skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree, a real, thorough test of this in court would be a great precedent.

And yes, if you refuse source to your customers that's where you are - software copyright violation. Just the same as if you did this with proprietary stuff. Someone with standing would have to start the ball rolling.
Large spanish corporations under ransomware attack
There's no good reason to read this article.
He didn't spend anybody's money. He spent their dogecoin which is a bunch of made up gibberish.
I just picked it up last night, its pretty weird to think that this game I bought way back in 2010 is still relevant. Indie hits like super meat boy and limbo came out in 2010,
Triple As like God of War 3 and Fallout NV. But this java applet somehow has outlived them all. There arn't many 8 year old+ games that still have this much traction.

I wonder how it holds onto it's user base, or was it just dumb blind luck that it hit big with the youtube boom
At What Point Does a Machine Have a Soul?
I can attest to lawns being the enemy. For many years I grew a dense native plant yard and literally have tens of thousands of pictures of terrestrial arthropods ok a lot of dupes of individuals but also amazing biodiversity and multispecies and social phenomena like ant symbiosis which I wrote about here: http://www.elegantcoding.com/2016/05/my-ant-symbiosis-storie... and opiliones social behavior. It was amazing. They only problem is that it is illegal and I was forced to destroy all of my native plants by my local municipality. As a result the insects disappeared.
Are there any studies on how long engineers take to recover from burnout? 6 months sounds about right from what I've heard anecdotally.
Don't you think that, perhaps, replacing a dependency on a centralized infrastructure by replacing the entire system by centralized infrastructure, owned by a foreign company, might not be the smartest idea ?

Systems that can't depend on the outside, obviously, cannot use cloud services. That means no chromeOS, no active directory, nothing but the local network. This is beyond obvious, and yet, I actually believe we'll be stupid enough to do exactly the centralization thing.

Paying $300 to these crooks, incidentally, will be a LOT cheaper than whatever microsoft or any other company will ask for the centralized infrastructure. Not that I suggest doing that, but still.
I've been using Lyft almost exclusively since Susan Fowler's blog post (only using Uber if Lyft has a surge and Uber doesn't), and it's really getting on my nerves how many Lyft drivers use Waze.

Waze is spectacularly terrible at everything. The algorithm is designed to take you out of your way to run up the meter, it encourages unsafe turns, and it's literally unable to navigate to where I live, so I straight-up refuse to ride in any car with Waze running. And yet Lyft recommends it to new drivers. It's not uncommon for me to walk out of cars because the driver pitched a hissy fit when I said "Please don't use Waze", and even when I don't walk out of the car I usually end up having to navigate the driver manually because Waze is the only thing they have installed.

Using Lyft has become a thoroughly unpleasant experience, but I'm not comfortable using Uber either for ethical reasons. I'm considering looking into what it would cost to straight-up hire a private driver as an on-call employee.
My Ant Symbiosis Stories
I can totally relate to this. I experienced this after working steadily 4 years and then having a close friend pass unexpectedly. Suddenly everything I was spending all my time on felt like a waste of time. Now, almost two years later I'm doing better and even looking to work in a non-remote scenario. I think it's great to be on the lookout for signs of burnout, but on the other hand it's equally important to use our time wisely and do the things we love.
Maybe it's punishment for screwing up? I just picture him grinding his teeth and cursing under this breath the whole time....
lol

https://twitter.com/GCHQ/status/863039131399663618
Yes it kills it, there is no big AAA game running on Unity, try to do a Battlefield like game with a GC language where every ms count.
How much flexibility do you give yourself?

