skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find that article hilarious with this context: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/02/googl...
Statutory Maternity Leave in the UK is 52 weeks (you don't have to take it, of course). Statutory Maternity Pay is 39 weeks, with the first six at 90% of your average weekly salary, and the rest at £140 a week (or 90% again if that's less). Details here: https://www.gov.uk/maternity-pay-leave

The UK is one of the worst countries in Europe for this, though still substantially better than the US.
1. It was more than just a known known flaw, there was actual tools released, it was not simply "hey we know this flaw in SMB is there

2. Timely discloure is very important, and could have infact prevented this, If the NSA knew about this years ago then chances are far far far far more systems including the older XP/2003 system could have been patch, and some systems may have never had the flaw at all. So it is completely false to say that even if the NSA would have disclosed it when they found it everything would have still happened the way it did. The Patches where only released for Win7/10/2008/2012 2 months ago, many companies hold back MS patches for any where from 1 to 3 months because MS has shitty quality control. On top of that MS stopped allowing individual patches instead going to a "update rollup" meaning you take all of MS's shitty patches or none of them

Further XP and 2003 Patchs where not released until Sat.
This article is a joke. The New York Times is a joke.
Same. After a few back and forth emails that sort of formality seems overdone at times.
Different countries have wildly different etiquette in academia. When I began graduate studies in Finland, it really was odd to suddenly be expected to address all faculty, from the freshest docent up to the elderly grand old man of the department, by their first names.
Lenovo lists the X260 as vulnerable to CVE-2017-5689 [0], implying it supports AMT. My X240 definitely has AMT, it would be a bit odd for them to remove it in later generations.

[0] https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/product_security/LEN-14963
Since when was Windows 8 unsupported?
AMT is enabled by default (but not provisioned) on an X220, for example.
I'm a city person, currently living in New York; I often have these types of discussions with people, and it's very easy for any one of us to forget that people can fundamentally value very different things, and that one of the important things in life is to find out what you value, and prioritize it accordingly.

Two of my friends live in Texas, in moderately large houses; they're justifiably proud of them, but all I see is a huge expanse of wasted space, a lawn to upkeep, and nothing (except neighbors) to walk to. Meanwhile, they look at my life and see a tiny cramped apartment where our baby has to sleep in our bedroom, and a commute that's twice as long as theirs standing shoulder-to-shoulder with people.
DRM is data asking "dear program, please don't let to copy me". It falls apart
the moment you have anything to interpret data that doesn't honour this
request. Encryption, on the other hand, is a technically sound idea.
I feel like there is a big difference between the grammar/informality issue and the first name issue. I think students using bad grammar or texting language is unacceptable, it's just disrespectful. But I think students being on a first name basis with teachers is — in some ways — actually a good thing. The relationship between student and teacher should be one of collaboration in pursuit of learning, not an authoritative one.
We've updated the link from https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/makers-of-crowdfu..., which points to this.
Right, "sould learn" is more perspective than you or I meant.
I think you are confusing right to work with at will employment.
Hotspot Shield 6.20.29 Elite Edition and Patch
A (probably apocryphal) story which I heard when spending a few weeks at a facility deemed of the greatest interest to spooks a couple of decades ago was that the security services tended to identify infiltrators by questioning the bar maid at the local pub.

Apparently, regulations required the agents to only have small beers, presumably to avoid indiscretions while inebriated.

Only problem was, none of the locals ever ordered small beers, as the general practice was to get wasted enough to forget what a godforsaken place you'd wound up in, if only for an evening.
Let's talk about prior art about this patent claims.

I remember using software from Barco to position application Windows on a videowall that predates that patent at least five years.

Maybe getting prior art at hand could be good (just a suggestion)
I said "either my talk is not interesting, or you (the audience) is not interesting, or both. Please try to disabuse me of the latter".

Please try to be more diligent about what you are complaining about. It's clear that I didn't mean remotely what you imply.

Why wouldn't you take the trouble to check your memory before writing the above?
And this is fine why?
isn't it great that we have reached the times when we can put Belfast and tranquility in one sentence.
Depends on the context.

In the US, I've had a lot of classes where the professor tells everyone to call them by their first name (most people don't end up doing that). Also if you work more closely with them as a research assistant or TA or something, first names are common. I'd feel weird walking into the office of a professor I haven't met before and calling them by their first name, though.
And 15% federal payroll taxes
They never said it cured it. They said it can help.
WannaCry tip – Does not affect GNU/Linux
The WannaCry RansomWare will not affect a GNU/Linux system.

Therefore, the best way to protect yourself at this time is to install a Linux distro such as Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian etc.

You can install it next to your existing OS and get back to Windows when the threat is over.
Codecademy's model tends to be very poor for topics that are sufficienty theoretically complex, as the turnaround time between exercise beginning and conclusion appears to be about 5 minutes for non-project work.

