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> Well I can blame OEM because I never asked for special features and skins on top of Android.

Did you buy an Android phone? Then it wasn't enough pressure.

There simply aren't enough people in the market who care about this to put much pressure on phone companies. Basically EVERYONE has a phone, and since almost none of them know about this issue they'll always make the purchases of people who do care a rounding error on the books.

Just like the 'I need a removable battery' or 'I want a hardware keyboard' people. They're real groups, but they have little sway in the market compared to the people who are indifferent (or at least willing to accept the trade-off grudgingly) so they don't get much traction.
Proper backup system?
"It's ridiculous to simply unilaterally declare that your moral system is more valid than someone else's".

Well my moral system is that I can do exactly that.

If morality is relative, then your opinion that I shouldn't do this isn't any better than my opinion that I should do this.

So I am just going to go ahead and do that.

What, are you going to call me immoral? YOU are the one who believes in moral relativism.
Came here to say this. I completely agree.
> When I worked in the movie box, that was not at all true. People would come in and ask about the movie. How long was it, whether it was any good, should they see another one instead? We gave them real answers.

Your smartphone gives you all of these answers now.
> Well this justifies MS's decision for forced updates in Win10. Not that I like it, just saying.

Unfortunately, I think the active hours period cannot be set to more than twelve hours, which is less than the time required for some surgical interventions. I can almost imagine it: OK everyone, ten-minute break while Windows installs its updates, this guy who's been on life support for the last ten hours can wait a little longer.

That's why updates are not forced on business-grade installs, and forcing them would be a very, very stupid decision.

Forced updates make sense for home users, since Microsoft can't depend on someone requiring them to keep their networks secure. For other types of users, second-guessing update policies is always a bad idea.
The current population is growing. Evidently there is enough resources to population at this level (food, water, space, air, energy, etc). If production of resources is automated why can't resources distributed to sustain current population?
> extreme long shots, like Iceland, are still not worth the risk.

Iceland lost against the hosts in the quarter-finals after thumping England. So much for that!
This is, as with every time you've posted it, a complete fiction. Android doesn't become "not Google's OS" because of the shoddy distribution method in use, and Google still does dictate to OEMs what does and doesn't qualify for release, as Google still has effectively complete control of the ecosystem via the MADA/Play Store license.
I present to you, this article: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/11/smarter-living/stop-roboc... . The following excerpt was particularly interesting:

Download apps such as Truecaller, RoboKiller, Mr. Number, Nomorobo and Hiya, which will block the calls. YouMail will stop your phone from ringing with calls from suspected robocallers and deliver a message that your number is out of service.

Mr. Quilici said phone companies, such as T-Mobile, Verizon and AT&T, also have tools to combat robocalls. They work by blocking calls from numbers known to be problematic.
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And then there is the Jolly Roger Telephone Company, which turns the tables on telemarketers. This program allows a customer to put the phone on mute and patch telemarketing calls to a robot, which understands speech patterns and inflections and works to keep the caller engaged.

The Jolly Roger solution looks delightful to me. It doesn't have an app as such but the solutions it offers are not bad and the price is good.
I think 8 years of experience plus solid references and projects speaks for itself. It's a resume that lists a 3 month boot camp, a github full of forked projects with no original commits (plus the obligatory ToDo app in rails), Senior Software Engineer title, $100k salary demand, leaving their first professional programming job after 6 months, can't speak knowledgeably about basic shit like IPC. I don't... have time... for this anymore.
GPU Open Analytics
So... I'm running Linux on all my systems, how bad will it be for me?
I have some play money in ethereum and will be speculating on a few ICOs. There's absolutely potential for these coins to do 10x or even 1000x. There's also potential for government interference or worse.

The money isn't meaningful and I'm 100% ok losing every dollar because I can't justify putting significant money in. That being said, I do know people who have made very significant money over the last year because everything keeps doubling.
If only economics was this simple!
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The main one is to have _all_ machines patched through windows update. That is what will protect you.

SMBv1 is an outdated protocol, in which there have been some severe vulnerabilities disclosed in the last few weeks, hence why I recommended to get rid of it at the same time.

That being said, the vulnerability being exploited here is in SMBv2, hence why patching all machines is crucial.
Your incredulity would be fully justified in the 1990s, but with every year that passes, it is becoming harder and harder to fully isolate computer systems from other computer systems. I'd like to think I wouldn't let untrusted devices near my power plant, but I have some sympathy for those who struggle to keep their stuff secure in a world where security is ever harder to achieve.
True, charging not explicitly prohibited. But since everybody you distribute to is free to redistribute it again without charge under the terms of the license, it does put a practical limit in place.
> Someone in a movie box isn't going to tell you about the movie, or have a conversation about it with you. They are there to take the most basic info (movie, time) and money, and give you a ticket. It's also always done thru a thick bit of glass that makes communication sometimes difficult if not painful.

