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Does anyone have an estimate of how much money WannaCry has made in total?

Incentives matter, and if the ransomeware developers are actually getting paid a lot, they will continue exploiting these vulnerabilities. On the other hand, if it turns out people don't actually bother paying despite being locked out of their computers, would the hackers even bother continuing this line of attack?
One can hope that the next generation of children won't have to hold a 'job' at all.
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> as long as it costs $150k to replace a $50k truck driver, no publicly traded company is going to do that en masse.

Isn't this what VC money is for?
Well, thanks for notifying me :). I think I'll refrain from posting in such discussions for a while.
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It's 40% on earnings above around 45K, below that it's 20%
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For tv shows, he's most likely fine. The only instance where I personally need HD is watching hockey because the puck is so tiny.
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Ask HN: Best Wunderlist replacement?
Hi guys,

as many others I am not really impressed with Microsoft’s Wunderlist replacement called To-Do. So my question is, is there any similiar, simple and safe alternative? It seems to me most of the competitors tend to overcomplicate things (e.g Omnifocus) which is something I am not looking for. The closest thing to Wunderlist I was able to find is probably TickTick, but I would love to hear other tips.

Thanks
You are talking about nirvana, where robots are so cheap anyone can own them. The cost of food and shelter would decline to nearly zero in such a world.
Ask HN: How do you know you are still in early market?
I just recently started to realize that the question is much deeper than it seems at the first glance.

Imagine you are in the middle of 1990s, looking at the Internet
you may think it's already done/finished and there is nothing big you can invent.
You have perfect Netscape browser and very convenient Yahoo along with cool AltaVista.

If you were being told about yet another brand new search engine (Google),
you may think - why those guys are wasting their time, there is no chance to beat Yahoo.

Yet, Google became monopolist amongst search engines.

Then you watch how dot-com bubble burst in 2000.

Then you may think, the Internet is done for sure.
There will be no second company which grow as fast as Google did.

Then, you will observe rise of Facebook.
In the beginning you won't believe it could grow THAT big,
after all it looks like match.com for Harvard students.

Then you will discover somebody wrote Bitcoin.
You won't even recognize it's a currency
because it's just tokens in p2p network with no connection to real world.

Then after reading stories about Silk Road,
you finally started understanding that you can use as a currency literally anything
as long as it hard to reproduce and in limited supply.

But watching Bitcoin crash in 2011, you may think that Bitcoin reached its limits.

In beginning of 2015, you would think crypto-currencies are just a bubble.
Nobody in their right mind would spend their time and effort to create yet another crypto-currency.

Yet, Ethereum started in 2015 and quickly become the second largest crypto-currency.

I tend to always think it's too late and market is already done.

So returning back to my question: How do you know you are still in early market?

As an answer, it would be awesome to have some references to insights from some founders or VCs.
Why is both parents working always not an option in cases like this? Here he actually touches upon it, but dismisses it saying that it will be more expensive that way. Are these people wanting a personal nanny for their kid or is it really that expensive with kindergarten?
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From his "About" page: I’m now actively seeking opportunities to move me and my family somewhere overseas.
It might not be completely wasted but it certainly isn't quality time either.
I think the author neglects one point: Deciding what to keep and what to throw away is a really difficult problem. Why is that so? Because to do it 100% correctly, you would have to know the future. Because only then you can know for certain what is worth keeping. You don't know the future so you will err. Now, in times where data storage is almost free, it makes sense to keep an ever growing but well-ordered set of files or bookmarks. It has saved me lots of time, just searching my bookmarks "I remember this article I once skimmed, and it contains exactly what I need" or even "I remember this book I downloaded, I'm sure the answer is in there".
If AI and robotics can do everything cheaper than humans, how is that not the greatest thing ever?
Software engineers are distinctly different from robotics engineers. To build robots, you need to be at the intersection of software, electronics and mechanical engineering. A robotics engineer would typically intersect at the software and electronics part.

From personal experience, I can tell you that transitioning from software to robotics is not trivial. It's also very frustrating. Software is typically much faster and cheaper to debug and fix than anything hardware related...
It's too bad the _Sea Shadow_ is gone, but I was pleasantly surprised by how easy it was to go and see the _HMB-1_.

It's docked at Bay and Ship right next to the ferry terminal on Alameda. Here's a picture I took of it [1].

If you're in the Bay Area, it's probably not worth making the trip out there for just the ship, but it's neat to walk around the old naval base close to there, and I'd recommend a stop off at Rock Wall Wine Company along Monarch St. There's a spacious outdoor area with a very unique perspective of downtown San Francisco.

