skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So you'd slow the researcher by a few minutes of extra disassembly time if they needed to be careful - what would the malware authors gain here? A few more potential payments in that timeframe? Same time could be invested in improving the sandbox detection instead of creating fun decoys that will be identified anyway. It was still only version 1, we'll see how v2 evolves.
Tempest in a teacup, much?

Even if the paint didn't wash away (it does), a couple of orange manhole covers are hardly a big deal.
This made me think about the time I saw a deliveroo rider being carried away in a stretcher after an accident. It upset me to think that I'm pretty sure theres a customer waiting for their food and most likely cursing the rider/ sending angry emails
Not in any useful way. End-to-end encryption is a joke if you use a client controlled by a corporation. And a corporation can always implement a backdoor without you knowing to help the state.
Lessons learned in school: overestimate and underestimate are both just one word, no spaces needed.
This is why the Left wants to add "A" (for art) to STEM making it STEAM. Because they think that math is simply a way to oppress women and certain minorities.
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Oh come on, you did understand what I was saying otherwise you wouldn't know the article had more details about how it's a check to know if the code is being ran in a sandbox.

There was no need for the condescending tone.
Google has a lot of content, for example "Chrome DevTools => Analyze Runtime Performance =>
Get Started With Analyzing Runtime Performance" [0].

But an important piece of advice is at the bottom of one of their pages [1]: "Avoid micro-optimizing your JavaScript". Apart from their argument there, keep in mind you are programming for a number of very different runtime environments. An optimization that gives you a big boost in one implementation may slow you down on another one. That is true not just between various vendors but also among runtime versions from the same vendor.

[0] https://developers.google.com/web/tools/chrome-devtools/eval...

[1] https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/performance/r...
Not " regulars" in most cases

New carriers are "temporary" until a route is open. They do the sunday and holiday deliveries. They get fired every 360 days and after 5 days they get rehired.

Thats why i said "lucky" there is a two tier structure
Thank you :).

FWIW: `Nice refutation.` were the only words of the original post I replied to.
>Population will grow exponentially until something bounds it.

That "something" doesn't have to be market forces, and it doesn't have to limit growth by killing.

Birth control works just as well (if not better).
Let's say some pawnbroker is "flexible" about the provenance of goods. How do thieves benefit from being forbidden from selling to him?
I was looking at the job board here in Canada and saw a rural postal delivery job. It said it paid $15,000 but $7,500 of that was for vehicle expenses. You need your own vehicle with a plug able to plug in the post office light for the roof.

I can't see how this would appeal to anyone or how it is even legal. If you worked an eight hour day that's only $3.60 per hour.
I'm from Norway and the economy is quite regulated. We're still/therefore (take your pick) very successful [1].

Macro economy is complicated. It seems obvious to me the it's not as simple as "just let everyone run free". On the other hand regulation has it's disadvantages as well. Complicated.

[1] as in #3 in the world: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nomi...
It is absolutely Microsoft's fault.

Many of the existing XP computers a big monolithic systems that have been decentralized so Microsoft could sell more licenses.

Think networks of retail stores using hundreds or thousands of PCs for their point-of-sale. Or government agencies like the DMV with locations in every rural county.

They put a PC on every not-quite-a-desk.
Wearing my fiction writer hat - I found this fragment fascinating:

DNA analysis is now one of the key tools police use in forensic analysis and identification cases.

It didn't exist back in 1970.

But it turns out several tissue samples from the woman's organs, including from her lungs, heart, adrenal gland and ovaries, have been stored at Haukeland University Hospital.

Makes me wonder what kind of "perfect crime" may be committed today, where the criminal literally achieved technical perfection, only to be caught 40 years later by a forensic technique that doesn't even exist today.
I was curious how Windows 8 could already have reached the end of its support lifecycle. Turns out Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 are no longer supported but Windows 8.1 Update still is. Great naming scheme...
...Does this guy actually know any economics? He's pretty much just googling and copy-pasting without any real understanding. Here's a better article

The employment effect of the minimum wage is one of the most studied topics in all of economics. This report examines the most recent wave of this research – roughly since 2000 – to determine the best current estimates of the impact of increases in the minimum wage on the employment prospects of low-wage workers. The weight of that evidence points to little or no employment response to modest increases in the minimum wage.

http://cepr.net/documents/publications/min-wage-2013-02.pdf
I am not sure that being able to trigger the deletion of all data in one sweep would be of any interest to the attacker. Firstly, if they simply chose to stop ransoming decryption keys, the encrypted data would effectively be deleted anyway, and secondly, deleting the data would foreclose on any prospect of further gains from the attack.
However, this is rather theoretical. All that common malware does is hide/delete all your existing directories, and put EXEs (or LNKs) with folder icons and the names of the original directories in their place. Plus maybe some autorun tricks.
Renault and Nissan also targeted by ransomware hackers
> stealing from the poor and giving to the rich via inflation

Inflation is a tax on assets. Isn't that the exact opposite of taking from the poor?
Disable SMBv1 before you connect it!
Whenever someone trots out the "basic laws of economics" it usually means they're trying really hard to ignore the complexities of reality and force the world to fit into a simplistic and wrong model in their head. Study after study supports his position while yours is purely ideological and not in alignment with the facts. Rather than even discuss the facts, you've flipped to accusing him of being an authoritarian, and you think you're being the rational one here... really?