For example, if a project uses a GPS receiver or GPS data, is that ok?
The Drones of Tomorrow Have a Data Problem
I'm from Vietnam and working on IT sections, thank you very much for the interested in. Yes, we are the developing country, lack a lot of conditions like developed countries, but we are on going ahead to cover and catching up with you, especial in internet, robotic, saas, e-comercial, social intranet and maybe AI too. Our company working as technology transfer company (Web Company). We are the partner of Bitrix24 in Asia for 10 years and on working as distribute and develope custom features base on Bitrix24 Platform (Social Intranet 2.0 for enterprises). Hoping have a lot of help from you, especial the support from the mature in working method (management, quality, refined, etc..)
You don't have to be a mathematician to do machine learning. Jeff Dean said that almost every engineer working at Google should be capable of picking up the math for machine learning [1]. In particular with deep learning the math is quite manageable.

I would encourage you to take part of some Kaggle competitions to get a better feel for the practical aspect of machine learning.

[1] https://backchannel.com/how-google-is-remaking-itself-as-a-m...
>The planet; as-in this rocky, water-world orbiting Sol, will exist for BILLIONS of years.

This is not a productive comment. Everyone knows that "the planet" in an environmental context refers to the living things on Earth. It's an extremely common and universal metaphor. I have no idea why threads always have this one guy who feels like pointing out that the metaphorical language isn't literally true is insightful.
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> - Drives better than the median human driver in average weather conditions on half of the roads in the US (alternatively, for harder goals, replace with US+Europe or World) - Drives better than 95% of people in 95% of weather conditions on 95% of roads in the US - Drives better than any human in any weather conditions on any road in the US

> I'd argue we're almost certainly past the first milestone, and probably at or approaching the second, and the third will never be reached, but that doesn't matter.

I agree on the first and third milestones. Or kinda -- perhaps the first milestone is only reached for California, or for US highways yet.

I think you underestimate how difficult the second milestone is. The variation is tremendous, even merely within the US, to say nothing about the rest of the world.

> Fwiw, I'm fairly confident that waymo's vehicles can handle flagmen and

I'm sceptical. I think there will be so much ambiguity, both through road situation and through human interaction which we interpret with comparable ease, that the car may be stumped. And we set the high hurdle of forgoing steering wheels, so we need some other, yet to be devised way to give the car hints safely and efficiently.

> have more experience driving in the snow than I do.

I wasn't thinking about handling the car (I can easily believe that a computer does a better job of that), but rather about decreased visibility, no visible road markings, etc.

> And I'm sure they can handle aggressive or

Fairly easy I guess. Just be defensive, put a bit of distance between you and them.

> undisciplined drivers.

Much harder. Not from a safety perspective (again, just be defensive), but from a I'd-like-to-arrive-at-some-point perspective. Because then again it becomes about human interaction (being assertive without being an asshole, muddling your way through this blocked intersection through essentially non-verbal communication with the drivers around you), and computers will (inherently, perhaps) be worse at that than humans.

> Conversely, there are situations that AVs will handle much much better than humans already (a neighborhood with a lot of kids running around and shrubs occluding them for example).

Except, again, that humans will be able to judge body language or the rules of a game the children are playing, and anticipate instead of being confined to reacting (which the computer will indeed be better at, I agree).

Perhaps my pessimism also stems from the fact that the oh-so-smart driving assistants in my car are so shitty (read my other posts if you're interested) :-)

EDIT: Thanks for the interesting discussion so far.
For the last 3 summers, my family and I have gone salmon fishing with a charter company [1] in Lake Michigan near Algoma, WI. Each year we've caught ~15-20 fish. From my limited experience I have to agree with you.

[1]: http://kinnskatch.com/
Take a vacation / break, refocus on personal priorities. Learn what makes you happy, and do that - at least outside of work.
Most Underrated AdWords' Features in Your Opinion?
After using AdWords for some years, I feel like I have used some features much more than others, such as Keyword Bids, ad copy, landing page, etc. However, I've recently spent a few day to explore Adwords and play with features I didn't or rarely used. And I found some of them to be very useful: Targeting audience by airport and income, and auction insights.

Here are some articles explain those examples very well:

https://blog.kissmetrics.com/brilliant-adwords-features/

https://supermetrics.com/blog/6-hidden-features-adwords/

It's such a shame that I had no idea about them for a while. What are the useful features but people are not using that much in your opinion?
Yes, I know. I was only replying to the second question of the parent really, pointing that there is no need to wait for 5G to see a 3GPP/3GPP2 merge.