[1] https://drop.brandur.org/hmb-1.jpg
In the UK when people talk about "tax bracket", they don't usually mean "overall tax rate on total income", but rather, specifically which of the following bands you fall into: [1]. The fact that the author is in the 40% tax bracket means that any money he makes above £45k is taxed at 40%.

I can imagine to an outsider this seems like a bit of an unintuitive way to frame things :)

[1]: https://www.gov.uk/income-tax-rates/current-rates-and-allowa...
Sadly, that's Moom's best, differentiating feature.
Some numbers I saw going around yesterday that were looking at the discovered Bitcoin addresses totaled around $18,000.
We are culturally unprepared to live in it.
I sure don't want any of that 99% being a doctor or lawyer just finishing a boot camp.
Giving one example is not an evaluation that would convince me that NN are better. The German LaTeX community is one of the largest and I haven't heard much about it being unhappy with TeX's hyphenation.
Didn't have this problem with Alexa, it is willing to run most functions w/o blanket permissions.

Google Home, OTOH, will not. So I have a device in a drawer just for it. Enjoy your accelerometer data, Google...
Can it attack Linux desktops?
Many people would have bought their homes before prices got so high, others will use inheritance, a few take on ruinous debt.
Magnet author here. We’re from Europe, Czech Republic in particular, so I don’t think we’re a viable target for a US patent troll. Glad you like our app!
Go projects typically use godoc to autogenerate documentation from comments, this has the added benefit that a single service can maintain updated docs for every open source go package in existence ex. https://godoc.org/
That's probably the right way to look at any legal dispute? Good precedent and the rule of law are always more important than the parties involved...
> So, let me ask - what in particular are you seeing as the "google rootkit," and how would you describe its negative behavior in words other than "it's a rootkit"?

Well, I am not all that well-versed in Android/Google components/APIs/whatever, so I can't really tell you what specific component that would be, but as I understand it, there is some mechanism provided by the platform that allows an app to check whether the owner is locked out from controlling their own device, right?

So, it's some component with high privileges that gives the power to control how you use your device to a party that's not you ... now, "rootkit" isn't really all that clearly defined, but I would say that that's clearly the core of what makes a rootkit a rootkit, don't you think?
https://godoc.org/github.com/dgraph-io/badger/badger#example...
also see; https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/850323865972596738
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> The ransomware was built from NSA tools

I think that is bit disingenuous. The worm spreads through hole that was known to NSA and publicly disclosed and patched few months ago. That is hardly something I'd call "NSA tool", they didn't make the hole (best to our knowledge).

Sure, it would have been nicer if the discoverer would have been more forthcoming about the vulnerability, but that would have not really changed the fact that this exploitation happened well after the public disclosure and patch availability.
> Why would Intel insist on being so secretive about their management engine?

It includes DRM (Protected Audio/Video Path), for one.
Thanks, I added that.
Yea, no. Food quality and quantity is higher than ever. Our world is also awash in water, the fact that California gifted control of its water supplies to opportunists a hundred years ago not withstanding. There is no water supply problem that cannot be solved by finally applying free markets.
Speaking from personal experience ... At the time of signing you can see the upside (the offer), but you can't know the downside, which can be quite significant. It's a poor trade-off. Avoid these unless you get some kind of severance for the period of the agreement. Mere employment as "consideration" is a bad deal.
No, I lost 25% of the value of my first property after buying at the peak in the eighties. Prices can fall and sometimes the government can't or won't stop it.
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The real problem is, while many complain about 'inequality' no one has consistently defined what 'equality' looks like in a way that can be replicable, implementable, or prescriptive.

What is this world in which income / wealth / opportunity is 'equal'? Is this a world we want to live in? What are the rules of this world? What steps need to be taken on the policy front to achieve this world? Are those steps that the anti-inequality elites are willing to undertake?
It seems to me that the musician's nightmare is actually a lived reality for a lot of people, it definitely was like this for me. As a child I took pleasure in inventing melodies on our family's piano so that one observant family member signed me up for piano lessons. I quickly came to hate my lessons so thoroughly that I didn't touch a piano until I was in my mid-twenties, when I rediscovered the joy of making music...
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> Real estate is not labour intensive. A single landlord can probably handle dozens of properties.

I can only suspect you don’t own property that you rent out. Tenants of just one flat, if demanding and complaining enough, can easily burden a landlord beyond any extent he considers acceptable. Any landlord whose portfolio extends into the dozens of properties will almost certainly have contracted all the actual work out to an agency with its own staff of multiple people.
Even though the sampling loses information about the wave; from the sampled data, your computer’s digital-to-analog converter can perfectly reconstruct the portion of the sound that contains all the frequencies up to half of the sampling frequency. This is the Nyquist Theorem. So we are O.K.

