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> Yes we reschooled people from 2007 to modern office.

As in actual classes? How did this work? This sounds like an epic waste of money and everyone's time.

> We did a comparrison of open office and google docs vs ms office when we did our business case of course. Open office lost by around 1400% with some employees never learning it.

Yeah we've all done reports like this. They are usually an epic waste of time as usually everyone knows the answer they want before they start... I'm surprised that you managed to get results that were that favorable for the desired answer though - openoffice.org and the more recent Libre Office kept a similar UI to MS office 2003.

> We don't just use office365 though, we use addons. Like automatically sending electronic mail through APIs that integrate with the national platform while using a custom template and journalizing into our record system.

Sounds like 10-30 LOC each if you ran on FOSS systems (although obviously it is hard to tell without knowing what your exact requirements were) - I'm sure office365 saves you time/money in other ways though.

> Hell, we've build two word adding ourselves allowing citizens to digitally sign documents with their public identification.

Did you build libreoffice extensions as well? Or do you expect citizens to subscribe to your software choices? I don't mind what you do for internal software but forcing everyone to use the same software as you is a bad use of tax money.
Ransomware outbreak that's sweeping the internet, explained
Amotz Zahavi passed away today at 89.
Resizing the window was the only thing that worked for me. (Without resorting to hackery.)

Really weird.
If anyone's interested you can build Fuchsia and run it in Qemu https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/docs/+/master/getting_start...
You're looking at it with past-tinted glasses. This time is different, and the market won't solve it.

Those newly opened industries have less people in them than the industries they replace. Mostly because our consumption doesn't increase as much as our efficiency does.

Funny you mention Amazon. We enjoy their services, and they enjoy that expanded global market. And they do this by killing local businesses with their ruthless efficiency. (Remember we're supposed to be competitive. There will be winners and there will be losers.) They don't create nearly enough jobs to compensate for the unemployment they cause.

There's also the problem of skill. For instance, in 20 years, truck drivers will be gone. Instead, we'll have an operator managing a fleet of 50 trucks from some control centre. The rest will have to find something else. But what exactly? The low skill jobs will be even scarcer than they are now, and the high skill jobs will be taken up by people who enjoyed a higher education in the first place, as they are now. You could still raise the level of education, but that will be too late for those drivers.

Keep this up to its logical (and absurd) conclusion, and half the population will starve to death in the streets. They're useless, why the market would support them? Of course, we'll have cleaner robots wipe it all away, cleansing the stench of death —those who still have value will be able to enjoy their walk in the park undisturbed.

More realistically though, we'll have a revolution before we get to this point. Or, the rich and powerful will see it coming, and start giving bread and games to the people. Come to think of it, they already do it to some extent.
> I'm about to double my rent and halve my square footage to get away from BART.

The BART is renowned example of how not to design and implement a mass transit system.

Furthermore, the reason why BART sucks is not because it's a mass transit system. It's because the service has no capacity to meet demand and fails to cover the urban area.
No, I've never heard of civil disobedience. Fantastic question.

Sure seems to me like people would have been able to say, "I don't consent to listening to these people ask for equal representation, an aggressive violation of my rights." And then the whole movement gets stopped in its tracks when it ceases to be protected speech.
I know what you are saying, but I can't help wondering where teenagers will get their initial job experience if most minimum wage jobs go away.
Still waiting for a phone brand to bite the bullet and offer paid updates. Because it's either that or no updates. I know what I would prefer.
Alan Wake Killed by Roy Orbison
I've burnt out on several occasions. I'm currently battling with it right now. Part of it is my career has regressed in pay and challenge year over year. I can barely accept doing something relatively pointless. But I need to grow or challenge myself to some extent. In the long run, I work to pay the bills. I have a million other things I want to do.

But what do you do when both your personal and professional life collapse at the same time. That's the boat I'm in right now. As soon as I'm done with work. I practically start working on salvaging what I can of my personal life. I forcefully have dragged myself to the doctors. But am not getting much help as of yet from that field.
I wouldn't say there's an equal chance of the "currencies" collapsing. There seems to be enough momentum behind them that the only true concern I have are hacking/scams and government interference. I don't mean momentum as upward price appreciation, just adoption, transaction rates, etc.

