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Patriotism was temporarily necessary while we rapidly increased standard of living for ourselves, and didn't have enough resources to do it globally. In the early 21st century it was still a zero sum game on subdecade timescales.

Now we have more than enough resources to provide basics for all 10 billion of us (and decreasing) so patriotism has largely been confined to friendly rivalry around sports and regional cuisine. It was just a matter of mapping out the world's local customs and needs so the resources could be distributed intelligently.

And even at that, only about 4% of GWP goes to basic food, shelter, health, education, and cultural-ecological preservation these days. Entertainment and luxury goods make up the rest. This was unthinkable in the 2020s, but there was a lot of duplication of effort due to the maintenance of corporate moats in the basic sustenance industry at that time.

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Renewable hydrogen could fuel Australia's next export boom
I think you are on to something. I have always thought of the things we value as having either intrinsic value or extrinsic value; do we value the thing because it itself is good, or because it allows us to get something else that is good? Money, for example, has extrinsic value, because we only value it for what we can buy with it (unless you are coin collector, I suppose). Eating ice cream, on the other hand, has intrinsic value because we enjoy the sensation for itself.

I feel like a lot of very goal oriented people never get to the intrinsic value part, which is where the real purpose in life is. If you are always doing something in order to get something else, you are going to feel like you are on a treadmill. You have to eventually arrive at something you find intrinsically valuable.

Personally, I find a whole lot of things intrinsically valuable, which is probably why I am such a genuinely happy person.
As you've described it, the consumer's "win" is determined by Amazon's competitors. Every private advantage Amazon has serves to undercut the profits a competitor would need to develop their own productivity gains. Those are the gains that would actually show up for consumers. How are they winning?
Ask HN: What problems should a good web framework solve?
Lately I've been thinking about the vast number of frameworks available for devs primarily working in JavaScript (and other languages). It got me wondering about the kind of problems a good frontend framework should solve.
/Dev on Team/
Also many packages, NumPy for instance, have improved their builds for Windows. This is a combination effort of better support on the platform side to make things better but also from package maintainers to support Windows users better.

If you have been away from Windows for a bit, I think now is a good time to at least take a cursory look around again ;)
He is right, but patching is a single layer in your defenses. Where was network segmentation? What about IPS/IDS?

You would hope one layer of failure doesn't take out an entire business.
I'd assumed win10 was already doing some of this. My one VM that runs it is still not getting network access. Doesn't need it, and I don't trust it. But good to know, thanks.
Exactly. We have the resources. It's just a matter of redistributing them in a way that a) keeps people alive and b) doesn't grind the economy to a halt.

People in the US need to let go of a lot of the ideas we cling to (taxing the rich slows the economy, UBI is communism, wealth redistribution == USSR) if we're going to live through the coming automation boom.
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I joined EO a while ago and found the monthly forum to be a very helpful cadence.

It's good that people are really speaking out about founder emotional and mental health. Congrats on the new venture. Sign me up and always happy to help.
/Dev on Team/
I have used it with Django, but most of my Django apps are mere toys compared to things that other people are working on. This probably isn't that useful of a video, but this was a talk at PyData using PTVS + Django to demo some Azure Services
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PElcaj1iylA
In the case of Jewish stereotypes, consider two fictional cartoonists in 1938. One is in Nazi Germany, and uses the most stereotypical Jewish caricature possible sitting on a train next to a pile of gold bars, to justify confiscating the possessions of Jewish emigrants. The other is in Britain, and uses the exact same stereotypes and the exact same caricature of a Jewish man, this time standing in front of a locked door and menaced by a dog with Hitler's face, to shame the British government over its pitiful intake of refugees. The first is an attack on the Jewish people. The second is an attempt to help them, and I believe a cartoonist would be justified in having drawn it.