This has not been my experience at all. People who work at theaters get discounted, if not free, tickets to movies and have often watched the featured movies themselves. They get to see how often people walk out, ask for a refund or praise a film. They can relate to your tastes and make recommendations based off of them. They can tell you if a movie isn't a great date flick and suggest another.

> Honestly, do we really like interacting with the people with minimum wage jobs? Not really. Most people seem to prefer the automated checkout, ordering on their phone, etc.

Speak for yourself. There is nothing more aggravating to me than self-checkout, it is slow, it is often buggy and I don't like having to scan, punch in codes and bag things myself. I hate having to wait for a manager's approval to apply a coupon or finish checkout because the machine decided I did something wrong and won't let me fix it.

Hell is having $20 a machine won't accept.

I prefer being able to speak with the people who are going to submit or prepare my order, because I can ask questions or customize what I want. I cannot do that with an app or touch screen menu.

> Most of these people also are not thrilled about their jobs and be lazy, or do a bad job

Again, speak for your own experiences.
Which they use to communicate between staff. I was at a renal clinic this afternoon and the staff there couldn't check to see if my doctor wanted them to do some bloods - so I can go back onto the transplant list.

If I am unlucky this means I could miss out on a potential doner kidney due to the delay
> Entire separate games (e.g. Hunger Games mod) have been implemented.

Reminds me of why I was hooked to Star Craft / SC Brood War in my youth, same thing with Counter-Strike. Video game modding is probably the best part of any video game, at least for me. There's a group of people redoing the Morrowind engine so they can allow the game to live on in other OS' for those who have the disk.

I have to wonder if GTA had never had online PC game mods if Rockstar would of ever made it an online game as soon as they did.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13907696

Pretty much what I went through, except actually less than ten miles from the Whitehouse.
> It doesn't incite to violence

Charlie Hebdo

> it's not bad for mental health

Causing someone to doubt and/or lose their religion is extremely damaging. It can lead to depression, anxiety, and other mental health crisis.

> it doesn't discriminate

Islam gets a lot more flak, than, say, Buddhists.

> It doesn't actually harm people, it merely offends them.

Speech is a weapon and can be very harmful. That's one of the major reasons totalitarian governments are terrified of free speech. In the West we've largely decided that the benefits of free speech outweigh the costs.
Thanks for the detailed response. You point out some interesting challenges that I hadn't fully considered. Overall, do you still prefer to contracting process and role to a traditional position?
In a perfect world there would be market pressure on device manufacturers: those device manufacturers who patch devices and ensure the patched versions are recertified, would win out over those who do not, in an environment where the expectation is for all these devices to be networked! But of course this requires a competitive market to exist, AND for recertification and patching to be trivial costs. Since they're not, even if a hospital administrator were to price in the risk of losing certifications on all their devices, it's likely that the risk would end up being less expensive than choosing that (potentially non-existent) security-conscious device manufacturer.

Anyone considering disclosure, responsible or not, should be aware of these types of secondary effects. Had these vulnerabilities hypothetically been discovered by a white hat or found their way to a leak-disseminating organization, the discoverers and gatekeepers should consider that not everything can be patched, and the ethical thing to do here would have been to notify Microsoft and wait for a significant product cycle to release technical details. I somehow doubt the Shadow Brokers had that aim, though. And it's saddening that even in the hypothetical case, many people would choose "yay transparency!" over a thoughtful enumeration of consequences.
It'd at least put a significant dent in public corporation's spending on it. If they share it in their audits and reports to shareholders, they get nailed on paying ransomware. If they hide that they paid out significant amounts of money, that's accounting and/or securities fraud. The biggest sensible course of action is to put the IT infrastructure in place that mitigates ransomware attacks.
Obviously some people prefer trains, but if the problem you want to address is winning over the people who don't, you'll need to engage with what makes trains unpleasant to them.

"Your commute is too comfortable, let's make it miserable" doesn't win elections.
Red Hat?
There are real limits to everything, because the universe has a finite mass and volume. But, that doesn't mean that it is not possible to engineer a working UBI.
I take your point about the myopia in this article, but as humans, we spend all day extrapolating on the limited information we see. We cross the street on the assumption that no rock will fall out of the sky and hit us. Do we know there isn't a rock flying in at that moment? No, but we weren't hit in the entire lifetime preceding that moment. So we cross the street. Or another example: It's 2007 and my home's value is double what it was last year. And it's been that way for the past few years. Of course it will continue this way forever. And so on. We can only consider the variables we are able to account for. You can't go into a state of inaction because you haven't considered all of the variables. You'll never do anything if that were the case.

