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Ask HN: T8-T9 degenerative disc disease.  Options?
A few months ago my wife started to have constant back pain, to the extent that it has began to impact her breathing, and we’re worried about the long-term impacts, but also worried about how in the dark we are about her future (is it constant pain from here on out?)

She received MRI report as follows:

“Moderate asymmetric left paracentral disc protrusion appreciated at T8-T9 with moderate impact upon the anterior thecal sac and mild to moderate asymmetric central canal stenosis at that level. The neuroforamen are patent. There is normal appearance of the intervertebral discs.

IMPRESSION:

Moderate degenerative disc disease at T8-T9 causing mass effect on the thecal sac and left paracentral canal stenosis at level.”

Her primary care doc has referred her to a neurosurgeon to take a look, though that is still more than a month away. Google searching seems to result in a lot of indications that surgery (should that be the recommendation) at that location is unusual, and there are not a lot of surgeons with experience.

I have tremendous respect for the HN community. I hope someone out there can give some advice about what to look for and what to avoid. I want to be clear that I’m not asking for medical advice, just some help in the direction she should go.

Thanks for your help.
My point is that if living (and surviving) requires resources and gathering these resources requires working, then preventing people from working will only make their lives worse.

> Are you aware that penicillin was discovered by accident therefore it must not work

I've read that three times and it still doesn't make sense to me. Most scientific breakthrough happen while working on something else yeah. What does that have to do with the minimum wage topic?
rsync.net is fantastic.

You don't get the read-only snapshots with the reduced borg or attic accounts though (they expect you to manage all increments using those programs).

If you are prepared to pay the standard rate, the read-only snapshots can't be destroyed by any hacker or ransomware.
> Phone hardware upgrades will become boring like PCs at some point.

I'm not sure that's true. Portable computing can differentiate in many different ways. Consider how broad wearables could be, and that each of these could replace your phone, in principle.
Cellular Automata and GPUs
Do you think Google Drive (and others) are secure enough to store personal financial data like Quicken? Sometimes all you need is an email and password to get in.
embrace, extend, extinguish
The trouble with revolutions is you just end up with a new set of leaders.
My experience with imported address books is that the service importing them will often add or update contact channels. For example, if someone has changed their phone number and the service has that person's new phone number in its database, the new number is available for contacting that person. Email can be similar. And of course new channels are added.
Radeon's ROCm OpenCL Runtime Finally Open-Sourced – Phoronix
May I ask where in the countryside (approximately), or more importantly how you got there and also got here? I'm seriously looking into leaving the city life for the first time ever, and I'm curious to hear what others did and what their experience was.
Thaise who says code does not matter
>Makes me wonder what kind of "perfect crime" may be committed today, where the criminal literally achieved technical perfection, only to be caught 40 years later by a forensic technique that doesn't even exist today.

This happens all the time, when DNA became a core forensic tool a lot of cold cases were solved, and a lot of people were also acquitted.

That said since no one knew about DNA samples were often not preserved also due to the cost of preservation in some cases evidence was destroyed that latter primarily affects acquittal efforts since after you've lost all your appeals the evidence can be destroyed legally to save costs.
IIRC there was a proposal or even a change in law to mandate the preservation of evidence for all convictions on death row until they are executed but since in the US it's a state by state issue it's likely not to be uniform.
One thing I was curious about as I read this was: are there not extenuating circumstances during which the domain registrar can seize a domain? If say, this domain that was unregistered had been registered, is the fact that it's controlled already mean that there's no way to reset it to a new registrar?
Very basic question: what is the programming language of the code snippets?
Love the tunnels and boring. How good would it be to live in an entire city carved and sculpted into canyons so large they make earths look pathetic.

I think your economic analysis is really overcooking it... we are talking about some wild shit here, we can't even begin to imagine what the system they will create will look like. Although I hope it's like something from the mars trilogy.