Which role did Bill Leak try to play? I believe he bungled an attempt to get the rest of Australia to talk about and fix a problem, but I'm open to the idea that he may have been throwing bigotry around blindly, or trying to shift blame with no intention of doing any good.
Why exactly is it a slippery slope? I admit that it can be made as such, but why must it necessarily be? A legislature or person can define hate speech in such a way that it is not a slippery slope in my opinion, and I think that's what should be done.
In the "real world", payday loans type operations will be the only beneficiaries of UBI. Simply handing out money will not change the structure of society.
I think you're the only one that got it. If the goal is to be able to update the Android OS without the carrier or device manufacturer having to do any work, the CTS would no longer be necessary because Google would control everything that the CTS tests.
Yeah, I'm all for more discussions on philosophy instead of just the mechanics of doing X, Y, and Z. Like how does one augment existing physics to capture their game's possibly different/modified/caricatured definition of physics? Can one's games interactions come primarily from emergent behavior or does one need to do more leg work in the game model? Tons of discussion for later, hopefully!

Also: VRTK is awesome and JSON/YAML in C# is indeed terrible.
Anybody hiring on a freelance/contract basis?
Now that the U.S. has set an alarming precedent that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia can be sued in U.S. court over terrorist funding, maybe the U.S. government could be sued.

I don't think they'd win; the ransomware authors and operators are the ones who perpetrated the act. The U.S. government probably wouldn't be found negligent since the software was stolen. NHS carries partial liability since it was negligent with its patching, according to industry-wide IT security standards.

Comparing it to firearms, I can be held partially liable for a wrongful death if I leave my Colt 1911 out on my porch; it's different if a burglar stole my gun safe and committed a crime.

(obligatory disclaimer that I am not a lawyer, I just play one on Hacker News)
I think dosemu does?
This is exactly my point. It wasn't like some small time player came in and reinvented the market - a big player did it themselves.
Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times...
And the British empire, more than that. Hence, British communists.
How much do you think I think Sprint spent on WiMax? If it wasn't very much then why was their LTE network so shitty for so long?

I was a Sprint early adopter when they were the first ones to launch a nationwide CDMA network and stuck with them for years even when it became clear that 3G GSM was technically superior (no simultaneous voice and data over CDMA). But I finally had to switch when they dragged their heels on deploying 4G LTE.
Look at what's happening to the desktop/laptop industry.

Print and broadcaast media.

Telcos, especially wired.

Politics. News. Propaganda.
Yep, read about this and thought of House of Leaves. It's not quite as elaborate (no additional objects) but the intent is similar, I think.
Announcing Windows Template Studio for UWP Apps
Sweat shops, while convenient to those in higher economic positions, are not economically sustainable.

But, yes, let's deregulate everything so a few property owners can amass all the wealth to themselves. Great idea. Never been done before. Let's give it a shot.
Keep in mind that if you drop the old stuff, you'll have to provide a bootloader and even then it'll be weird; modern systems still boot in 16 bits, bootstrap in 32 bit mode, then configure 64 bit. Unless UEFI fixed that madness?
Animated Map of How Tens of Thousands of Computers Were Infected with Ransomware
This looks like a pretty decent tutorial for it's target audience. However, as someone who works with Unity on AR and VR the biggest bit of advice I can give is learn how Unity WANTS you to work with it! Currently we are re-writing an AR/VR test suite because the original version was written by programmers with little or no Unity experience. This means they re-wrote scene loading, cameras, and other parts that were already in Unity (or no one re-factored when it was added/updated!). I highly suggest catching the Udemy Unity Certified Developer course on a sale. It will give you an overview of all the parts of Unity that you might not touch. But it will also get you used to Unity's workflow. (https://www.udemy.com/unitycert/)
Depends on the particular malware, but generally it will direct you to a (tor) website explaining the details, often with newbie-friendly guides on how to set up the accounts needed to buy and transfer bitcoin.

