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It is a cycle. It relates to bureaucratic and cultural inertia. The pendulum first goes to one side, then to the other. The juice thing is a moronic thing, and those who love it deserve what they supported. That means those in charge, the organizational equivalent of the 1%, are morons and anti-innovation. Those folks got to where they are from where the other 99% are, by being innovative. They have way too much capital, and too few brain-cells to differentiate anymore. It also looks like they didn't do their footwork.

Give it a few cycles, a few years, and let a few of us hard-working, thinking, and innovating 99% get a decent shot that isn't shot down by the current batch of bucket-heads at the top, and there will be another wave of "innovation". The truth is that the killer of innovation is much more about how the overall system functions, than the capacity of innovators. Did you know that Peter Principle Revisited actually leads to organizational topologies that reject talent. HR, who doesn't do math or graph theory has no idea what that sentence means. This is why there is a current drought of actual innovation.
If you care so much about being on topic, please keep politics out of this discussion.
We used ScaleFT for Dreamhack (https://www.scaleft.com/blog/how-dreamhack-used-scaleft-to-s...) and it was very easy to work with. A very good product if your company simply wants something that works.
Related question: If I only had an MIS undergrad degree (some 200 level stats and no other math) and wanted to get into machine learning what kind of math courses would I need to pick up to become proficient?
It's funny, because I took away exactly the opposite from that book. It painted a very flattering picture of Theodore Vale and his "enlightened monopoly." After all, it was Ma Bell wired up the whole country and built a network that was, for its time, state-of-the-art.

"Enlightened monopolies" have historically been great for technology. Bell Labs created so much of the basic technology we depend on. Same thing for Xerox PARC (which was bankrolled by Xerox's copier patent monopoly). Maybe consumers would have paid somewhat less for phone service or copiers without those monopolies, but would the world have been better off? Conversely, competition has killed innovation in e.g. the PC market. With their razor-thin margins, Lenovo/HP/Acer/Dell/etc. have no money to innovate.
>Products liability law

Wouldn't that hold Microsoft liable then?
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I'll get back on this. Looping in people who understand this space better.
It took a while to load on my phone (crowded spectrum, frequently crappy bandwidth) and nothing appeared to be happening until it did. Might be the same thing you're seeing.
I suspect this article is referring to legacy systems written with Microsoft software, that communicate with a server through binary applications that only work on Windows.

It is getting harder to remember, but only 10 years ago, having Microsoft as the only supported platform was easily justifiable in most organizations. Even if your software was customer facing!
For the person on the street who does not even care about the details of ocean acidification or atmospheric CO2 concentrations, "the planet is dying" is a sufficiently strong and useful statement.

You're doing exactly what I'm saying playing with semantics. For all intents and purposes on the timescales that we actually care about, the planet is dying.
teaching itself is a noble profession, but teaching within the constraints, limitations, and structural flaws of the American public education institution can absolutely feel like "doing wrong" a lot of the time.
I would guess that multiple people within the NHS may also just be acting in an uncoordinated manner to see if a relatively tiny sum can just make this go away. I would further expect that a spend on this small scale would be in the discretion of many managers at the NHS.

(UPDATE: sounds like there are many more impacted parties since I first commented, so my comment is likely much less correct.)
In the aftermath I wonder if we'll ever find out how the attack was enabled. As in, who opened the attachment. My hunch? An Executive high enough in Leadership who won't get fired. Will be interesting to see.
Cyber attack forces UK hospitals to turn away patients
If they can put out a stable mod API and reach feature parity (but not necessarily compatibility) the C++ version will quickly replace the Java IMO.

The biggest things holding back the game today are poor performance and lack of a mod API and the Windows 10 version already does great things for performance.
Oh my. I really loved Airwolf as a kid. I did not need to see this.
This happened in Eve Online. Some guy acted as a defacto bank, built trust over several years, then blew all the credits on a flagship.

Held legally accountable? Lmao. Guile is part of the game and all your credits belong to Eve.
I find this is an interesting premise and at least I know I'm not the only one that sees some of the "ideas" out there and remains baffled why they exist at all.

There are so many big issues and tough problems that could be greatly improved or resolved by innovation, yet very few seem to be tackled or addressed. Perhaps because they are hard?
I agree with your solutiom, but there is far, far less blood sucking going on than you might imagine and far, far more organizational incompetence. That is, organizations hire contractors and then dont know how to tell them what they want, but simultaneously refuse to let the contractor have initiative because they dont know how to set up a pay structure for it. Businesses screw themselves.
I've rarely worked at a place that didn't shadow copy your user directory to a network location. The only thing that SHOULD be lost is whatever hadn't been saved when they were ransomwared.