Articles of this nature help to illustrate that the problem exists. Before we can focus on the "transition" support, we have to acknowledge and agree that there is, in fact, a problem. You might know there is an impending shift because we witness it (and create it) within the tech bubble, but the world at large is just coming to learn that change is coming. Kiosks at the movie theater are a natural extension of existing technology. It doesn't change the world. It's part of the process, but it's so minute that we don't consider there used to be 3 ticket sellers where there is only one now. It's the slow burn of progress before the inevitable shift that will come quickly and won't be entirely understood until after the fact. And as you said, we don't know what is coming, exactly, so how can we describe the solutions now?

Truthfully, from your example, I take it to mean that you are facing the same problem every employer has: finding skilled labor. It's the case now and it will be the case in the future. These are the inefficiencies of a market-based economy. They present opportunities for those who can capitalize on them. Those plumbers should be charging more.
What qualifies this as "terrorism"?
There is a counterbalancing force, which is hard to see going away, which is that larger companies have a harder time seeing which way the wind is blowing and getting ahead of the curve. They make decisions slowly, and tend to be wary about investing in risky things that might pull resources away from their existing profit centers. They have something to defend, so they're anchored to past decisions in a way smaller nimbler companies aren't.
To be clear, I'm talking about nulls and zero-length strings/bytearrays as values, not as keys. I suppose it does boil down to API design though, yeah.

I guess I'm saying: Querying for something and getting null, "", or bytes("") has a different meaning and - crucially - a different type than undefined or DNE. Supporting these just seems like such a straightforward win in terms of language interop and usability that I was curious what the constraints and such were that caused the current state of affairs. If it's been a while, I certainly understand. Just something that I've wondered for a bit.

Thanks for your time and response either way.
There is no need to remove the info. We can talk about jammers in the USA. Here: cut a hole in the door of a microwave oven. That's a jammer.
The author mentioned starting a static web server in any folder. I'd be interested in Windows solutions for this. I usually just run Apache and vhosts on my Windows laptop.
> strict internal controls on financial information. Which means that password rotation is necessary so that people who are not anymore allowed to access information does not have access to these information any more

How does rotating a password prevent access? That's access control, not authentication.

Unless it's a shared password, which is a bigger problem.
Head n Trails- an endless fast paced top score game to test your finger reflexes
I've found there is no such magic job. That's why it's called a "job" and not a "hobby that pays", and that's why the call what you get "compensation". Your pay compensates you for the time you spend doing something you otherwise would never choose to do on your own! The key is to just accept this transaction on its face and not go and assign deep personal meaning to it or get your self-worth all wrapped up in it.
I assure you the opposite trolls see it the opposite way. It's a cognitive bias. Everyone with strong ideological views sees HN as lined up against them.

Plenty of previous discussion about this at https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byPopularity&prefix&page=0&date....

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12422870

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13110004
> "Violence" is always somehow brought into the mix by conservatives.

The problem is that I am not a conservative. I've marched against the Iraq War at Berkeley. I believe in all free speech. It's not a partisan issue that you can shove off on me being some hypocritical conservative just because 'your side' is being forced to confront its own hypocrisy. This sort of intolerance that we're seeing at Berkeley today is not liberalism. It's a new and dangerous brand of fascism.
No Windows mobile has not solved that problem. Any updates involving firmware are still controlled by the carriers. It's a rather moot point as windows phone is dead anyway.

>The new process still does not provide firmware updates, as far as we know, so carriers and their bottlenecks will still be involved in upgrading phones.
It could also just be the NSA banking on everyone assuming it's someone using NSA tools.
I watched Munich trying to change to Linux, they even created a LiMux, a special distribution.

In my opinion, the biggest problem was UI and design. LiMux and all its programs just look like something that has been thought up in the 90s. No modern UI, no sleek design.

In addition, the interoperability is horrible. Its just not fun to work with something like that, not when you come home to an iPad oder a Windows 10 machine.

If there was any chance to roll out something other than Microsoft (or Apple, for that matter), government bodies must invest into the UI. If people have to fight with the OS and its applications every step of the way, it will never be accepted.
Are we watching this thing wake up right now?
Funny, I am Spanish and I just realised how confusing the verb 'to feel' can be.

The app translated it to 'sentirse', and I didn't do it correctly. Just after that I found the error.

'To feel' can be translated to 'sentir' or to 'sentirse' and both are correct depending on the context. 'To feel the wind' would be 'sentir el viento', but 'to feel bad' would be 'sentirse mal'. I conjugated 'sentir' and it was asking for 'sentirse'.
Oh no, a disruption? That is absolutely grounds for arrest.

