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Do you mean secretive about how it works or do you mean secretive about its existence?

There is a driver for it in the Linux kernel source tree.

Looks like it came in maybe around v3.9-rc1?

http://elixir.free-electrons.com/linux/v3.9-rc1/source/drive...

Did any Linux users question what this was at that time?

Is this driver part of the "default" Linux kernel configs?

What if the user compiles their kernel without this driver?

Would that change what could or could not be done by someone accessing the "ME" remotely?
You can just not pay tips. What's your problem?
Apple has 250 billion dollars in cash -- they aren't building any factories with it. There might be greater need for factories if people had more disposable income to spend on things.
Still a waste of space IMO.
It's super easy not to tip with Lyft though. I almost never do, unless the driver was especially good (provided good conversation, recommendations, etc).
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> code designed to run on the human brain

So it's legacy code that runs on the oldest hardware that we have.. Plenty of people are interested in updating this code so that it runs on more modern platforms. Actually, this is my favorite way to drill into a piece of mathematics: port it to python.
I'm assuming this was contained in the vault7 leak:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vault_7
I think the explanation of the ideal funding philosophy that I've seen here before is "Fund people, not projects."
What about a thriving Free Software ecosystem where the code can be audited and modified, and where the best apps (i.e. the ones that follow what users generally accept to be a standard of "respect" to your machine and its user, as well as doing their job) bubble up to the top?

Using various Ubuntu-based distros and Free Software apps over the last 8 years, I have never felt like any program was overstepping the boundaries.
Wouldn't the drivers give you a low rating then?
I had a math teacher that explained that beyond simple and clear explanations, the other way to learn math was to do example questions. Lots of examples, to see all the patterns and subleties. The subject he'd most often quote was permutations and combinations - either you got it pretty much instantly or it would just be a struggle that you could only improve at so much by doing a lot of practice questions.
It uses a vulnerability that allows another computer on the same network to execute arbitrary code on your computer. So you work for a UK hospital, your co-worker downloads an attachment and executes it, and that can be enough to get on your machine if it doesn't have up-to-date security patches.
Not (always) vice versa. In Ho Chi Minh, where Grab operates, I was not able to book using Lyft and had to install/setup Grab.
If you destroy net neutrality I will cease all nonessential internet activity. Starting with Facebook. Forever
Microsoft's version:

I see three areas where this event provides an
opportunity for Microsoft and the industry to improve.

Fixed version:

I see three areas where this event provides an
opportunity for Microsoft, the industry, and
government to improve.

To be fair, he does go on to point out how this is partly the fault of poorly conceived government policies, namely the NSA's foolish practice of stockpiling exploits. But Microsoft and the industry should keep the heat on the government about this at every opportunity, because the horrifically bad and analogous idea of having government master keys is still being pushed forward.
I believe huge numbers of certain kinds of jobs will evaporate, particularly whitecollar jobs -- just that the powers that be will implement modern sharecropping to nominally keep "jobs", even while the standard of living massively erodes and the middle class vanishes.

I believe we're already seeing that, with the job markets losing professional jobs but gaining service industry jobs.

I think it's a distraction to talk about employment numbers without talking about the quality of the jobs in question -- sharecroppers and CEOs both have a job, but their lives are radically different.
The point is to leave a very clear track record that they did it contrary to the wishes of the vast majority of electorate.
but no union
I used a NAS for storage, works fine for me.
I found this via HN when it was published, the TL;DR being that people aren't really opposed to inequality, they're opposed to unfairness. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-017-0082

The relevant chunk of the abstract:

> There is immense concern about economic inequality, both among the scholarly community and in the general public, and many insist that equality is an important social goal. However, when people are asked about the ideal distribution of wealth in their country, they actually prefer unequal societies. We suggest that these two phenomena can be reconciled by noticing that, despite appearances to the contrary, there is no evidence that people are bothered by economic inequality itself. Rather, they are bothered by something that is often confounded with inequality: economic unfairness.

Not that this actually answers your question... ;)
false, the chinese government cannot directly use police or government agents to force people out of their homes during what's called (cai fang/house demolition). instead i've heard the use of 3rd party mercenaries to clear the way, but dont quote me on that. for the record, the government does reimburse the individuals which is quite significant, but usually the amount pales in comparison to the land rental price. typically the reimbursement is some stipend per person living under the domicile plus the right to pruchase, at a significant discount, a new home farther away. for example, say you lived in san francisco and the government was re-zoning for a highway, you'd get cash plus the right to buy something in a suburb of sacremento at a pretty nice discount. agree with some comment about it being the equivalent of a lottery.
Not really. Cheap keyboard and mouse, tiny hard drive. You could buy the parts separately for less.
Are any cloud hosts capable of millisecond scale instance boot?
I'm thinking unikernel style execution of instances, starting up in milliseconds and perhaps running only for a few thousand millseconds before being shut down.