Try and understand that not everyone thinks employment is the end goal, rather being able to live a decent life is and that requires a livable wage and most of the western world has decided it's better to have a decent safety net that defines that floor than to let people be forced by circumstances to work for less than a livable wage. Try and understand what the words "wage slavery" mean to those who find meaning in that term, regardless of how you feel about it.

All democracies are authoritarian in the sense that you use the word; the minority will always feel wronged in some way by the majority forcing them to do things they're ideologically against. Using the word in that way makes it meaningless and makes your argument look weak.
It's already too late in most cases, getting permanent residence rights elsewhere in the EU requires you to have lived there for 5 years; but there's under 2 years left before UK citizens lose their rights to work elsewhere in the EU. So you'd have to emigrate as a non-EU citizen, unless you qualify under one of the get-out clauses (eg joint citzenship, or you go to work in the EU and then have an accident that prevents you from ever working again(!))
News article: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-39817300
> you need to change your prices or adjust your business model.

so its better for a job to not exist rather than exist without reasonable wage?
Yup I would agree from what I have seen end up happening at schools that are given tech but don't have the long term resources to utilize it right.

Ideally you pay attention to the people who have done some teaching and know something about tech like Sal Khan. He understood what tools kids need only after spending a bunch of time teaching kids.

Tech is not magic just like information access is not magic. Libraries have existed for a longer time than schools have but we don't send our kids to libraries cause a good guide makes more of a diff in where kids end up in life than just access and tools.
Could you please provide an example of such experiment involving quantum phenomena?

Also doesn't the proposition that the act of designing/conducting some experiment and the noise generated by some events that took place in past (but can't be classically observed at the moment of conducting the experiment because the light generated by those events didn't reach the location of the experiment before the moment of finishing the experiment) cannot be correlated contradicts the non-locality of quantum mechanics?
Fuzzing Irssi
All I understood was that you seemed unsure about the purpose of the domain check, so I pointed you in the right direction. Sorry if that came off as condescending.
They even have their own Silicon Valley: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zelenograd#Industries
I have a daughter in the local school district.

They use Lenovo Chromebooks which are built like brick sh*thouses with proper full-travel keyboards and touchscreens.

Chromebooks work, and I am a big fan of them in education. I have a pretty good idea how hard our teachers work, and I'd hate to think of the Windows bullshit being imposed them, like it's imposed on me and my coworkers.

Chromebooks free up teachers and IT admins from Windows update administration, anti-virus software install and administration at the computer level, and from most other malware other than browser extension malware.

Google Docs is incredible and a huge step forward to the point that where possible, most of my own notes are accessible to me from anywhere I can get into my Google account.

For a child, this means they no longer have to schlep a laptop around. Just an account and a Chromebook or other thin client are needed.

I'm a big fan of Microsoft's recent changes, and generally a pretty heavy Windows user warts and all, but it's interesting that Microsoft have never been able to make say cross-machine sync'd folders work, despite pushing it for like 15 years, whereas DropBox has built a giant business from it.
No. But it lets teachers work even less while collecting solid-gold pension plans.
True, plus, I forget the legislation but you are effectively breaking into the computer first which is a crime. Committing a crime for a noble outcome is still a crime.

Incentives is a real issue here and those that provide the patch would, reasonably, expect a reward i.e. MS for updates, AV provider for testing, finding and securing the vulnerability and a whitehat for disclosure.
However, there is no reason why a "charitable" hacking group wouldn't do this as part of some sort of digital vigilantism. Sometimes people do things without extrinsic reward and the thrill here is that it is as hard as cracking, but you get to know that your efforts could be immediately applied.
>Where do you get this? Drivers are included in the Linux Kernel, it is impossible for a driver to "break" across minor version of Linux, if a driver breaks the kernel fails and is not released.

Linux comes with a limited set of device drivers in the main source tree, just like Windows' bundled drivers. Most of this thread is about rare medical equipment or proprietary drivers/programs from companies that have gone out of business.

Also, the Linux kernel ABI routinely breaks drivers, unlike Windows which happens much more rarely.

