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Traditional education is supply limited. But the internet is rapidly changing things. As an example, Udacity and Coursera are both offering various forms of certificates.

I could see a future where people use UBI to bootstrap an education. Move to a low cost of living area, take some online courses and work on some projects. Once they have built up a small portfolio, attempt to re-enter the workforce etc...
You're assuming quite a lot about the use case. I personally don't have a problem that's solved by this particular utility, but it's not uncommon for our analytics team to use pandas to join CSV files on their way into our data warehouse (or to otherwise reshape small datasets). I could definitely see the utility in plain text relational tools.
stigmata is the plural form of stigma, which is

1 a archaic : a scar left by a hot iron
b : a mark of shame or discredit

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stigmata
Yeah definitely downvote manipulations going on again...

At this point I'm not even upset or shocked. It just further supports the narrative Russia is seeking to manipulate/exploit the internet to their benefit.

Considering the average Russian is poorer than an Indian, it looks like Putin is going to fuck over his country as his countrymen cheer him on and suffer in poverty and alcoholism.

The West will crush the feeble Russian economy back to Tsar days.
Companies have been doing those 3 forever. It works most of the time, it fails once in a while.

All established companies sooner or later face the choice between destroying a huge revenue stream to get a chance on the new thing, or keep the current revenue and limit its lifetime. Nearly all of them choose the second, and the ones that choose the first do not always make it either.
> Hardly morally equivalent.

The Munich Agreement explicitly excluded the Soviet Union because the Western Allies hoped that Hitler would set his sights on the Communists and leave the West alone. By the time of the Molotov pact the USSR really had little to no choice.

The invasion of Poland by the USSR was criminal but whether Poland got divided or not was probably going to have little impact on the more general course of WWII at that point, in 1938 perhaps it still could have been averted (at least at the scale at which it occurred). Actually up until the pact in 1939 Stalin was still hoping for an alliance with the West.
If I understand correctly, there were no backdoors used here. Only zero-days. If the NSA is guilty of anything, they're guilty of not informing system designers of exploitable vulnerabilities. But then the argument becomes entirely ideological and naive since we all know the NSA's mission is almost entirely counter to that outcome.

Edit: Apparently, not zero days. Vulnerabilities were patched months ago. I think the point still stands, which is that this outcome really has little to do with debate over encryption backdoors.

2nd Edit: On second thought, there is an argument that, if a backdoor were in place that only government agencies had access to, the means to access it could be leaked just as easily and in a similar manner to the way that information about these vulnerabilities was leaked. Then, we'd really be fucked since a backdoor could likely not be "fixed" with a simple patch (it might be fundamental to the design of a system). Considering this, I'll have to walk back my earlier statement and agree that the topic of backdoors is quite relevant here.
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What makes you think GPs are not allowed to use nhs.net email?

https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/comms-mat/Comms-Archive/J...

> A nominated Local Organisation Administrator (LOA). For primary care organisations, specifically GP practices, pharmacies, optometrists and dentists this is provided by NHS England Area Teams. Where appropriate, Department Administrators may be nominated.
Hurray!

I don't usually enjoy seeing a technology die, but I'll make an exception in this case. Intel's forcing of Itanium down the throats of HP and SGI pretty much killed off a lot of diversity in the higher-end RISC CPU marketplace. HP killed Alpha and PA-RISC, SGI killed MIPS, etc, in favor of Itanium. Being a huge DEC Alpha fan, I still resent the Itanium for its part in killing Alpha & am very happy to see it die.
What's wrong with feeling important?
That's a big problem in society these days. People who do solid work in the background get no recognition. Science can't work if nobody is willing to produce the data other people can work with.
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What are you thinking? They call it the Noun Project, but they seem to cover verbs pretty well from the few examples I tried.

Ex. "Bat" https://thenounproject.com/search/?q=bat&i=660766

"Swim" https://thenounproject.com/search/?q=swim&i=912051

"Eat" https://thenounproject.com/search/?q=eat&i=946933
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I think Germanic languages might be the outlier here, every other language that I've encountered uses a distinct verb for "to know (a person)" vs "to know (a fact)". connaitre/savoir (French), gnorizo/xero (Greek), renshi/zhidao (Mandarin).
Founders might looking for a good living and glory, but VC's for example are looking to really capitalize on 100X growth.
I always look for the icons with multiple gears. Have not found one which would actually work: Gears not touching, size difference blocks, or three gears in deadlock. :)
> This shows that no agency is immune from leaks

That's well known for a long time. During cold war a lot of Russian weapons were based on the US designs. There is a TV series, Americans, which shows how to manipulate people and steal secrets. Even atomic bomb secrets were stolen (by Klaus Fuchs and others).