It would be good if Google or AWS or DigitalOcean or Azure had such plans.

The pricing would need to match - not much use running an instance (or thousands of instances) for 300 milliseconds and being charged for an hour for each instance.

It don't want to use containers - don't need em, don't need the complexity.

As AWS is doing nothing here maybe this is where Google or Microsoft can start to differentiate.
The generation in-between is Generation Jones, to which I regard myself the anti-thesis of that.

In my 20's, my work environment was literally refered to as pirates vs dinosaurs. I learned that the dinosaurs had a lot to teach and that a lot of pirates weren't willing to go too deep. Easily intimidated. If you were willing to go deeper into things your peers were afraid of, you could make quite a nice niche for yourself.

>and usually screw it up when they try

Best advice I got when I was 24: "kid, you need to screw up enought to get noticed"
The resources I see don't show XP as third, though I'm sceptical of anything based on user agent. And I can't find anything about how responsible they would be for the spread.

I addressed that it wasn't "old" Windows because there is a crazy belief out there that this only hit XP.
The difference between using text and icons for interfaces is that icons are clear to new users only if they are immediately identifiable. With universal things like email, that's easier to do; for example, the user knows there must be a "send" button and so immediately recognizes an arrow button. When the user needs to learn the interface (more generally, the mode of interaction), icons are harder to use effectively.
How about users, and especially corporate users, actually start paying for Paint.NET and other pieces of software they rely on so the developers don't have to resort to Ad Sense or e-begging to fund further development?
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I mentioned the Digg vs Reddit analogy in relation to Uber/Lyft about a month ago...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14054803
My friend was driving for Uber, but now exclusively drives for Lyft here in the Mid-Atlantic region. Lyft is giving those great incentives that Uber use to and he is making the same decent to good money he used to with Uber, but driving less.
The more closely you study something, the more defuse it becomes until when you totally understand it, it has completely disappeared from view.

If you can no longer "see" a thing, you can not usefully explain it.
Waymo will have the first self driving cars on the road.

They are so ahead of everyone.

I think everyone including regular car companies buy the tech from Waymo in the short term.
> But you don't need an atomic clock to get Spanner's guarantees.

I always hear this from CockroachDB folks and fans, but no details. What are the downsides?

As per my understanding, if a server/replica could not catch up wrt time (i.e. goes out of sync), it can be identified and usually be marked as a temporary-replica-failure -- which is the maximum extent that Hybrid Logical Clocks can help us with. Rest of the system has to deal with consequences: A new replica must take it's place to keep-up the fault-tolerance-level and start making-a-new-copy -- which is in the order-of the amount of data stored in the out-of-sync replica. I assume this puts lot different design requirements on the storage-engine; also, making-a-copy and cancel-copying operations would eat network traffic, thus throughput.

IIRC Google Spanner uses atomic clocks only on few severs per data-center because cross data-center latencies are much higher and erratic (over internet). So CockroadDB has much higher rate of temporary-failures due to out of time-sync and associated downsides. It would be helpful if CockroachDB guys could shed some light on this.
Why do you claim C++ relates to poor security? OSX and iOS are primarily C, C++, and assembly, (objective C at the higher levels). And linux of course is C and assembly.

Are you saying all of the major operating systems have poor security because they use "vulnerable" languages?
I wonder why MySpace couldn't copy some of these features from FB.
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No, and this is the Achilles heel of unikernels; they're totally at the mercy of cloud provider roadmaps. And now that serverless exists, cloud providers have even less incentive to support unikernels properly.
The publishing industry is slowly going to unravel.

If you write a very successful book with traditional publishing cut you might make 30-40k. Average is lower. There are power laws at play, but as few as 5% make it past six figures.

So when I wrote a book about step-by-step user acquisition (https://secretsaucenow.com) I self-published. Made $60,000-ish in presales, sold another $60,000 while I was finishing the book. And now pull in 4-8k/month.

If I signed a deal with a publishing company selling the same number of books I would have made ~10k. Instead I found a freelance editor and typesetter ($400), printed the first 100 ($700), and sell the vast majority as eBooks. It's done well, but not earth shatteringly well, and I'm up above $140k in profit.

There is very little reason nowadays, IMO, to not self-publish.
the public doesn't care or doesn't want to care, which is the same reason there's no widespread opposition in the first place.
Ask HN: I must be missing something about WannaCry etc.
I understand that the massive WannaCry propagation is thanks to unpatched Windows systems such that, once the malware is inside a given computer, it spreads across the LAN that computer is part of.

But as for the initial "infection", it's caused by merely opening a dodgy email attachment. In which case it's no different than any other crap one gets to their computer by recklessly opening attachments.

