skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I agree that going from 4 to 3 isn't a good thing, realistically Sprint has been a viable choice for some time now. Terrible coverage and pathetic data speeds.
The cordless mowers appear to be getting better and better. With my new yard full of beds, trees, and other obstacles, half the mowing time is time managing the cord. So, I'm buying a Ryobi battery operated 21" lawnmower.
I am. But I'm also saying that if this is the case, they should consider making some changes to generalize (or at least increase the breadth of their specialization) if they want to increase their revenue.
In search of a perfect cup
Is AP News Down?
Sadly, I think there are more people that would be in favour of a private system than we'd like to admit. A lot of people have bought into the Tory idea that the NHS is unsustainable, and that the reason we're all poor is because we're paying for what they see as sub-par care.

On one side, the NHS is arguably the greatest success story of the UK, and I think many people would riot if their free healthcare was taken away. On the other, people will happily vote against a party that is looking to increase its funding, and will happily vote for a party that has made significant moves to privatise our healthcare system, so logically there must be people that aren't in favour of the NHS.
This was a bad comment. What keyboard did you make it on?
Yikes.

So, you stole everyone's money to support your personal business and then claimed bankruptcy once all of everyone's money was gone. Is that correct?

Then you complain when some hacker takes the money from the ponzi type scheme your running and now the result of all of it is, everybody lost their money including you?

Bravo Mo

How do people like this exist?
A Robot Revolution, This Time in China
Major players:
AT&T
Verizon
T-Mobile/Sprint

Smaller players (most/all of whom piggyback on the major players' infrastructure):
Metro PCS
Boost
Virgin
Cricket
From all the comments I've read, it really sounds like it's going to make more sense outside of the US. Here in the UK the vast majority of roofs are either clay tiles or slates which are expected to last 50 or more years, but the US seems to largely fit cheaper asphalt shingles and replace them more often.

At the moment our slate roof is fine, but when it needs replacing I'll certainly look into the Tesla tiles. Hopefully we'll be able to hold off for long enough that they will have come down in price. I'm sceptical that they will be worth it, but if they make sense then we would definitely think about it.
While GitLab's UI isn't particularly bad I don't think it's terribly good either. I keep ending up searching for specific options like pipelines or adding web hooks.

Granted, it's a both complicated and complex product but GitLab could still use some improvements in making the UI more intuitive.
Do you consume foreign-language media often?
People have this insane notion that one line of defense is enough or they have the equally insane notion that no wants to take something they have.

People have a really hard time evaluating simple risk/reward models. You have to make the reward of attacking you higher than any possible reward to have a reasonable chance at security. If anyone anywhere on the Internet can profit by your loss, eventually someone will try.

EDIT - To make life even more difficult sometimes the attack provides gains indirectly. Imagine one group of politicians attacking a service supported by another political faction, just that service going down profits the first group if it changes who voters vote for.
How does it suck? Everywhere I look hospitals have dumb pc's connnected securely to cloud services for applications, primarily Citrix or web based portals hosted by a trusted contractor or the hospital themselves.
This is why if someone were the (usually) imaginary "Free Software zealot" that would like to prevent a private business from profiting off public work, it would be necessary for software not only to be under a Free license, but for the copyright assignment to be held by someone that agrees with said Free Software "zealot".
This is what should have happened instead of the disastrous NPfIT. It took years and none of the big players (Accenture, BT, Fujitsu, CSC) could even agree what a fucking medical record should look like because nobody was willing/able to concede anything.

If it had been an in-house project with actual experts employed in building/deploying on a smallish scale (say, a town or county) and then rolling out it could have been a thing of beauty.

It should have been what AlphaGov became.
AI, Labor, and the Parable of the Horse
It's literally as easy as installing a Windows update organization-wide. What is there to test? These aren't servers. These are workstations of common workers. Windows desktops mostly used for spreadsheets and playing solitaire.

I'd rather deploy a Windows update within 2 months of its release and be safe from a RCE vuln.
This is the same way Bitcoin came to be worth $1800.
Yes, the critizised code is definitely bad. Glues two user-defined constructs together (is-in-list and a variable).
Also, unquoted variables and relying on shell splitting...

But you don't necessarily need to shell out to awk / perl / grep / whatever.

is_in_list() {
local thing=$1
shift
while [ $# -gt 0 ] ; do
[ "$1" = "$thing" ] && return 0
shift
done
return 1
}

Now just do `is_in_list "$thing" "$@"` where the positional array `"$@"` is the list (or by all means use unquoted `$COMPILER_VERSIONS`, i.e. unsafe shell-splitting).

