skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(Disclosure: I work at google)

You're ignoring a big part of this though: Waymo is given expedited discovery and is allowed to look at Uber's hardware. The injunction says that Uber cannot use Levandowski or any of the work he brought, and so Google['s expert] is allowed to look at Uber's hardware and make sure that none of it is based on the stolen documents.

On the assumption that waymo's claims are true (ie. Uber is basing their work on stolen proprietary designs), this is a major blow to Uber, since they would need to redesign their lidar hardware from the ground up.
And people already paid for their Windows 7/8 Pro licenses, and they got trashed like everyone else.
This was true for amazon years ago but these days just just say too bad. And maybe if you're lucky they'll give you more prime. I wouldn't consider that paying me for my trouble.
An emergency, real or supposed, is about the worst case scenario for democratic voting.
I loved Dr. Dobb's Journal too, and I also really looked forward to each delicious issue of Creative Computing as a kid! Like so many others, I read the Adventure source code and typed in the Star Trek source code.

I also loved all the Beagle Bros software and programming tools, and especially their catalogs and ads. (And NO, they were definitely NOT "Brogrammers", they were freaks!)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beagle_Bros

http://beagle.applearchives.com/

http://beagle.applearchives.com/Catalogs/Tip_Book_1(Searchab...
>Who knows how many horrible plugins marketing had in there

Why aren't you proactively working with "marketing" to figure out why they installed the plugin and helping them reach their goal in another way?
Quite an incentive for an untimely and disproportionate response to the attackers, should they be located.

Edit: Umm, humans have formed armies and started wars over far less theft and far lesser threats to their populations than this. If the attackers are located, some piano wire around their necks is really cheap in comparison. And for this amount of damage, I do not doubt for a moment that it's a consideration by every single government spy organization.
Turns out I'm right. I thought about the military and contractors as well.
"A Top Secret clearance, meanwhile, costs the government nearly 20 times more, at an average of $3,959 per background check. At that rate, investigating the 1.5 million people with Top Secret passes may have cost as much as $5.9 billion over several years. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2014/03/24...

"As of last October, nearly five million people held government security clearances. Of that, 1.4 million held top-secret clearances. More than a third of those with top-secret clearances are contractors, which would appear to include Mr. Snowden." https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887323495604578535...

Now we can get into semantics until the cows come home but even tens of thousands of people are way too many. Imagine 1+ million people.
> The reason the attack happened to including British National Health Service hospitals was because they didn't follow manufacturer's instructions (in this case Microsoft) and upgrade their Windows XP software to Windows 10.

Well, on one side, you have the OS manufacturer's instructions to update to Windows 10.

On the other side, you have the software manufacturer's instructions to stay on Windows XP at all costs.

Which instructions do you listen to?

(Arguably, before this week, it would have been empirically correct to listen to the software manufacturer; upgrading from XP would have definitely broken the system, but staying on XP didn't break it so far.)
Books. Lots and lots of books. And computer shows where you could pick up boxed software (OS, compilers, etc.) for anywhere from 50 - 90% off.

Wasn't until 1995 that I discovered gcc which led to my discovery of GNU/Linux shortly after. Before that I scrimped and saved and waited for trade shows to pick up new books and versions of MS programming tools for DOS, Win 3.1 and then Windows 95. After that I ran a duel boot system to keep learning Windows and start taking advantage of free software. This was also about the time it became easy and affordable for me to be on the internet regularly and the ldp[1] was a great place to go instead of using dead trees.

Before Linux I could not afford access to any type of UNIX system (except maybe Xenix, saw that a lot at shows, was always tempted but never made the plunge). I did not know about *BSD at the time.

[1]http://tldp.org/
Yes, just did. Did you read the articles? Certainly sounds like they're calling him a hero:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/05/14/revealed-22-year-...
Plenty of other people thought the opposite and got this thread on to the front page though.

Brilliantly, this also got posted by the twitterbot before it was flagged https://twitter.com/newsycombinator/status/86414915600433561...
Would you like to explain what we're looking at in that picture?
This is now fixed..

But inversely, i'm annoyed that this "upgrade phenomena" seems squarely targeted at Microsoft when people who run Linux or OSX upgrade the second new shiny comes out. I'm not ranting here other than expressing a curiosity of culture that leads to cultural problems lingering much longer than they should.

Windows 10 is awesome.. the experiment with "ads" sucks but its all tweakable.. just jump to Rs2 and provide feedback if there is something you do/don't like. MS listens.
You're presuming that they will find something. I'm presuming they won't. None of the technology made it into Uber's Lidar design, and already no evidence was found that a single document made its way into Uber's servers. Remember, they already went through a round of discovery and they found nothing. The idea that Levandowski would be telling people "Well, from Google's documents, I remember x y z" sounds awfully ridiculous.
They don't do that anymore. They just say "two days is the time in transit not counting weekends" (despite them absolutely delivering on Saturday and sundays.
Secured by a key, you say? Like one of these?

https://prod01-cdn05.cdn.firstlook.org/wp-uploads/sites/1/20...
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204034

You've been able to download free apps without a credit card since forever
Because iPads are generally limited to basic computing tasks, I think the lifecycle is even longer than a typical laptop. My iPad Air from 2013 still feels brand new to me. Still looks great and I'm sure will still be getting used in another 4 years.

