skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, from what I hear, that's pretty normal with American cars (particularly GM and Ford): the drivetrains are usually very reliable, but the interiors are terrible and fall apart quickly, and the rest of the car looks like crap before long too. But the thing never quits running so it keeps getting used even though it looks awful.

I honestly have no idea why anyone buys American cars, unless they don't know this. Probably they're a little cheaper than imports.
Something like this (though I don't know if it was targeted or a combination of luck+poor procedures) took down > 400 medical practices hosted by Greenway a few weeks ago. Some were down for as much as 9 days, and at day 11 I know of one that still didn't have access to their scanned documents.

Greenway had backup procedures in place, but they were file-based - backing up databases, transaction logs, files, etc. and able to restore them onto a new server image as required. The problem arose when they had to do that for hundreds of customer servers at once.

One of my customers knew there was a big problem when she signed onto their server (Intergy On Demand, hosted by Greenway, accessed via RDP) and saw ransom icons on the server desktop.
Requiring another work for meaning, without actually including any of that work, is not enough to make copyright kick in as far as I know.
>You may have an idea that you know will make you a millionaire and which you could build, but you just can't force yourself to because fundamentally money won't make you happy and the idea is meaningless at best. At least this is often the case for me.

Not me; I can't say I've had any big money-making ideas which are morally wrong and the ideas "meaningless". However, I've had lots of ideas for things which are small money-makers (i.e., probably won't make me a millionaire, but can provide a small-to-decent income maybe) but require time and effort to develop. Since I have to pay rent and bills, and I want to have a social life, I have limited extra time to pursue side ideas like this. My ideas/projects may seem "meaningless" to others, but to me they're fun and interesting and would probably make some money, but definitely won't be the next Apple. If I didn't have to work for a living, I'd be happy to spend my time working on these projects instead, because they would be more fulfilling than my day job.
Also, famously, Tesla does not use LiDAR. Not to mention, there are plenty of 3rd party LiDAR vendors whose equipment could be used to substitute the design in question.
No no no, I'm saying just pull out weeds like people have been doing for thousands of years.
The sleds are pretty cool, so long as you're using them to move people instead of cars. But if they can bring the cost of boring down by a factor of 10, that in and of itself would be a game changer, regardless of what you use the tunnel for.
How Pixar Lost Its Way
Hacking Events
The icons are embedded SVG so you can just copy and paste it from the page source. The icons are Creative Commons licensed so you don't even need to accept their TOS.
The monarch population is actually declining to dangerous levels. Scientists believe this is due to the decline of the milkweed plant which is the monarch's main source of food.
Well that specific random game was actually one of the most notable hits on smartphone in 2016. I believe for someone who are familiar with video games in general, these icons are very common though.
But yea the icon rotation might be annoying at some point.
The NHS is fundamentally a socialist endeavour - any failings in it are obviously the fault of socialism!
Public transit can be awesome once you scale it enough. You basically want one subway stop per 4 blocks. With the upside being you don't have to park and unpack your car or deal with traffic, or stop lights.

However, you want a train every 3 minutes in both directions and 2 train lines per stations. Which takes a lot of effing trains, but means your average wait time is 3 minutes per trip, and you generally only need to use 2 trains to get to any point in the city.

Also, you want a nice layer of cabs for short hop trips.
Judge refers Waymo v. Uber lawsuit to criminal investigators
Nigerian helicopters destroying illegal oil barges
I talked to an officer in my city and they don't actually look at ShotSpotter data in real-time. They don't have the resources.

They use it to aggregate reports and consider increasing patrols (I say consider, because they often don't look at it anyway ).
Narrow Design – Experimental portfolio interface
Nope, even $3 mil would be FU money for me. No private jet but it's not like I have one now.
It's great that works for you, and there's plenty of ways to take that approach outside of Unity. Like anything technology there are trade offs, having a GC while minimizing allocations can save a lot of time and effort upfront. I see it as Python vs Java, or NoSQL vs SQL, or a host of other similar comparisons that rage on in programming.
In London or several other major cities, public transit is amazing. It's clean, reliable, fast, efficient, cheap, safe, and everywhere.

If you have to go somewhere near work, walk, bring a bike, or Uber. But chances are, there's a tube stop less than a 10 minute walk away.

The problem isn't public transit. The problem is its implementation.
The thing people in technology forget is that the most expensive resource in government is the people who work there. Every person in my IT department is top of their game, everyone of them has been continually honing their skill sets and are following their interests.

This has put us a head of a lot of other municipalities and a lot of private companies. We've had to send ADFS and Azure consultants back because our crew was better, as an example.

Those people live and breathe Microsoft. Those people are the reason we didn't have to renew our server room, when we decided to go own-cloud in a major hosting center instead, and they are they reason we'll soon be able to move our cloud from rental to Azure.