The company should be able to pull a backups from the last file change prior to that event.
Why would you fire someone for opening an attachment?
The industry is moving to high-band and small cells for 5G, so Sprint will be well-positioned there. But building that is going to be insanely capital-intensive, and the question is whether Sprint has the money.
Understood. I’m just commenting on the name in a vacuum. If it’s supposed to mean use for non-graphics calculations, it’s confusing to have “graphics” in the name.
A good summary. The original and the movie have nothing in common aside from the setting and some character names.

The visuals were amazing, but the movie might as well have been named "cyborgs in hong kong".
> Cautious use of memory allocations...

I believe you're arguing against a GC there.
Which doesn't just mean that file had a crap password; I'd be willing to bet it means a whole bucket or type of files has the same password. So at least there's that.
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>Agreed. However, and not to be political but a realist, if this is the only merger we see in the mobile providers in the next 4 years, I would consider it a win

There are only 4 American non-virtual mobile providers.

If you expect 1 merger every 4 years, and there are only 4 providers, then you expect the entire market to re-monopolize in roughly a decade?

People forget that in America, there are only 4 major mobile network builders only.

I would consider it a win if we stayed at 4, or increased to 5+.

Anything else is a cataclysmic loss from my perspective.
I did not judge anyone in this message. I merely explained that when Brexiters say they're not against economically sound migration, they miss the point: it's not about rejecting people, it's about making people not want to come in the first place.
Okay, CockDB then :)
A lot of people have a lot of bitcoin sitting around with no desire to cash out of it.
In broad sense, loss of control is useful, since it credibly closes off options you don't want to take. You don't want to to take the option of putting up with slights and insults and loss of social standing, so you get mad and lose control, and people don't want to play that game with you any more. You don't want to take the option of abandoning your spouse and offspring, so you love them so deeply that you'd never consider it - and your public displays of affection prove it.

I think burnout fills the same sort of role. When people are constantly called to take on risky, stressful, and high effort activities - essentially, those that raise your cortisol levels - they burn out. Not just one-off ones, but repeatedly over long periods of time. So long-term high cortisol levels paint a picture of a certain narrative/social situation, where it's very much in your interest to "shirk" but you haven't been able to manage doing so because of narratives or social pressure. So your body "helpfully" removes the option of yielding to social pressure to rise to the occasion by making you unable to rise to the occasion in a way that cannot yield to the demands of others.
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This article is a disorganized and incoherent mess with a trite political moral.
I can only speak for Kerbal Space Program, but Unity 5's GC causes stutters on many people's systems, regardless how much RAM is available. There is a wonderful plugin called MemGraph[0] which lets you view GC events and more importantly, to change the time and frequency of GC activation, which has almost completely alleviated stuttering on many systems (my own included).

[0]http://forum.kerbalspaceprogram.com/index.php?/topic/139128-...
That's likely true, but if the ride wasn't enough for those people, they shouldn't have spent money on it. It's like a person who chooses to spend $20 on lottery tickets and then gets mad that they didn't win. Don't pay unless the risk is part of the fun.
I can certainly see how this is useful, but is there also a complementary site that provides the opposite? I try to avoid using icons that resemble everyday items (the 3.5 inch floppy for 'save' is a good example).

Edit: there's actually a ton of good abstract stuff in here. Should have looked more closely.
I remember this being discussed a decade ago. The irony was that in most cases it was abandoned because migrating cost more than the annual IT budget. And since no politician ever plans a decade ahead, here we are.
That's how one-time password tokens like RSA SecurID and YubiKey works, and hardware/battery/cost wise, they seem to be well within scope for a car key.
Mine, too. For me it was too new of a registration.
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> Palestine isn't developing

"developing" in this context is a synonym (perhaps more specifically, a euphemism) for "less developed".

> and it's not a nation either.

Palestine is absolutely a nation (it's also an increasingly widely recognized state, though with disputed borders, but that's independent of it being, or not being, a nation.)
> what kind of math courses would I need to pick up to become proficient?

look ML courses and their prereqs.
Constant updates.

The game doesn't follow any real story so it doesn't have that limiting factor.
me too. 6 months is about how long it took me to recover from my own episode of burnout. I've spoken to several peers who report the same thing.
"You had your chance to handle your own updates and proved that you cannot be trusted to do so. This is the next logical step."

Personally, I would describe the user voluntarily allowing their computer to become infested with first party adware and spyware as winning the stupid prize, but your mileage may vary.
> Because we're talking about cross-core guarantees of concurrency. So you actually do care about what another, or all cores are doing.

This is mostly about load/store order of an individual core. How individual core decides to order its reads and writes to memory.

> Weaker CPU's (Like say POWER7) that do batching writes (you accumulate 256bits of data, then write it all at once) don't communicate what is in their write-out buffer. So you may write to a pointer, but until that CPU does a batched write the other cores aren't aware. You have to do a fence to flush this buffer (in the other cores).