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-Ke...
Oh, I found on another post: https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/msrc/2017/05/12/customer...
"Typically it's assumed that there is at leas factor of ten increase when developing with aerospace standards. "

To my understanding Skunk Works developed e.g. the Blackbird from scratch with much better cost efficiency than a modern greenfield project would if they followed best practices written in stone. I think high quality engineering can be implemented with far less cost if the project allows for iterative development and efficient communication and ownership between stakeholders (e.g. the engineer and the machinist can figure things out on their own instead of rotating everythong through cost and quality control authorities). Ben Rich [0], an ex Skunkworks director laments at length of the inefficiency of bureaucratic style of product development - which is probably an outgrowth of the same phenomena that causes so many bullshit jobs. So, to my mind what things like F-35 cost and what are the intrinsic costs of proper, durable engineering are not entirely related.

[0] Rich, Skunk works
I have mixed feelings about this. Personally, working as a contractor at Google was one of the interesting jobs I have had and I generally like Google.

That said, after reading Dave Eggers' excellent book "The Circle" last year and having watched the movie yesterday, I was reminded of the dangers (even if fictional in the case of the book) of a monopoly controlling knowledge. The book/movie is obviously about Google and information monopolies even if the fictional company is named The Circle. Buying the education business with free/inexpensive services definitely increases Google's chance of being the information monopoly.

Personally I like to pay for services. I pay for FastMail and just use GMail as a backup email. I pay for Evernote instead of using free offerings like Keep. I pay for Office 365 to get lots of cloud storage and the Office apps for the rare times when I need them. I pay for using GCP and I buy movies and TV shows from Google Play and Apple. It is a cliche, but I like to be the customer and not the product.

I understand that School districts are on a tight budget, so it is understandable that they make use of free (or priced under-market) services.
Why even leave a comment like that.
Keep in mind this article makes... Little sense the way it was written. The DDoS attack at the time was done in a way that could be replicated by anybody. Multiple control networks gave jobs to IoT devices without real authentication. That means anybody known to pay off attackers would immediately get attacked by another group using the same sources. Maybe there's some stockpile of Bitcoin "just in case", but it would require a very special situation - not a common DDoS they talk about.
What you are talking about is a penetration pricing strategy. These generally fail. They are a good idea if (i) there are real first mover advantages or (ii) there is a steep learning curve or (iii) there are strong internal network effects. Preferably you have two of these. This is not true of most enterprise solutions. Generally, companies that adopt penetration pricing strategies do not generate enough cashflow for sustained innovation and are displaced by the services that invest in such innovation. Or, the service becomes completely commoditized and is often taken over by some form of open source option.
"Digital vigilantism" that's exactly it.
> (…you still can't crop pictures in LibreOffice…)

You can. It has been in Draw and Impress for a long time, and since LibreOffice 5.0 it's supported in Writer and Calc as well. 5.0 was released 2 years ago.
Minimum wages are relative to the country they are in and to the living standard there.
Angstrem has IC fabs (90 nm and 130 nm) in Russia but they bought the technology from the Germany (paid German company to build the fab).

Russians have designed their own microprocessors but they are manufactured in Taiwan by TSMC.
Interesting timing for this cyber attack given the recent news. Are Robert Mercer and Cambridge Analytica also being investigated?
Automatic Race Condition Detector
Yes, they do.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_semiconductor_fabric...
I think you must differentiate between a general purpose OS and a single-purpose OS.

Why isn't XP good enough to run a map kiosk in a mall? Or flight arrivals screen in the airport?

Face it, the needs of many single-use applications where solved decades ago...the need to constantly undergo the endless forced upgrade cycle waste a tremendous amount of human effort.
That's not how it works, luckily. There are laws to protect workers from this kind of crap.

If it wasn't for minimum wages, companies would make deals to pay workers lower and lower and there would be nowhere to work for a decent salary.
Show HN: Sequential because sometimes few lines of JavaScript is all you need
Open bug bounty
The reverse is people in countries with a low cost of living such as Indra or the Philippines come to work in Canada or the US. A $11 hour minimum wage here is probably equivalent to $50 hour back in the worker's home country.

Compare what rent or a house costs and food basics you'll see that to a worker quality of life depends on the minimum wage but mostly on the cost of living.
Fellow-travellers and useful idiots
Doug H, is that you?
Ridership goes up when bus lines are converted to tram lines, by something like 50%, or at least that's what I remember from an article I read years ago about that sort of thing here in Munich (which I can't seem to find).