The fact that Sprint has decided to keep their voice on CDMA for a while will not stop a merger like that IMHO. It will just mean more work for the merge (if it goes on).

Moving away from CDMA and supporting VoLTE is bound to happen even if Sprint stays solo. Other operators have plans to sunset CDMA (e.g. end 2019 for Verizon), and at some point it doesn't make sense to stay with a now legacy standard with no traction.
They studied 100 sites, but said only 12 showed declining populations. Only for one site did they give a percentage change. From the article:

[in]"one of their earliest trapping sites from 1989, the total mass of their catch had fallen by nearly 80%"

What about the other 88 sites? What about the percentage decline in the other 11 declining sites? How were the sites chosen? How have the sites changed over the years?

This is alarmist ecological drama. Some readers on this website are extrapolating the results from a single experiment at a single site to the entire world. And I think Science magazine did a poor job of reporting this correctly.

Here's a link to another alarmist post about this study. Note the url:

http://www.bouldercountybeekeepers.org/insect-biomass-declin...

Here's a link to AFAICT a copy of the paper that started this brouhaha. Read it and be questionably impressed:

http://www.bouldercountybeekeepers.org/wp-content/uploads/20...

The authors of the paper are doing good work, but the alarmism here on HN far exceeds the scope of any validity of the original paper. People should be wary of their confirmation bias.

And if a HN reader cannot make a reasonable judgment about the scope of this study, I doubt that (s)he would be successful in an enterprise such as Machine Learning, given that science and statistics are the very basis of ML.

OTOH Woody Allen once said, and I begrudgingly admit he has a strong point, "Showing up is 80 percent of life".
How timely; last night I typed 'how to recover from burnout' into google. Thank you.
If they're supporting x86 emulation to run desktop apps will they support compiling native desktop ARM apps?

They're essentially supporting the end result, I would hope they don't force developers to go through emulation to try to encourage them to write a universal windows app
Their main sales pitch is "given that it's a bunch of x86 put together, you don't have to port your code to get Massive Paralellization by Intel (TM)". Some supercomputers use them, but it's true: I've never seen a worthwhile comparisson between that and a strong (or equivalent) GPGPU.

There are some very interesting talks by Intels experts on how to use these guys with AVX and AVX512 (or however its called now) and the multiplicative improvement both multicore and AVX give when used together (the sales line goes along like this "10x for multicore, and on top of that 4x for AVX, voilá 40x speedup!").

I don't work in an HPC environment, so I don't really know if they stand up in reality to Intels claims.
Can't wait for the ms-paid crowd of anti-FOSS, .net-lover teens on HN which shows up everytime to praise ms while shit on FOSS.
And lookup in resolv.conf can still fail due to invalid cache of resolv.conf, it just won't happen multiple times in a row.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14321834 and marked it off-topic.
Ars Technica had decent little guides for setting up secure web server and mail server;

Secure Web Server series;

https://arstechnica.com/series/web-served/

Mail Server Series

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/02/how-t...

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/03/takin...

https://arstechnica.com/business/2014/03/taking-e-mail-back-...

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/04/takin...
FWIW, he had no right to spend his customer's made up gibberish either.
If you think SOX is bad try finding someone to tell you exactly what you need to do to be ITAR compliant!
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Cool Arcade with great game mechanic inspired by classics titles like Forger
You should know, of course, because the system was designed and this documentation is easily available and up to date.
Cryptocurrency acts as a transfer currency. If I want to send someone $1 worth of Dogecoin, I spend a dollar on the exchange, and whomever is willing to give me the most Dogecoin to get my dollar wins and sets the trading price. Of course, this is limited by how much Dogecoin people have that they are willing to sell.

Mainly its psychology; what people expect to happen determines how they trade and thus what does happen. So you end up with a chaotic system and an unstable currency.
Ah, if only.

