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I sold a MacBook on eBay once and the buyer returned a different (broken) computer. I had pictures and documentation to prove that the serial numbers were different.

eBay simply does not care. No matter what you do, if a buyer tries to scam you, you will lose.
There are a lot already fighting poverty, diseases and the like, no one did something about space exploration.

So would it be smarter to say that you need another one fighting the former or that you add the first to find a solution for one of humanity's biggest threats in the next century?
Does anyone have a nice specific example or application if dark data. Im not really understanding what the mean by unstructured data.
In this case it is passive. SMB in unpatched windows has a Remote Code Execution vulnerability that allows attackers to execute arbitrary code on your system with out your knowledge or interaction
Hi, I am the author of the article. I would appreciate any comments/questions/suggestions.

Update: I switched the audio files to Soundcloud now so everything should work again.

Eigencrisis! It looks like the UCI servers are having trouble. I uploaded the audio files to the following Soundcloud playlist and I am working on embedding the soundcloud player in place of the files.

https://soundcloud.com/umutisik/sets/eigentechno-1

Sorry for the inconvenience.
I'm shocked to say that the Thinkpad x260 does not have AMT at all.

Shocked not because I think it's a huge conspiracy to control your computer but because I honestly do believe AMT was made with the best intentions of providing a level of theft mitigation for devices. Just like "Find my Mac" from Apple that seems to get very little flack.

I'd be surprised if this meant that my pretty expensive Lenovo Thinkpad X-series lacks theft protection.
I think you are right. In fact, this script might be illegal in some places as was brought to my attention. [1]

Do you know if collecting MAC addresses is illegal in UK? In US there is a statue against "intercepting electronic information" [2] but I'm not sure it applies because I don't know whether the MAC address is "electronic information".

There is some precedent, as Google got in trouble for sniffing packets, but they were actually definitely capturing information (emails/passwords) on un-encrypted networks. [3] In any case, I put a warning on the README.

[1] https://github.com/schollz/howmanypeoplearearound/issues/4

[2] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2511

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joffe_v._Google,_Inc.
The second line of the page "on iPhone 7" gets cut off on my laptop, and that's most likely DPR issue. Certainly possible for a button to become unpressable due to CSS issues around DPR.
I'd be cautious with that too. As Agile methodology gains more acceptance, the act of creating software becomes more and more methodology-centric. Breaking down the problem into smaller and smaller stories with TDD approaches, and suddenly, it could become feasible for an AI to start delivering the stories. It's perfectly logical to think that AIs could replace programmers in a not too distant future.
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Sure, it's not impossible, but there's a powerful alliance of political and economic forces that will do their utmost to prevent this from happening.

I can only see three scenarios where prices fall materially:

a) big interest rate hike (I believe this caused the 89 crash)

b) massive increase in homebuilding (250k+ p/a, sustained)

c) mass emigration out of the UK.

I really doubt a) will happen, the BOE is loathe to raise rates as our household debt is 90% of GDP, twice what it was in 1990, our economy wouldn't handle it, our banks would be insolvent as they have <5% capital. Inflation would need to be double digits before the BOE's hand is forced.

b) also very unlikely. Homeowners make up the biggest voting block, a huge vested interest group. The green belt is a sacred cow. Every time the govt hints at liberalising the planning system, the mail+telegraph kick up a 'hands off our land' campaign.

c) maybe if brexit goes really badly, but we'd be in a true economic catastrophe if this happens. Probably wouldn't have a job with which to pay for cheaper housing.
What I find fairly strange in American academia is that professors are addressed by their last name, but students by their first name. In Austria, for example, there is no situation in which you address someone differently than they address you, except for addressing children. It would be very disrespectful for an adult to address another adult by their first name, but insist that they be addressed by their last name, as if you were a child.
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They're based on different technologies. Bolt uses B-Trees and Badger/Rocks/Leveldb use LSM trees.

Bolt also uses insane amounts of RAM and writes get slower and slower as the size of the database increases. (Personal experience, don't have benchmarks. Take this at face value.)
My impression is that the medical field is mostly increasing the number of new MDs but not the number of residency slots. This means that soon medical school will end up like law school where you can get a law degree but not a job. You need at least a year of residency to be able to practice medicine in any state, to get a real job you need to finish.

http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/healthcare/266610-sho...
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14336771
It's the same in NYC, San Fran, Seattle or any major city. There has been this secular global explosion in housing costs in large cities.
About £1k a month on airbnb in the canary wharf area so not central, we were paying £1400 before + bills renting.
Can we get a less click-bait title as well?

