skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>There are reports on twitter that this is impacting X-rays, pagers as well as the phone system. This is ridiculous if true and suggests there have been some major failings when putting this infrastructure in place.

Take a look at that operating system and the UI from the article and tell me how that's unexpected.
The NHS is notorious for using outdated software, so I'm surprised it's taken so long. We build websites for third-sector organisations who often deal with the NHS and we're only just now persuading them to drop support for Windows XP / IE8.
Improbable that virtual-world startup is worth $1bn? Don't bet against it
Same here. It's great - I never go to get the mower out, only to find that it's out of gas. Plus, it's a bit quieter.
That's interesting, thanks for the citation. I was basing my opinion on his well-known hate of proprietary software, and his desire to make all software free. Dual licensing works counter to that, because it allows someone to use GPL software without making their own derivative software available too.
Yeah running multiple servers is easy and the daemons are very mature at this point. LDAP daemons aren't crash prone. I haven't had an LDAP outage in over 10 years.
she was a waitress in a cocktail bar now she owns a jet... http://www.trends88.com
> The planet; as-in this rocky, water-world orbiting Sol, will exist for BILLIONS of years

Well, to nitpick a bit, not billions, for the "water-world" part. A few hundred million. It'll likely be quite parched by the 1 billion mark. Large, complex life forms are expected to have a Really Bad Time starting in the 500-600 million year range and shortly (geologically speaking) be gone entirely, assuming no acute planet-scale disasters before then.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future
I think even with nuclear weapons we'd have a hard time eliminating ALL the microfauna out there. Of course the recovery time would be measured in hundreds of millions of years at that point.
NHS IT is, of course, vastly under-funded compared to even modest startups, and entangled in bureaucracy of upgrades. I used to work with someone who was one of two sysadmins for a hospital of several thousand staff.
Why do I never read articles targeted at other high-stress jobs (lawyer, med student, etc etc)? Do software engineers have a unique culture that identifies this danger? Or are we the only ones that get burned out, maybe because of some self-selection into the field?
You could make that argument for any web or tech company.
Because "crypto" is Latin for "things will definitely go wrong" and "currency" is Latin for "real money."
>Everyone puts their hsm keys on their github account (and removes all others).

How do you ensure that nobody adds another key? I don't think github gives organizations visibility into key changes in user accounts.
Poly/ML Version 5.7 Released
What'd he spend it on? Is this really hosting intensive? I'd think it'd fit in free tier usage or something. And even if not, it can't be more than what, a hundred or two a month? I don't follow what "creating a business" actually meant as far as why his costs went up. He was running a bot. So, you get an LLC, no big deal, it changes nothing. That's like what, 50$ in some states?

What am I missing​? Unless it comes out that he started hiring people (to do what??) or if he quit his job and started spending people's money for his rent -- why'd he suddenly incur any serious expenses?

Also what's it got to do with crypto currencies per se? If banks offered some super easy API for USD-USD transfers and he had shoved all this money into a WellsFargo account would he somehow not have spent it?
Walmart is doing what any market player in its position would be doing: paying the prevailing wage (in this case the federal minimum wage). This is not a tax, or a subsidy. If you want to blame anyone, blame the government for providing such generous benefits. Since the government is going broke, and Walmart is sustainable, I know where I would start.
Walmart's business model is to enrich themselves by stealing from suppliers, taxpayers, employees. Their retail operation is how they launder the money.

The Freedom Market™ zealots willfully ignore that Walmart destroys competition, with other people's money.

I do not mind mega corporations being anticompetitive. Sociopath is as sociopath does.

I do mind pretending that its a moral good.

I do mind that I (Jane Taxpayer) is paying the bill.
> Perhaps underinvestment in IT is to blame.

Or, indeed, over-investment in trash-tier IT services provided by blood-sucking IT consulting companies.

I've seen the insides of some UK Government IT systems (not the NHS), and it's astonishing how little functional software one can get in exchange for a few hundred million sterling.