She laughed. Big fucking deal. She could have said "suck a cock you suit wearing cunts." for all I care. That is not grounds for arrest- this isn't 1927. Besides, the hearing was probably hilarious.

Don't get me started on the reporter. A disturbance by yelling questions lol. What the fuck do you think reporters do? Politely whisper questions?
Any insight for someone that already works as a bioinformatics scientist that wants to move into deep learning?

I've got the programming, math, some stats, and am currently involved in research, but I only know a little about deep learning. I'm currently working my way through the course.fast.ai deep learning courses and am going to do Part 2 when it is released.

Any other resources that would be useful for getting a job in this area? Best to just work on my own projects?
I would find this super annoying while waiting in line to buy tickets.

If that's a service that makes sense to have theaters can always keep it. One staffed line for people that want to chit chat and automated kiosks for people like me who just want to buy a ticket.
I wish they would at least open up the APIs to the public... mostly so I can use it to track down people setting off fireworks and personally go yell at them. So maybe that's a bad idea.
This really reminds my of the glory days of clip art :) I for one really liked those so no harm meant :)
The next thing is clippy coming back (oh wait that's all those chat bots) :)
A simple patching policy would have fixed this
> New tech is giving outsize advantage to the major players across almost every industry, who can afford to invest in creating internal teams for these big new technologies.

Oohh, this very much.

Inside Amazon warehouses, there are tens of thousands of employees called 'Pickers'. They walk around with these handscanners with 300x300 pixel screens that tell them where to go and what item to get next.

For two years, my job was to make the UX of that application a little bit faster. Not the order to pick the items (another team) not the decision of which shipments should be processed next (also different team) or which items should be picked by which picker (you guessed it- a different team). Just the UX for the 0.9MP of screen space in front of the user.

Labour costs for that job are in the hundreds of millions per year, so any team that made a 1% improvement to overall efficiency would be covering its own costs a many times over. And we did.

Amazon can afford to get those small 1% gains multiple times per year, but for smaller companies the gains wouldn't pay for the costs. If they want to beat Amazon, they'll need to find a very big win that Amazon didn't see first. The only company I can think of that did that was Kiva Robotics- wait, it's called Amazon Robotics now.
They drop the check out of courtesy.

On occasion—if I've been in a hurry, for example—I've gotten my card out once done eating and had it ready to hand to the server when they bring the check.
Microsoft Is Building VR MMO for Xbox and PC, Job Listing Indicates
Well yes that's obvious, I meant more along the lines of:

Are there any ways to detect and stop it from happening in 2017? Third party software? New group policies from MS?
Pesticide sales went up 13% between 2006-2007[1] (current growth is about the same[2]). While pesticides have existed for a while, their use is growing quickly and the chemicals used are getting stronger and more refined. This same wild growth pattern is copied by drugs - the other chemical market.

Compared to 30 years ago, drugs and pesticides are everyday items now.

This could easily explain the more recent detection of insects like bees being affected as levels of pesticides in the environment could now have reached high enough levels.

[1]https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2015-10/documents...

[2]:https://ourworldindata.org/fertilizer-and-pesticides/#pestic...
I used to believe that. I don't any longer. Your second paragraph basically agrees with me that bash affords bad code that ignores errors. I think it's past time for the programming world to take that seriously. We've had 60-some years of programmers insisting they can heroically just remember all the things they need to do to write correct code. And they are observably wrong. To disagree with me on that is basically to assert that software is nearly universally of a high quality and generally robust to all reasonably forseeable error conditions.

Shell goes even beyond that, though; as evidenced by articles like this you can't even get good agreement on how you should write safe shell. When even experts can't agree on what's safe, that's just something unsuitable to any serious task.
Oh, and I'm flying tomorrow, what software does an Airbus run on?
U.S. Says Reviewing Use of Kaspersky Security Software Amid Concerns
This is one of my favourite blogs. The author is able to extract thought-provoking stories and insights from very unlikely places. The heavy use of photos is no doubt an important part of the formula. Most of the photo essays fall outside of HN's typical interests, though.

I linked to some of my favourite entries here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13825177
> 99% of movies today are crap

Survivorship bias. They always have been.
Actual hate speech laws, laws against holocaust denial, getting arrested for saying offensive things on twitter, that kind of thing.
As far as I can see it hasn't moved the needle on Bitcoin/$ today though.

Ransom ware was a play for big Bitcoin holders to unwind large positions at the highs without too much downward pressure in Bitcoin market.
I worry that they might sell it as a reason backdoors are necessary: if only we had backdoors, we could've saved those patients! The flaw of this logic would be lost on most lawmakers.
Development on OSX has never been that great. It's tolerable for iOS and OSX apps because it's the only option, but for any other target Linux and Windows are better. That's become even more true as Apple's focused their devices more on content consumption.