They generally do offer a way to decrypt, it's a long term business for them, not a one-time prank; and the results matter - first, the "audience" who are willing and able to pay generally have multiple devices, and they won't pay for the dozen other devices if the first "trial" device isn't successfully decrypted, and second, the infection spreads over victim's contacts - so your buddy who also got the malware managed to decrypt, you're more likely to pay, and if your buddy paid and failed to decrypt, the crooks won't get a dime from you.

There are all kinds of options. For example, one piece of malware offered to decrypt two files of your choosing for free when you contacted them, just to show that they can do so, as a 'teaser' before paying the full amount.

Besides, why wouldn't they decrypt? It's not like it costs them anything or takes much effort; if they have the ability but wouldn't send the keys, then that's just hurting their business "PR/advertising" for no reason whatsoever.
If you're trying to build or train new models then you probably need to go to school for ML or at least math.

The garden variety dev shouldn't be trying to implement a research paper or train new models - that's the point. There are enough proven tools out there to do good work and more are being put out there every day.
You're entitled to your opinion, but posting that thesis and saying it's "more truthful" is tremendously silly.

You should be able to understand that it's a hypothesis you find convincing without evangelizing it as "truthful."
Women shouldn't feel like they ought to work. But when they do, they get a "pussy pass".
> Slight aside, there are a lot of reasons that Itanium failed, but certainly one of them was lack of backwards compatibility.

Itanium did not aim at the x86 market. The x86 translation layer was retrospectively seen as a mistake as well, because it wasn't relevant, but required transistors that limited the design's performance overall, which was relevant.
After reading Judge Alsup's opinion, I'd be very concerned if I were Uber. Certainly not sympathetic to Uber's arguments.

That being said, I was a bit surprised by his decision. I was one of the attorneys for the prevailing defendant in the Torbit v. Datanyze case that Judge Alsup heavily cites (but disagrees with). Judge Alsup distinguishes that case, in part, on the basis that California state law does not support its holding. But the California Court of Appeals just expressly adopted the holding in Torbit in a case a few weeks ago.
Uber is available via collateralized equity markets like Equidate.
Probably spatial partitioning, although who knows. These things are suitable for theoretics. One must find the best solution.
What if you run DOS in a Virtual container though?
Are hybrid artists poised to take over tech?
it's labor intensive

Which is a form of hard...for example if you need 60,000 semantically labeled images, you need to train people to know how to do that specific of labeling and then have them do it, then QC the data, break it up into training and validation sets etc...

Don't forget that this advice is for a front end dev who hasn't ever touched caffe or torch or whatever. In many cases it takes new people a week to set up drivers and an environment on a GPU.
Many years ago, early days of War on Terror, there were 'cyberstorm' exercises by the TLAs of the U.S. military allegedly on some mythical networks that were not 'the internet'.

In 2006 this involved a nice virus that sent all your photos and emails off to people they were not intended to go to, there was a psychological aspect to what was going on with this payload plus a full spectrum dominance aspect - the media were briefed with the cover story but I don't think any journalists deliberately infected a machine to see for themselves.

At the same time that this was going on there were some computer virus problems in U.K. hospitals, those same Windows XP machines they have today. The Russian stock market was taken down around this time too.

Suspiciously I tried to put two and two together on this, but with 'fog of war' you can't prove that the correlation = causation. The timing was uncanny though, a 'cyberstorm' exercise going on at the same time that the BBC News on TV was showing NHS machines taken out by virus.

https://www.dhs.gov/cyber-storm-i

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1510781/Computer-bug-...

So that was in 2006. A decade ago. If you found a hole in a hospital roof a decade ago they would have had ample opportunity to fix it. They had a good warning a decade ago, things could have changed but nothing did.

I had the pleasure of a backroom tour of a police station one night, don't ask why, luckily I was a 'compliant' person, no trouble at all, allowed to go home with no charges or anything at all. An almost pleasant experience of wrongful arrest, but still with the fingerprints taken - I think it is their guest book.

Every PC I saw was prehistoric. The PC for taking mugshots was early 1990's, running Windows 95 or 98. I had it explained to my why things were so decrepit.