Sure we could have used other technologies for it, but it would cost an unimaginable amount of money to replace the entire IT-workforce. I'm certain we could retrain our current staff, but a lot of them wouldn't want to, because the truth is, if they wanted to be working with non-Microsoft technologies then they would have been snatched up by our "competition" already.

I think open source should play an important role in government, and I think that role should increase steadily going forward, but I also think people and reason should come before an ideology.

With 370 different IT-systems of various magnitude we already have some that run on Linux. JBOSS and Wildfly are big in government, but out of our entire system portfolio only a fraction of the systems even have non-Microsoft alternatives. Other systems are on 8 year contracts, making it impossible to swap them out overnight even if we wanted to. Which we don't because we would need to replace every system, and get every employee on board with open source alternatives in order to save the insignificant Microsoft licensing fees which make up less than 1% of our IT budget.

Sure, Europe is bound to Microsoft and that can be problematic. What if Trump truly goes apeshit for instance? Then we would be royally fucked. The truth is that there is no viable alternative that won't be ridiculously exoensive and take up to 50 years to fully implement.

With everything heading for the cloud it might not even make sense. The only cloud options for a huge part of the European public sector are labeled with Google, Amazaon or Azure - and none of them would make the legislative challenges or licenses any less of an issue. At least with Microsoft, we have a company who has been really open to quickly and efficiently meeting European demands.
British NHS hit by ransomware attack
Sure, but I still wasn't a fan of the diffs that it produced—and like poorman said, if you really need that then use the annotate gem which lets you check the model file for that info instead of digging through a giant schema file.
I don't think there's any reason to rely on a one-way channel. If the keyfob is in range to transmit, then it is definitely in range to receive (due to reciprocity); plus the car has a lot more electricity to spare.

There is fundamentally no reason why there can't be full authenticated PKI for keyfobs. It certainly isn't going to happen as part of a recall of current models, though.
There are a few reasons that I'm aware of that new projects typically bore larger tunnels versus a 12ft bore that would reduce construction and operational costs:

- Logistically, it is difficult to get a cement truck into a small tunnel, as each truck would need to back out of the tunnel. You end up offloading into smaller cement trucks that can turn around, which is the headache that the Eglinton LRT tunnels is dealing with now

- Need space for a level floor, conduits/tunnel infrastructure and evacuation walkways

- Air flow. The rail car is an effective cork. Small tunnels require more ventilation and draw more power to push that air being compressed around -- unless the underlying truck is going to be propelling itself via the air

Barcelona's system is apparently the new gold standard for how it should be done [1]

They were able to build it out at ~$39 million/km[2]

[1] http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=1866842
[2] https://pedestrianobservations.wordpress.com/2013/06/03/comp...
I can absolutely guarantee you that public transit doesn't suck in Stockholm. Most people don't even own a car here, I don't and the people that do complain all the time about how it's expensive to pay insurance and have it parked 99% of the time.
Cars don't get used more than twice a week or so and if you take your car everyday into the city to just go to your job you are pretty much frowned upon.
Ah... I didn't catch the "without a job" part...
I burned out three times in salaried jobs. Mostly due to chaotic leadership. Hard work isn't the problem. Chaos and bad leadership is the problem. Moved to contracting, and have been fine since.
I'd really like to see him get this right, but I think the volume of people, not cars, that needs to be moved would indicate a better use of this 'solution' would be almost be a horizontal elevator system where people request a route and board a passing carriage that stops to pick them up/or is sitting empty on the street waiting to be used.

Enabling the delivery of cars into the heart of cities when many cities are trying to remove them seems a bit backwards, but the idea of a transit system which dynamically delivers people where they need to be. That I get.

If the boring is cheap enough, I can see this being a good transport solution for suburbia to get people quickly and efficiently into a city.
Yes (citation required, but I've read articles to that exact effect). This is what distinguishes this as organised crime vs petty vandalism. If the mob smashed up your place even after you paid the protection money, they'd go out of business.
A tunnel between Austin - Houston - Dallas would decrease traffic in Austin quite a bit I think... and would be good boring practice!
If you're on H1, and have the money to pull it off, you can take a break with an approved leave of absence[0]. When it's renewal time, you can add these dates in as time not spent on H1 if the time was spent outside the US.

I hope you get better soon!

[0]: http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/how-taking-approved-l...
While I'm sure there are a few causes of depression and contextual life events and personalities for which LSD might be useful, it's downright irresponsible to suggest that "if any reader" suffers from depression he should turn to narcotics.
There are variants that protect different elements of culture...see for example the strict restrictions around wine production that vary by area.
Disrupt masturbation via the gig-economy model.
WCrypt Ransomware Worm Infects 45k+ in under 24 hours
To me it sounds more like the company "died," i.e. went bankrupt or out of business. (Also not true.)
What are the recommended configurations then? If I want to survive multiple node failures could I have 9 replicas?
HustleCase – A whiteboard laptop case
yeah I was amazed that async loading of scripts, how much of a difference that makes.