The two companies filed amicus briefs, they didn't join the lawsuit. The current title implies that they joined in.
> Adding a draconic open source license is an unwise decision

AGPLv3 is just a license, it is not "draconic", nor "cancer", (despite what Ballmer wants you to believe), it simply represents an ethical/moral agreement with the ideology of software freedom and since it is their code, they are free to express what they believe via the appropriate license. Nobody is making them do it, nobody is forcing you to use it and nobody is demanding you agree with it, it was a free choice and is therefore as far from "draconic" as one can possibly be, unless you believe that everybody who doesn't subscribe to your worldview is "draconic" by definition.
> Their is a huge education disparity

I agree with your overall point, but given the "proper language" nature of this thread I feel I must: there, not their.
To mitigate, Install Security Patches in a Timely manner.

Also note that only works on windows 7 and later, dism is not a tool for XP or Windows 2003 which seem to be the largest numbers hit by this since there is/was no patches for them
Yeh it's £450 a month but that is worth the cost for me as my mortgage is that much less than renting.
Software engineering? Like, two years ago? How are you on HN, but missed this? https://www.cnet.com/news/apple-google-others-settle-anti-po...
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Spoken like someone who has never commuted on the tube... Season tickets for any London public transport are eyewateringly expensive, and you get to stand in a sweat-box for the pleasure.

Folks prefer to live centrally to minimise their tube-time, although it's always been a mystery to me as to why virtually nobody lives in the City, apart from classic chickens and eggs arguments re: services (it's a graveyard at night and weekend).

There is no cheap within an hour of the city. There is no space within an hour of the city - just endless very expensive suburbia.
1) Drivers break because they were poorly written, not because of Microsoft. (I know it because I write drivers)

2) Windows barely ever changes. The lengths through which the MS devs go to preserve compatibility are insane. It's incompetent driver writers who write buggy code who should take responsibility. If you were even minimally familiar with the Windows API, you'd know. And if you aren't, here's a quote from a Windows developer:

"I could probably write for months solely about bad things apps do and what we had to do to get them to work again (often in spite of themselves). Which is why I get particularly furious when people accuse Microsoft of maliciously breaking applications during OS upgrades. If any application failed to run on Windows 95, I took it as a personal failure. I spent many sleepless nights fixing bugs in third-party programs just so they could keep running on Windows 95."

( source: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20031015-00/?p=... )
Really? Calling a professor by their first name is a faux pas in academia? Here in Brazil if you call a professor by "Mr. Last Name" they'll think you're a weirdo.

And you know what I think? Why does any random loser get to write an article in the nytimes these days? Back in the good old days it used to be only interesting stuff got written in there. Now I have to waste my time digging through the trash to find an interesting article once a month.
Meanwhile Germany tries to kickstart electric cars by subsidizing buying a new electric car. Almost nobody wants the money (because there are way too few charging stations). At least our favorite industry gets their state handouts...
This trend leads to the inevitable question of when the age of being prepared financially for children will cross the point of being unable to bear children physically.

Fifty years ago it was common to have children around eighteen, thirty years ago it was common to have children around twenty five, and now it feels like thirty five is the normal.

This begs the question whether children will be possible before forty five within twenty years, and at that age bearing children becomes a major risk.

Women in large Chinese cities are already feeling unable to balance the pressure of a career and parenthood, opting to not have children at all, or having them very late into adulthood.
If you have kids and a complex job a spot of time on the train when you have no ability to respond to other people is quality. Of course I am more of a reader than a fitness person but bicycles have a similar quality of self determination.
> obsessed with housing and property, it's a national pastime.

Are you trying to say that the obsession with housing is some how trivial?

I would have thought the lack of land and houses probably prop up the housing market more than the government..
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When you first set up your Mac, you are asked explicitly whether you want Find My Mac turned on and the Preference to turn it off is then in plain sight in the iCloud preferences. In what way are the two comparable?
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Yup. I'm in agreement.
I've observed the same thing.

My pet theory in big organizations is that the next cohort of workers (40-50 year olds) have been mostly languishing waiting for old people to die, because big organizations are mostly not growing.

The younger people get stuck in a mid career cul de sac because the dinosaurs rule the important things, so career success is on peripheral things like the PMO. Those jobs are great for getting promoted, but not great for actually knowing anything.
The usual way these types of products have been advertised is has previously been infomercials, where a person is shown struggling with store-bought products in a way that looks ridiculous enough that multiple comedians have done stand-up bits about it to the effect of: "who is it that has these problems?"

The answer: people with disabilities.

But by advertising in this way, infomercials appealed both to those with disabilities (who recognized the implied relevance to their condition) and those who benefited from the curb-cut effect[1]. They were able to sell more units for a lower price and also avoid making explicit medical claims.