So I guess a lot of people in military complex make a lot of money on these exploits, PRISM and other projects. And they just don't care about whole society.
But it would not be sustainable. If you take everyone's income away, how many people are going to bother to continue to work? Far less than "all of them". So what happens to national income? It falls dramatically. So now you have much less income to distribute.

Peoples' behavior is not a constant. When you change the incentives, the behavior changes. This is one aspect of the "Law of Unintended Consequences" that has wrecked so many fine-sounding ideas.
Doesn't​ sound that this password is frequently changed
Of course not. ;)
Until that doctor needs to submit patient info to a study, look up an obscure symptoms, talk with others in the medical community, etc.
> you undermine riches' motivation

To tax the rich is not the same as disincentivizing investment! Investment matters to the economy, not capital.

Yes you need capital in order to invest. You need the right amount of capital in the right places! Rich hoarders are not the best investors.
If it is infeasible to keep certain critical, networked device up to date, then I propose an alternative solution: those devices should only produce output, they should not read anything at all from their external ports. Their only input, should be their physical user interface. Would that work, for, say, an x-ray machine, or an MRI?

We saw a fictional example of a scheme like this on Battlestar Galactica. Officers phoned and faxed orders around the ship, using simple devices that did not execute software. The CIC had its data punched in by radar operators, instead of networking with shipwide sensors. It was a lot of work, but it did keep working in the face of a sophisticated, combined malware/saboteur attack.
Thanks. Had a brief look, seems useful.

Does the VM using the "nat" mode of networking also use Windows routing table? I don't know much about the networking between guest and host, except that the guest uses NetworkManager through its ethernet device. Even though this is a virtual device, I didn't think it would go through Windows' own net stack.

Would the bridged networking be any different than passing through the USB wifi adapter directly to VMware? (at which point the host doesn't have access to internet)
> speaking of Android: How about switching to the JVM/OpenJDK to keep pace with modern Java?

They did that already. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/01/android-n-switch...

Well, they switched the library to OpenJDK. The runtime is still ART, but that's probably for the best as the runtime balance decisions made by hotspot are definitely not suitable for phones, and ART is pretty good these days anyway.

And you can use Java 8 stuff: https://developer.android.com/studio/preview/features/java8-... some of which is even fully backwards compatible (like lambdas)

> Also, how about using cgroups instead of the custom security model? Maybe we could get reuse out of Google's security patches for Linux, and they could benefit more from the community.

Android has always used cgroups. cgroups are not a security mechanism, though, it's for resource allocation.

Regardless Android makes use of cgroups, cpusets, selinux, etc... That's all unrelated to the permission model, though, which more or less doesn't exist on desktop platforms.
Threads on Uber, Facebook, Apple, the NSA etc. are pretty predictable. Are we deeming them off-topic too?
> Technology shifts however have not resulted in a 'net loss' of employment opportunities when looked at in the full view, ever.

So, how long is the full view? For how long are poor people expected to just starve off and die before the magic hand of Capitalism restores the labor vs. capital valuation into something reasonable?
>I hate to say this, and this is in no way a troll, but I believe the solution for this will eventually be to kill the poor.

Only works if they die before reproducing...
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Part of the benefit of UBI is removing a large amount of overhead that comes with current welfare systems. This is done by writing a check to every citizen in the system with overhead only to confirm that one citizen gets one check. When you add in other checks you increase how much money needs to be spent on just running the system
So the solution is for Android to be closed source? I'm not sure I agree with that.
Couldn't it actually mean the opposite? If fundraising is not newsworthy, it could also be because there are so many of those out there that fewer make the cut.
My impression was hat the Shadow Brokers already had, or were about to release the tools which Wikileaks ended up leaking. Regardless, these should've been disclosed to the manufacturers under Obama's policies.
Ah sorry, I got it wrong twice.

But you got me thinking again: because this ransomware is targeting the infrastructure itself (national healthcare service) isn't this playing with fear too? If I was in hospital, or my friends/family, I would be acutely paranoid that medical devices will go wrong, medicine administration will go wrong, the A&E will go bonkers et cetra. I've worked in healthcare before, and this kind of domino effect is very easy to believe in.

(Funnily enough, my old organisation was making a fuss about upgrading from Windows XP just last year. A lot of my colleagues complained that this was hardly a priority)
Yes, and the price of that alliance would have been Eastern Poland.
> Is it possible to use deep learning to fill out the missing parts?

The half life is 521 years - there is nothing left to fill in. If you read the linked article you'll see even under perfect conditions all DNA is destroyed after about 6 million years. This fossil is 110 million years old.
I haven't looked into tumbling recently, whats the volume look like these days? So far the attack has yielded less than 5 btc, I'd guess that amount can be laundered safely. Whats the current limit?
If the malware wasn't removed will it kick in again after a while or does paying the ransome gives you immunity?
I would be curious about this too. I'd assume many of them would be running Windows 7, maybe? (Let's hope it's not XP).