That, and the bitrot of holding on to ancient, never-updated IT systems.

[Edit], back on topic, I sincerely hope whoever did this is burned alive for their crimes.
Which companies interest you?
We could always give those low skilled workers shovels and pay them to dig holes and fill them back in. Oh wait, thats not okay either.
> In finance, customer funds are supposed to remain segregated from the business’s funds. They live in a separate legal universe, and this rule is meant to insulate the business and customer from each others’ failures.

Can we get a source other than Gizmodo?
This is cryptocurrency. Participants see being above the law as a feature.
Uber adds trucking brokerage firm amid long-haul push
she was a waitress in a cocktail bar now she owns a jet... http://bit.ly/2jdTzrM
The article says how much an average person pays in taxes, and how much Walmart costs the government (based on their analysis)... but it never said how much the average citizen pays every year in 'Walmart Tax'. That seems like an odd thing to leave out of the article.

$1.75? I probably don't care. $432? That's more of a problem.

But the article doesn't state it despite it being the headline.
NHS systems are remarkably un-integrated.
Communication, especially between trusts and external organisations like GPs, is often by email.
I'll be surprised if this isn't an email worm.
> I am not a lawyer, but I don't think "Shrink-wrap License" is legal term.

“shrink-wrap license” is a term (that has been used in legal writing on the subject, though it doesn't originate as legal jargon) for a license agreement included within the packaging (which historically was I usually shrink-wrapped, preventing the
a customer from reviewing the license text prior a to purchase) of software product that is purported to be a condition of use of the software and which purports to be accepted by use, opening the package, or purchasing the product.

(“Click-wrap” has similarly been used for similar licenses included electronically with software that purports to be accepted by clicking through something in the install process.)

> It is hard to argue that open source licenses are "post-purchase agreement" because no purchase occurred.

Purchase may or may not occur with open source licenses; it may be true that it rarely occurs, though the FSF continues to promote sale of Free software as a viable thing.
>> Being able to print a motor would remove the need to buy motors.

Not every part needs to be "printed". Motor laminations can be CNC cut or laser cut from sheet stock. Then you stack them, bolt them together and add windings. For PM machines you slide some magnets into slots on the rotor. Done. This is fairly easy for hobbyists to do given a good design.
Because incorporation is a charter to do business in the service of society.
Isn't Snow being used in Asia? Might Snapchat be too late for Asia?
People really shouldn't forget this is what we're up against. For those that don't know, this is what Trump said (0).

Given the rest of the Republican's resistance in stemming pollution, CO2, NOx's, plastics, and other nasties, we have to do this ourselves. I look at the boom of comments on Tesla's Powerwall and solar roof as a great way to help. We also have to do what we can in our communities and state to turn this tide..

We have to make this a National Security issue, and a State Security issue. Who cares about wildlife? But most certainly the farmers care about weather. And everyone affected cares about oil spills from pipelines. It's time to re-frame this, and challenge this on the same plank of "Think of the Children", primarily because that approach does seem to work.

(0) https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/26589529219124838...
That will be stock photography, rather than taken today.
Yes but being above morals is decidedly not a feature. I'm into cryptocurrency too.
Microsoft printed (not sure if it still does) its EULA on the actual physical software packages.
Interface design is very, very important at this stage of evolution of computing, and I am disappointed in the overall direction taken by the industry in this regard. What we (desperately) need is work similar to the one that was done by Douglas Engelbart and still done by people like Alan Kay and Bret Victor. Instead we get things like Bootstrap, Metro, Material Design and now Fluent. (I am aware they are very different in scope, but their overall influence on real applications is quite similar: establishing certain wide-spread normative patterns.) Shallow and reactive things. They don't invent and define new ways of UI interactions and information presentation (examples from the past: clipping window, icon, hyperlink) and concentrate mostly on how things look.

You might counter that this is the domain of MIT Media Lab rather than Microsoft and Google, but at this stage new UI concepts have to be adopted by entities with significant influence to be adopted at all.
That's really really low.