This is going to be an entirely science and technology focused outpost of society. Basically cut off from the baggage of earth because of the distance. Initially currency is going to be proper basic units. Maybe energy, hydrogen, oxygen, essentials. And it's going to be an innovation centre because of necessity. Once that place half scales it's going to be outrageous.
4 Ways to Protect Against the Very Real Threat of Ransomware (2016)
I haven't read the paper, but I think it only really makes sense in context:

a) The traditional view of generalization would argue that neural nets are "too complicated"/have too many parameters/etc to generalize well. And that for generalization you need more limited models.

b) To reconcile this with practical results of CNNs some people tried to argue that while neural nets had a lot of actual parameters, the structure of neural nets reduced the effective capacity of neural nets to not be as big as the parameter counts implied. Same argument for regularization.

c) This paper shows that those arguments are not satisfactory since they really can fit random labels.
Why Bitcoin is going to $20,0000/coin
Did Kaspersky step in dog-doo and now is under US scrutiny?
Here in Japan it's perfectly alright, so it varies from place to place. I know the one time I went to New York I saw a guy passing through into other cars, but he didn't seem to be the type to care about the law.
I mean, that's just patently false, but the most prominent way in which that statement falls apart is that DRM is designed to restrict users and the GPL has no restrictions on users.

The GPL does place nontechnical restrictions on developers, but those restrictions exist to ensure that bad actors can't add new restrictions to users.

But seriously, "GPL is DRM" makes no sense. Aside from the fact that DRM and the GPL are completely different classes of things, they also have completely contradictory philosophies and are applied and act in completely contradictory ways. That's just FUD.
So Uber Eats won't send you jobs to prevent you earn the bonus? Or was it just you waiting at a 'wrong' location?
I wonder if there are regulatory requirements for them to register a policy for the handling of bank robberies, that extends to extortion and ransom? While it may not be relevant in this case, such a regulation might have been written with hostage situations in mind, when the police would be involved.
WannaCry Virus Incident Map
Windows XP SP3 WanaCry Patch and Others
If you want to protect your Windows XP systems from WanaCry/WanaCrypt ransomware install the following patch from Microsoft.

http://download.windowsupdate.com/d/csa/csa/secu/2017/02/windowsxp-kb4012598-x86-custom-enu_eceb7d5023bbb23c0dc633e46b9c2f14fa6ee9dd.exe

For Windows 7/8/10 just run Windows Update, it was patched back in March.

More info here: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4012598/title

Link to Microsoft Update Catalog for KB4012598 (server maybe overloaded): http://www.catalog.update.microsoft.com/Search.aspx?q=KB4012598

VirusTotal analysis (just in case): https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/3530b7890c22096693fd473d8c6455b9992ac4aa400e1b8ce14d0049234c489d/analysis/

SHA256: 3530b7890c22096693fd473d8c6455b9992ac4aa400e1b8ce14d0049234c489d
MD5: 3AD11C9883051E5A5EEC5A000DC4C37C
Whether or not the statement "nearly everyone will chose to "work" is true, the problem that must be solves is how to incentivize someone to do the work that no one wants to do.

It's entirely possible that providing a "living" wage to a food delivery person just isn't worth it for consumers so they would rather just go get it themselves.

The conundrum is creating a system where there enough incentive is created to do the work no one wants, but at the same time distribute resources so that everyone is provided some definition of "standard of living". This is difficult when the value of (most) human's work is ever decreasing.
> but for some people, that's simply not an option.

In the article the author tries two options: Uber Eats and Foodora. So, yes, in theory there are probably some people who would rather have the Uber Eats "work when you want" schedule rather than Foodora's but that very much falls within the realm of what fastball was suggesting with "if someone pays you bad wages, don't work for them."