Also, does Windows 10 Pro attached to a domain controller still have the same aggressive updates? Or do domain admins dictate that policy?

At one company I worked at, everyone in IT could volunteer for the patch group to get security patches a few days before the rest of the machines. That seems to work pretty well. Is there any evidence there might have been a 0 day involved that wasn't patched? I find it disheartening that so many machines in large managed networks like telecos and hospitals could be so far behind on patches! (3 months is A LOT in Internet time).

If people are just doing really basic stuff like order entry for doctors/nurses, we really need to get away from the full PC model. Seems like most of these machines should just be Chromebooks, Linux boxes that boot straight to a browser or something of that nature instead of a full PC/Macs. Lower the attack surface with something that's easy to update. Those machines would be lower cost too and easier to manage/patch -- moving back to the terminal/thin-client model.
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The irony of implementing Lisp in assembly is that, almost for free (sorry about that), you get precise, convenient control of the memory situation. Just put the gc root exclusively in registers.

I wrote a Lisp interpreter in assembly that dedicates 4-5 registers for the current expression, eval environment, and so on. The mark-sweep collector starts from these registers.

https://github.com/marcpaq/arpilisp
>Researchers suspect it initially fossilized whole, but when it was found in 2011, only the front half, from the snout to the hips, was intact enough to recover.

Is this because of something that happened a long time ago, or because the mining machine ate the back end of the dinosaur? The article doesn't really make it clear.
>The problem with taking money from the rich and giving it to the poor is that you undermine riches' motivation. If you limit the prize, then you also limit amount of effort that one is willing to make to get it.

Commonly stated, but any real data to support it?

I think what kills the economy more is when the barrier to entry is high. This impacts mostly non-wealthy folks. In the US, it is ridiculously trivial to set up a "company". I've heard in some countries, you need to apply for a license, which could be expensive (say $2000). And along with that a lot of regulation that is quite affordable to big companies, but not to the average Jane.

The rich easily absorb all these costs, and it barely hurts their motivation. Poorer people trying to make a living and grow their wealth somewhat are most impacted.
I, and every other atheist I've encountered, would be happy to be proven wrong with reliable evidence. Something like the book Contact's (spoilers) message in the digits of pi, perhaps.

"Evidence is Satan's doing" means no amount of evidence can ever change your mind.
For me, I could only read the first paragraph. No other text showed up. If I scrolled back up, the first paragraph was gone too.
I would love to see the source code for how this post was created! (Or at least pointers for resources on how to create something similar.)
> I mean that there exists no classifier which consumes as input arbitrary speech, and emits as output a foolproof classification of "hate" or "not hate."

So, that's like every other criminal law ever created.

I do agree this is something bad (for Law in general). But it does not lead to your point that the definition will increase unexpectedly in scope.
> unable to integrate with (Microsoft based) front end systems or web api's.

It's not 1992 - Oracle databases can integrate with all sorts of web APIs and front end systems. You may not like how its done or how much it costs, but it's a little over the top to claim that it can't be done.
>A broad non-status goal wouldn't fit that paradigm. It is likely to be overwhelming and require a lot of people, or, on the other hand, be fairly straightforward and missed because it's not prestigious.

I think you have it here. There are some very simple, very natural things that can fulfill most of the average individual's basic yearnings, but they're overlooked today, they're regarded as passe or even backwards. These things are not high-glamor nor high-privilege, but they give people a sense of repose and quiet dignity, regardless of their other circumstances

IMO the most important such thing is to have and care for a family. I believe that many contemporary social ills come from an exponentially-increasing generational denial of the importance of stable marriages and child-bearing that kicked into high gear after WWII.

It can be argued that industrial corporate interests have an interest in stripping the dignity and independence of having a family away from workers, hoping they'll search for meaning in their careers and spend more hours at the office instead.
> This is likely a first step to finally catching up to Windows Mobile:

Do you remember the same Windows Mobile that I do? In version 5 or 6 they had a "Windows Update" control panel which I basically never saw work, and that wasn't for lack of builds coming out of Redmond. In that time I had to illegitimately re-flash to get any updates.

Or perhaps you mean Windows Phone where zero devices got upgraded from 6.x to 7, zero devices got upgraded to 8, and a bunch of phones never got 10. And late in that game there was effectively one hardware vendor plus some rounding error.
Many of the computerized medical devices are diagnostic, so being able to send digital data to doctors quickly and easily over the internet is a key part of their functionality. Also, the other way around - being able to get patient data to the device without manually re-entering them, which is costly and error-prone and thus dangerous.
I've heard of lighter versions of jQuery and it's not really like I'm against jQuery in this particular case internet speed is really bad... and I did not know of a way to async load scripts and not have the $.is not defined problem. Mainly though the jQuery library itself is 80KB (jquery-min)... the downloading speed thing (watching network) it's hit and miss, I mean I see a 1KB file take nearly 1 second to download so why wouldn't an 80KB file take 80 seconds to download.

