skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Except that this time the disaster has probably little to do with nature. I'd add that, given current situation, 10,000 years seems a bit of a stretch. IMHO it's more like 100 years to the first "maybe" - or more probably even a fraction of that.
I imagine if you use strings, like in

printf("Could not open ghostscript project %s", project)

You could find the "Could not open ghostscript project %s" part in the binary?
I think indignation is a more precise term for the phenomenon.
It's broken with my up-to-date Chrome on MacOS. I could see the site properly with Firefox Aurora.

Aside from the sketchy web page, though, the site is very vague. Yeah, I see there are elements to design but what is the "Fluent Design System" and how does it champion the use of those elements?
£400k? That's not a fine.

When the fine is that much less than the profits, its not a "fine". Its just a tax. And a light one at that.
any ideas for getting it into users' hands?
VMWare is great for setting up a test networking environment too. Workstation's virtual interface setup is nice and allowed me to test a host of operating systems, a custom router to test firewall rules, 802.1x security and a RADIUS server. All in a simple virtual environment.
Previous discussion on /r/rust, with the author in-thread answering questions: https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/6ai0ga/the_story_of_a...
Caught wind of this earlier today with a European client. We were advised to not connect to their network via VPN. Looks like it's a large scale attack that's affecting more than just hospitals in England.

These could be a coincidence though.

Here is a source article talking about a Spanish TelCo: https://www.usnews.com/news/technology/articles/2017-05-12/s...
> Trillions upon trillions of insects versus humanity? I'd bet on the insects.

Yup, we'll just be left with the insects that can adapt quickly - cockroaches, aphids, ants - and not the insects we need/want - bees, butterflies, etc.
Exactly. Walmart competes with Costco.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam%27s_Club
There Are Now More Indexes Than Stocks
Need to stop fining companies and start suing the individuals. And actually make it hurt. 500k is change. Could even be a "indirect" donation.
> . Screen is the only thing that the theaters have going on, but I've been satisfied with my 42"

I recently upgraded to a 65" 4k OLED and that looks a lot better than the theater. Especially with HDR content.
It is a sad world we live in when normal can be labeled hostile. This is a VERY small minority pushing an agenda that most people quite honestly aren't comfortable with. Yet the very liberal media attempts to paint any sensible legislation as hostile, negative, etc.
Her reasoning as quoted is no more based in reality than theirs. Frankly, I would say it's worse, as the people who did this hundreds of years ago did not have the benefit of modern medicine to model why it is a bad idea in the first place.
That happened when Hancom issued a motion to dismiss the case on the grounds that the company didn’t sign anything, so the license wasn’t a real contract.

Hancom's CEO is a thief.
I'm not sure I agree.

I think that this has consolidated the IPO market to only a few major banks that are capable of acting as underwriters.

Empirically, the number of IPOs in the USA has dropped, and the size has increased. So the data is consistent with there being a larger regulatory burden on businesses going public.
Yet Google keeps adding things to their results pages to keep you either on Google or within Google properties. See for example Yelp and others suing.
Maybe ask Hancom :p
What makes grocery bagging different from any other kind of job?
Weekend JavaScript #95 – JavaScript reads for a weekend
Those expenses would also be passed on to working class people who are not making much more than the minimum wage, though. Paying for it with taxation is probably better in that regard. Although that could be offset in other ways. Adjustments to EITC and universal child care could make a huge difference for low income people, without having to have a full guaranteed income.
Electronic catapults need to operate for months at a time without problems, so far they can't even do days.
I'm going to disagree about Stallman. I suspect he would prefer all-GPL-everywhere, but I think he's pragmatic enough to think that dual-licensing (with GPL being one of them) is better than nothing, because it still means the software is out in the open, for anyone to download and use who wants to adhere to the GPL, so it's still a win for Free software. Some companies might choose to purchase a proprietary license so they can use it in closed-source software, but for others they're able to download and use it for free under the GPL.