Pedantic note: This is only true in a theoretical setting where you have infinitely precise samples. Since each sample has only so-and-so many bits, and calculations also are lossy, you cannot reconstruct the wave perfectly. But it's good enough. There are also formats with more bits per sample to increase quality.
Kindergarten is expensive, a pretty normal nursery that can cover working hours will soak up pretty much all of the earning potential of the person who is paid the least in the relationship. Nevertheless, it's something you can do with one child, but it won't make the finances much easier. If you have two pre-school children, you're back in the exact situation described.

The article is pretty accurate - a single earner providing for a family and renting in London will not find it easy if they're earning less than 90k (much over the average). On the plus side, once the children are school age, costs go down, and it becomes more possible to be a 2 income family again. You can think of it as 3 years of difficulty but then it'll get bearable again.
Intel didn't participate in any standards-publishing process in which they pushed x86 in exchange for FRAND. Qualcomm did.
London has an incredible transportation system, why buy in some central neighborhood? Accepting a 30 minute train ride will do wonders for your buying power, and your ability to save. It's the classic conundrum. You want a place close in, cheap, and lots of space: choose two.
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[dupe]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14304465
To the author: it would be nice if your site had a small screens layout.

I can't read the article on my phone because too much code is cut off (and the right margin is unpleasantly close to the main text, unlike the left margin).
Spectacle has keyboard shortcuts - in fact, I think that's all it has. All I use it for at least. The first command sets the window to 1/2 width (or height), second tap sets it to 2/3, third tap sets it to 1/3. Works great for me. Also I should note it's OSS.
Yes, if you have between 5 and 10 users it's $75 a month.
Rent control is terrible because it lowers supply. The correct solution is increase supply by building more.
Having worked with some departments where the average age was 50+ I've definitely seen flagrant rule bending for risky behavior (e.g. not carrying radiation detectors, working on roofs without proper "safety" equipment, etc). The thing is these people got the job done. The younger generation (which I belong to) would likely throw up their hands and claim they couldn't complete the task because some prerequisite for a rule wasn't in place.
Personally I'm quite comfortable with it even though I'm in that bracket.
I do. There are all kinds of things wrong with requiring 20 years of study just to be able to have a chance to do a job properly. If done properly, we can reduce that time significantly.
Someone earning his salary is taking home £36k or so, paying effectively 28%
I don't quite understand how WannaCry became such a big deal. Ransomware is already old thing, SMB worms even older. WannaCry didn't even use a 0day ffs, the patch for this was already published few months ago (and not particularly quietly I might add). There is very little novel about WannaCry as far as I can tell. Additionally W10 apparently was not vulnerable in the first place.

All this, and still WannaCry hit the main evening news, which at least around here is somewhat high bar. Not sure what to think about that.
What's with the people sending 0.0001 BTC (~17 cents), and paying a .0004 transaction fee (~82 cents) all about?
It's banded in the UK. Your first £11.5K of income is tax free, the balance up to £45K is taxed at 20%, anything over £45K and under £150K is taxed at 40% and anything beyond £150K is taxed at 45%.

In return you get free education up to (but not including) university age and universally free health care.

There's also national insurance at 12% of earnings over £680/month (money from this tax is used to fund state pensions and unemployment benefits).
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There's that word again, natively. Should just say written in Go. The native part is redundant.
When I look at the HN jobs postings every month nearly everything from the UK is in London. I would have thought these companies could gain a recruitment advantage by moving further out where property is cheaper.
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my first couple of jobs would all be easy to automate but it would cost more then $3/hour
The article misses the point about the standard of living in London.

It might seem strange that on someone's good sounding salary they can't make ends meet, but if you factor in all the nearby (<1hr walking or spending <£5 on public transport) stuff that's practically free and wonderful then on their salary they're still living one of the best goddamn lives in the world.

I live in South London, not within walking distance of any tube line, but I still have three cinemas, one major, two independent, near me. The cuisines of a huge swathe of the world, shops for things I did not know existed, and the world's major and up and coming acts performing in hundreds of locations that cost me little or nothing to get to (and often little to attend, the big museums are free, universities do tons of free stuff, the Royal Opera House and similar have ~£15 tickets, and I can ignore the cost of traveling to London).

This city is expensive if you look purely within the walls of your home, if you can get out into it, it's like having a comprehensive subscription to a better cultural network than you can imagine.

It's indeed true that prices are indeed inflated by the London-centric nature of a lot of the culture, and purely financial investments in property.