Edit: By comparison, the iMac I bought at the same time as the iPad Air is starting to feel sluggish and outdated, particularly as it is not a 5K version so switching between a retina iPad and a retina MacBook and a retina iMac feels jarring when using the iMac.
True, but nevertheless, their actions in this case advanced the interests of privacy, both on a technical level, and by the PR of presenting it as something worth preserving.
The reason computers don't stay equally useful for decades is because much of a computer's usefulness comes from communicating with other computers.

Go back and buy a computer from the 80s, and it's about as useful now as it was then. Buy one from the 90s, and that's still true for tasks that can be done entirely on that computer, but not so much for getting online.

Your iPad 1 is about as useful as it ever was when it comes to doing things that only involve the iPad. It's just that most things it could do want to talk to other computers, and those other computers haven't stayed static.

Find a computer that doesn't need to talk to the world, and you'll find a computer that can stay relevant for a long time. Every 20-year-old car on the road has 20-year-old computers in it still going strong, for example. But if you want a computer to both stay useful and derive its usefulness from the world, then you need the world to stop changing, and that won't happen.
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I hear you. I'm a raytracing guy and I look forward to Ryzen and would love to try Naples. But this intermediate thing sounds like a 3rd platform squarely between those. It even has 16 cores rather than 8 or 32, so if the core count doubled or halved it would be very much be competing with one of the other market segments processor.
Not to hijack, but this is similar to a small ML project a friend and I built. It takes news headlines from a bunch of sources and classifies them by common topic. We took a lot longer than a day to build it, though. ;)

It refreshes with new stories every few hours. You can check it out here: http://headlinr.herokuapp.com/

EDIT: click on the bubbles to see individual headlines. Also, here's the GitHub page: https://github.com/dgarrick/headliner
Read the injunction. They already went through the design. The judge didn't issue an injunction against using or even continuing development on Uber's Lidar. What more do you expect to find?

If Waymo found a design during expedited discovery that is different from what they submitted to the judge, then I assume that is perjury and obviously needs to be punished to the full extent of the law. I doubt this will happen because everyone knows what's at stake here.
Where did that link come from? How could i possibly know about your link if the topic link is different?
Fair enough!
But what do you say of this article in NYT today on this ruling?
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/15/technology/uber-self-driv...

Selectively quoting only stuff about Engineer and not quoting anything on actual injunction (which is a win for uber) seems like steering towards a negative narrative against Uber.

Again we can dislike Uber's policies etc. But journalist also needs to lay out facts as they are. Not actually try to steer the argument in one direction.
O'Reilly, did a good line of 'Cookbooks', I think these were a result of many forum questions and answers (most likely iteratively refined) compiled into simple 'recipes'.

Something like: How do I join two strings in Foo? They list a few answers, including a suggested one alongside caveats/pros/cons of each. There's a lot of Stackoverflow there. And they always seemed to provide code that was less abstract and more practical than say a 'Learn Foo' manual.
don't be too hard on him, you can only become competent by starting out incompetent.
I don't think it's that easy though. For example, if your CT scan software was made for Windows XP and you randomly update to Windows 10, then if you have any problems, the company making the software can blame you for not using Windows XP and you're on your own, since that's what the software has been tested/accredited for?

That's what I read somewhere, not sure how accurate it is.

I imagine the ideal solution would be to have a clause in the contract with the software company that they have to test and re-validate their software on new versions of windows and updates in a timely fashion so that the computers running the software can be updated? That would probably increase costs though
Stop Hating Yourself
I see this as more diatribe than reality..

MS has MILLIONS of people yammering for features and they go to great lengths to shorten the release cycle for getting new features to developers and customers.

I find this as a positive thing and this concept of MS as "the enemy" is absurd..

You're essentially writing off 10s of millions of happy customers participating in a growing and flourishing community without any regard..

Empathy.. its a good thing.. even if your personal choice is that of something else.
IRC, usenet, "view source", local DIY computer fairs (which were quite a big scene in the UK in the middle nineties) and Microsoft developer books were my route in.