Remember also, Stallman and co. did come up with the LGPL, which itself is a pragmatic compromise to allow GPLed libraries that can be used in non-GPL applications: under LGPL, you have to share any changes you make to the library itself, but the rest of your application can use a different and/or proprietary license.

It's better to have some GPL rather than no GPL.
The curl user survey 2017
> On what grounds do you have no right to use a copy of software you bought without obtaining an additional license from the vendor

To use software you probably have to install it on your computer - this makes a copy of the software. Then when you run it you make another copy into your computer's memory, and additional copies in the the CPU's cache.

I don't agree with the above argument (I think fair use covers it), but I have heard it. It isn't hard to read the letter of the law and conclude the above is the correct interpretation. (you might need to see some money...)

I honestly do not know how to fix the letter of the law. There are too many special cases. If I have two computers can I install it on both? Can I install it for my family to use? When my computer fails can I install it on the replacement? The above are trick questions: I deliberately asked them to invite answers that imply I can install one copy of software on as many servers as I want for as many users as I want - this seems wrong.
I also have it on my wall. One issue I see with automation is that human and computer processes often differ. Humans can easily deal with weird edge cases, but those can prove difficult to automate. So sometimes when you automate things, you have adapt the process first.
...and have some kind of UI to explain to the car whether to pass the work crew on the left or on the right.

I dunno, maybe some kind of wheel in front of the human, which they could turn left or right to command the car to change direction ;-P
I use electric. Has most of the advantages of a push mower with the added benefit of easier cutting. Just have to watch for the cord.
The Myth That Humans Have Poor Smell Is Nonscents
Like the NHS didn't have enough problems with unhappy staff, unfilled positions and Brexit looming... very uncool.
And it has a huge impact on the bottom line of consultancies and external auditors.

SOX, and more recently Dodd-Frank, has been a cash cow for those groups.
I like it enough to be curious. It's still a bit fluffy (scale wasn't clear). Still something there.
Xubuntu has nothing to do with Fx, it's all gtk

Actually, gtk doesn't really have much to do with firefox either. The Gecko rendering engine is ui agnostic.
> So maybe it wasn't just my imagination.

And mine. BTW I was wondering what use will be that famous "ark" they're building with seeds - in a world without insects for pollination? Like having a backup of half of your data only...

Edit: clarified.

Also, correct me if I'm wrong, but it looks like eating insects is all the rage when it comes to talking about the future of food...?
I have a friend applying for a job doing just this: being the software developer to help the data science folks operationalize their models.

Not sure how applicable this is to a straight up front end developer, though. I would definitely suggest learning Python if you head this route. R would be good as well.
I am not a lawyer, but I don't think "Shrink-wrap License" is legal term. I am pretty sure contracts are valid regardless of the amount of copying and pasting used to make them.

"Post-purchase agreements" are not enforceable in many jurisdictions because they add terms that one side of the agreement did not agree to and many terms of service fall into the post purchase agreement category. It is hard to argue that open source licenses are "post-purchase agreement" because no purchase occurred.
Minimum wage is not something only teenagers work for. That fantasy has been disproven over and over again. The largest group of minimum wage earners are 18-40 year old women, many supporting families.
> each prior great extinction was accompanied by a replacement of the "dominant" species on the Earth. As the current reigning "dominant" species, this seems like something that might be very concerning to humans...

Except this time we are the cause of the extinction. I think that's a pretty important difference.
Recent discussion of another paper on the new orbits: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14279663
Show HN: Noauth SSH server for remote port forwarding; like ngrok, but using SSH
Existing discussion thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14324129

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Shutting everything down seems like a really rash response, especially when these systems seem to be used for critical communication e.g. the phones too. The Twitter messages seem to suggest that doctors are seeing this on their personal machines, but why would this impact the phone system? Are they not separated out?

I'm also really curious as to how this started. The article mentions a "bug" in the IT systems - some sort of novel zero day in the software they're using that was exploited remotely? Or is it more likely someone screwed up and ran something without thinking?