So what's so unique about this one that makes it spread so widely?
> Everything else basically just boils down to "they get to show you better ads" which honestly seems like a win-win to me.

targeted ads are not better ads. they can be more effective ads. for the advertiser. not for the consumer of the content they are mixed with because they are harder to ignore or even distinguish.

it's not in the interest of the consumer to be told what they want, and being told more effectively definitely isn't.

also, on a personal level targeted ads creep me the hell out, piss me off way more than bullshit ad noise. I get a very different level of exposure in the EU, though, so the level of creepiness isn't quite as normalised.

also with ads being as ubiquitous as they are, it's weird and alienating to make our ambient experiences not shared ones. it's like that vague unease using someone else's logged in youtube, the alienness of the suggestions, or reading along with someone else's Facebook feed and worrying about the bullshit they're peddled, which for once sticks out because it's not targeted at you. but they didn't ask for that, they were just told what to want.

surely you don't think that the ads targeted at you are different? (even if you do, that kinda undermines the point they are generally win/win)
It's a good point.

Serverless seems to take much of the imperative away from DIY unikernels and containers.
no, buy a third gen i5 laptop with a broken screen, or even just a motherboard from one. Lenovo X220/X230 motherboards (with 4xcore i5 ~3GHz) are $30-50. PCIE, USB 3.0, SATA, real 1Gbit ethernet, everything Raspee lacks.
> however there is certainly an argument that their other responsibilities outweigh any responsibility that they might have to act as a free security investigation team and report a security vulnerability to an outside corporation.

Yeah, a shitty one. Free? No they're funded by tax payer dollars. I do think we need to argue about priority of responsibilities. Was this exploit used to spy on allies?
HP shipping keylogger in driver since 2015
The inverse is also true - the FX160 runs off of 120/240V directly, which is rather convenient if you don't want to use a 5V DC power brick that's larger than the Pi itself. Makes for a rather clean installation if you're shoving it somewhere strange (which seems likely).
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Well, not really, because it's not that the video is zero-rated, it's that everything else has an upcharge, which would go away due to competition
Ask HN: Are there any apps that use Wifi Direct?
Wondering if there are any apps that use wifi direct. Our app (https://goo.gl/xMgxfJ) has offline meshed network mode on top of wifi direct, would like to compare with other apps to see their approach
The USA is likewise not that monolithic. More so than Europe, for sure. But still.
For future reference, anythng patented in 1988 is long-since in the public domain. ;- )
Inheritance is a great way to allow your newly defined class to interface with the language syntax or system environment features in a useful way. Doing something like inheriting from a dictionary in Python allows for you to extend a very versatile tool that already exists, that has been optimized for use in the language.

If you are going to bother inheriting from a class, then you should weigh the cost of your code complexity against it. It is definitely worth it sometimes

If you wrote both the class and sub-class, then you're likely over engineering the problem (unless you have a sufficiently large program you're working on)
Half-assed physical analogs can be a drag, especially when the analogy breaks down after any bit of scrutiny. Geometric intuition, on the other hand, I often find worth the weight of a thousand words. There have been times I haven't been able to make my way through a dense piece of mathematical text, only to pop open another book on the same topic to find a single picture that makes all of the pieces click.
Google for (oh the irony) "Widevine" and how it interacts with it. So it has the same sort of problems that Microsoft palladium had : things like Netflix and the like simply won't work as soon as you have the developer switch enabled.

General purpose computing is dependent on 2 things : ability to run your own programs AND the ability to lie about that fact to the network. Without the second the first is useless.

Google understands this subtle point, but it appears most people do not. So Google is exploiting our ignorance here.
WCry set up an example how to let users screw up themselves easily.
ridesharing companies come with a lot of potential legal issues and and acquiring company would be exposed to a lot of risk, ambiguity in employee/contractor designation being top of mind. I find a large scale acquisition in this space unlikely.
Here's the thing. The end game is that Uber, Lyft and taxi drivers are out of a job as chauffeur.

However, the self-driving cars remain a capital expense that someone has to finance. I couldn't Google up numbers easily, but it looks like the number of ride-hailed vehicles is in the multiple millions in the US. 1,000,000 autonomous cars at $50,000 each is a $50 Billion-per-million capital expense. I'd guess that the capital is out there, but would it be that raising and deploying that much capital takes as long as developing the autonomous technology? Globally, why wouldn't this be a $1 Trillion spend? Can Uber and Lyft pull that off?
1) Protocols that are designed for LANs are often exposed to the public Internet. This means that it can spread from one LAN to another by scanning the entire public IP address range for the vulnerable service. This happened in 2003 with the Blaster worm. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaster_(computer_worm)

2) LANs can be very big (thousands of computers) and span multiple buildings or cities, and many LANs only have firewalls at the "border" with the Internet (instead of per-machine). Windows machines in particular, tend to have shared network drives (CIFS or SMB) enabled so you can log into any computer and continue working (and to avoid viruses spread by floppies and USB keys).
Dude this is insane. America provides better healthcare to the poor than the richest got 200 years ago. Don't believe me? Antibiotics are cheap.