This kickstarter, possibly following from the popularity of fidget toys, decided to be more explicit.

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[1] The Curb Cut effect is a generally useful observation in UX design you can read about in a few places. Here is one: https://ssir.org/articles/entry/the_curb_cut_effect
OXO-brand kitchen tools for arthritis are another example of it.
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We moved into a more suburban spot outside London a couple of years ago (mostly so we could have more space for our kids) and thee are definitely some trade offs.

Transport back to town is effing expensive - the 15 minute ride to Wimbledon where I work is about £9 per day. Public transport is rubbish. I cycle the 30 minutes to the nearest train station but on the occasions where my bike is out of action using local transport is only just feasible. For that reason almost everyone here has 2 cars. In London you don't even need a car, let alone 2.
This is a really tone-deaf argument that doesn't recognize the context that modern colleges exist in. Consider that most classes that freshmen and sophomores attend are either taught solely by TAs, lecturers, or other non-professors, or there is a class of 500 and the only personal contact the student receives is with the same.

In this context, when students spend the first half of their post-secondary education learning a method of interacting with people who are excluded from True Academia, understanding that yes, you can be quite a good instructor without these norms (which, by the way, instructors can't or don't enforce because they don't feel empowered to by their institutions), it is not difficult to see why students resist the call for these norms once they start to interact with "real professors".

Any professor who is calling for student respect in this way without respecting that the institution of academia itself has been significantly denigrated is only addressing a symptom of a much deeper problem.
Agreed, I didn't make my point quite as clearly as I'd like to. What's likely clearer is saying that it isn't "inherently incorrect or inappropriate". Certain registers have certain effects on people, and it's valuable to have more interpersonal tools and better understand how they work.

>Your entire point is that students should learn to recognize the appropriate register for the situation and switch into it.

I don't really want to coerce people into using particular registers for situations. I do want them to better understand what the results of their actions are - if they want to poke at upper-class sensibilities by deliberately using a particular register, that's their prerogative. (I am, however, a little confused by why they're spending the time and effort at college)
There's no rule that HN submissions must be related to hacking or technology or startups. Best thing is just to ignore stories you're not interested in, or flag them if you think they are really inappropriate (but not just because you find them uninteresting).

> On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

> Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think a story is spam or off-topic, flag it by clicking on its 'flag' link.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Your anecdote seems to confirm the dynamic described in TFA? You're making more money "aggressively", your wife is making less, etc.? You seem happy about it, but lots of men and women are not...
We've experienced these downsides as well, although it seems that boltdb's memory usage can be deceptive due to mmap'ing the db file.
Public versus private schools indeed. Public schools can be quite good but it depends on the quality of the students and teachers that are willing to work there.
> That all said: SF certainly ain't no London. I'd still pick London any day of the week.

Why's that? I've been working in London for a month and was looking into SF for next year. (So far I really like London.)
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Do you have an example? Because last time I looked into NHR it didn't seem very attractive. If I remember correctly you paid around 30% in social security and 25% income tax, but the income tax is flat. So the overall tax savings didn't seem that great since you had to make quite a lot to reach a similar effective tax and even more to save any significant amount. Could still be decent if the cost of rent and living is low of course.

But I might be mistaken, so any comment would be appreciated.
Selling stuff on ebay / using paypal (they're the same thing from a seller's perspective) is a gamble. You can sell a brand new product and then the buyer creates a dispute with ebay/paypal and you're fucked. Often they don't even have to return the item. Paypal will freeze the funds. Only if the buyer agrees to cancel their complaint can you get your money back. It's too bad. Ebay used to be a wonderful platform. But like most Internet companies today, they are shit. Paypal's business is undoubtedly criminal. Craigslist works only because it's not a platform and you don't have to give them money. Much less exposure, but at least ebay/paypal/other shitty Internet company doesn't keep your money. All these advances, and a copy of the classifieds (craigslist) plus cash is still the optimal route for selling safely. Sad.
I taught college for a brief period, and would have had no problem addressing my students more informally. I actually let them use my first name, as I felt that a more informal atmosphere would somehow help form the impression that math is not just an ivory tower pursuit.

While my approach may be misguided, I did get an interesting comment from one student: "You are not like the professors. You explain things."
I just upvote the next ten lower stories when I want to downvote one.
>>the patch for this was already published few months ago

2 months ago, March 17th, and many organizations do not patch as often as they should, Many have even started delaying longer since MS patches of late have been causing more problems for people breaking Office, Breaking WiFi and breaking other critical systems with MS normal response of "opps our bad, well fix it in another month until then get fucked"

> Additionally W10

Win10 has about a 12% Market share, about the same as Windows XP still does.