Does anyone know anything about whether this connects to the election? Seems like too big a coincidence.
Yes, I wasn't suggesting an increase in the wolves population but rather that this solution could worsen the rancher's problem (of the ranchers) by educating the wolves to feed on livestock rather than hunt elks and deer.

Strictly speaking, under ideal condition wolves live longer, so an increase in population is also possible.
> pushed the envelope on moving the Industry forward

They absolutely have not. From the way they treat their employees, to the way they treat their competitors, to the way they treat their drivers, nearly everything Uber has done is a demonstration of the worst parts of the industry and an example of what not to do; things that we should hope will never happen in the industry.
the same is happening in spain https://www.ccn-cert.cni.es/seguridad-al-dia/comunicados-ccn...
"Usually, whether a breach is material or minor is determined on a case by case basis, with the court using six different guidelines to make its determination. The six guidelines are

1) the extent to which the breaching party has already performed,

2) whether the breach was intentional, negligent or the result of an innocent mistake,

3) how certain it is that the breaching party will perform the rest of the contract,

4) how much of the benefit of the contract the non-breaching party has gotten despite the breach,

5) the extent to which the innocent party can be compensated and,

6) how difficult it would be on the breaching party if the court were to decide that the breach was material and that the innocent party was under no obligation to perform his side of the bargain.
"[1]

See point 2. My understanding is that ignorance of the law is basically never an excuse, but ignorance of the facts, for contracts, could be[2].

For example, company X could argue they are ignorant of the fact that software Z is intellectual property of company Y, distributed under GPL. If they stop breaching once informed of that fact they can argue it was an innocent mistake.

But in this case Hancom was advertising that it was using the code under the GPL, so, they certainly can't claim ignorance.

[1]https://nationalparalegal.edu/public_documents/courseware_as...

[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mistake_(contract_law)
I built this to try to get most of the advantages of both ngrok and ssh -R at the same time. Like ngrok, you get an https subdomain that anybody can hit, but there's nothing to install—you use your SSH client to connect.

Next I'm working on an SSH-delivered terminal GUI for inspecting and replaying HTTP requests to match more of what ngrok does.
Makes me sad to read exposés of this kind. Having worked in the recruitment industry as an agent, in-house recruiter and now recruitment tech vendor, I can confirm that most of these practices exist.

Some of these behaviours are not directly the result of poor practice from agencies though. In many cases, agencies adopt the bad practice from their customers - the end client, who also needs to take some responsibility for the poor experience candidates often receive. Also, the post co-mingles recruiters of different types (internal vs 3rd party for example) which doesn't help the reader understand the behaviours in this market.

I'm going to go point by point on this in an attempt to share a perspective and maybe help out a little.

Prioritizing Candidates from Prestigious Companies
This happens and it's 100% the responsibility of the end client. 'Pedigree' hiring is a common bias that starts with the customer before being adopted by the recruitment agent. Agent only cares about placements, if client is bias, agent will simply factor that bias into his search.

Ghosting Candidates
This is 50/50 on the agent and the client. Most often rejected candidates get zero feedback other than the outcome. Without any substantive feedback to offer, an agent will often not bother to provide any contact at all. Poor practice, but shared responsibility between agent and client

Not All Recruiters are Created Equal
100% correct

Sending Unsolicited Résumés
Horrendous demand generation tactic. Happens too often, and won't be stopped until legislation is in place to penalise firms that try this

Posting Fake Jobs to Fish for Résumés
Horrendous supply generation tactic. Happens too often, and won't be stopped until legislation is in place to penalise firms that try this

They Stall for Time
Called 'candidate management'. Does happen but impossible to assess whether it is or isn't - could genuinely be the case that no information is coming from the client.

Some Agencies are Training Grounds
Almost all large corporate firms fall into this bracket. Hire cheap at the junior level and send them out to work the phones. Survival of the fittest mentality, and big part of the reason why candidate experience of agents is so uneven.