Imagine if during the London riots of 2011 if the PCs PC network had been taken down with all of that police bureaucracy becoming unworkable?!? I believe that the police computers are effectively in the same position as the NHS, with PCs dedicated to one task, e.g. mugshots, and that a take down of this infrastructure would just ruin everything for the police. I think that targeting the UK police and getting their computers compromised (with mugshots, fingerprints, whatever) and then asking the police to pay $$$ in bitcoin before they were locked out for good next week, that would have made me chuckle with schadenfreude.
Yes, I'm well aware. And if you look at the dashboard for the botnet (https://intel.malwaretech.com/botnet/wcrypt/?t=24h&bid=all) it looks like we're dealing with ~80000 infected hosts.

Unless I'm reading things wrongs (and that certainly could be) it seems like the ransom from those hosts would still be several orders of magnitude lower than the new money that appears to be coming into the exchanges.
Android, as distributed, isn't really "open source" in the way you seem to be defining it already: It contains proprietary packages which contain spyware, and OEMs are beholden to Google's requirements with regards to what they can and can't do with the platform. And it is possible for something to be open source (i.e., the source code is public), and still only permitted in an unchanged fashion.

As it is today, Google requires Android devices pass the CTS, or Compatibility Test Suite, in order to be eligible to have their proprietary apps, like the Google Play Store, on the device. In the future this will likely simply be another requirement to pass, that Google can push their own updates to the OS layer.

The reality is, the idea that someone like Google can write code, and then be unable to push security fixes to it, is patently insane. In 2017, this is completely unacceptable. The idea that an OEM or carrier should be responsible for, or able to interfere with security updates to the OS developer's code is simply not okay.

I am a big fan of open source software and customization, but the current situation, where 0.5% of Android devices run the latest version of the OS, is completely unacceptable, and any compromise or cost required to fix that is justified.

There's a reasonable chance Android will lose some OEMs over the change, and that is fine. Google needs to focus on security over profit here, and accept that they might lose a little market share to do the right thing and protect their customers' safety.
ex: CreateProcess

As for the openness because of installable FS; WTF? Other systems have (more) installable FS.

As for my lack of experience: WTF bis? I once got an NT error through a Win32 call. That is not even supposed to happen. It was (obviously) not useful to debug. I had to put a workaround in my code.

I know what is Wine. I once read its code to understand some of the ACL api of windows, and what some win functions are supposed to return. You would be surprised what is returned and in which case. MSDN seems to be so poor in this area that I found some example indicating not even some people working at MS know how some functions in this area are supposed to be used...
I'll bet you that would be the year of 'linux on the desktop' at last.
Don't worry about it. Keep working and learning and focus on doing great work that makes people happy. As long as you take the time to learn why something works, rather than just cutting-and-pasting from StackOverflow, you'll be fine.

Frankly, the recommendations @seibelj is making are in a particular niche--OS fundamentals--and one that I'm guessing makes him feel smart knowing about. But they aren't necessarily relevant to you, or important to know. It depends on what you work on. Some people have trouble realizing that their pet interview question isn't actually as universal as they think it is.

PS: IPC is "Interprocess communication," and it's how you can have multiple processes coordinate with each other. You may have heard of pipes or sockets--those are for IPC. (Technically, so are files.) If not, don't worry about it. I have over 20 years' experience as a professional developer and while IPC primitives like pipes and sockets have come up from time to time, it's hardly central to my work.
Android O is supposed to make Android updates arrive faster
I'm sorry to inform you that the internet is not an anodyne safe-place. Consider your emotional reaction and continued need to engage, down this off-topic path.
This would promote the business of theaters, not a single chain.
duplicate of Android Developer Blog: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14326512
I guess if someone did BTC -> exchange A -> altcoin -> exchange B -> BTC that's theoretically traceable but fairly difficult in practice.
What happened to progressive enhancement? Not cool anymore?
Are there other people working on math tricks like this to make complex functions cheap?
I think you hit it on the head - it depends on the service being provided, and how the people relate to providing it.