To the first point: the GPL is not used nearly as much as it should be. Thus there's still a strong selection bias on court cases in general being about the GPL, since the GPL is not selected very often. (And there's a reason it is avoided: legal counsel to large companies frequently describe the GPL as "untested." This happens still today, which is frankly ridiculous in the light of all that the Software Freedom Law Center, FSF, etc. have done)

To the second point: any court proceeding introduces a huge amount of uncertainty. Costs are up-front, payback may come in a decade or more after all routes of appeal have been exhausted. Judgments are frequently overturned on technicalities; even if the technicalities are flawless the GPL is not unassailable.

On a personal note, I am unequivocally in favor of using Free Software further and wider than it has been used. In every potential conflict of interest, I think there is much to be said for attempting to settle with a "GPL violator" using amicable means, even if it takes a long time. I view "GPL violations" as free advertising -- don't be shy about publishing the proceedings, though doing it with some taste may help the party come into compliance, their actions should speak for themselves!

People use GPL software, extensively.

Any use of GPL software is a compliment to the software authors.

Any contribution back to the software will improve it for everyone.

etc.
Backing you up as no idea why you're downvoted. Got an S8 yesterday and there is next to nothing on it. It comes with some MS apps preinstalled, a handful of Samsung apps (voice recorder, health, Bixby, Samsung's browser) .. and that is literally all the cruft I've encountered and it was all mostly avoidable.
What is the reason local GPs are not meant to use NHS.net email? I work in the sector and I thought it was policy to have them use it as the approved platform to securely communicate with secondary care.
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It's so easy to throw up a veil of security while doing absolutely nothing at all.

Just today I was helping somebody retrieve an export of older transactions from PayPal, and they were forced to go through a series of steps to sign up for "secure" access to a special account in order to download a "secure" zip file that PayPal had uploaded containing the transactions.

The password on the zip file? PayPal123.
I think the bigger issue is that you're calling it a business.

It's not a business, it was a hobby/bot/side project whatever you want to call it (I'm still not quite sure what it does and don't really want to delve so far into the depths of stupidity to understand it) and it never made any money.

> He wasn't an idiot like this article tries to portray.

He wasn't an idiot for making poor decisions. Everyone makes poor decisions. But he was an idiot for thinking this could ever be a business (and staking apparently his personal savings and credit cards on it). Let's not tip-toe around the issue. Calling someone an idiot isn't as big a deal as you think it is.

We all had some wishful thoughts at one point or another.

This is just a cautionary tale of a guy who spent too much money on a hobby.
Is there a jvm for the switch?
>I think a big factor in burnout is that most work is ultimately meaningless, or even morally wrong, and on a deep level, we're aware of that.

I don't this is true across the board, but the challenge is finding a "job" that you love and are excited to tackle every day. This will differ for most people, but the closer you can get to doing something that you would voluntarily want to do even if you weren't being paid for it the better mental space you will be in.

Personally, I'm still searching for that magic job but through trial-and-error I'm getting pretty good at identifying what I don't want to do.
No. If a company let you store world of warcraft cold and took some of that gold they'd go out of business, but it wouldn't likely have straight forward legal ramifications unless their terms of service had very clear expectations of what "holding" your gold meant.

Further, in many digital assets like world of warcraft technically the creating company (Blizzard) still owns the asset regardless of what you do with it or where it goes.

If you are storing currency, that is legally defined as currency by your legal jurisdiction (usually the state level) then there are very specific rules for money transmission and money service business licensed businesses. And your accounts are insured upto the legal required amount of $100,000 by the FDIC.

However, many states have NOT classified cryptocurrency as a currency nor required exchanges and services operating solely in cryptocurrency to get a license as a financial service (different if it allows exchanging of crypto and traditional currency). Because of this it is unclear what the legal doctrine is that would apply to it.

