skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But this definitely impacts the production, i.e. the total amount of output.
Tired, anxious and scared: startups have a mental health problem
I've seen a fair amount of stuff in 40 years of driving:

Snow, of course. I live in Salt Lake, and I think it's going to be hard to automate a car to drive as well as a good, experienced snow driver.

I've hydroplaned once.

I've had a malfunctioning traffic light that gave me a green left turn arrow across oncoming traffic that also had a green.

I've seen an unattended baby stroller go coasting across a crosswalk just as the light turned green.

I somewhat often take my car onto dirt roads. Sometimes I have to be rather conscious of the clearance and where the rocks are so that I don't rip the bottom out of my oilpan. I also have to think carefully about how I approach the sandy patches so I don't get stuck.

My brother in law had his front brake lock up on one side while driving at freeway speed.

I've had the vehicle in front of me break an axle and drop a rolling tire on the road in front of me, while it went down the road dragging the brakeshoes on the ground. That happened on a cloverleaf; the driver of that vehicle did well not to roll it.

Maybe the worst I've seen: A pickup dropped an extension ladder in the middle of the freeway. It was rotating, and as it rotated, it grew in length. A bunch of cars were having to dodge it, plus dodge the cars that were dodging it.

There are a lot of crazy things that can be thrown at you while you're driving. Programming a computer to be able to handle all of them as well as a human is really hard - you first have to think of all of them.
I was able to find one at Wal Mart and two at Target using iStockNow.com. The only store it seemeed to have issue with properly tracking was GameStop. (For the record, I only bought one of those three, I'm not interested in scalping.)
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LA has been significantly expanding public transit in recent years. Lots more to be done of course, but there are actual new lines being built now [1], after a period of 10-20 years when investment in the system had stalled.

[1] http://www.lamag.com/driver/mark-your-calendars-all-the-metr...
Yarn and Webpack integration is already changing my life (for the better). Documentation on both still sucks however. In particular the inclusion of yarn and webpack represent a significant change in development workflows that they've not really outlined yet.
>science proves it

But it doesn't. Science doesn't 'prove' anything, it provides evidence for hypotheses. And there is much more evidence for the hypothesis that diet soda is safe for human consumption than otherwise. It would take a lot of work to upend this, and so far, nothing really substantial has been done.
> everywhere EXCEPT where the blame belongs

The NSA?
Valuable resource with many uses beyond putting icons on buttons. For example:

- source graphics for figures in books and articles

- inspiration for new ways of expressing an idea graphically

- gauging variation in visual representation of a concept

- learning how to make a particular shape with vector graphics

- logo ideas
Can you provide evidence that it is inaccurate?

What has your role and experience been upon which your opinion is based?

What I have seen of SOX compliance when it came in for multiple companies that I was involved. Every time what I saw matches the description pretty closely. The auditor comes in, sees what you are doing, reads the rules, negotiates with you a set of procedures that you can do and in their opinion will bring you in compliance with the rules, then you execute that.

The rules themselves are so vague that what they will be interpreted to mean varies widely by auditor. But the legal requirements for the company are met if the auditor signs off on it, so you do whatever your auditor says to do. Those involved knows that a lot of the created procedures are silly, but the legal problems if you don't go through the charade are quite real, so you have to do them anyways.

That is not to say that real problems aren't regularly uncovered. I'm sure that they are. But there is a tremendous amount of arbitrariness in, "Here is what you need to do to be compliant."
I think there is a bigger problem - using Microsoft Office means that an organisation is stuck in 1990's ways of working. The web should replace these tools that were developed for personal computers that came with floppy disk drives instead of ethernet connections.

Companies 'stuck' on old-fashioned Microsoft Office also have to present information to customers and internal stakeholders, so they hire a 'web department' that then becomes the new typing pool. Instead of dictated or hand-written things that get typed up on 'Wordperfect' (MS Office killed the typing pool for good), we now have Word documents or Excel spreadsheets that some 'web person' has to then copy onto some CMS or other system powered by a SQL database.

I did open a 'legacy spreadsheet' today so I appreciate that there is still some life in having data that way, however I cannot remember the last time I had a use case for a wordprocessor, Microsoft or otherwise.

I also know Microsoft do 'sharepoint' and a few other web things but not many 'real' websites have gone for the Redmond solution, 10% according to the survey I just Googled:

https://news.netcraft.com/archives/2017/02/27/february-2017-...

Although 10% isn't quite into Windows Phone territory of pointlessness, I can't imagine setting out today with a new project and instantly thinking 'Microsoft'.

I think the Microsoft problem will cure itself much like how the old typing pool died - people get old, they retire, new people come along and learn how to do stuff with the new tools, the more efficient processes and the demands of the time.
Of course the ransomware authors/controllers should be (and are) culpable.

