skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because you left an infected usb key or ten in the power station parking lot, the power of human curiosity, and the marginal cost of proactively protecting against something "very unlikely" by e.g. epoxying usb slots because procedure says it can't happen.
I just wish they got more recognition for their work. They do hard things over long periods of time and barely get a headline... which is good that their finds aren't oversensationalized, but, I think they themselves need more direct acknowledgement.
MV = PQ. Money * Velocity = Price level * Quantity of goods and services.

Friedman assumes the velocity of money is constant (good assumption), so really the only why you can cause inflation is to increase the supply of money, M. UBI increases the velocity of money by moving money from low-consumption, high-investment rich people to high-consumption, low-investment poor-to-middle-class people. Increase money velocity, and you'll see price inflation to compensate.
In offense of these medical devices, they should never have been running Windows or any general purpose OS in the first place! A lot easier to guarantee security if the entire thing is a well tested 10-50KLOC Rust daemon on top of seL4. I am not even asking them to do formal verification themselves, just a small trusted base and reasonable secure coding practices. I mean, come on, a critical medical device running the entirety of Windows XP (or say, Ubuntu with Apache, an X server and GNOME[1]) should be considered actual negligence. The FDA should make it outright impossible to certify such contraption.

Basically, the rule should be: if you are using general purpose consumer software, then you should be doing updates; if you are in an environment where updates are considered too risky, then running commodity software should also be considered too risky and you should be building very small locked down systems instead. Ideally without a direct internet connection (they can always connect through an updatable system that can't actually cause the medical device to malfunction, but can be reasonably protected against outgoing malware as well).

[1] I would be ok with some of these devices running a stripped down Linux (or NT) kernel, just not a full desktop OS. If you need a fancy UI, then that can be in an external (hopefully wired, not IoT) component that can be updated.
Could you explain your opinion?
This seems to be a pretty big blind spot for our two-party system here. Every president I can remember has set precedent by using some rule/loophole in the powers granted to the Executive Branch and then their party gets bent out of shape when the next president uses that same technique to do something they don't like.

Doing the 'right thing' the wrong way just conditions the American public toward accepting an autocracy. While particularly bad for one party, it's not great for either of them, and certainly not for the citizenry.
Hey, I'm the journalist who wrote the story. A few things:
- The organic-rich film preserving the outlines of scales (so, yes, fossilized skin) is only a few millimeters thick. So Mitchell had to prepare the fossil extremely slowly in order to follow the film through the matrix.
- The half-life of DNA is ~521 years at 13.1°C, as found in this 2012 paper: http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/279/1748/4724
The team's model predicts higher half-lifes at truly freezing temperatures, but even at the extreme end, there's no way DNA would survive 110 million years.
- The dating on the site is well constrained to ~110 million years old. The fossil was found in the Wabiskaw Member of the Clearwater Formation, a well-dated rock formation in Alberta. The underlying oil sands have been radiometrically dated to 112±5.3 million years old. (http://science.sciencemag.org/content/308/5726/1293)
Seattle has reversed a decades-long trend of rising car ownership
Here's a list of the trusts / etc that are affected.

https://twitter.com/ShaunLintern/status/863116822228422656
Look, no matter how much you tax the wealthy, you always have a positive derivative -- the more money you make, the more you take home. I really can't see anyone making a rational decision to work less hard because the tax rate is too high, within reason.

The other thing that becomes blindingly clear when you live somewhere like Silicon Valley is that wealth is logarithmic. If you take home a million dollars a year here, you're still living in a 2000 sq foot home in a town with a half-decent school district. If you want a house walkable to downtown Palo Alto, you'd better be making $5 - $10 million (those homes go for $4 - 5 million). And if you want a real mansion, you'll need $20-30 mil. You want your own jet? $100 mil. There's always someone making MUCH more money than you, unless your name is Gates or Bezos. In that environment, a 3x increase in pay is still a meaningful difference in take-home.
> I am so sad that he won't be able to enjoy this discovery as much as I do, because he'll be focused on debunking the scientific assertion that this fossil is 110 million years old.

In the whole scheme of things, I'm sure he enjoys plenty of things you don't. Just like any other 2 different people. That he doesn't enjoy this as much as you do is nothing to mourn about.
Cleaning the data, compare the models and understand why the results are like they are, those are huge things in Machine Learning. Actually it is like 90% of my job. Training the model it is nothing compared to it. As I said in another comment, I have seen people doing so many mistakes before training or comparing the models. They spent weeks seeing the models with good results in their test but performing like a random classifier in production. Just because they training setup was wrong, they didn't know how to compare models, etc. Machine learning is not like learning a new framework. You can learn the framework and use it, but you are going to do so many mistakes because all the other machine learning knowledge you need.
Going through their wallets it looks like they've gotten 32 pay outs, some for more than 300 USD. Are there any addresses that they are using outside of the four listed int he article?