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. Perhaps underinvestment in IT is to blame.
> I expect that they would prefer a minimum wage exactly equal to what they pay as a minimum, because that would disadvantage less efficient competitors.

No, it would disadvantage competitors that could get by with labor with lower market value per unit of labor, which are not necessarily less efficient (if they were delivering the same output per unit of labor using less expensive labor, they'd be more efficient, for example, not less.)
Quoting:

Blackbird founder Wendy Verlander ... said
in an e-mail that she is "quite confident
we are not violating any ethics rules in
any of our cases."

Carefully worded, as you can expect from a lawyer. "Not violating any ethics rules" is basically the same as "not violating any rules", which is not the same as acting ethically.

Of course, "ethics" has a different meaning in law and for lawyers than it does for muggles.
Building an Autonomous Car with Rasbperry Pi and Navio2 Running Donkey
As someone who had to deal a lot with SOX compliance throughout my career, I would love to see the regulations loosened. They are overly onerous and in many cases downright bad, because they are so broadly written. At the same time, enforcement is terrible, because of the same broadly written rules.

Basically, you and your auditor work together to come up with an overly complex set of rules that somewhat meets the requirements, then your auditor brings in a bunch of consultants to help you implement their rules, which usually just means checking a lot of boxes, and then everyone calls it a day.

So really all it does is create a lot of work for a lot of people for very little gain. In a lot of cases we were going to do some of that stuff anyway, but now we had to slow down and show the auditor all the work. An auditor who usually doesn't care -- all they want to do is be able to say "yep I watched their presentation on this".

So I was quite surprised by the headline, that the auditor firms would want to roll it back. It's basically just a huge money maker for them.

And then I saw what they want to change -- they want to make the rules looser on how the auditors are audited. Basically they want to be able to keep being lazy.

SOX had great intentions but was one of the most poorly implemented regulations ever.
If you can't afford to pay a living being a living wage, then you can't afford to pay for the service... Maybe you should automate the task.
I believe audit firms are paid by the hour. I believe audit firms make more money when they work more hours. I believe audit firms make more money under Sarbanes-Oxley than not under it. If this is true, why would they lobby to have less revenue?
Common, you use curl everyday! How many times has it saved your bacon helping you understand some weird bug?

Help its author by filling the survey...
This belief that nature has control over the planet is sadly mistaken. If humanity wanted to, it could nuke the planet eliminating all insect life. Humanity has invented things far beyond the reach of nature and far beyond what nature can cope with.
A curated list of awesome Cordova Apache Plugins
Well, sounds like you've got a niche market for a small-scale startup. Get to it!
Sprint, SoftBank Said in Informal Deal Talks With T-Mobile
It's great to do jobs for money, I just think programming isn't something you can pick up in an afternoon and be good at, like mowing lawns or making sandwiches. I can't trust the journeymen for high tech jobs, maybe for editing wordpress or something.
There is a bit of a misunderstanding in this thread I think.

I (and others, I believe) were arguing when a car we would want to buy could forgo a steering wheel.

You're right that e.g. Uber could have a steering-wheel-less fleet that they simply retire in adverse conditions, sooner than that.
Avoiding page faults the first time newly-allocated memory is accessed
I would be more interested to see how each $.50 in hourly wage raises translates to improved efficiency, employee churn, and reduction in employee theft.
That means that you have to write everything to temporary files first. If you want to do that then maybe Python is already more convenient.
There's nothing in the article about Sam's Club employees or conditions - it specifically calls out Walmart stores.
> Empirically, the number of IPOs in the USA has dropped, and the size has increased. So the data is consistent with there being a larger regulatory burden on businesses going public

I'll agree with the first sentence. However it is not anywhere near enough to imply the second sentence. And lots of smart people agree...

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2015-06-24/where-hav...