Repetition/drilling for understanding and examination of knowledge by self-testing are wholly absent.

Projects like "free code camp" can dodge this problem because the staff is working for free as an open source project, but it would take a lot more 5 minute segments to teach someone linear algebra, the theory behind any type of model, and the background information that is necessary to generate provably compelling insight than companies like Codeacademy seem interested in tackling.
> You will never offend or annoy someone by being overly formal and polite.

I get that the average person in the English-speaking world might claim that, but Europeans and many other peoples whose languages have a tu/vous distinction are well aware that sometimes you can inadvertently offend or even intentionally belittle someone by actually using the more formal way of address. Context is everything.
A 5% deposit is not actually available from a lot of lenders. In some cases, a new build apartment is only offered at 20%, sometimes even a 25% deposit is needed. Even if you do get a mortgage with a 5% deposit, it will probably be on a new build, which may have a much higher price that nearby property that isn't.

It is true that most of the banks expect you to have a backer, parents, recent inheritance etc. I had a mortgage advisor that was surprised that I didn't have such a situation, which shows the state of those buying in London right now.

Most of the people I know under 30 that have recently bought, had such a circumstance through inheritance, with large deposits going down. A 500k, 2 bedroom flat, with a 100k deposit can have a mortgage of £1000 a month. If you were to rent the same flat, you would most likely play £2000 a month.

The situation that a lot of people haven't talked about is single people attempting to buy, probably because it almost never happens anymore. Even at a modest £250k, this still will require a lot of cash in the bank and high salary, so single people are now stuck with renting until they meet someone.

To those who are wondering why you would buy central London at all, its definitely down to lifestyle. If you go out a lot in the city, getting a uber home is the difference between £15 and £50. The ability to walk to work for some people is also extremely important, as they have a feeling that when they do marry and have kids, they will move out to the suburbs and take a 40 minute train every day.
> I've been looking for a fast, simple, pure Go key-value store.

Shameless plug: If you have write-once (or seldom) and read-often kind of access pattern for JSON documents, I wrote a simple (619 LOC), pure Go key-value store, that supports this use case: microblob[1]. It logs in common format, uses a single file backend and scales up and down with RAM..

[1] https://github.com/miku/microblob
Yeah, everyone got so riled up they forgot to see that this article is from 2013
I'm all for people getting called what they want - and the staff in question have earned the professional rank they're insisting on, so it's only polite to follow their wishes.

The broader point that formal academic titles matter generally (outside the particularly cultural environment these professors find themselves in) is much less convincing, though. As a graduate student we referred to the most senior faculty by first name without a moment's thought - and without loss of respect for their professional skills. That was simply the cultural norm in our department, and we conformed. As an undergraduate at a different university staff preference varied, but our respect was generally conditioned on teaching competence, not what title they'd chosen. I now have my own PhD and a university research job, and frankly my status compared to undergraduate students is high enough just with that, without insisting on them referring to me as "Doctor".

Likewise, the value of being able to signal your understanding of formality (and your lower position) by dressing formally for a job interview doesn't mean that it's necessary for workplaces to insist on collar-and-tie every day. Norms change.
Out of interest (I think this forum is not short of people who are in a position to answer): what is the general opinion among US mathematicians about that "new math" experiment?

I know that it has a terrible reputation, but was it a plain bad idea, or a good idea implemented poorly, or a good idea implemented well but unfairly maligned?
not much obviously, I am only storing critical data in tarsnap. Like others have said, if you are storing large GB's or TB's of data, rsync.net or something may be a better solution.
> how can this be worth it for the hackers?

Depends on where they live. For most people on Earth this is a very large sum of money that will go a long way (just not 'here' in the countries where the virus spread).
First to reply the parent claim: the majority of Chinese reactions come from people who receive zero money from the fame of martial arts. Therefore, money cannot account for the overwhelming reaction. To check, who do you think receive money from the kung fu mystery?

Now to answer your question: it is not about the amount of information, it is about one's belief. Belief has to be shaken from within; otherwise, opposite information from outside often only compound one's belief.

The belief in the traditional martial arts is a zen that to most it is an ultimate goal, not a reality. Defeating kung fu practitioners does not mean that true kung fu masters who obtained the zen can be similarly defeated.

Beliefs, culture, and faith are not in the scientific domain. And philosophically, it is questionable that currently accepted scientific domain is superior to beliefs, culture, and faith.
I've been baking a variant of this recipe for several years now. It's the best bread I've made at home hands down. If you have a dutch oven (even a large cookie tray and upside down stainless steel bowl will do the trick), do try it!
HIGHLIGHTS: Atalanta 1-1 Milan
A couple hundred isn't that expensive for a comforter. Ever been to Williams Sonoma? And that's basically on the lower tier of the high end.