ISPs also used to give you free website hosting and once I'd learnt enough playing with that, I remember doing a website for a family friend's business and ordering my first ever .com domain (from Network Solutions iirc) for something silly like $70 via fax :)
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Doesn't work that way. When they say "Waymo", they really mean "Waymo's attorney's and hired independent expert(s)". The attorney's get to see the stuff as "Attorney's Eyes Only" (AEO) and then report back summaries to their clients. They have an ethical obligation not to disclose the full details.
Pick up the fire axe that is also typically present in the cockpit and kill the person flying the plane. Then open the door.
I don't blame you, I was going to hold off, then realized since I'm all mITX from here on out that I'd just build now. None of this stuff is going to be 65W TDP (at least the 8-core or more parts) so the 1700 will continue to make a lot of sense for those moving to mini-ITX.
WannaCry attack summary and timeline
Assuming you trust them.

Well, in my book that's exactly the rub.
I, for one, don't trust them at all.

Pulling that extra effort to track Apple devices even after the app has been deleted and other shenagigans they pulled in violating their customer's privacy doesn't really help in the trust building department:

https://m.theregister.co.uk/2017/04/24/uber_cloaked_its_spyi...
They could've added the extra pins, and kept the square pin count, but then molded the ceramic such that one corner is clipped, then had a socket to match that would only allow full insertion if the chip body is rotated to match.

Of course, doing all of that would have drove the cost up considerably - for not much practical purposes. No company that wants to stay in business is going to do that, and I wouldn't expect them to.
Teslas do connect to LTE. Why would they pay that much for a data plan? In the US, you can get mobile hotspot plans for $3/month + $10/gbyte. That's the consumer price; wholesale over 100s of thousands of cars has got to be cheaper.
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When Linux or OSX upgrades without my consent, rebooting while I am using it, then I will scream about it too. Until then, I see no hypocrasy.
Concourse v3.0.0
"Wishful thinking" leads to people trying to figure out what will have an impact - for example, perhaps calling your senator and telling them you're pissed at the NSA for hoarding their zero-days instead of actually securing them, or donating to various cross-platform Microsoft-alternatives such as Libre Office.

Telling people they're powerless and that they shouldn't bother is a great way of making them powerless.
Don't you think at least some of those programs will eventually be pushed to the police? It's already happening in the UK where the police's cyber units now have almost the same hacking and surveillance (legal) powers as the GCHQ. Obama signed a new policy just days before he left the office to allow the NSA to share information with 17 other agencies. And that includes the DHS with its "fusion centers," where it shares data with the police.

And let's not forget how the FBI allowed the police to use stingrays illegally and taught them how to hide them from judges in various ways, including claiming the tools were under NDA and they couldn't tell judges about it. Or when they absolutely had to tell the judges about it, they'd prefer to drop the cases (against drug lords, child pornographers, murderers, etc) so as to not reveal the use of the tools.

And on and on it goes like this.
You can make the Cortana bar disappear
Couldn't Apple have updated the phone with an iOS that bypasses the verification, then destroy that iOS installer? Then the FBI can access the phone, but they don't have access to the OS, so they can't use it on other phones?
> Major video codecs still change every 5 to 10 years. Even Youtube can be largely unusable on otherwise serviceable old hardware because there is no or outdated hardware assist for decoding video.

Something that is downright crazy given how long NTSC and PAL stayed in use.

But then i live in Norway, where we are in the process of shutting down FM broadcasts in favor of DAB. Except that DAB has already been superseded by DAB+, and if you go a DAB radio early on you will have to toss that one and get a new one.
Stupid question but what exactly about Amazon gave you a shot of dopamine in your 20s?
My point was that while tens of thousands have TS clearance, they only get access to specific information if and when they need it.

Its not like they go to the "Top Secret File Share" and have access to everything that is Top Secret across the government.
I don't know why you are getting downvoted. If people want to reclaim sovereignty over their computers while also using proprietary operating systems, they will need to get laws passed. Right now, your only right is to buy the hardware you want. From there, that hardware can deny you the right to install another OS, deny you the right to change the hardware, or deny you the right of knowing how the hardware works.

Without those, you aren't much of an owner of anything.
The lawsuit isn't really about protecting trade secrets for some soon-to-be-obsolete lidar technology, that's just a convenient tool for punishing Levandowski and Uber for hatching this scheme.
Given that people happily play on in casinos where the odds are significantly worse than even, I think it is safe to rely on the universe providing us with an infinite supply of suckers.

Anyway, a fairer stock market wouldn't have to be a completely zero-sum game. It would just not have to be as heavily tilted in favor of the gambler/investor as it is today.
Waymo's alleging they did* - there's a third party due-diligence report prepared by Stroz that both Uber and Levandowski especially are trying really hard to keep from handing over. Levandowski even filed an emergency appeal as a non-party to the case (which was rejected) to be prevented from just naming who it was who prepared the report.