Apologies for sentence structure and formatting, this post impulsively written on my phone.
But the GP's point was that a lot of automation doesn't need robotics at all. It just needs software, running on commodity hardware. How many jobs there are open for robotics engineers is not a good proxy for how many jobs are being automated.
Ya, seems very simple. All they have to say is "up to 10 users". Not "per user per month". I don't think I buy the exclusion argument though. Seeing as I am specifically leaving out a few members of my team (contractors) just to get below the next tier.

I'm sure asana has researched it endlessly and has tons of testing under their belt. But in my use case, they would be making more money if it was actually per user.
Yup, his one-bed flat prices are overblown due to being very central. I moved from Waterloo, Canada to London in 2013. First I was in a shared 4 bed flat in Whitechapel for £580/mo all inclusive. Next I found a one bed in Deptford right beside the DLR station for £900/mo. Later when the landlord wanted to sell that flat I found a 1 bed in Woolwich for £800. My office was beside Farringdon station, so my commute was always under an hour (one-way). I could been bike most of the time. I was doing well on £43k in the​ first year and £45k in the second as a single person.
When was the last time you actually read a patent to learn about a novel technology? As opposed to an article, published paper, conference talk, random blog post, or a thousand other sources? They're not particularly good forms for conveying information; they exist primarily to stake a claim on a pile of territory.

That leaves aside the liabilities that reading patents to learn about technologies can open you up to, in the form of "willful infringement.
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I believe the author is using the term 'natively' here to describe the project being written purely in Go, rather than using CGO (i.e. being a wrapper to some database written in C).

I agree 'written purely in Go' would have been a better choice of words, though.
Possibly researchers? Or people who don't know how bit coin works. No idea though...
Todoist.com is a great alternative. You can make it as complex and as simple as you want. - Each action item has a comment / notes section. You can assign labels, priorities and due dates to action items. And you can move them to project folders. Projects (or project folders) can be nested. The nested project folder structure is on the left hand side. In the paid version you can assign todos to others. Then there are filters (a standard set of filters and user defined filters) that allow you to filter your todos according to labels, assignees, due dates etc
What do college professors expect? Anyone can easily go to college now and many kids receive absolutely no education during their former years.

I remember being in AP English in 11th grade. We had to grade papers for the regular English class. I distinctly remember grading a paper that was using "red" to mean "read". This was common and not unusual.

But, you know what? These kids went to public universities because apparently we don't need garbage men anymore so if you have a 2.5 GPA and a 16 on the ACT, you can get into college.
Fascinating.

I was curious which .exes were not just hijacked legit .exe names. The first .exe file that's not a normal windows executable is "mshtaex.exe" which seems to be a disguised (or possibly mistyped) version of the legitimate "mshta.exe".

Mimikatz slips in the bottom of the list though. If someone's invoking mimikatz on your systems, that should stick out...
The cost of ST3 is $54 billion.

http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/politics-government/artic...
> Because the paying victims are surely unsophisticated about Bitcoin and terrified about what is happening to them, it seems likely that the risk of one victim claiming another victim's payment is small, so the manual match-up method is probably the most practical solution from the criminals' standpoint.

Is it really that small? What's stopping a victim from claiming someone else's payment by watching transactions and notifying the criminal that "their" payment has been sent?
Yes, current society and academia have it all wrong. Math is both celebrated and scorned. It's somehow the most applicable thing in the world and yet largely unemployable. People can't imagine a mathematician can do anything, but know you need it to do most everything.
AH! I was looking in the docs/ dir, and found them to be completely missing. Thanks :)
> Good precedent and the rule of law are always more important than the parties involved...

I don't disagree, just don't expect much, if any, empathy for either the plaintiff or defendant.
>Intel is ready, willing, and able to compete on the merits in this market that Qualcomm has dominated for years

I would have more sympathy for Intel if they were able to compete fairly in the x86 market. I can't help but feel amused when a company that partakes in monopolistic practices in one market starts complaining about being the victim in another. However, in the case I think Intel is the lesser of two evils, but they're still bedfellows.
A part of this problem is that people want to live in nice and secure neighborhoods. If you walk around the city you see plenty of people that don't look affluent enough to worry about 40% tax. These people either got very lucky or live in the neighborhoods you don't want to live. Notorious for crime, immigrants, ugly or bad housing and/or bad public schools.

You basically pay for the privilege to live with other rich people so you don't have to deal with that. Naturally that's expensive.
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India's PM buying into western propaganda of climate change and hurting 1/6th of world population!
How much is your monthly train pass? I had coworker in Watford beside the train station with an awesome 2 bed terraced house with a backyard for £1000/mo, but train tickets were upwards of £20/day.