It'd be an interesting project to try and track where these funds go and where they came from.

https://blockchain.info/address/13AM4VW2dhxYgXeQepoHkHSQuy6N... - 11
https://blockchain.info/address/115p7UMMngoj1pMvkpHijcRdfJNX... - 4
https://blockchain.info/address/12t9YDPgwueZ9NyMgw519p7AA8is... - 6
https://blockchain.info/address/1QAc9S5EmycqjzzWDc1yiWzr9jJL... - 11
but 5 hours though...

Yes when you stop to look back, you do realize how far you've come. It's like when you try to learn a new language and you're just blocked... you know can't just turn an idea into a working reality that others can use.

Somedays though the mind refuses to work haha, then you binge on tv and lay around like a beached whale.

I don't know the site doesn't reward me with money right now. Money is "highly desirable" just because I'm financially destroyed but when passion is in the equation it's nice. I don't expect praise either as it's kind of worthless unless people actually comprehend like what you did. "Good job" haha. I don't know... gotta avoid these essay responses.

It does feel good to get into the groove, get some coffee, music... boom! Entire day gone. Spine and eyes damaged, electrons moved on hard drives.
Because you need an expert to make sense of the data? Which is why I am trying to transition to data science from sysadmin at the moment. So I don't need no stinkin middle men.
> Maybe instead of UBI, we should consider a scheme where we grant an ownership interest in productive property.

A sovereign wealth fund that automatically distributes 'shares' to its citizens, prohibits them from selling their shares, and distributes a dividend regularly? Seems pretty functionally equivalent to a UBI.
Uber is claiming that Waymo has to enter arbitration because Lewandowski had an arbitration agreement with them when he worked there.

Imagine if that was legally correct. Suppose a fellow worked at 5 companies in the course of 10 years, and with each company his contract included an arbitration clause and other interesting items.

Then company #5 would have to honor everything relevant in the previous 4 contracts. What a mess that would be. Alsup was right to reject Uber's claim.
You are making the case that it's currently impractical. That is very different from "as inevitable as [the] CAP theorem".

For instance, if the cost of "basic life necessities" was somehow $5/yr, but incomes (and tax revenues) similar to today (... presumably people are spending an awful lot on luxury goods?), it could certainly be all three of those things.

It may be the case that that is somehow impossible, but that's a case that you need to make in some way other than listing off what the current numbers happen to be.
You have to build a new ssh CA for each class of server. There's no mechanism for granting access by host name.
This becomes unmanageable fast.
That's my point, as I type this on fully patched Win 10 Pro.

Certainly Windows has its issues, but it's biggest 'flaw' when it comes to malware isn't that it's closed-source, but that it's ubiquitous and therefore a highly attractive target.
In the US, Administrative Laws (regulations) are passed and repealed much easier than legislation. Is there a difference between regulation and legislation in France?
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My first thought would be to clear the routing table on Windows (maybe using a batch script on startup?) and using bridged networking in the VM.

That would totally disable internet access on Windows though, including updates (but you also wouldn't have that attack surface!)
Gah, this brings me back to the glory days of slashdot.

The software monoculture exists because of USERS. The vast majority of users don't want to have to learn three different OS, look+feel, GUI rules, etc. They just want the goddamn excel file that the CPA sent over that they need for their accounts receivable report to OPEN. Trying to convince governments to go to FOSS doesn't well work because the users slip back to things so that they can do their job the way they know how.

See, e.g. the city government of Munich, which after a decade of trying never got above about 60% of their users to switch to Linux, and is considering abandoning the effort.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/penetration-testers-guide-win...

The above link seems pretty good for locking down Windows if anyone is looking.
>I can't imagine this is common. For someone to feel this way, I feel, they probably have underlying issues of existential origin. This is assuming the person is directly doing work that is improving someone else's life.

Most people are employed in the course of something important and/or useful, even if it's tedious or boring.

There's a strong argument that some of the least skilled jobs provide some of our most critically important functions. Those positions are low paid because there are lot of people willing and able to do them, not because they aren't needed.

I think claiming "my work is meaningless" is just a broad expression of workplace dissatisfaction and not really specific enough to mean anything. The position itself likely has an important function or no one would be willing to pay for it.
WannaCry payload does nothing if req to previously unregistered domain succeeds
We don't have any auto scaling for either up or down scaling, but if you're using a deployment tool such as Kubernetes, I don't see why it wouldn't be fairly easy. And it might be a good idea to add a message in the admin UI if you all of your nodes are experiencing a high load.