The thing people don't get about robots is that it will drive the price of everything to so low it's practically free. When Watson can diagnose 99% of diseases from your smartphone, healthcare will be so cheap it's ridiculous
People prefer the "click button, get transit" UX for its simplicity.
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>Opus codec

What happened?
Tipping culture has historically trended towards an expectation of ever higher and more commonplace tips to not look like an asshole.

Tipping culture also introduces uncertainty into pricing, and means that nicer people pay more and jerks get to pay less, for the same service.
We quarantine a few hundred attachments a day containing Word macros. I don't know if any are WannaCry, but nearly all are some form of ransomware.

It continues to be a very common attack method and I'd be surprised if it wasn't leveraged again.
> Someone somewhere takes this seriously, actually starts next unicorn
Qualcomm were being nasty jerks: https://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/1520/

That claim has been refuted, but Qualcomm didn't recall it.
Chromebooks are more open than nearly any other commercially available x86 and ARM laptop, they are in many ways more open than nearly any other commercially available x86 or ARM laptop since PC 5150. Yes, they have a verified boot process, but once you're admin on one you can just swap it to developer mode. It's clearly a feature, not a bug.
The best math class I ever took was probability, where the professor worked history of the field and famous historical examples into his lectures. It helped that probability has a colorful past, but the right motivation really brings things to life.

Also, for self-teaching, I've found some math books that are setup to be in the form "Topic A with Applications to Topic B." If I care about B, such a book will typically does a good job motivating A, even if it isn't the purest introduction to the area. I can always read a book that is a more canonical intro to A later.
MySpace in that story might have not had $14.8b raised in capital.
He said he's running Plex on it. I wonder what the underlying OS is.
> It's just that expecting perfection security-wise from complex systems is a fools errand.

I think that may have been the OP's point. Bash is more complex than sh has to be hence because FreeBSD choose the simpler option they avoid the inherent security implications of complex systems.

(I use bash myself and don't use FreeBSD.)
Possibly off-topic, but: this was done at the "Disrupt NYC" hackathon, and somehow "add tags to HN" feels like about the least disruptive thing ever.
The trouble with this sort of article is that it takes too long to get anything useful out of it. A better structure would be an explanation of the core idea at the beginning and the rest of the article to explore and defend the idea. Writing is not an ordered series of deductions as this author assumes. It's far more complicated.
The driver can't see if you gave them a tip or not when they are rating you. Also it is not clear that the rider rating really matters too much.
Again, where is the source? I seriously doubt that the worm author would let go such a profitable target if they can infect Windows 10. According to this: https://www.netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share... Windows 10 has almost 4 times users than XP (and supposedly the gap is growing larger)
There is a big difference between 'practical motivation' and 'theoretical motivation'.
No, AT&T did patent much of their inventions, they were prohibited from doing something other than phone service and related equipment, so they licensed or gave away their IP. They also had broad cross-licensing agreements with their competitors in the industry (ITT/Kellog and Automatic Electric). AT&T however was prohibited from selling computers until the 1956 consent decree was vacated in 1984.
That would be a straight up anti-trust violation.
I'm pretty sure Netflix works fine with developer mode switched on. I can confirm at the moment (away from Chrome OS devices right now) that Widevine works fine with Netflix on desktop Linux; I'm pretty sure I remember Widevine working on my Chromebook with developer mode enabled.
For perspective, they've netted a measly $39,000 / 21 BTC so far.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/6axuzs/wannacry_wc...
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It depends how you define significant. Gates has been selling stock and has reduced his shareholding from at least 45% to around 2.5%. While $11.3bn would be a lot for most people, I imagine things look different when you're worth $86bn to $90bn ;-)

Incidentally, Yahoo Finance reckons The Vanguard Group owns 525,395,707 Microsoft shares. The Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund is just one of its funds.

YF doesn't mention Ballmer so presumably he sold off his 333 million shares without it making news. It's a while since I looked....

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/MSFT/holders?p=MSFT
If the math works, the capital will flow. Even if the math doesn't work, the capital might still flow.
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There's a fair amount of lockdown with cloud providers as well. Not DRM related, but there nonetheless. Egress charges make it unsavory to move some apps out. And proprietary api setups make it more difficult to move as well...things like Google's cloud spanner, or AWS native features.

The big cloud providers will also, over time, shape what's available in hardware in a way that won't benefit on-premise customers.
If SV has peaked, it will be a long long time until any other location catches up.

Bollywood didn't hurt Hollywood at all!