Just because you don't value that type of flexibility doesn't mean someone else won't value it. It seems like the more options there are for people looking for jobs the better.
Wow! Thanks for mentioning OODA (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OODA_loop), never heard of that before. That's a really intriguing concept... so many cogsci, ML, netsec, and game theory connections. While the wikipedia page is rather sparse, it's already added a few things to my reading pile.
I surely won't be doing it myself, but I can imagine some spook making this small personal sacrifice of becoming an employee at some Windows XP shop just to smuggle patches to his mothership for vulnerability analysis.

I hope that the fact this patch was signed in February doesn't imply that it was published in February and available to every semi-competent cyberwarfare unit in the world.
"Internal reviews identified that the heart of the problem was the fact that the different design groups working on the project had used different Computer Aided Design (CAD) software to create the engineering drawings. The development of the aircraft was a collaboration between 16 sites spread across 4 different countries. German and Spanish designers had used one version of the software (CATIA version 4), while British and French teams had upgraded to version 5."

Really interesting! While I've hardly worked on anything as complex as an A380, I take it as a high priority for all software packages, from dev to test to prod, all be on the exact same version. Python 3.4 on one box and 3.6 on another? Let's not.
They are also building profiles on every single one of those students which is not only creepy but downright dangerous.

Imagine if Trump decided he no longer wanted to hire anyone for a public sector job, if they are pro-green politics.

Society will come to regret this and I'll probably still be alive to witness it.
Everybody is using Uber eats as a consumer...
Woody Harrelson Reveals Details About His Role in “Star Wars” Han Solo Film
The Lockheed Sea Shadow and the Hughes Mining Barge
Also, the most literal answer "solve quadratic equations" is kind of the most meaningless, what a physicist does with it is different than what a graphic designer does with it. The teacher might be saying they don't know in that context and would rather not lie to individual students that it's super important for them in particular way.
Jesus. I had to convert to weeks to get an idea and it's 5 years of about 27 hours a week, and that's just the average.
It's Rust
It's the path of least resistance, that's why people do it, there isn't some greater "point" to it. But it leaves you at the mercy of someone else. Choose the someone else carefully, as I haven't really seen good candidates lately...
Wait until our jobs are uber-ized. You might not think it's such a great model when you're the one getting squeezed.

Low wage + no benefits + pay employers share of the taxes + no room to complain
I'm not talking about developing experimental aircraft, I'm talking about manufacturing and maintaining safety critical equipment for everyday use.

If you could order wide body jet without the attached standards, they would be able to build exact replica of the fleet with fraction of the cost.

Same aluminum pieces with random quality inspections is much cheaper than every piece of aluminum checked and tested before installing, plus verifying that it's tested and inspected. Installing that piece would be cheaper if there would be no inspectors for every phase of work doubling or tripling the manpower. Just tightening a bolt is cheap. Tightening it the right amount, cheeking that it has been done correctly etc. are costly.

Astronauts living in ISS periodically inspect every hatch and every safety critical device. Their days are filled with checklists. Things wear down and break and small undetected error can end life.
"ETERNALBLUE was part of a release of code that also gave us such interesting names as EDUCATEDSCHOLAR, ETERNALROMANCE, and ERRATICGOPHER. Oh to be a fly on the wall at the classified NSA committee meetings discussing the deployment of their weaponized ERRATIC GOPHER ..."

Any one know what the E means in code names? There's a list somewhere, but I can't remember where now.
If Guthenberg had invented the printing press in the current legislative framework, he would have enjoyed a monopoly for decades.
I like the idea, but I'm not really interested in learning java. I'll have to save this for later and see if it grows.
This is fake, right? I'm pretty sure this is fake.
Watch container based "solutions" to both sprout like wildflower...
WhatsApp fined €3m over Facebook data sharing in Italy
False. Libertarianism isn't fascism or totalitarianism. It's about freedom.
No, that is not necessarily the case. It will depend on the outcome of the negotiations.

The 5 year rule is part of the existing freedom of movement regulation. It provides additional protection against getting kicked out in case of sickness or unemployment.