Another possibility, where the list is given as a space-separated string, is with case statements. That approach is logically equivalent to the awk version, but doesn't fork so is much more performant.

is_in_list() {
case $2 in
$1|*" $1 "*|*" $1"|"$1 "*) return 0;;
*) return 1;;
esac
}

Not tested, but that's the idea.
It is my understanding that the DWP has brought a lot of its IT back in house.

edit: I should say some as to be fair, I'm not 100% sure of the extend of this.
If you're not doing so already, please compost organic waste. For the average household, it's about one-third of your trash. If you want to step it up, you can collect compost from coffee shops, restaurants, and grocers. You can use all that mass to build a hugelkultur, which becomes an oasis for soil organisms, insects, and birds. It also gives you a fertile spot to grow some beautiful and/or edible plants.

https://terra.farm/wiki/The_many_benefits_of_hugelkultur
I think the jury's still out on whether or not this is actually different from the past extinctions. Yes, there was an asteroid impact around the time the dinosaurs went extinct, but every year there's some new paper or some new bit of evidence that points to the possibility that the asteroid wasn't the only factor in the K-Pg extinction. It's quite possible that dinosaurs had some role in their own extinction as well.

What is different, in this case, is that in all past cases if the dominant species played a role in bringing about a mass extinction it was almost certainly an accident. We have the (possibly small) chance of potentially averting our own replacement as dominant species, if we're smart...
Hey how can I contact you?
no, I think the RC modeling people are quite numerous, and quite into custom motors, I think they are the ones who made the electric skateboards and scooters possible, BLDC control was only for serious business before them. Then, they started rewinding their motors. And after that they started putting them backwards (outrunners), by recycling brushed DC rotor laminations for the stator.

But I really feel like the RC community is screaming for custom lamination. And with them will come the homemade electric car people, skateboards, bikes and wind turbine, all those tinkerers.

Next step I guess will be the magnets, they will want custom magnets whose magnetization surface is not planar. And also custom arc circle magnets (for halbach array pancake motors).
I wonder if there is any (even theoretical) authentication method that works with a one way communication channel and is not vulnerable to the attack described?

Or maybe a proof that it isn't possible?
The Subtle Effect of Hidden Dependencies on the UX of Version Control [pdf]
Got any sources to back this up? Because all of the gear carriers use is off the shell Ericsson/Siemens/Huawei stuff, and LTE mandates LDAP for subscriber information (most of them use OpenLDAP) - the only thing that really differs in their infrastructure is their billing software that manages subscriber data in the directory.

The only physical difference really is RF spectrum, and most phones released these days just cover every last LTE band their chipset possibly can (putting out tons of different versions is expensive, yo) - maybe limited to the specific bands used in the target region at worst.
My guess is corporate espionage. For them to get an injunction like this, they probably paid members of the engineering team to give them proprietary information.
What bothers me more is that when people say "we're destroying the planet" or "the planet is dying" they are not sitting there thinking that the literal physical solid rock of the planet is somehow going to go to pieces and disappear.

What they are saying is that ecosystem which is on the planet is going to hell including the ability for said ecosystem to support life. Either all life, or more specifically the ability to support human life.

No one, no one, is thinking the literal planet is going to go boom.
I suggest you take a look on what a big asteroid impact can do. (You can start on the one 65M years ago, it is a good example.)

We are on the path, but we still didn't create something that Nature couldn't outdo. And then there are those interstellar (e.g. supernovas) and pan-galactic (e.g. gamma ray bursts) killers...
Local Machine Interprocess Communication with .NET
Why Java doesn't work on Nintendo Switch? Only for political reasons (forbidden by Nintendo)? They fear JIT or GC?
The last car I drove was built in the early nineties and used about 5l/100km gasoline in the city. There aren't many cars that use less fuel today.
The pocket edition was already pretty far along before the Microsoft aquisition. It seems they invested in improving that rather than the original codebase.
It needs to be marginally better. Slighly is not good enough to gain momentum.
I totally agree. I don't think wanting to improve the system and being critical of corporations exploiting the current system are mutually exclusive. You can have both.
Scala and Go
Equally bullshit. I can admit Israel is better than colonial America. Kind of a low bar though.

I don't think I'd have a problem with people advocating for settlements if they acknowledged they were colonizing native people in order to eradicate their culture.

At least be honest about it. People act like Israel is some sort of liberal state.
After 20 years in IT, listening to all the bullshit by "Management" about "Audits" and "accepting the risk", "lessons learned" and whatnot.

Honestly, I would be glad if a high impact issue like this, would change any of that for the better. I am unfortunately also a cynic (after 20 years in, well anywhere really) so I doubt it will. This means it will only negatively impact people who need the healthcare, and a bunch of consultants will make millions on sweeping up the mess, and creating the next failure-to-be.