By just looking at your max load over the last 24h or perhaps week, it would be pretty easy to see when to down scale.

That being said, as long as you remove the cockroach nodes one at a time , it's pretty easy to down scale a cockroach cluster.
This makes sense: The city is building out good rail infrastructure, both below- and above ground. It's building somewhat better bike paths. Electric-assist bikes are becoming more common (https://www.electricbikeseattle.com/). Uber and other ride-sharing apps are also making it easier to go car-less by making sure that a car can be had if one needs it.
Q: could fuzzing techniques help to take down such (p2p) botnets?
Competitive forces are a thing.

If your competitors can hire cheap people for working there, you will never be able to justify hiring more expensively. But if they can not hire that cheaply, you will be able to spend more too.
And for the job I don't know. You can post your CV here in the monthly thread for jobs, also take a look to the companies searching for people with experience in bioinformatics that wants to apply deep learning. I think a startup it is a good place to find a job and improve your deep learning skills.
One of my favourite quotes from Edward Sapir (known for Sapir-Whorf hypothesis):

The major activities of the individual must directly satisfy his own creative and emotional impulses, must always be something more than means to an end. The great cultural fallacy of industrialism, as developed up to the present time, is that in harnessing machines to our uses it has not known how to avoid the harnessing of the majority of mankind to its machines. The telephone girl who lends her capacities, during the greater part of the living day, to the manipulation of a technical routine that has an eventually high efficiency value but that answers to no spiritual needs of her own is an appalling sacrifice to civilisation. As a solution of the problem of culture she is a failure — the more dismal the greater her natural endowment. As with the telephone girl, so, it is to be feared, with the great majority of us, slave-stokers to fires that burn for demons we would destroy, were it not that they appear in the guise of our benefactors. The American Indian who solves the economic problem with salmon-spear and rabbit-snare operates on a relatively low level of civilisation, but he represents an incomparably higher solution than our telephone girl of the questions that culture has to ask of economics. There is here no question of the immediate utility, of the effective directness, of economic effort, nor of any sentimentalizing regrets as to the passing of the "natural man." The Indian's salmon-spearing is a culturally higher type of activity than that of the telephone girl or mill hand simply because there is normally no sense of spiritual frustration during its prosecution, no feeling of subservience to tyrannous yet largely inchoate demands, because it works in naturally with all the rest of the Indian's activities instead of standing out as a desert patch of merely economic effort in the whole of life. A genuine culture cannot be defined as a sum of abstractly desirable ends, as a mechanism. It must be looked upon as a sturdy plant growth, each remotest leaf and twig of which is organically fed by the sap at the core. And this growth is not here meant as a metaphor for the group only; it is meant to apply as well to the individual. A culture that does not build itself out of the central interests and desires of its bearers, that works from general ends to the individual, is an external culture. The word "external," which is so often instinctively chosen to describe such a culture, is well chosen. The genuine culture is internal, it works from the individual to ends.
But copyright is different; See [0] under Statutory Damages.

EFF / Github should probable set up a "register copyright for this release" to make it easier for OS developers to use this feature of copyright law.
Something like this:

http://www.webmd.com/food-recipes/news/20130710/could-artifi...

"After a while, Swithers said, it's like the mouth keeps crying wolf, and the brain and gut stop listening. As a result, when real sugar and real calories come along, the body doesn't respond to them as strongly as it normally might. Calories don't end up making you feel as full as they should. They aren't as rewarding. So you don't get the signals that might stop you from eating when you should."
An aside here, just in case you ever find that you miss using jQuery for something: There are several jQuery-mostly-compatible replacements that are much smaller.
I tried to deploy them to grant developers limited time access to the hosts running their services. Didn't really work out and I killed the project.
That's amazing, thanks for the link.
Problem is that people (politician) wanting to push it through simply don't care. They just want to have access and they think there are agencies that can deal with potential consequences. It is frankly all about the money - they want to have ability to access sensitive data and therefore be more attractive to people willing to pay the bribe.
The response makes it sound like they were accepted to a MS program under the condition they complete undergrad courses. I am curious which MS program this is.
Most distros have this no bundled libraries rule, so either the stale version can still be used after an update, or if it's yanked out from under running processes, they can crash. Hence rebooting. macOS and Windows have mandatory reboots for anything system related too, so this is not out of the ordinary.

Right now, if you use flatpak based applications on Fedora, they get updated without reboots. And that's the way forward, including for the desktop environment itself eventually.
I've used Siri just fine to set timers and create reminders while a TV is blaring with announcers commentating sports live.