But when financially lucrative attacks can be carried out with very little risk of being caught, and the results are so bad, organizations who don't take security very seriously are at fault for not recognizing the threat landscape, and government is at fault for not recognizing that the market isn't solving this problem, stepping in and requiring higher quality assurance or liability for software.
> In the real world we don't accept the argument that the victim is primarily at fault.

If you're worried about X, and Y promises to prevent X for a cost, you seek recourse against Y.

X: I can't miss this flight. Y: Pay this surcharge to reserve a seat. Overbooking ensues. I'm blaming Y and not the other passengers.

X: Really don't want this disease to kill me. Y: Take these pills to not die. Death ensues. I'm (well somebody else is) blaming Y and not the disease.

In life we can't always control the cause so we aim to minimize the effect. Thus, while the ransomers are culpable for the blast, IT security are accountable for the size of the blast radius.
> On ARM, those stores can become visible to other cores in any order.

And I will repeat this again, for "correctly" written code this doesn't matter. Because the data areas being stored to should be protected by _LOCKs_ which will enforce visibility. If you think your being clever and writing "lock free" code by depending on the memory model your likely fooling yourself.
Those numbers seem quite consistent with what I wrote. Costs per mile of a "normal" car today of about 50 cents/mile. (Which is approximately the IRS reimbursement rate so that seems very reasonable.) So that would be a good ballpark. Which is 1/2 to 1/3 of Uber today.

Sure, you can speculate about optimized taxi designs (which aren't especially relevant to non-core urban areas with high car ownership today) but small electric vehicles could exist without self-driving too.

IMO this is an academic exercise for at least a couple of decades in any case but it's an interesting thought experiment.
> leapfrogged the world.

And why is that ? Because the powers that be decided to push it down the throats of Indians.
Am I missing something?

"the problem of moving people" on Mars.
> Ransomware attacks are typically honest

For a rather generous interpretation of "honest" :)
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'sick' ?
At the risk of sounding like a one-trick pony I recommend trains :P Space trains. Like in Galaxy Express 999 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy_Express_999)
It's outside our experience until it starts to happen. We can intellectually process the concept of death (memento mori etc) but that is very different to our own experiences of our own demise.

I had a very close friend who was deeply interested in spirituality and philosophy and who devoted a good part of his life to understanding our existence. Nothing prepared him for the painful cancer death experiences he endured. Intellectual perceptions are nothing against our first and only viceral experiences of death....
Perhaps, but not without precedent. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernor_v._Autodesk,_Inc.

(note: the period is part of the URL)
Ugh.

Say goodbye to the wonderful world of free international roaming :( Why do good american businesses always end up merging? Feels like you can never win as a consumer even if you stick with businesses you support.
My understanding is that the decryption key release is performed manually.
It means the site is cool, hip etc.
I'm still surprised they removed the formatting for db/schema.rb which I rely on quite a bit to remind myself what properties models have, whether or not their status can be set to null, and how many digits of precision my decimal columns have.

I went as far as writing my own formatter which consumes the db/schema.rb generated string and outputs another string with better formatting. The code is kinda shaky because I wrote it in a rush, but if anyone is interested I can share it with them.
Open source licences IMHO should be viewed not as agreements, but as offers of agreement.

You're free to accept the offer, which then implies certain obligations described in the agreement.

You're also free not to accept the offer, which implies the default conditions set by law, i.e., copying and distribution is prohibited without explicit permission of the author(s). For example, anyone certainly can ignore the provisions of GPL and redistribute the software as closed source if they have obtained some other licence from all the authors.
with the expectation that they the bank won't take that money and run off into the sunset

I know a whole bunch of people in Cyprus that beg to disagree
Government systems simply should not be running proprietary software.
Anyway, as I replied to the other guy, Venor v. Autodesk shows that some courts have upheld "shrinkwrap" licensing. I don't think it's a settled question in US law.
Hopefully it has better luck than big bertha in Seattle. God what a mess that project turned into, but the last I've heard she is almost done with the tunnel.
I was working for the software giant based in Seattle. I experienced all the emotions mentioned in this post. Lucky that you had an option to take a break for 6 months. I cannot quit my job and take a big break as my visa does not permit this but I did quit my job and spent a month looking for another job which was even more stressful. Currently, I am lucky that I work for a company which truly values employees. I am currently recuperating and it is gonna take some time. The important learning is never to allow this in the first phase, when you have a inception of a thought that something is not going right, get on it and fix it and never ever think about it again.
My unfinished PhD dissertation was about the topological differences in metabolic pathways expressed by various cancer cell lines in contrast to healthy tissue as a means of targeting metabolic "choke points" for future drugs - I'm not surprised about the existence of somatic variants but I am looking back and realizing how many of us were taking the uniformity of our systems for granted. Even when modeling the differences in a rapidly mutating cancer we always treated the variants as collections of discrete mutations that were uniform across the cluster. Then again this was ten years ago and you couldn't even think of sequencing enough lines to get at a cellular resolution. This really makes me want to pick that back up.
You might not be able to fit a full-sized train in there, but don't forget the original New York City Subway had to fit in some relatively tiny tunnels: http://www.nycsubway.org/wiki/The_Construction_of_the_Harlem...