Now if I had as you said "a jesus shaped collectable potato chip" in storage that belonged to you, can I sell it? That depends. For example, for a storage facility if your payments are late I certainly can. For plenty of digital assets accounts your funds are taken by the company after X days of inactivity. Then you have services like PayPal which terms of service allows them to freeze your accounts and keep the funds for anything that violates their terms of service (rules designed by them, which you agree to on sign up).

So was Dogetipbot in the legal clear for doing this? Probably not. There is some level of negligence, some level of consumer loss and can probably be a tort case. But was it flat out illegal? No. It was at worst a civil case, but that depends on their terms of service and the legal standing of cryptocurrency in various jurisdictions.

Disclaimer: Not a lawyer, not legal advice.
And this is the reason why you don't centralize critical infrastructure and don't put yourself in vendor lock-ins.

Makes me wonder how many of those infected machines didn't have to be connected to the internet in the first place.
I carry Windex in a small spray bottle for my late night motorcycle rides. Bugs are so thick here (Midwest) a 15m ride results in blocked vision
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Courts -- at least US ones -- generally treat digital signatures the same as physical ones. Not sure off hand whether clicking accept is the equivalent of signing if you don't type your name.
Had no moral right. Did he have a legal right? That's more complicated.

(Still don't think he should have)
And medical devices cannot just be modified after they are approved for medical use. Any changes must be introduced by the original vendor (or an approved 3rd party vendor) and put through a barrage of tests and certifications needed to release such a device for use on a human. Those include EMC/EMI testing, QC testing, safety testing, RF testing, clinical trials, regulatory compliance, etc.

When you buy a medical device running Windows 3.1, it will run that until it is thrown away or replaced.
Fault will be leveled against Bitcoin for facilitating the ransom, against Microsoft, against NHS budget underfunding... everywhere EXCEPT where the blame belongs. Products liability law applied to IT security would put a quick end to most vulnerabilities.
“yet another example of how profoundly anti-innovation America has become”
NHS in England hit by 'cyber-attack' with ransomware demanding $300 in Bitcoin
A Massive Ransomware 'Explosion' Is Hitting Targets All Over the World
None. That's an implementation detail.
> Burnout and depression is a topic that not enough of us talk about

You know, I get what you're saying, but I actually need to stop you here. Because honestly, we can't go two weeks without a post hitting the front page about someone's personal come-to-Jesus moment about burnout. We do talk about burnout and depression, a lot. And nobody learns.

Nobody learns and I don't think anyone will learn. In the 20 years I've been working in the tech industry, I've only seen things get worse. Workers get treated more like cattle every day. Creatives who become founders self-flagellate themselves even more. It's a sick, disgusting cycle, all built on a lie of "just work hard--never mind on what--and you will get your due", and it's one I think companies like Facebook and funds like Andreeson are encouraging so that they can have a constant churn of Jr Devs desperate to get started and Sr Devs desperate to put their lives back together after their own failed startups.
T-Mobile has been having a fine job of bleeding Verizon and AT&T of subscribers.[1]

Keep in mind, T-Mobile also just won a ton of 600mhz spectrum that will allow them to plug a great deal of the underserved rural areas without having to densify the network. First bits of that should be online at the end of the year.

CapEx is where T-Mobile is putting its money, not buying satellite companies (DirecTV), launching a failed mobile television service (go90?), or buying crappy mexican carriers (mexico nextel/lusacell).

If T-Mobile were to merge with someone to their benefit, it would be Dish as they have a nationwide AWS-3 license and won a good chunk of 600mhz as well. They could also start to pull the bundle shit AT&T/Verizon do.

[1]http://nypost.com/2017/04/20/verizon-is-bleeding-subscribers...
True, but I was kidding.
How do you control windows over OBD2? I've never seen any universal car control over OBD2, only specific model/ECU tuning.
Micro "It's not like we can just flip a switch" soft

(Though I guess it requires a broader umbrella of 'MS dickery with networks' as the Xbone debacle was you being forced to be online at MS' behest, and this is sort of the opposite)