> The study also looked into the old argument that "regulatory and legal changes in the early 2000s, including Regulation Fair Disclosure ('Reg FD') and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act ('SOX'), made it more expensive" to list. These played little or no role because the decrease in new listings was "well on its way before these changes took place." At worst, the regulatory burden accounts for only a small portion of the decline.
Lens flares on everything! To the future!
To call benefits that people would have received working at the same wage for any other company a "tax" is kind of pushing the meaning of the word. For example, the student loan deduction only applies if you have an adjusted gross income of less than $80,000 (https://www.irs.gov/publications/p970/ch04.html). Does that mean there is a "tax" that we pay when a company hires a new grad for less than $80,000? In addition, does anyone really believe that if Walmart did not exist, the current Walmart workers would have high paying jobs?

However, many of us do pay a "union" tax. Many local governments have significantly higher taxes because of union negotiated pensions and higher benefits. In addition, Americans also paid a "union tax" when we had to bail out GM a company whose union contributed to it's financial failure.
The BMJ published an article recently about hackers targeting hospitals, "The hackers holding hospitals to ransom":
http://www.bmj.com/content/357/bmj.j2214
Spanish big companies like Telefonica, Inditex, Iberdrola, Endesa... are being attacked too.

Seems serious.
NHS cyberattack: hospitals hit by ransomware across the UK UK
Custom ROM's are an unstable mess on most Android devices, Samsung being particularly notorious for poor developer support. Don't be surprised when 911 calls don't work [1] [2] [3] [4].

[1] http://www.androidcentral.com/cyanogenmod-team-dropping-supp...

[2] https://forum.xda-developers.com/note-3-tmobile/help/tmobile...

[3] https://plus.google.com/+CyanogenMod/posts/ePeEX2TRTYg

[4] https://www.reddit.com/r/cyanogenmod/comments/5lek7o/couldnt...
On a general level, did you or your classmates general fund these masters degrees themselves? And what is the career path / expected compensation after completion of program? Asking as a web dev with only a few years experience but making ok startup-world money. I'm curious, being interested in such a route but also a little older and trying to catch up financially after a pre-tech career.
I guess it depends on how you see things. I see Google wanting to exert their own power and control on you as well. See all of their own property integrations into search results, quoting the first result as an "answer" whether it be right or wrong, snippets in news, Amp, Yelp and other suing Google for preferring its own placements, Google recommending you install a modern browser called Chrome when you're using Firefox (not sure if they do this anymore. I'd assume not).

Google also linking to the web after ads or their own stuff is a benefit over FB of course. But I don't see that being Google's focus.
This is rather worrisome, but I sure didn't see any lack of mosquitoes last summer :-(

Maybe this is affecting the "good" insects while the "bad" ones are thriving...
Then you have to trust the tumbler
>Empirically, the number of IPOs in the USA has dropped, and the size has increased.

The empirical evidence could also be explained by other factors such as increases in availability of venture funding.
It uses ML and AI in the cloud to identify people who don't read the linked article before commenting. It is working brilliantly.
Sounds like ransomeware https://twitter.com/asystoly/status/863027172453351424
Costco sells boxes of consumer stuff in a huge warehouse at discount prices.

That is comparing macintosh to golden delicious.
I don't know what genre this is considered, but I used Shazam on the music in the videos, and the artist in most of them is "Electric Mantis". Found 'em on Spotify. Good tunes.
Why does it always seem like "Lose real money" is the "E pluribus unum" of cryptocurrencies?
Look at they article. What they are lobbying for is looser regulations on the auditors so they can keep being lazy.
I think the trend towards more animation is fine on a micro-scale – buttons and so forth — but I predict there will eventually be a big backlash against these huge, complex parallax transformations. They are just too exhausting to watch.
>Costco competes head-to-head with Walmart on prices,

This isn't really true. Costco carries less than 4000 SKUs in its warehouses. Walmart carries 40000 SKUs. That's an order-of-magnitude difference.

Costco competes more with (Walmart's) Sams Club warehouse but based on my shopping, their product selections don't overlap. (E.g. Costco has high-end wine that Walmart/SC doesn't carry.)