I'll just remember that for future projects and code structuring making things independent or defer/wait for parts to be present due to async loading.

the console internet throttling is a cool tool too with Google Chrome. To simulate poor network speed I have it set to 500Kbps with 300ms delay. That was the latency with our closest "data center" single-core vps hahaha. What a man can do with $4.00 and brute-force-idiocy to get things done.
What I really need is a quality Verb Project
Small Correction: if you have trains coming every three minutes I think your average wait time should be 1.5 minutes.
> I wonder how it holds onto it's user base

In most games, you are consuming an experience created by the developers. In Minecraft, you are creating your own experience in an environment created by the developers. There's no end to what you can do in the game.
The "floppy disk" always (even with 5.25" and 8" disks) referred to the disk inside the casing, not the casing (which wasn't particularly floppy on the bigger disks, and wasn't a disk on any of them.)
Can anyone from improbable explain why your technology is suitable for simulations?

I'm talking about the non real time simulations of cities, traffic etc in your promotional material.

If a simulation does not have a real time requirement then what's the advantage of improbable?
The icons are Creative Commons licensed so there's always the cheap-ass option of not paying them.
Yeah. Well put.

I guess poor use of pictograms in mobile and wep-apps is becoming so common these days it made my original comment a bit lopsided.

Ive used a lot of programs like Autocad, Photoshop, 3DSmax, Ableton, Reason, Cubase and so on. Icons + tooltips are a great solution in that context.
When you are just starting off you use the tooltips, later you know what each symbol means, and after more experience you can perform all your most common tasks with keyboard shortcuts. Autocad is particularly good for that. You can make an entire drawing with just the keyboard, it makes sense because youre making an accurate measured drawing so will want to type in all the dimensions/angles anyway.
trying to explain public transit in LA to people is always difficult. the long and short of it is, it takes too long to get anywhere you want to go, so people just drive instead.

the exceptions are people who can't afford to drive, and people who just happen to live and work in convenient spots.
Yeah would be nice to get more information about that.

We run everything on xfs so that is concerning.
Microsoft’s design video features a completely redesigned desktop and email app
1.5 minutes for first train, get off that train 1.5 minutes wait for second train. You can now get to any point on an XY grid with ~3 minutes of wait time. 1.5 minutes works if your only going down one line but that's not a huge number of stops.
API also used by Teespring.
Hi Pino, you mentioned in the article that Dynamo was built in response to an internal demand. Can you talk at all about the specifics of what sort of information Amazon puts in there?

I've overseen a few big Dynamo installations at this point, but for the most part I wouldn't store any "core" information in there (say like a customer, merchant, or product at Amazon) because after adding data to Dynamo, your ability to query and restructure it is quite limited. We've generally put data in that's append-only, is considerable in volume, and which we only ever need to retrieve in a few particular ways. To go back to the Amazon example, I probably wouldn't put a customer, merchant, or product in it, but I might put in a log entry for a purchase transaction.

What I'm trying to suss out is whether the sweet spot product like Citus is more akin to a Dynamo, or more akin to a traditional RDMS.
Someday, someone will invent this thing called "words" that can be looked up in a dictionary when you don't know what they mean.
I don't mean to be dramatic here folks, but multiple coordinated infrastructure attacks are a form of warfare. This is literally shaping the battle space. Correlation is not causation and all that, but while people are standing around comparing their knowledge of how to deploy zero-day exploits and which isms it would be satisfying to blame during some future retrospective, the systems we depend on are being actively compromised.
Likewise. Seems like a really great price if you're a designer, but too steep if you only use it occasionally. I use Noun Project semi-regularly with the CC licensing, but only for not-for-profit purposes, so $40 is too much.

I'd probably pay a one-off fee ($20? $30?) just to use the app though, even if it meant requiring attribution for all icons used.
It's situations versus strategies. Making certain kinds of situations worse will make people choose better strategies. This is one solution to the Prisoner's Dilemma - if you defect, the mob boss puts a hit out on you, so nobody talks.
> I'm surprised to see this sort of defence of anti-scientific thinking from you [you don't know me I just know your work].

You obviously don't, as you would then know that I am very comfortable with approximations and continuums of belief. 'All of a person's cells share the same DNA' is far more true than its negation 'all of a person's cells do not share the same DNA'.
Maybe it's just selective breeding.

The insects with DNA that made them more likely to hit a windshield didn't live long enough to breed. :-)
You can also use a separate computer to manually install Windows updates:

http://www.windowscentral.com/how-download-and-install-windo...

Granted, the DNS blackhole is more about blocking the spyware than isolating single updates.
$40/yr isn't that expensive for "artwork". Domain names and hosting can be more expensive.