If anything, the only thing backers should be worried about is if they wind up having to spend all their money on litigation defense and not being able to go produce the thing.
There's a great resignation letter featured in the Scottish papers this week that is rudely polite.

https://www.eveningtelegraph.co.uk/fp/weird-abrupt-scottish-...
I should have known better.
Hi, do you guys hire any entry level engineers? I don't see any relevant positions on the website.
This is trivially solved with an ad blocker. Frankly, I do not see the problem. Why should you rely on Google/Paint.NET/state legislation when the solution is literally a few button clicks away on both chrome and firefox? All browsers should come with ad blockers by default. Hell, the OS should come with blocking hosts.txt. That would make the digital world a whole lot safer. And before you say the internet will die, I'd be more than willing to pay a subscription fee for stuff like youtube and twitch.tv. Or there could still be ads like here on hackernews, relevant and embedded in the site.
I was a lecturer at a community college. I was mostly referred to by my first name. Sometimes I was referred to by Mr. LastName (sorry Dr. LastName in this thread), and I quickly said, hey it's just FirstName.
Not for this particular project, but I'll keep it in mind for if/when I ever need it!
Tyler Cowen argues that the rule of casual is an impediment to upward mobility: http://www.businessinsider.com/wearing-casual-clothes-at-wor...
What you describe is often true in larger companies, but IME not in the kinds of 10-20 person outfits we're talking about here, or even quite a bit bigger.

At that level, one experienced "generalist" person who can do a whole job end-to-end can still get the same visible results as a small team of less experienced "specialist" people, and if we're talking about salaried staff then that single more experienced person is probably costing far less to hire than all of the other team put together because good senior people are disproportionately cheap to hire as employees.

The overheads of running a team mean it takes a surprisingly large project before it's necessary/advantageous to hire a much larger team of junior people rather than a much smaller number of senior people, assuming you have the choice.
8.1 is supported, 8 is not. Support for Windows 8 ended on January 12, 2016.
I'm curious why these ads are even allowed to get through the network in the first place. Is there just NO content reviewing taking place? That's seems negligent on Google's part. There is no reason for an ad like that to exist on any webpage, period. It should have been blocked at the source.

Where is the 3-strikes policy in the ad space? Google is so eager to punish its Youtube streamers for running questionably offensive content, and yet it continues to let advertising scum like this run rampant across its ecosystem.
For me personally, it's about the effort put into communication. Using poor grammar and spelling makes the author seem lazy or even arrogant, as though their message were so important that the recipient will not mind spending extra effort trying to understand it.

I think I would not mind informality by itself as long as the thought behind the text is clearly communicated, to the best of the writer's ability. However, I suspect that better thought-out communication naturally leads to a more formal style of writing, which might include using the proper forms of address.
In my experience, this stems from a difference in comfort level between students and professors. Professors often begin class on the first day by inviting people to call them by their first name. Students, however, are normally intimidated and still call them Dr. whatever. Thus, the professor wants to be on a first name basis with the class, but the feeling is not reciprocated.
The relationship between employee and manager should also be not authoritative, right?
There were a couple of things I found interesting. One was the article's assertion that David Bruce was clearly regular Foreign Service, yet his bio shows he worked for the OSS, the direct predecessor of the CIA.

>Bruce, David KE--b Md 2/21/98, m (Evangeline Bell).
>Princeton U AB 19. Mem Md bar. US Army 17-19,
>42-45 col overseas. PRIV EXPER ...
>GOVT EXPER with Off Strategic Sers 41-45

The other is the date of publication, just before the Church committee crippled the CIA for a number of years. It makes me wonder how this fits in with all the other events of that time.
Story of QF72: What happens when 'psycho' automation leaves pilots powerless?
As much as I agree that the problem is solved for those who know about ad blockers, many people (e.g. non-hacker news types!) do not know about them. In any case, whether users can solve this by installing an ad blocker is beside the point - this is really shitty behaviour that I wouldn't have expected Google to allow, or for Paint.NET to allow on their site.
WannaBet?
https://twitter.com/hackerfantastic/status/86335937578792550...
Especially when you consider irrigation water.

In my ruralish community, irrigation water is less than 1/10 the price of potable water, because it is so much easier to produce.
The relevant service provides some information about your device to Google, which makes a decision (I'd assume based on heuristics or ML) about your device's integrity compared to Google's baseline. An app's vendor can choose to condition the Play Store entry on the result of the Google calculation.