Exercising the right to live and work anywhere in the EU before Brexit takes effect may well mean that you can keep those rights after Brexit and acquire permanent residence rights later on.

Anything else would mean that hundereds of thousands of people would have to be deported, which would go against every promise made in the referendum campaign.
I'm glad you're questioning that assertion, but I don't think your counter-argument is very convincing. The economics of the printing press were different than the economics facing Google. For example: Google search benefits from network effects (clicks are used to improve future search results). Google mostly provides information goods (zero marginal cost of production), but books aren't really a perfect information good.

Google is darn near close to a monopoly on search (at least, Peter Thiel made that the premise of Zero to One), which isn't to say they're also a monopolist in every other field they're in.
The comparison with press does not fully stand. After the invention of printing lots of different publishers were born, while we still have essentially just one Google. So they actually have quite a strong monopoly and quite some power with it. If they decide to not "facilitate" you, you become invisible.
> The may be some truth in there, but this is a popular tech post. I'd look for more details than the guardian provides.

Can you provide some references for the positions you have stated in this discussion?
Er, aside from yours, there are literally two comments in this 444-comment thread that have mentioned Rust, both of them written by a single person. Given that both those comments also mention sel4, perhaps we ought to invoke the sel4 Evangelism Strike Force? :P
Users aren't complaining, workers are. I sincerely encourage you to talk to some of their "contractors".

When we freelance, we expect higher wages due to insecurity, having to pay employers share of taxes, having to pay for benefits. Compare that with these workers.

Uber is cheap because their workers are subsidizing it.
Absolutely fabulous. Best part: "NSA hoard their knowledge of weaknesses in Microsoft Windows, a vitally important piece of their own nation's infrastructure, in case they'll come in handy againt some hypothetical future enemy. (I'm sorry, but this just won't wash; surely the good guys would prioritize protecting their own corporate infrastructure?"

Yep - way too implausible, even for hacker fiction.

Anyway, sounds like your book was Nostradamus-esque in depicting recent events. Maybe a bit too good :D
Remember that Uber insists their employees are not employees.
The author seems to forget that Russia (then USSR) was the first to put a man into space, while under an economic blockade ...

And what does it have to do with Mars anyway ? Are we going to take our primitive geopolitical structure that we have on Earth and implement it on Mars too ?

In fact, I think this will be an even tougher challenge than the technological one:

Who owns the equipment sent from Earth, the land, the resources that are being extracted ?
Countries/companies/individuals from Earth ? How are they going to enforce that and guard against a revolution ? (Space police, killer robots ?)
What if a conflict arises between the colony and Earth ?

Technological challenges - I think we'll figure them out - but these 'soft' aspects - I'm not sure I want all this bullshit to spread around the Solar System thank you.
DNS being one of the most fragile aspects of the net, a lot of issues can be solving by a local DNS resolver that does a lot of caching and blocking
Where is the responsibility on the companies and organizations that want to run this ancient and insecure software on such mission critical applications? Microsoft does offer a path for these organizations that can't upgrade to a newer OS, they charge an onerous support fee. This is intentional to make it painful for these companies to continue using a product that Microsoft knows is insecure. They are trying to incent good behavior (aka upgrade), like the government does with a tax on alcohol and cigarettes.

If you are in a highly regulated environment like the UK NHS then there is no excuse for either not being current, paying the proper fee Microsoft to support the OS you choose to continue to run, or taking other measures to ensure that your systems are protected, such as keeping them on an isolated / secure network with no Internet connectivity. We have solutions for this stuff, Microsoft isn't the bad guy here. The people that consciously made the budgetary decision to disregard their customer's / patient's data / welfare are responsible for this.

I'm no Microsoft fanboy, but blaming Microsoft for this is like blaming Ford for a traffic death that occurs today in a car that was manufactured in the 1950s before seat belts were standard equipment. We now know seat belts save lives, if you chose to take the risk of driving a car without them that's on you, not Ford.
I've tried this idea out before (on three occasions, with different approaches, but the same name :P).