Hiring a graphical artist for an hour will probably be a lot more expensive
Not sure what Red Hat has going on for desktop support.

If you are a reasonably large government body with a budget, I am pretty sure that Red Hat will provide desktop support if you pay them.

Moreover, it is likely that desktop support will become more and more trivial as administrative applications will probably move towards web apps as well.
- Hi Janice (teller at bank,)
I would like to withdraw $25 million.

-- Um, OK let me see...( Hello, FBI /Secret Service /FINCERN)

I have a feeling he's being watched, unless he planned it years ago. FBI can probably charge him within hours and freeze everything. Also non-extradition isn't it for citizens of that country? Never underestimate the pressure USA can put on countries, especially for run-of-the-mill-crimes.
> Hire a bunch of talented people who care about the wellbeing of their nation state, pay them well enough

This is impossible. Any large organization eventually resorts to using pay scales to combat corruption. When the right people will be 10+x more effective than the wrong people, pay scales are impossible.

Literally the entire reason why large organizations resort to hiring contractors is because they know it's impossible for them to hire good people directly.
Last Week Tonight just did a piece about it. They described the circuitous, torturous route the FCC site put into place to hinder consumer feedback. LWT announced they have purchased the domain >>> gofccyourself.com <<< to take you right to the FCC page you need to get to. Go to gofccyourself.com and comment. Long form is better. Well written is better. Well reasoned is better. But any comments are (one hopes) better than nothing. Get involved!
I haven't really been following yarn or web pack. Can you give an example of how it changed your life?
"The success of the attack is thought to be due to a vulnerability in Microsoft Windows"
It's really 'good' day for Microsoft.
Europe realizing that Microsoft is not that good and cheap: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14314713
NHS in England is under attack due to Microsoft bug: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14325213
If you can get through it on independent study, Bayesian Reasoning and Machine Learning by David Barber is incredible, dense, but very accessible. It's also free online!

It does require matlab though.
Guns are responsible for killing people, but they're not responsible for the decline of human population during a plague or a drought.

(It's easy to be snarky.)
Totally agree. Creating tunnels is good but why car tunnels? Put a subway there.
> This is exactly how banks operate.

Sure, within a huge framework of regulations and insurance provided by the government.
Startups at the Vatican?
The only technically-significant aspect of cryptocurrencies in relation to this story is that by the nature of the Bitcoin and Bitcoin-derivative architectures, a massive fraud on the system can't be softened or ameliorated by a central bank printing money to make victims whole, since cryptos are "gold-standard"-style fixed-quantity currencies.

Practically speaking, that makes something equivalent to FDIC insurance more expensive to implement; in theory, several brokers could join some kind of insurance group where they pay into a common pool of unused BTC to pay out in the event of fraud. I'm unaware of such an experiment being tried.

History has shown that it's possible to wreck a fiat-currency-backed economy so badly that the nation-state's ability to print money can't be used to fix the problem, but in practice it seems in general difficult to do (whereas there have been multiple Bitcoin crashes and frauds where it'd have been nice to have a "Just issue those people BTC to cover their losses" solution, but that's not technically feasible).
>Hackers are demanding a payment of $300 per machine, roughly equal to 300 Bitcoins currently worth around 510,000 euros.

Same cost for Telefonica - just "per machine".
still miss prototype js...
It's only hard because of the destructive and segregationist DECADES of policy of expanding the suburbia.

I assure you, in most places outside of the US, public transport does go to last mile pretty well.
One of my seminal experiences in hacking on languages was working on a VM for a garbage collected language written in C++. I wrote a Cheney style copying collector to avoid fragmentation. Meanwhile, I used C++ inheritance and vtables to implement the different kinds of objects supported by the runtime.

I thought it was a really cool system until I realized that the GC could move the object pointed to by `this` in the middle of a method. Ouch. :(
I'm not saying I have the study to show that LSD can help with any depression, but do you have any evidence that it only helps with certain kinds? (I know, burden of proof is on me)

The reason my advice isn't irresponsible is because microdosing LSD has no downsides. If it doesn't work, nothing breaks. Try something else then.

Depression is a real life-killer, and if 10 people tried my advice, and this worked for only 1 of them (although I think at least 5 would), then this advice has essentially saved 1 life, while not harming the others.
>I also am in on-call rotation for my day job, so I can't just turn the ringer off at night when "on".

Android has a Do Not Disturb mode which can filter calls which are in your contacts, if you know that you should generally get on-call calls from a few numbers.
Cyberattacks in 12 Nations Said to Use Leaked N.S.A. Hacking Tool
I think the most interesting aspect of all this is that it's a clear evidence that even machines possessing highly sensitive data (like NHS computers) are super vulnerable to any remote penetration. The request for a ransom may just be the tip of the iceberg here.