I'm making popcorn.
Wait, so cryptocurrency advocates want morality without the law to back it up? Good luck with that.
Maybe related to the cyber attack on Telefonica?
http://www.elmundo.es/tecnologia/2017/05/12/59158a8ce5fdea19...
Your patch would be meaningless without the GPL code underneath, so is a derivative work and would therefore likely fall under the GPL.
How to get rid of everything Google knows about you
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14324411 and marked it off-topic.
There are so many other films. It depends on what you classify as 'pop' culture.
The calculator example for Acrylic[0] looks atrocious: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/style/images/ac...

What is that trying to convey? Large spaces with no division? Looks broken.

0: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/style/acrylic
T-Mobile has successfully managed a CDMA merger (MetroPCS) and subsequent re-farming of spectrum to their GSM-based LTE stack with minimal disruption. (they basically put the CDMA 1X bands into the HSPA guard bands, announced a sunset date, and closed it)

Where Sprint's merger would suck (amongst other things) is that they were wholly too incompetent to launch a modern IMS (voice-over-LTE) network where MetroPCS was able to do so.
> That means that you have to write everything to temporary files first.

Using the example from the post,

echo "($(ldap-query-for-valid-users))" > "/tmp/all-users.sexp"

you have at least a couple alternatives to an additional temporary file.

if ! valid__users=$(ldap-query-for-valid-users)
then
... failure case ...
fi
echo "($valid__users)" >/tmp/all-users.sexp

or

{
echo -n '('
if ! ldap-query-for-valid-users
then
... failure case ...
fi
echo ')'
} >/tmp/all-users.sexp
This is almost certainly not the PC version of the game, which does run Java. The Switch would probably not be capable of running 4 instances of the at 720p 60fps.

There's a Windows 10 edition of the game, written in C++, a from-scratch rewrite of the original Java. There's Minecraft Pocket for Android/iOS. And there's Console Edition, which runs on XBox 360 and WiiU, and now Switch Edition.

They are aiming for feature parity between the various versions. The Pocket/10/Console versions are all intercompatible - you can log in on a server with one platform simultaneously playing with someone on another platform. I don't know how much code they share.

But the original Java edition is still where all the YouTubers, mod authors, wiki activity, and really the core user base is at. Pocket and console are more used by the younger and more casual users. Feature parity like world generation is possible, but it won't be possible to make various Redstone (programmable machine) contraptions, build aesthetics, and farms compatible.

It will be interesting to see how it plays out.
Heh. I don't think "rapid" is the right word. Last year they had said they were hoping for monthly-ish patches, but that went by the wayside pretty fast around Alpha 2.3 or so, when they began integrating the backend persistence systems.

The Persistent Universe Alpha is currently at 2.6.x. It currently includes one "limited" area of space around a gas giant in one specific solar system. (Note that "limited" here means that it's only a fraction of the planned final solar system, but thanks to CIG's 64-bit map size technology, it's legitimately several hundred million KM^3.) There's a few space stations, several quests, and some limited economy. All fully playable, but gameplay-wise, it's still mostly at the "tech demo" level in a lot of ways.

The "holy grail" version that we fans have been waiting for since last fall is Alpha 3.0. The /r/starcitizen subreddit has a ton more info on what it's supposed to include, but off the top of my head: a larger chunk of the Stanton solar system; several moons or planets that will be 100% "see it -> fly there -> land there"; the first iterations of several professions; and a whole lot more.

The current production schedule for Alpha 3.0 is at https://robertsspaceindustries.com/schedule-report . They originally projected it would come out around June 29, but just pushed it back a couple weeks. Realistically, I would expect them to bump it back into August. Once that's out, they'll probably get out another couple good-sized updates later in the year.

So, definitely not "rapid", but given the scope of what they're doing, not surprising. (Besides, my laptop actually can't even handle playing the game right now, so I've just been watching the development progress. I'll probably upgrade later this year sometime after Alpha 3.0 comes out.)
Saying "Minecraft was rewritten" is a little misleading. The Pocket Edition was ported to Windows 10. It wasn't rewritten. Also, the main edition that one can purchase for Mac, Windows, or Linux is still in Java. The Pocket Edition, which was built long before Microsoft's acquisition, was not written in Java.
As a quick reminder, here's the list of organisations (in addition to police and security services) that have (or will have) access to all internet connection records without a warrant according to the Investigatory Powers Bill:

NHS trusts and foundation trusts in England that provide ambulance services
Department of Health
NHS Business Services Authority
NHS National Services Scotland
Health and Safety Executive
Scottish Ambulance Service Board
Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission
Northern Ireland Ambulance Service
Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service Board
Welsh Ambulance Services National Health Service Trust
Home Office
Ministry of Justice
HM Revenue & Customs
Department for Transport
Department for Work and Pensions
Competition and Markets Authority
Department for Communities
Department for the Economy
Department of Justice (Northern Ireland)
Financial Conduct Authority
Fire and rescue authorities under the Fire and Rescue Services Act 2004
Food Standards Agency
Food Standards Scotland
Gambling Commission
Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority
Information Commissioner
Health & Social Care Business Services Organisation
Office of Communications
I grew up in an upper middle class area and a lot of my friends were a sort of radical libertarian. The most interesting thing about cryptocurrencies for me was them slowly realizing why a basic level of financial regulation is important.
Should be if a hard fork is possible, you don't own your crypto.
Had exactly the same.