Win10 has not been widely adopted outside the consumer market.

>All this, and still WannaCry hit the main evening news,

Made the news because of the numbers of systems, and number of high profile systems like Hostipols that were infected not because it was a Technical marvel of malware engineering

It also made the news because the NSA is indirectly responsible for not disclosing these vulnerabilities when they were discovered until they weaponized them for their own gain. While I do not blame the NSA for this infaction, I believe they should be forced, today, to disclose to all software vendors any other vulnerabilities they want to play Hacker with....
Shouldn't there be some protection from editing original claims, and if changed, that its clear when and what changed in the wording? I find the whole thing ridiculous.
There's no need to go around telling people anything.

We could just stop believing that « capitalism is just another way of saying "what people want" ».
A: Real books are superior in almost every way.

Except for reference or if you're stuck in a hospital bed, I personally see negative value in ebooks. They often cost more, offer an inferior reading experience, and lock you down to yet another device that needs to charge.
Yes, the City is sparsely populated. But there are a lot of people in the Barbican Centre.
You could also function as a broad returns resale company, front a portion of the money for the return fix/dump products in house and resell them at a discounted price. Then adjust the percentage you refund the seller based on what type of item it is and how much of there stuff comes back unsalvagable. Target resale at the developing world/people on shoestring budgets/startups.
it's looking more and more like chrome

i'm not a fan of the wasted space around the centered but not-wide-enough url bar (urls are truncated even in the screenshots)

the rest seems decent though

it says the screenshots are mockups so i hope they improve
Doesn't look like he did any cross-validation, hence the high accuracy. Always keep a hold-out set to test against
Give it another six months..
It seems that a lot of people feel essentially forced to take out a mortgage in order to avoid the high cost of rent.

The fact that they feel forced into it worries me. Maybe the demand for London property is partly artificial. I think that a lot of people who live in very big cities just want to live there temporarily to earn cash and then get out and retire somewhere else.

Personally, I don't want to take a mortgage because I'm afraid that house prices will crash when the next financial crisis comes along.
FFT filters and the like are already a thing, I'm not sure what extra practical benefit you think this would bring. Nevertheless it's a good start and well-documented.
well dataquest.io is for data science but they seem to be going down that track.
No, one or two minutes spent by a human would easily resolve this situation and most disputes. Just taking a look at the images and serial numbers of the macs would provide the evidence needed. Ebay does not have to be the shitty company it is. It chooses to be the shitty company it is.
I'm not sure it even quite works out like that. Property in the burbs is expensive too. You often get more for that money, but I'm not sure it's much cheaper - if you see what I mean. Also, as I posted in another comment - there's a pretty hefty transport tax to pay once you're out of town.
Generally europe has much better maternity/paternity leave than the US. In the UK you get 39 paid weeks of maternity leave. The first 6 are at 90% of your salary, the rest is much lower (depending on your salary) but you still get paid each week.
As someone that was made to sign a confidentiality agreement under duress and unfair pressure months after joining the company, with stipulations that basically say ANY work I do, regardless of industry or during the weekend, belong to the company. Even after I no longer work there up to one year, and ONLY if I bother to sign the attached clause that says I no longer work there.

I'm so glad that tomorrow I'll be handing in my two weeks notice especially at a critical time for the company. I'm also the most senior developer that everyone else comes to with questions regarding how the system works and how it can be improved. The original developers left for similar reasons.

What I'm trying to say is, if you think, as a business owner or employer that you can act against the best interests of your employees then you'll end up paying dearly for it one way or another.
OK, with commit a4d8fca4d18e1ae896b0305a53e152b568596bc1 (still after running modprobe mei_me) it is saying:

Unable to find a Management Engine interface - run sudo modprobe mei_me and retry.
If you receive the same error, this system does not have AMT

(Sounds good)
"Mr. LastName was my father's name! Please, call me Dr. LastName."
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i don't think anyone has found a machine yet where AMT is enabled out of the box either
In DE it's something like 4+ months for each parent and one parent can gift their time to the other. It does not depend on the insurance of the company or some silliness like this. However, if you are self employeed you do not get this. Also on top parents get some 100+ eu a month per child regardless of employement, for X number of years.

Perhaps of interest:

https://www.oecd.org/gender/data/length-of-maternity-leave-p...
This is one of the examples of why I consider Google a malware distributor. This sort of stuff just continues undealt with.

Companies should be held responsible for the ads they distribute, it's the only way to make them care enough to vet the ads they push.