Recruiters are Rewarded for Diversity Hires
Probably not true of agency recruiters - they just want placements. This may be true of internal recruiters, especially of large corporates who have diversity policies.
The income of your average Costco shopper is massive compared to your average Walmart shopper as well.

They can't eliminate the annual fee either because it's literally less than their annual profit (well maybe not in this market but it was a few years ago). Their demographic is people with the financial 'ability' to think $100 ahead for a year, to whom they deliver goods at basically cost.

Walmart vs Costco is a complete myth. Costco operates where Walmart does very poorly.
If they are truly just taxis, then their penetration will be approximately what taxis are today plus some increment to account for lower pricing. Maybe add rental cars.
The request for preliminary injunction, available here:
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3515651-Waymo-Motion...
only has to do with LiDAR.

I'm far from an expert on the self driving car race, but I think even if Uber had to abandon LiDAR altogether it wouldn't mean it would be impossible to approach the problem in a different way. And it isn't clear that if the injunction were granted they'd have to abandon LiDAR altogether -- it may be that they could try a slightly different approach and/or develop a second firewalled team from the one tainted by Lewandowski.

It would surely be painful but I don't see why it would mean shutting down the self driving car project.
look at what is happening in spain Telefonica giant
I've never found myself not knowing what I should do, or threatened by a hiring/skills bubble.

When I stopped feeling like I was getting anywhere with front-end I started to take on more back-end projects and sell myself as a full-stack developer.

I've never been in a situation where I've felt "man, I really should have gotten a CS degree": but what do I know; I'm just a web developer.

Maybe we're not talking about web developers?

No advanced engineering skills have been required to make the frontends/backends/architect a system for Fortune 500s and local businesses that I've been involved with. (I'm speaking of things I would have learned in school with CS and math principles had I been able to get past CS 101).

-- college dropout with successful programming career.
Oh the irony, the NHS has been holding the tax payers ransom since the '40s.
It's a pretty big problem for healthcare workers:

http://journals.lww.com/co-criticalcare/Abstract/2007/10000/...
I specifically added a paragraph stating, explicitly, that RSA per se is not under threat. Please don't conflate misreading with "malpractice."
Tough to determine. In my state, it is illegal (as in go to jail) to disclose the value of tax breaks, loopholes.

The quickest fix to all the parasitic behavior is to daylight how much its costing us.
So the author invents the term "walmart tax" and describes it's the reality of Walmart workers having to use welfare programs to supplement their income. So there is no "tax", it's a (claimed) consequence of paying employees so little.

... and I see the author is the president of a union.
My current choice for worst UI / UX also is from a public transportation app, to be specific the latest version of the public transportation app the Rhine-Ruhr area (a metropolitan area roughly the size of Greater London in terms of inhabitants. One would think they had at least some sort of quality assurance for a product targeting such a large number of customers but it seems they don't ...): https://itunes.apple.com/de/app/vrr-app-fahrplanauskunft/id4...

The new UI / UX is glossy, somewhat unique, seemingly modern and ... completely useless. You can't even perform the most basic tasks anymore like finding a route from A to B.

In terms of best UIs the previous version of Headspace (both on mobile and the web) was fantastic. The latest version is still good though not quite as good in my opinion.

Trello has a great UI, too. It's simple and easy to grasp with no unnecessary frills.
For now it's a few things that are available out of the box for XAML apps that target the Fall Creators Update SDK:

1. "Acrylic". It's the blur/color-blend/noise effect that you can see on the Edge tab bar or top of Photos app in the Fall Creators Update.

2. Mouse over lighting effects. You can see that briefly in the video when the mouse over a ListView and tiles.

3. Lots of small animations

4. "Depth", meaning 3D transforms and shadows used for emphasis
No. Graham was a stock market investor. Buffett never bought a company till nearly 20 years into his career. Buffett and Munger believe in focused portfolios when you are investing in stocks, why put 5% into your 20th best idea when you can put 10% in your 10th best idea?