100 user system, Windows CALs and RDS licenses per user = a lot of money. Found only 40 users needed the CALs, rest were fine on Linux.

Took the devil of a job to persuade them this, as the Microsoft rep told them they couldn't.
Crouton Fedora and Wayland. Yes, Please
I knew Mohland and the DogeTipbot project pretty well. He did have a few employees mostly working in customer support.

He was a stand-up guy and a strong advocate for the Dogecoin community. People are talking about the fact that he liquidated the assets from user wallets as a malicious action, and while I agree it was a terrible choice, I see it more as a bad decision.

Backed into a corner he tried to leverage a businesses asset holdings to keep it a float in time to recover. Depending on your jurisdiction this is something banks do all the time as part of your balance is not liquid and invested elsewhere.

The issue here is his business didn't recover and wasn't ever going to.

Last I heard Josh's plan was to keep the main part of the bot free and charge for websites and streamers to accept tips from the Dogecoin community. He wasn't an idiot like this article tries to portray. There was a reason he was keeping the consumer end of things free. But, the micropayment landscape had more competitive options than a niche currency.

All in all its sad to see the business fail but this was poor business choices, not maliciousness nor stupidity like the article tries to claim.
If it's hitting everything it seems like it's just forking everywhere. For it to do that there must be some _really_ bad security practices
By who and when?
Well, CoLinux ran Linux as a kernel-mode driver under Windows. WSL is a Windows kernel subsystem providing the Linux kernel API. That's why I made that comparison. I do know that they're very different things technically.
I am curious about the names of companies that interest you because research is often helpful in finding an internship (and later when finding regular employment).

Maybe you will have great luck and a Hacker News reader in Buenos Aires will discover your question and offer you a job (but there is no contact information in your profile). It is more likely that you will have to depend on the ordinary luck of finding a job by gathering relevant facts about possible companies or by contacting the placement office of your school or by meeting people and hearing about a job from them. The internet probably will not replace most of the traditional hard work of finding a job.
I find it easier to take selfies with the onscreen button, as I can hold the phone from the bottom where i'm not likely to cover up the camera. It's awkward (with my hands and my 7+) to hold the phone in such a way that a) it's pointed at me, b) I have the volume buttons under a finger/thumb, and c) I'm not blocking the front camera in any way...
Crypto is Greek, actually.
Was that related to one of the NHS hack days?

> eventually ran into serious pushback from other factions within the org, particularly the established IT Ops folk

"Mordac, preventer of information services"

Thankyou very much for fixing this kind of thing, seriously.
Indeed. I've seen Macs as an option, and then you sort of get "developers can get Macs, VPs can get them, but others can't" as the TCO is - apparently - higher, and, let's not forget that, remote manageability is way harder than with Windows, which has stuff like group policies, AD integration, etcetera, all built in (the Macs I used at a previous big corp employer had some terribly hack-ish layered software to get to almost the same level).

With Win10 and WSL (which I've been actively testdriving on my personal hardware) I'd be totally fine to get a Lenovo from BigCorpEmployer. For private use, I won't buy any MBPs anymore anyway for the same reason.
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Yeah, except no. Sprint does all their calls over the CDMA network because they sucked too hard to launch voLTE (see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_Multimedia_Subsystem )

If you don't have IMS in place, it's going to be much harder to make the transition into a modern LTE network since you can't do calls over it.
I agree it's catalog is rubbish, but in Australia there are a great many Bollywood, Nollywood and various other International films influxing lately.

Can't imagine what a mess all this licensing etc is. Such a non-productive waste of time.
the HBO go mobile app has always been pretty horrible. Even the new one has some pretty obvious bugs. it's like they didn't bother testing it at all.

I thought the Yahoo screen app was one of the more beautiful and intuitive apps. It was really pleasant to use, just has very little content so I rarely used it.
Virtual machines are a thing.
Actually, this happens all the time, even in highly regulated industries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MF_Global
https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2017-85
http://www.chicagobusiness.com/realestate/20130718/CRED03/13...
For a file, specify state=absent

http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/file_module.html
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