

I think the best solution is instead of handing out liquid cash that can be used/abused in any way (and contribute to inflation as you say), the better option is to provide basic accommodations for every citizen in a given country. This means, basic housing / basic education / basic means of transportation (either car or ride sharing credits) / basic forms of entertainment / basic access to some vacation spots. That way no one needs to work anymore but you could keep the general citizen's happiness to a stable level.

The only problem with this solution is that the government has to pay for this by either borrowing money from private creditors or to tax the rich heavily. The rich are only rich because they're good at keeping their money, so it's a good solution, but incredibly hard to pull off.
This is exactly one of the processes I see happening, and thanks for the real world example.
It makes no difference whether they created the security holes by moles in the developers company or whether they simply withheld the information. They put human lives at risk by doing it.
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Windows has had Python support from the official version of Python since 2000. Microsoft supported and helped create IronPython from 2008.
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Why would you expect inflation? All sane UBI proposals don't create money, they just move money from rich people to poor people. If you're a Friedman disciple, then "inflation is a monetary phenomenon" and we can stop there.

If we're moving money from rich people to poor people, perhaps we'll see the prices of stuff rich people buy go down and the prices of stuff poor people buy go up.

The vast majority of stuff poor people buy is demand limited, not supply limited, so if poor people start buying more PS4's, Sony will just make more.

I'll also assert that food is demand limited, we have lots more capacity to increase production than people think. It doesn't matter though; the problem with poor people in the United States is that they eat too much, not that they eat too little.

The only thing that might see price movement is housing. That's definitely supply limited in many places. But maybe UBI will encourage people to move from high cost areas where UBI isn't sufficient to live on to low cost areas where it is. And movement will only happen in the margins -- most of the poor in the States already have a place to live, so demand shouldn't increase that much.
So your workstation is next to a bed and is attached to a machine which feeds a drip to keep a little girl alive and it gets your untested patch or whole OS upgrade and the dosage is increased or the driver stops and the patient dies.

Only non-critical machines can just automatically apply software patches from Redmond (or anybody). This is not laziness or incompetence - only a few weeks ago military grade exploits from the USG were leaked onto the internet and are currently being re-purposed for non-spying applications. Does anyone think any organisation is prepared for this? Chinese chatter indicates that ms17-010smb doesn't even fix all cases! Many organisations will have been saved by infra guys making sure ms17-010smb was rushed through and that McAfee sigs were updated 'just because'.

edit: fixed CVE (Eternalblue)
I use OS X, Windows 10 and Gnome 3 pretty much every day. They're all okay. I like Gnome best, and Windows least. But they all do the job, and they're way more similar than they are different. In contrast, 10 to 15 years ago, the user experience was wildly different on each of them.

But it's moot anyway. Browser apps will continue to displace desktop apps, and they don't really care which operating system you're running. European governments would be well served to somehow supply their administrations (as well as the general public) with a first-class alternative to Google Docs. Extra requirements: self-hostable, (even more) extensible.
I don't think there is anything special about the verb "sentir". "Sentirse" is just using it in a reflexive way, and the same holds for many other verbs: acostar, cepillar, duchar, levantar, etc.
I think it's just evidence of a decrepit IT system. They were caught because they were running Windows XP with inadequate or no anti-virus software. They would not have the problem if they'd been running patched Windows 7. Microsoft fixed the vuln in March.
The relationship between value produced and resources consumed may not be linear, but that does not mean that it is possible to have infinite production, or to produce a change in value from zero resources.

If production is not limited, then we can instantly transform our solar system into a Dyson sphere, right now. What am I not understanding, of this theory?