You can actually do same on x86 by using non-temporal stores. Although you're not talking about store ordering, but about visibility to other cores. A store won't ever be visible to other cores until it at least hits L1 cache controller.

> There are some scenarios where the same situation can arise on x64 but its rarer.

Yup, that's right. That's why x86 (and x64) got mfence and sfence instructions.

> This is why x64 uses a MESIF-esque cache protocol [1][2]. It can tell when data is Owned/Forwarded/Shared between cores.

Reordering happens before cache controller. When cache controller is involved, the store is already in progress.
It's recognized by most countries in the World. If you love Apartheid, then good for you, but don't bring your off topic political stance here.
All I really want is Turbo Boost.
I'm wondering myself. Maybe just the software to use it? No idea...
I tried to sign but a security issue with the site prevented it.
I don't think a C++ API will ever be as flexible as the PATCH EVERYTHING that is possible with Java.
That website seems to hijack back button history...
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I don't. It's frustrating - I have no idea if these are tiny hospital trusts or a massive CCG or massive multi-county trusts.
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This may actually be something I try. I don't need that much sleep, but I think it may hurt for awhile. I'll think on it.
It doesn't exactly connect "America has no more innovation" and "many startups are scams"
You think that if an entire government was running a specific *nix operating system that the NSA couldn't develop an exploit to gain access to the OS?

Android phones run Linux and get hacked to get root access. Routers, IoT devices, and lots of other hardware run Linux variants and get hacked all the time.

This idea that people hold that if only we didn't run Windows we'd all be more secure is silly and naive.
I was wondering what the OP means by Palestine, is it Israel or Jordan. Both aren't developing countries and both has very successful startup scene. Anyways, if you see it as off-topic I will delete my comments and apologize.
Thanks for the tip. Will check it out.
It should be noted that this was achieved by giving 6 months of 4G data (1GB/day at > 6Mbps) + free telephony, for a mere $6.

Things should normalize once the freebies stop; Jio however will have a massive collection of Indians Biometric identities (and much else skimmed off of "Big Brother" Aadhar) and their browsing habits, which we currently have no idea how they'll exploit. Worse, we have no regulation over Aadhar's data-sharing, nor over the privacy of citizens.

India's state telephony company now injects ads into non-HTTPS sites, and tracks users using the services of a private company. Considering Ambani's complete lack of basic ethics, one can be sure that they'll be much more clever with it than the generic dolts at BSNL.
Born and raised in Idaho. Dunno if anyone will read this, but many of us here are against the hunting of wolves (or any other large predator like mountain lions etc).

The reason is very simple at its core - do humans know better than the natural world? The answer is clearly no, so there must be unintended consequences to hunting animals purely for sport or human constructs like competition. Without wolves, herds grow too large and overgraze streams and generally wreck ecosystems.

I recognize that hunters want to succeed at finding game but humans are the top predator. We already have full control, so I find arguments that we are competing with wolves to be rather sophomoric. People just want that feeling of having total control, which is at odds with the natural world. It's a macho thing, not a pragmatic thing.
Cyber security is everyone's responsibility. In the US at least, hospitals and their staff are held responsible for the proper care and handling of patient health data. In my opinion a hospital administrator should definitely be held accountable for poor computer practices that led to patient data being compromised.
Yeah that situation is probably going away since MTS got oligobbled up by Bell. I guess Sasktel is still around...

I remember trying to pull off the Koodoo (Telus) trick some years ago claiming I was from Winnipeg and traveling (when I am actually American). :)
Ransomware attacks are typically honest; in other words, if you pay, they unlock your files.
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For sure work through a linear algebra book, a stats book and some probability theory. Some basic calculus as well. Work through all of the simple examples. Just like programming..

That level of math helps to model the problem domain. The part of modeling the problem is to see that everything in ML is a graph. So you can look at it from that point of view as well, at least computational wise. Mapping the math to the graph is the heart of it all.
How do you ensure the clocks are sync'd? Or is there a one-channel method that doesn't require synchronized times? E.g. window-based

Or is it that cheap to have ~5-10 yr accurate clocks implemented in hardware now? (Not that the margin on keyfobs seems exactly slim...)
Curious that this manufactured content piece came from the job board DICE--

They evidently don't mind portraying their client base (recruiters) in a decidely unflattering light. I'd think twice about supporting their platform.
Another happy ScaleFT customer at Jungle Disk https://www.jungledisk.com/blog/2016/07/13/behind-the-scene-...
More likely the ransomware is not sophisticated and uses the same address for all its victims.