It's good though to learn pure JavaScript I think. But yeah I got so used to the calls that deal with cross-browser problems.

thanks for the thought
Not every vendor has an 18 month refresh cycle -- not everyone is just selling disposable phones and tablets

A lot of people want longer Android support -- especially enterprise installations, which want to pay for software on 4-8 year hardware cycles, but the short length of Android's current support prevents them from doing this.

There are lots of Qualcomm / Freescale chips running Android inside Airplane Seatbacks, and Hotel Kiosks, and Business Wall Signage, and more that simply will not be replaced for many many years. Today, Board OEMs are essentially forbidden from updating these, even if they want to (since Qualcomm / Freescale won't release the tools they need). After Treble, OEM Vendors will at least have the option of updating these devices, even without Qualcomm / Freescale / etc's permission.
Over time you'll get a better sense of which methods or properties ought to be overloaded, and how/when to invoke super(). So it's best to think of polymorphism as residing in gradations, best applied infrequently.
Really awesome writeup of the find. Is Suncor going to be doing any additional, and somewhat more reserved, excavating to understand whether or not there are other important fossils nearby?
"device makers can choose to deliver a new Android Update"
... "can choose".

Preferably they shouldn't be able to choose. Google should be in charge of updates and manufacturers should have to make a special effort to prevent an update. i.e if they are certain that an update will brick their device they would then make a formal request to google not to send the update to their devices.
Waiting for good code
Is it particularly unethical? Many governments around the world are discovering 0-days in commonly deployed products and not revealing that to the vendor, but instead using it as a weapon for navigating computer networks.

Revealing the vulnerability would place the US Govt at a distinct disadvantage.
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Does this distinction between critical and non-critical systems make sense for medical equipment? Displaying the information to humans (doctors and nurses) is probably life-critical. If the display is broken, it's not working.

It's not like medical devices have an entertainment system like cars and airplanes.
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So you propose a separate, isolated network linking all the medical facilities, doctor's offices and private practices nationwide? Even the military doesn't do that for most of their offices.

Also, the doctor's computer pretty much needs to interface with the system(s) that handles patient billing (and thus non-medical companies) and the system(s) that handle patient scheduling, reminders, etc.
I really liked the VS IDE when I was a windows programmer, I'm still struggling to find something comparable.

My fears are still that python code on windows is still a nightmare, especially when you throw something like OpenCV into the mix.
If you use deep learning, the missing parts will be filled with something based on whatever you trained the model on. In other words, the training data won't be dinosaur DNA as we don't have that. At best, during training you can classify some DNA as "more dinosaur" and other DNA as "less dinosaur" and you hope the result will be some extrapolation towards "most dinosaur". Despite the practical limitations, it's certainly an interesting thought.
I imagine that is a Jurassic Park reference and not an actual suggestion. However, if it is, you would just then end up with a frog.
We already have guaranteed minimum income. Look at the people employed by the state. Doing mundane tasks, day by day, that could be automated cheaply and effortlessly. Literally sorting and storing documents, something the computer is proficient at. It is invented and completely senseless and stupid work. Depending on the country, we are talking about 20-50% of the population being state employees right now, in the first world. And the trend is that it's increasing, fast. There's your UBI, and as a bonus point, it keeps people off the streets and they think they are doing something.
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>I really can't see anyone making a rational decision to work less hard because the tax rate is too high, within reason.

I really think people do. Two years ago I had to work 250 hours in December to get a 25k bonus. At ~40% taxation, I felt it was worth it. I probably wouldn't at 65%. That is a pretty extreme case, but well off people turn down work if it isn't lucrative enough.

Plus, if you are taxing investments, then it all matters because of risk. Tax factors into the expected value of an investment. It's not worth investing money if 70% of the proceeds get taken away. This is why world wide, capital is taxed fairly lightly.
The link you provided says

> "When the plural form stigmata is used, it usually refers to the nail wounds on Christ's hands and feet, wounds which have sometimes reappeared on the hands or feet of later worshippers such as St. Francis."
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Like @Asdfbla, I'm on 2560x1440 and have the same issue.
The viewport is likely the issue =)
To play devil's advocate: you may not need VC's as much in a UBI world. You don't have to worry about income if your startup fails, so you're less likely to play the VC lottery in hopes that you can ride the funding into a successful exit.