A rootkit, traditionally, hides its existence from you and provides root access (i.e., code execution as root) for some outside attacker. Oxford defines it as "a set of software tools that enable an unauthorized user to gain control of a computer system without being detected;" Veracode defines it as "a clandestine computer program designed to provide continued privileged access to a computer while actively hiding its presence;" Wikipedia, citing McAfee, says that a it's "designed to enable access to a computer or areas of its software that would not otherwise be allowed (for example, to an unauthorized user) and often masks its existence or the existence of other software." I think these two properties are the core of what makes a rootkit a rootkit (and also the core of what makes it bad).

This Google service neither attempts to hide its existence nor does it provide remote access / code execution to anyone.

The closest term I can think of for something that provides information to others is "spyware", but even that's a serious stretch. This utility is most similar to the function called by desktop software installers that check to see if you have enough disk space, so the installer can choose to abort based on the result. And I'd definitely not call that a "rootkit" or "spyware".
I'm in America, I never know what to call my professors, they're normally PhD/Masters candidates. Rarely have I had an actual PhD. It makes approaching them in a social/networking context damn near impossible. You can't approach them like you would a stranger because they'll recognize you from class.
I wonder whether those experts and resources used on space could do feasible climate engineering...

The only environmental existential risk (apart from the human extended phenotype of course :) ) is climate-based, no?
Back in the late 90's the government of the time split the NHS into Trusts and outsourced the IT to the likes of ICL (not sure who does it now). With that the last time any major overhaul was done upon the hardware and software was Y2K and as with most outsourced IT contracts it focused upon support from a reaction basis and not a proactive one.

With that the GSN (Government Secure Network) is still a good ring-fence (that's outsourced as well) but once something gets inside, boom.

Now with the Trusts - they do have a local IT bod and in the cases I dealt with, somebody who knew how a PC works and enthusiastic, which is nice but also dangerous and I had to deal with a few issues that were as I call them "enthusiastically driven". As such you have all these Trusts operating at some level as independants and with varity of results.

One case, was one `IT manager` at a Trust who was posting on a alt.ph.uk (UK hacking usenet group) and offering up inside information about how they operated. That did not happen as the alt.ph.uk lot are a moral ethical lot and health services are taboo, so was rightly shot down and equally the chap was soon in talks with security services.

But with so many legacy systems, and an event driven support mentality (again Y2K being an exception) then such events can and will happen. Sadly many trusts lack provision to handle such issues and as with many IT area's are event driven instead of being proactive. Indeed ITIL the golden managment love-in solution for support management is event-driven and many an implementation ticks all the ITIL boxes of compliance and yet still lack proactive support. This alas is mostly gets compared to firefighters pouring water on buildings so they won't catch fire and sadly pretty darn systemic in many an organization.

With that the best anybody in IT can do it to flag up an issue in a documented way to cover there ass then the outlined event does transpire to prevent unfair scapegoating. A sad situation of which many of not all IT support staff in all capacities can attest too.

Ironicaly DOS based legacy systems with no networking and exitic ISA cards in some equally over-priced hardware still work and the need to replace them does become moot, alas that example gets projected upon other systems that are networked. But the whole health industry has many legacy setup's that are expensive to replace, more so if they work and the motivation to limit potential damage from future events above and beyond backup's becomes a management issue that lacks a voice for budgets.
I think the reaction against New Math was a part of the general reaction against all of what many viewed as the "weirdness" of the 60s, an anti-intellectual attitude that was often used by powers-that-be that also felt threatened by these upheavals.

My, I'd be happy if we had military dictatorship which imposed a new order including the metric system, radians instead of degrees and algebra from 1st grade onward. But I don't think that program would have a sufficient constituency.
The article points out that the phone-home domains this ransomware uses were generated by keyboard-mashing. Can we tell what keyboard layout was used?
Not trivial, I'd say it in the sense that's it's fundamentally ingrained into our culture.

Additionally renters are almost treated like second class citizens, most rental contracts are short (12 months), real estate agent fees are exorbitant and clauses in rental contracts are designed specifically to protect and nurture the landlords investment, i.e. you cannot redecorate, put pictures up, own pets etc
Graduate students are colleagues -- they write papers with, present alongside, and publish in the same journals and conferences as professors. The expectation of formality is rightfully less. Undergrads are a whole different story; >90% of them have no future in academia and you are training them to succeed in a the working world. A large part of that includes grovelling and kissing ass. Despite not being a very formal person at all I found myself strongly agreeing with this article.
Show Desktop for Mac to minimize windows and restore in a click
You don't necessarily need to hire a lawyer, but I've always found this to be one of the pains of the American costs system.

On the other hand, a court can't really order you to work for the company, so even if by some miracle they were successful, it'd come down to a matter of damages, and those would be difficult to prove even if you went to work for a direct competitor.
If only some guy with a long beard had told us for the last 30 years what was going to happen! :)