Typically it's just hard-coded and then they ask you to just email them with which transaction is yours to unlock. So you could just wait for somebody else to pay and then quickly claim their transaction first..
that's a good question, but it's totally independent of the expectation that if it was some low-level nobody who did it then their ass'd be fired.
Damn. I wonder how much money they lost due to the decrease in productivity.
This was released on April 27. Old news.
The claim was that the generic actor 'pesticides' could not be proven to be the cause of the general decline for these specific tests and locations. No one was asserting that insecticides could not be proven to be responsible for killing insects.
Yes. NHS has a national level support agreement for XP.
There are a lot of legacy systems and it's not just the bother of replacing the system, there are a lot of front line staff who only know how to use specific applications and are not generally computer literate so moving them to new systems will slow everything down for weeks or months as they learn a new application.
Random advice from the internet.

Why even waste energy thinking about this?

Just pick something else. Nobody really cares much about the name and if the company is making a pile of money, it can do a rebranding later. For a lot of businesses having something that is easily googlable may help more than having something perfect.

Alternatively, just use the name and move forward building a business. Blatant cases aside, fretting over what might happen because of the name is pretend work. Fretting over the business running out of money is real work.

Good luck.
It is large scale all across Europe. NHS is only one among many (we are smack in the middle of it)
It would be a bit silly to fire people for opening attachments, regardless of their position in the organisation. Sure, people need to be vigilant and follow their organisations' security practices, but if people like me (with lots of technical experience) can almost get tricked then it seems rather disproportionate.

It really should be the case that IT infrastructure is resistant to these problems.
You're not missing much, just some introduction text and a link to their GitHub here: https://github.com/gpuopenanalytics

Here's the full website text:

GPU Open Analytics Initiative

Continuum Analytics, H2O.ai, and MapD Technologies have announced the formation of the GPU Open Analytics Initiative (GOAI) to create common data frameworks enabling developers and statistical researchers to accelerate data science on GPUs. GOAI will foster the development of a data science ecosystem on GPUs by allowing resident applications to interchange data seamlessly and efficiently.

GPU Data Frame

Architecture

Our first project: an open source GPU Data Frame with a corresponding Python API. The GPU Data Frame is a common API that enables efficient interchange of data between processes running on the GPU. End-to-end computation on the GPU avoids transfers back to the CPU or copying of in-memory data reducing compute time and cost for high-performance analytics common in artificial intelligence workloads. Users of the MapD Core database can output the results of a SQL query into the GPU Data Frame, which then can be manipulated by the Continuum Analytics’ Anaconda NumPy-like Python API or used as input into the H2O suite of machine learning algorithms without additional data manipulation.

Plus a list of founders: Anaconda, H2O.ai and MAPD.
>the de jure "reasonable expectation of privacy"

Does not protect your exposed face

>the de facto privacies of anonymity, free association, and predictable rules of social engagement

Are outdated illusions with no basis in fact
Yeah, you're spot on. Grasshoppers and frogs were everywhere in the 80's when I was a kid. I can't remember the last time I even saw a grasshopper.

Not sure if it's related, but I rarely see dew any more either.
Out of curiosity, why do you live in a neighborhood with a ton of gunshots? Can you afford to live elsewhere?
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I am still using my Nexus 5 from 2013. Could I ask which specific software update killed performance if you can remember off the top of your head?
> Hackers are demanding a payment of $300 per machine, roughly equal to 300 Bitcoins currently worth around 510,000 euros.

EDIT: nvm. Apparently they mean to imply they have about ~1759 infected machines.
I left a job last year that was the most meaningful job I've ever had. Despite the benefit to society, and my appreciation of that fact, I left because of an indignity. I essentially gave someone else power over how I felt about myself.

Jobs are not just jobs, they're people too. You don't go to work and save the world every day, you mostly work with other people, which can be great, or it can be hell.
I'm not so sure. I haven't found avoiding what you hate rather than pursuing what you love to be a good life strategy
France has a very different movie industry than the US; most theaters are independent in France so their offerings are far more diverse than the average US chain theater. If an indie French filmmaker can't get their film screened in at least one French theater, then quite frankly it's not good enough to be considered for Cannes and probably not even good enough to justify the time spent making it.
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I don't think you can really blame this on Tony Abbott. Malcolm Turnbull was the communications minister and is now the prime minister and he seemed to be the one driving his copper bullshit.

I hate Abbott as much as anyone but Turnbull seems like the real problem.
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The only "problem" I see is that there's a lot of vc money out there willing to take a long shot.
Not really a strong argument. Birds prove that you can fly with only deformable surfaces (flapping wings), and in particular without dedicated devices to inhale air and push it out fast (engines). But if you had to build airplanes with deformable surfaces but not engines, you would never be competitive (at least for first century of aviation technology...).
Dogs don't have a better sense of smell than humans
Depends. And that's exactly why it's easy to say "we need product liability law", but very difficult to say how it would work in practice.