To make Costco vs Walmart an apples-to-apples comparison, Costco would have to eliminate the $60 to $110 annual membership fees, allow any non-member to shop there, and add 45000 additional SKUs.

I don't know anyone who shops at both Walmart and Costco on a regular weekly basis. Their business structures attract very different shopper demographics.
Facebook kicks of Mother’s Day weekend with flower reactions,stickers,masks&more
There's no 100 year business for the web period. It's only a few decades old. You can predict all you want about Google or Amazon, but you don't know where they'll be in 50 years.
I've had more problems with linux subsystem than just booting up a vm. FUSE filesystem isn't even mountable on linux subsystem, along with thousands of others various problems you'll probably come across building automation scripts.
Ah well, maybe you're right about that! I have to say I don't understand what they've done.
Some portuguese too: EDP, PT and NOS...
Seems like non-targeted ransomware - https://twitter.com/ShaunLintern/status/863032223469056004 - based on the modest $300 request.

Note: I've zero idea if that screenshot is legit but it's posted on The Health Care Journal website so it likely is.

Edit:

- Earliest Google result for "WanaDecryptor" is from Aug 2015 (All other search results are from today):

> almost all of the files on the D drive is encrypted. C is not touched by the disc. file found is in the ProgramData folder, there is a hidden folder, the virus in it. When you delete a folder that is created again and the process starts again.

http://www.cyberforum.ru/viruses/thread1979411.html

http://www.cyberforum.ru/viruses/thread1979358.html

- Discussion from today mentioning it infecting Spanish Telecoms: http://gta-trinity.ru/forum/index.php?/topic/57671-novejshij....
Leak: 10.5-inch iPad Pro could be coming next month
Does relo package matter when moving for a tech job?
It is a derivative work, but selling derivatives of GPL-ed software is entirely legal and not forbidden by the GPL. Distributing binaries (regardless if for free or not) of GPL-derived software without distributing the source from which the binaries were derived (or without offering a reasonable way of getting the source on demand) is forbidden by the GPL.
Moreover, the source of the derivative work must be offered under the GPL.

(Edited to add the last statement above, for clarity.)
Unfortunately, what the law is is generally determined by more than the text of the law, but the law plus previous precedence so it's never enough to just look at the text of the law.
I believe it's already illegal to knowingly file a spurious lawsuit.
Friend of mine who works for the NHS sent me the following email:

All of NHS PCs and hospital systems have gone down from a ransomware trojan!

I have a full clinic this afternoon, and no way to look at my patients' histories, or meds. It's a damned disgrace.‎

The Trojan is demanding some bitcoins be paid, else they'll lose the boxen.

The entire NHS is penetrated.

I can't vouch for "the entire NHS is penetrated"
They can disagree all they want, but it is on them to prove that I agreed to buy a license, when I am physically holding something I bought. I didn't have to sign a contract for it. Adding terms after the purchase makes it a post-purchase agreement and that is unenforceable in most western jurisdictions.
Microsoft upgaming Google Material Design
Land-o-Lakes autonomous ag drone challenge with $150,000 in prizes
NHS: Hack forces hospitals across England to divert emergency patients
The bigger problem with this is that they are being made at 2009 electrical code specifications, and we're at 2017. Will they really be available anywhere outside of California?

The calculator will not go over 50%. So then what? Still pay for their tiles for the whole roof?

And what if 4 in the middle of my roof are bad? Or 10? or 4 this week and 10 next week? How many times do I have to have them out?

What about ALL the wires? Where do those all go? Each tile will have wires needing to connect to an inverter and the Powerwall? Electricians are already in high demand, how long will I have to wait for them to do this? Electricians are EXPENSIVE, do I have to pay for each hour they are repairing this system??

Powerwalls have a 10 year warranty. There is no cost for replacement included in their 30 year projections.

Is anyone believing this administration will continue the tax credit, on solar??

Solar shingles have been done. Every company has already discontinued them. CGI works in advertising, but doesn't work in reality.