Subway trains are often engineered to specification, so if you have a tunnel of a particular size the manufacturer can make a train for it.

The precursor to the modern subway was a strange pneumatic system that would fit in that tunnel as well: http://www.nycsubway.org/wiki/Beach_Pneumatic_Transit
> “The origin of the infection is not confirmed at the moment, but sources close to the company point out that it is being treated as an attack originating in China,” El Mundo writes.

It's amazing how any organization can get away with poor security and backup practices by blaming either Russia or China, without showing any evidence to back their claim.
Two weeks ago I contacted my Congressman explaining how important encryption and general IT security is. While he said he agreed with me in principle, he said that terrorism is such a huge problem that things like back doors, weaker encryption, etc. are more important than strong encryption and general IT security. His reply was lengthy, but didn't say what I wanted to hear.
You're right about YC. Have you tried Angel List (angel.co)? Unfortunately the bar is set pretty high in general. A lot of the time investors will expect a working product and evidence of a growing user base.

Further, you're going to have a hard time raising capital from anywhere outside the US, with the exception of a few cities like London and Berlin. It's a big problem and a big flaw in the funding model which, despite investing in new technologies, is itself antiquated and old-fashioned.

Let people on HN know what you're trying to do and how they can help and you might be surprised. In any case, good luck!
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It's apparently using the leaked NSA SMB exploits, so once it hits their internal networks any systems which aren't patched are probably going to get exploited pretty much instantly.
Yes, you are correct. Standards Essential Patents are a subclass of normal patents. They are the only ones that the holder is obligated to license out. Normal patents carry no obligation to license them under any terms, much less "reasonable" ones.
> Theaters are full of people who react audibly at the wrong things

How could a reaction be wrong?
TL;DR: Don't try so hard. Like Queen's song. [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7kUc5RcMqc
For reference the other thread is https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14325380 "Telefonica Is Target of $600,000 Bitcoin Ransomware Attack"
From Merriam-Webster dictionary:

"outstandingly or amazingly good or impressive"
I spent 2 hours getting a python environment properly setup last night. It's not pathetic.
What was used to make these visualizations? These are beautiful.
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>Personality change after TBIs is not a good thing.

Reminds me of a documentary I saw recently about snowboarder Kevin Pearce called The Crash Reel (2013) [1]. Kevin Pearce was changed by his TBI also but the one I came to think of when you said this was another person that was affected even worse from a TBI they got from a snowboarding accident.

[1]: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2499076/
You are downgrading and equating intentional criminal acts to normal day-to-day unpredictability.
D3!
> The solution to the gunshots problem is before the guns shoot, like background checks required to own a weapon.

these people are murderers. they buy illegal guns illegally, to commit illegal crimes. they don't care about your laws. you could make all guns illegal tomorrow and they would still have guns.
Bill gates money isn't sitting in couches, it is invested back in economy. And given the fact that his total wealth is constantly increasing despite giving away billions, shows it is invested quite efficiently.
Well, we have always been at war with Eastasia...
"Double Dipping" as in working two jobs simultaneously and billing two employers for the same hours? No.

My current employer about 60% of the employees are remote and my entire team is remote. Almost everyone has their own on-the-side consultancy and is very public about it. Team members swap stories about their after-hours clients. The after-hours work allows us to diversify into new stacks, experiment with tooling that might not be available to us during the day hours, and then bring a lot of this experience back. Since we're all on very flexible schedules, meetings during normal the normal 8-5 rarely conflict. As long as we don't compete in our employer's industry (which is a very niche industry), we're generally trusted to keep our client/employer work separate, prioritize our employers meetings over client meetings in scheduling, then really it's quite kosher.

I'm a little surprised more medium-to-large businesses aren't more encouraging of it. Free training, keeps the engineering team sharp, and definitely keeps a lot of the more ambitious engineers from getting bored with the pace of building boring business software.
I worked on this project. Can you share your screen size, device, and browser version?
No icons for 'schadenfreude'? Pffft, stop wasting my time.
What formatting did they remove, the indentation?
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Have you considered going on strike along with the other IT people? I can well imagine how draining 20 years of management BS is (I grew up with one), but one of the reasons I decided to get out of corporate IT after a decade in it was the realization that the IT were frequently used as a buffer between management and the rest of the workforce.