Some people like talking to humans, some don't. It often changes as well. But for incredibly basic mundane transactions, I'd lean on the "I don't like talking to humans." But it's also slower to talk to humans, and generally there is a line, making it again slower. If I have to add travel time in there, that's a factor. So if the person at the end doesn't add at least some positive value (other than just doing what I need done), I'd rather go the faster way.

Also, if a company is squeezing the workers and not the market, that probably means that company is having trouble no matter what the workers are doing.
The computer systems affected by the NHS ransomware incident weren't medical devices; they were patient records servers and emergency receptionist workstations. No excuse for failure to patch.
Just make sure whatever email provider you use offers IMAP and use a client like Thunderbird to keep a local copy in sync. Back that up somewhere safe and you're fine. If you need good, fast search, use something like X1.
You stopped before the next sentence which completely changes the context:

> In cases where the system has not been previously compromised and implanted with DOUBLEPULSAR, the malware will use ETERNALBLUE for the initial exploitation of the SMB vulnerability. This is the cause of the worm-like activity that has been widely observed across the internet.

This is not really any different from Blaster from 2003.
>I mean I understand that America's influence on South Korea probably can't be overstated.

I would like to point out that every Korean person's name also has Chinese character behind it.

The new president of S Korea is Moon Jae-in
Here are his names that were given by his parents, and used in legal documents.

Korean: 문 재인

Hanja: 文 在寅
You mean the one that is nearly universally hated? Those ribbons were a huge mistake and fuck you to users who knew how to use the software; it sucks.
This sounds kind of strange. It's Netflix itself after all that does not license the movies for anything else than streaming.
Absolutely. And for a flaw in your OS you need an OS with automated end-to-end tests. Good luck!

(Speaking as someone who's trying to imagine OSs with automated end-to-end tests: https://github.com/akkartik/mu)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partitions_of_Poland

Note the first picture in 1772 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partitions_of_Poland#/media/Fi...), showing a Poland that looks remarkably like the Poland of 1939.
Sure, could be. I mean, from my perspective the whole term ICO has come out of nowhere and there could also be some bullshit hype money around that too. I hadn't heard the term until a couple months ago and now there are articles about my employer having done one.

I've given up trying to guess the markets in cryptocurrencies... I wouldn't have the first clue how to divine any accurate insight from their movement alone. To me, there has been tons of really weird phenomena in the behavior of the altcoin markets for a while now.

I could also just be stupid :)
> Even so, if they are using Excel/Word, the Office Open XML file formats are ISO/IEC standards, not proprietary.

You aren't serious about that, are you?
Excuse, did you just say Pei-wei has good food?
most people don't have enough wealth for investment income to matter much, and they probably will never have it. the average american has a negative net worth.
Yeah, it's beautiful, but boring, imo. And it's really just a blown out version of the old infocom box inserts.
My pick for year is 1878. I'd love to see your examples.

But really, how do you quantify good? Taste is subjective. The original Transformers move is a great example. I didn't like it. but i believe 14 year old me would have absolutely loved it.

It's similar to the statistics about Word users only use 5% of the functionality of Word. But everybody uses a different 5%.

I guess if you want to go by money, i'm going to pick 1939. I'd guess about $18,000,000 in production expenses, and about $240,000,000 in box. [1] (arbitrarily assigning 1,000,000 to the unlisted numbers, but keeping the box at $0 for unlisted numbers) Seems like a pretty good ROI. (although i think of, Gone with the wind, Mr Smith goes to washington, and the Wizard of Oz as subjectively good. 25% is a pretty good percentage)

Kind of a fun exercise poking through the years. 1997 was a standout, but everything i looked at had memorable and fun movies. I don't think any year would hit that 25% mark though.

[1] http://www.the-numbers.com/movies/year/1939