In reality most of us should not buy public equities, we should be in index funds.
> According to Mohland, in 2015, all Wow Such Business employees were laid off, including himself, and he began pouring his personal funds into the service to keep the bot alive.

It sounds like at some point, for some reason, he had employees. Unless he's just using weird wording and he was the only one.
It is still accurate. We still have XP machines floating around our campus. They are running EMR software.
My goal with the exit code is that (I think) an exit of 0 would mean that a valid JPEG image was found.
Easy AngularJS Authentication with Auth0
Maybe they're too busy to write about it? ;)

I think your point about devs/designers/PMs/etc. having a unique culture is spot on. It's a field that tends to attract a lot of high achievers, and a field that people tend to tie themselves a lot to their work. That was one of my main problems - over a few years, I started to define myself based on the work I was doing. It's taken me a lot longer to dig out of it than I thought.
Agreed, but I imagine that the parallax/animation aspect will be used sparingly, or very discretely, and only within a few applications. I would be towards the shading, transparency, and having the content cut off flush to the bottom of the window being the most common use of their fluent design principles.

I will be very upset/nauseous if they overuse the parallax effect. The settings will need an off switch.
Crashed computer at Oslo pizzeria reveals covert facial recognition scheme
https://www.handbook.fca.org.uk/handbook/CASS/7/13.html

Admittedly that's for serious investment rather than daft things like tipbots.
I mean that the legalities around software are not fundamentally different. The culture around software sales is different. Buy a music CD in a box, no EULA. Buy a software CD in a box, EULA. For no apparent reason.
But EULA _are_ (generally) not enforcable. It obviously depends, sometimes it is and sometimes not. I know for example in Sweden EUla are not enforcable at all.
Sure you get to re-write them, and you are a fool not to. However the rewrite needs to be spread out over 30 years. Note that after 10 years your replacement needs to be rewritten as well.

The trick is figuring out what this the priority. There is some 40 year old software that mostly work: it runs fast enough; it doesn't have many bugs; it doesn't follow best practices that the software world has discovered since; and it rarely needs new features. This code needs to be rewritten but the value just isn't there. There is other code that at only 5 years old needs to be rewritten: it is full of bugs, new features have been tacked onto an architecture that wasn't designed to support it - this software needs to have a large budget given to fixing it in the long run this will save a lot of money. Most projects are somewhere in between, you should give the team a little extra time/budget so that they can keep the maintenance up to do and it will never get much worse.
That means Hancom would have to open-source its entire suite of apps.

Ask HN: What if the vendor had structured their product in a way that GhostScript is its own stand-alone app. Would they still be obligated to release their entire code, or just the portion that uses GhostScript?
Google has a spreadsheet of what dealer, what salesman, what price on ev leases / purchases.

Made negotiations easy. You basically know the lowest the dealers will go.
Government functions independently of those it governs?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture
What's your information source for those sorts of specifics?
I currently work in Tech Strategy at a Big 4 - the reason why Big 4s want to roll it back is because over the last few years, their revenue in audit is steadily decreasing. Especially with automated tools, outsourcing, RPA taking over and making a lot of the grunt work significantly cheaper. At the same time, the consulting revenues are significantly going up. SOX limits the scope of work the Big 4 can execute at firms they audit (nothing related to financially significant systems etc.). The best client relationships are with the firms the Big 4 audit! Hence, the push!
Show HN: Tool that generates Firebase rules from a schema
Yeah, the Tempo referenced way on up was falling apart. Interior was garbage, but it kept rolling.
Fluent targets AR/VR too. Seems like it qualifies as inventive.
I agree. To me the three most powerful pieces of software on a computer are a function, a string, and an array. You can do almost anything with these three applications, but the UIs for them is still utterly atrocious.

Whoever designs the first easy-to-use version of this trip will unlock a massive amount of creative potential.