I certainly don't blame you for making popcorn, but surely part of why poor operating practices and decisions get entrenched if that the people doing the work passively go along with whatever bad idea management is proposing while hoping that either inevitable failure or some higher level of management will intervene to vindicate the initial objections of the technical people and topple a few of the more inept managers from their perches. Because IT people tend not to be organized into a union or professional association, they have little to no political leverage of their own so any personal sense of organizational mission or ethical scruples don't count for much in the event of a conflict with the management people, who may sweep aside objections on the basis that the IT person 'doesn't understand the big picture' or somesuch.

I don't mean to suggest that you should be reiterating old faulty models of social organization like unions or guilds; if anything the lesson of technology is that we should be restructuring our pyramidal structures of control and authority (whether corporate, political or whatever) into more effective network paradigms. But I do think that if you just munch on popcorn and hope to see some bad managers ousted and some technical people finally lifted up to positions of seniority within the existing decision structure, then it will just be more of the same until the system is forced into a state of collapse.

Why leave everything to he management and consulting types 'sweeping up the mess, and creating the next failure-to-be' as you eloquently put it, when you have one of those rare opportunities to force change?
Spanish CERT has announced it's a worm that's exploiting the EternalBlue NSA exploit (in SMB/Windows file sharing).
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I think the main benefit would be that they have a better chance of getting paid. Developing an unlocking mechanism is technically challenging and takes time and money to implement. It also adds risk - if there's an unlocking mechanism it's possible someone can crack it.

By not developing an unlock in the first place they can get it out quicker and have less risk. Sure, the next hacker may not get paid because they aren't trusted but for the most part we're talking about individual operations.
I have the same childhood memories.

Mid 90's - Mid 2000s: We did a 10 hour road trip twice every summer to visit family, and always joked about how the car had a mustache because the front bumper was peppered with bugs.
2007/2011 - During college, I used to do 6-8 hour road drives up and down Florida to visit friends and we used to catch a butterfly or 2 on the window.
2011-2013 - After graduating college, I made a few more of those drives and I can't remember catching a butterfly in the windshield wipers. I've never had the bumper-mustache problem since becoming a driver, either.

The only bug that seems to thrive now-a-days are mosquitos. Still plenty of those in Florida... probably less, but I don't have any good childhood reference
LA has a lot of public transit, it's just really spread out and not very dense. Public transit tends to be hub-and-spoke, sort of, but the usual paths for commuting or shopping or socializing are way more distributed. (I lived in LA for ten years, on the West side, and went to downtown LA twice.) It's a geographic region that is heavily dependent on cars to get from, say, Sherman Oaks to Northridge; or Westwood to LAX. There are buses, but they run sporadically, aren't seen as very safe, and take twice as long to get there.
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They also have a cool API: http://api.thenounproject.com/, which is used by automated logo services logojoy[0] and Tailor Brands[1].

I think Google's autodraw[2] + noun project would make an excellent pairing.

[0] https://www.logojoy.com/
[1] https://www.tailorbrands.com/
[2] https://aiexperiments.withgoogle.com/autodraw
It is pretty bad. The desire to avoid having to deal with SOX compliance has pushed a lot of companies to sell themselves privately rather than IPO. A lot of the restrictions that are imposed make debugging and fixing operational problems a lot harder. Many of the policies that are imposed are actively harmful.

And, sadly, SOX compliance is easily bypassed by bad actors. I'm not convinced that Enron would have been stopped by the regulation. And even if it would have been, after several rounds of regulatory capture like the above, the regulation will be nothing more than another marketing channel for auditing companies.
It also occurred to me that rapid, efficient tunneling would be very nice to have on Mars, or anywhere in the solar system really. Underground is the only place you can get protections from hard radiation, when your planet/moon doesn't have the beneft of a magnetosphere and atmosphere. Tunneling habitats seems a good way to go.
This has certainly been eye-opening read for me. I believe a lot of us can relate to the traits mentioned in the blog, this will lead us to take necessary steps at the right time.

>Burnout offers a hidden silver lining.

In the end this is what leads to satisfaction in life.
It says the attack hit multiple sites simultaneously. A worker said that the ransomware came through on the computers around 2pm.

This doesn't sound like a spread by phishing or attachment.

How could such an attach be co-ordinated?

I can think of two possibilities:

1) The attack has been spreading over days or weeks with a trigger date for activation.
2) The ransomware has been distributed through the desktop update system.

Any other ideas?
You should check out the `annotate` gem.
It would mean losing years of progress and wasting large amounts of money that they spent on now-useless research.
I wonder what the odds are that an attack on infrastructure like this could kill someone?