Probably depends on some environments.
Given just how poor the incentives wind up being, I think with current technology that it would be unlikely to tick the second box.
I saw the first dump of the headers and I thought back to the article someone linked in HN comments(https://www.fastly.com/blog/best-practices-for-using-the-var...), and I was on the right path.
The Digital-Industrial Complex
Hint at a problem with sustainability? I'll come right out and say it: Your proposal is not sustainable. The only people who will work in that environment are those who will work for free.

Even if that were enough people, you also remove economic feedback about the effectiveness of peoples' actions. That feedback is critical for an economy to efficiently allocate resources.
> I have some play money in ethereum .... There's absolutely potential for these coins to do 10x or even 1000x ....

Genuinely curious how do you know or assess that etherum or any other ICO will do well in the future ?
Isn't there an equal or greater chance of the currencies collapsing ?
It's worth keeping in mind which vendors are being talked about here.

Treble fixes the problem of "manufacturer who didn't do any customization can't update because Qualcomm never updated their drivers & friends" by ensuring that the level that the Qualcomms, Nvidias, etc... build against is forwards-compatible. So small manufacturer can just take a new android source drop from google and plop it on top of the binaries they originally got from qualcomm or whoever and tada! done.

It doesn't help with the "OEM injected so much 'customization' that it's a disaster to move forward and will forever be abandonware"
I think the idea is that automation makes many jobs obsolete at the lower end, at which point some form of guaranteed minimum income or basic income has some necessity.
Well the Xerox Star was $16,000, the Mac $2,000. And the Mac did have localTalk, a super cheap 232 kbps office network that worked really well.

When the Mac was released, the Xerox team actually had a much different reaction than yours. Notice the screen shots in the PDF, every object fits in a rectangular area. The original Mac supported non-rectangular regions, making it's graphics far more advanced than the Star, despite the much lower power hardware. Xerox engineers were flabbergasted the Mac could do that.
Fox pass has a nice hosted ldap solution which includes ssh key management.
Housing is one of things that can be solved by UBI - currently in many regions housing is scarce in places "where all the jobs are" and plentiful, cheap, and even empty and abandoned in places with few jobs. This imbalance happens in 'competition' between different centers, and also in the process of urbanization. We have people leaving their granparent's houses, and leaving them empty, just to go to the big city where they can actually earn a living.

UBI can change that by making it feasible for underemployed people to live in those cheaper areas. If there's no economic reason (good for society) to have them work at all, then there's no economic reason for them to live in the scarce housing in the economically most active areas - and they will revitalize the cheaper areas by bringing their spending there.
Pretty sure you can build an X-Ray/MRI control software in Rust on top of seL4, and do lightweight verification (or, even better: hardware breakers of some sort) around issues like "will output lethal doses of radiation". That is a general purpose enough kernel and a general purpose enough programming language, without having to drag in tens of millions of lines of code intended for personal GUI systems... Then for malware issues you simply don't plug that device directly into the internet, nor allow it to run any new code (e.g. your only +X mounted filesystem is a ROM and memory is strictly W^X).
The 'argument', and the admittedly more informative content, is distributed over many posts on that blog (which I like and follow).

This was a relatively sparse post compared to others from the same blog and is, in my opinion, mostly a 'look, more examples' kind of thing for the blog's regular audience. In this case, literally 'look, more examples of low-status work being squeezed out of the world'.
They'll probably be tumbled (i.e Bitcoin laundering), meaning that we'll get no info from the transactions at all.
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I agree with the conclusion but that reasoning makes no sense.
Icons and text are exactly the same thing. They're both language; visual forms that mean something.

We're more used to text, because text has a lot of nice properties as a medium for language so it has become pervasive. It's generally low dimensional and has high composability. For low bandwidth mediums it's ideal, because it's also low bandwidth.

But that doesn't mean icons aren't a language and aren't just as useful as text. They just have different strengths and weaknesses. Icons are higher bandwidth and higher dimensional (a tiny 32x32 grayscale image has 1024 dimensions!). But they're also very dense. What could take a large amount of physical space to describe with text, might only take a small 32x32 space with an icon.

All that to say, I don't disagree with your assessment of the situation. But I don't think it should be viewed as icons vs text, as if they're two completely different things. It should be viewed as a general problem of effective communication. Text can be just as bad. Imagine reading "subtract b from a and divide that result by q" versus "(a - b) / q". The latter is a more efficient language which most everyone will understand. Better to use the latter.

What if instead of writing "save" and "load" the designers wrote "serialize game state" and "deserialize game state". It means the same thing, but clearly "save" and "load" are better. Why? More people will understand them, and the extra information communicated by the verbose alternative isn't necessary.

Just as in a lot of situations an icon, if generally understood by the UI's target audience, can be a better alternative than writing "save" and "load".
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