I think this approach has a lot of promise. Compared to normal blog posts, being able to see the diff and the entire snapshot of the code at this step is luxurious.

The biggest problem I always ran into was that it's brittle. Made a mistake creating the gitorial on step 3 of 10? You have to rebase, which throws off all your commit hashes down the road. You can get around this with automatically creating tags for the steps, but the fact of the matter is, it's brittle.

I also don't like that it's a CLI only tool. When I'm reading tutorials online, I don't want to have to leave my browser—on mobile, I can't leave my browser!

For the purposes of prototyping, these are the two attempts I've had at creating a similar experience in the past:

- https://github.com/jez/vim-as-an-ide (how to configure Vim & use plugins)

- https://scottylabs.org/wdw/frontend/lab/ (intro to JavaScript by making a simple board game)

Neither my two solutions nor the OP's solutions are perfect, but the idea in general holds a lot of promise.
People you send to Mars have to be highly educated and capable of running the most high-tech society in the world. They will be able to find better jobs and better life on Earth.

Engineer living with minimum income on earth gets more free time, travel and swimming opportunities on Earth.
Ice: Single Module Python WSGI Microframework
That's the cool thing about socialism: is the same for all. Call me to discuss my ivory tower when you have to stand 2 hours in line to buy one loaf of bread.
Towards the end of the featurephone era it became more common.

And i think Nokia got into it because they had a very popular model that was found to have a nasty flaw. I still recall news reports about people queuing to get theirs flashed (this was back when GSM was the hot new system, and carriers were giving away phones if you signed up with them).
If you don't pay for the product, you are the product. That's how these services are funded, by selling your personal information at scale, which you generate.

Now, your kids are the next product.
From labs to dev’s toolkit-AI goes mainstream at Synaptech [Berlin,Sep 2017]
hey guys. offering a short glimpse on a cool AI event taking place this autumn in Berlin.

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Synaptech (http://synaptech.ai) is the hotbed for AI enthusiasts, developers and business owners. It focuses on the practical aspects of building a company in the field of Artificial Intelligence.

Synaptech gathers a line-up of visionaries, technical experts and innovators from the field of Artificial Intelligence. Until now Luming Wang, Head of Machine Learning at Uber, Jean-Francois Gagne, CEO at ElementAI and Friederike Schuur, Director of Data Science at Fast Forward Labs have confirmed their presence.

In parallel with the conference, an international startup competition for those who are focused on AI and connected technologies will take place.

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Active discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14329914
The most logical conclusion is that Canada Post doesn't think it'll take anywhere near 8 hours to finish the daily route.
What a disgrace!
I read somewhere that codename "namespaces" (aka starting letters) are assigned to agencies, but not sure if that applies to this sort of codename.
I agree on both points. If we limit education on absolute minimum every kid is guaranteed to use, they wont learn all that much and they wont be able to proceed to college nor do non-trivial professional jobs. If you come to college without knowing quadratic equation, you wont be able to keep up with physics classes designed for students who already know elementary school math. If you don't understand for cycle when you are 18, you will have very hard time competing with students who come in already knowing real programming. Duh.

Continuation of that quote is no better. You wont even recognize utility of quadratic equation in more complicated equation (exercise) if you do not understand and remember it - much less google it. You will simply fail at solving it. There is also big difference between people who know history enough to see something suspicious when they see bad history and people who believe everything they read on random discussion forums.

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I think that changing tech school to use because new tech is more convenient to administer is perfectly good reason on itself. I don't know why everyone needs to bs about "transforming education" each time. However, I would much rather have education transformed by people who a.) value learning b.) can explain what quadratic formula is useful for c.) have knowledge of education theory (they dont need to agree with most of it, but they should know what it is they disagree with).
Aren't many of them undocumented migrants?

https://www.thelocal.se/20170308/swedish-police-fear-for-und...

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-europe-migrants-sweden-ins...