* (Well, Waymo's alleging that the court should make an adverse inference that they did because of Uber's behavior around the report).
Well damn this looks like it might be in the right spot for what I'm after. It'll depend on price-point to be exact but I've got a semi-server semi-gaming setup that I want to upgrade from an older i5 and have been waiting to see Naples and early adopter stuff get hammered out. 16 cores is a great spot for me to give a few to a gaming VM, while still being able to have plenty left over for running build/smoke VMs and other random projects like testing syzkaller to check that I'm not doing something inherently stupid with a sandbox I work on. Can't wait to see more about this.
It is getting increasingly hard to use amazon. The risk of getting bogus goods is getting higher and higher.

Even when your order is "shipped and sold" by Amazon it can still be bogus because amazon mixes the 3rd party seller parts into the pool.

I got shipped a clearly inferior 3rd party generic version of what I ordered. Amazon took it back, but support could not guarantee I'd receive what was presented on the website. I ended up buying it for slightly more from a brick & mortar just to guarantee I at least got something branded correctly.

This is only going to get worse until Amazon is no different from ebay for garbage. With my recent experience, "shipped and sold by Amazon" is a meaningless distinguishing marker now if 3rd party sellers are involved in selling the product.
One infected computer = infected network I wanna cry after reading this
There is an exception, "Calculus Made Easy" by Silvanus P. Thompson from 1910. http://www.djm.cc/library/Calculus_Made_Easy_Thompson.pdf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calculus_Made_Easy
A TS clearance isn't some magical pass card to every piece of TS information.
I think you have a different framing of the problem most people excited about WASM have. It is not about talking directly to the hardware, just getting speed gain like you are. So this component idea seems to be coming from out of the blue and indicates to me you haven't paid webassembly much attention until now.

Getting a bytecode that works more like common real machines will be a real performance boon. It doesn't need to match perfectly, it just needs to be similar enough, minimalistic and better than what we have now. The 'simple enough' part makes translation to native machine code easy enough and the minimal makes it easy for standards adoption. As for beating what we have now, you should read the article, because right now its javascript or nothing at all, and anything even vaguely more like a real machine can be optimized better than javascript.

Also, currently Chrome and Firefox support it. Currently Edge and Safari both support it in preview versions of the browsers. I am not sure where you are coming when you say "there is hardly an agreed-upon standard so far" because the four largest browser manufacturers have agreed enough to have 4 different working products or demos. Perhaps you could expand on that to let me know what you or if your information might have been old.
Excellent point. My "pants down" joke, however, shall remain!
The reason the attack happened to including British National Health Service hospitals was because they didn't follow manufacturer's instructions (in this case Microsoft) and upgrade their Windows XP software to Windows 10.

And what happens if some of the software or equipment used with that system is not compatible with Windows 10? I can make a very secure house if I give it solid, metre-thick concrete walls, ceiling and floor, but it won't be very useful as a house without things like doors and windows.

You're far too quick to excuse Microsoft for what was, ultimately, a defect in the original product.
The problem isn't the automatic updates-- Windows always automatically updated. Where Windows 10 changed for the worse is in FORCED reboots.

Once you update, Windows 10 is gonna reboot sooner or later. You can schedule it, but there's nothing you can do to stop it. It's unavoidable. It doesn't care if you're running a long compile, or uploading a large file. If you aren't sitting in front of the computer, it's gonna reboot, period.

I find this to be unacceptable.

The previous behavior, where it essentially nagged you mercilessly until you acquiesced, was far superior. I didn't go out of my way to find a 3rd party program to disable that nag-- I found it useful, to remind me I had to reboot at some point, when I found it convenient to do so.
I'm not sure what you mean by "exploit hoarders," but that got me thinking. [edit: ah, thanks]

Institutions weigh costs, and somewhere these hospitals decided that having unmaintained, aging information systems, was more cost-effective than either maintaining or upgrading the systems.

Thus, problems like this will not go away until NOT-fixing the systems is more expensive than fixing the systems. So what does that take? Fines?

Irony alert: the hospital that ignores aging systems and hopes that they never get hacked are not at all unlike people who lack health insurance and hope they never get injured or sick.
Yes, that helped – thanks!

I had assumed that such a behavior would be common among worms; I guess Windows security must be generally better than I'd thought.
Also we didn't spend time competing for fake internet points.
Have you tried to return something at a Walmart? It's actually one of the easiest thing I've done in a store. No questions asked. Show your receipt and you got a refund. They'll coupon and price match too without batting an eye.
Meanwhile, a months worth of Ubuntu LTS updates probably totals around 20MB on average, and 90% of that is kernel deltas.
And yet what do we see time and time again, tiling UIs used to multiplex CLIs.

When we really want to get things done with a computer, we keep coming back to the keyboard and the CLI.

Even high end math/design/engineering packages have a CLI in them.
The article properly quotes that not only privacy but public safety is affected.
Neat for the driver, but for me, I cringe whenever I get that message, because I know I'll have to wait longer than usual. Those rides are always the slowest ones to arrive.