Personally, I prefer the tram to the (Diesel) bus, since it's less shaky, less noisy, wider, longer and brighter. It's really a much nicer way to travel. Trams also tend to get their own signals and/or lanes a lot more than buses seem to, but that's of course not an inherent feature.
Ya but that's like a get out jail free card.
I have been through their stuff. It's very superficial. JavaScript has all kinds of implementation dependent mechanics when it comes to promises/async calls/recursion. And when they are happening together, all I want are two numbers at the end of the process. How long did this take and how much memory did this take.
TypeScript React Starter Project by Microsoft
SAML-tracer Firefox extension for examining SAML messages
Nuclear RTGs are a reasonable solution for power generation in the kW range if you could have a bank of them. The benefits are that they're not particularly radioactive (when enclosed) and they also generate copious amounts of heat as a byproduct. I think one is used in the Martian?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioisotope_thermoelectric_ge...
From a security standpoint the best thing is to stop adding features and fix security issues as they are found so the system gradually becomes secure.

The upgrade treadmill is good for microsoft's revenue stream, but bad for customers who already have a working system. New != better, just different. I guarantee you that w10 has just as many security holes as xp, they just haven't been found yet because it's so new.
Keybase – Crypto for Everyone on the App Store
CBMC is a Bounded Model Checker for C and C++ (experimental support for Java)
> Talking about 8, not 8.1

Windows 8.1 Update is basically a roll-up update service pack to Windows 8 and is a free upgrade. That's like complaining that the released patches work on XP SP2/SP3 but not the original XP.

If someone fails to update Windows 8 to 8.1 Update or has magically written software that works on Windows 8 but not 8.1 Update, it's on them.

>Many drivers tend to break as windows goes through changes. When I tried a preview of the windows 10 creators update I had a driver stop working right. There were also serious nVidia problems that broke the old driver versions; imagine that happening with your typical company that stops providing drivers after a year.

Those drivers are typically either using bad coding practices or relying on unsupported features or bugs. Maybe you should contact them as a customer and let your displeasure known. If enough people do that they may actually do something about it.
Stop the hyperbole. Your statement is insulting to all the victims of slavery and human trafficking.
> Same time could be invested in improving the sandbox detection

It isn't an either-or proposition, and the psychology of the conflict is important. If you force your opponent consider every possible move to be potentially dangerous, you slow them down by more than just the cost of the game with a domain name. And that's valuable.

Googling for "OODA Loop" might be helpful in thinking about this.
There is always less unskilled jobs than people willing to get them therefore the salary will go down to some minimal value if not regulated.

For example there are people who don't have to pay for an apartment and they can agree to work for $500/month and people who have to rent won't be able to compete with them.
I had access to others' file in Amazon Cloud Drive
Because today it's easier to destroy a country completely without boots on the ground, so people won't have to occupy it and won't bother to rebuild it?
I am really looking forward to reading this. Please start a discussion thread on this on the LinkedIn Design Thinking group as well. Really important work.
Password protected zip. And/or wrap in another zip is usually enough to thwart Gmail
4 Online Services to Find Old Domain Whois History Information
> It's not Microsoft's fault that people depend on Windows XP. IMHO it's the fault of companies buying hardware and software from manufacturers who are unwilling or unable to upgrade their product to run on newer versions of Windows.

It is Microsoft's fault. A software customer doesn't know that a vendor is going to go out of business or get bought by a competitor that discontinues their product and promotes an incompatible alternative with seven figure transition costs.

Microsoft are the ones who worked so hard to make sure that software for Windows isn't compatible with not-Windows, creating all their own alternatives to POSIX, OpenGL, Open Firmware and everything else so that it's as difficult as possible for software compatible with Windows XP to be compatible with any Unix or Linux, leaving the user out in the cold if it also isn't compatible with Vista or later.

> To put it another way: the only reason there is a huge demand for COBOL programmers is because banks are too spendthrift to rewrite their software in more modern languages.

The reason there is huge demand for COBOL programmers is that it's more reasonable to hire a COBOL programmer than to discard a working system with a multi-million dollar replacement cost. "Just throw away everything you own and start over from nothing" is only rarely cost effective.
I was just pointing out that according to the article some London banks ARE buying bitcoin so that the ransom payment option is on the table in case of an emergency, and in fact they notified senior police officers about this activity (to get their blessing? to avoid the bitcoin buying look suspicious if they stumbled upon it?)
While working in computer graphics, it is really easy to end up with some variant of taking the sin of a very large angle; if you imagine a simple spinning cube spinning over time, it's easy to end up with the angle of the cube simply increasing without bound. I believe it's common practice to try to truncate the angles in that case, but in real programs where you're dealing with arbitrarily complicated networks of operations involving billions of numbers it's not that hard for them to slip through.
I'm curious, does anyone know what tool he uses to disassemble the program into C? It looks neat.