My friends, who are more interested in the space than I am, compare where crypto is now to the beginning of the internet. We're still trying to determine who's netscape/AOL/amazon/google and to some degree, what the underlying protocols are (tcp/ip = ethereum?).

Honestly, I don't see the true value of the blockchain yet. Most of the proposed ideas could be cool, but have no value or aren't practical. What I do see, however, is increased attention in Japan and Latin America. In the US, I think it's coming into mainstream attention. And if we find one real use case that allows mainstream adoption, it will be huge and transformative.

As a former trader, I don't mind speculating on the hype, but if we're still on the "ground floor" of what crypto could one day be, a little speculation could be a huge investment one day.
Which country, if you don't mind my asking?
Surely just a coincidence that BTC reached a new all time high today ?
Any idea how to do the downres transition at the top? It's really cool.
Bel70sampa_46
I am coding a VR game in Unity as a side project.

Day job is Java HFT FinTech, so I wanted a short bridging course.

There are many blogs about it, but if you really want to learn fast yet thoroughly I would recommend an online video course.

I recently did Ben Tristem's Unity Course - https://www.udemy.com/unitycourse/ which is excellent and shows you all the tips and tricks of the trade. Wishlist the course and often there are massive discounts

Some non-obvious things:

- Animation
- Prefabs
- AudioSources
- Colliders
- Scenes and Scene Management
- localPosition
- Quaternion.EurlerAngles
- Raycast
- finding named objects in the scene
- relation between GameObjects and Transforms
I'm aware of a number of people pushing for similar types of initiatives, though I don't know of a combined effort.

Word I've heard is that working through the DC office liason is probably the more effective route.
Nah, because ideally most applications are using library/system services to fence their data structures. For the remaining cases the apps could be marked with a new application compatibility flag (this feature already exists in windows for older apps) which adds additional checking that flags pages which are being accessed from multiple contexts as requiring additional emulator level sequencing. There are ton of strategies here, which could be as simple as basically disabling multi threading in the emulator or a page ownership ping/pong, etc.
Godwined in the first comment!

Do you have any analysis or insight to add?

EDIT:

For example, you could argue that this doesn't really matter any more, as Maduro already has de-facto control of the supreme court. Probably a reason this is frowned upon in other societies is that there is a independent judiciary, and military courts ultimately report to the President in the chain of command.

But NAZIHITLERNAZIWHARRGARBL.
This made me realize just how weird the phone business is. Because it's not how "businesses" work at all! It's just how smart phone manufacturers currently work.

Imagine if Microsoft couldn't publish security updates without going through Dell, HP, AND your ISP, and you start to realize how crazy the situation currently is.
Depends. We already automated big parts of the job that we could.

To give a stupid example I came up with in five seconds: nobody needs to draw pictures of finds anymore, we can just use cameras.
That's half the NSA's mission. Tt has another half and that is eavesdropping and getting into things. Those two missions are at odds with each other, and so the NSA has to make decisions about trade-offs. As these incidents show, the trade-offs the NSA has chosen to make have turned out to have been bad ideas.
This is awesome, though there's a bug somewhere that causes any character input into the field to submit. Perhaps triggered by going back and forth to the main menu.

Also it would be useful if you could have a 'hint' mode for the tense so you can remember which one it is. I can never remember the names of the tenses!

EDIT: Seems to be triggered reliably if I get something wrong. Then any character entered into the box will cause it to submit. Quitting and going back resets it.
It's a blank page.
How well does the Kindle adaptation work, I wonder.

(Also, thinking this would make a nice parent for my father, but the German edition was a limited run; $130 used, $180 new, jeez.)
>Honestly, do we really like interacting with the people with minimum wage jobs?

You're naive if you think this will only impact minimum wage jobs. Paying humans is usually about 30-50% of a companies operating expenses. With less humans you can shave even more percentages off by reducing office space or insurance premiums of applicable.

This might be starting with robot barista arms manipulating coffee machines, but it's really quickly going to make it to lab workers manipulating samples. Where it goes from there depends more on the software than the hardware, but it's really not a stretch to assume that shortly after we replace truckers, we're going to replace pilots and sea captains as well.

We're racing towards a decision. We can allow the automated cargo ships that will soon manage all global trade to be owned by a small cabal, or we can nationalize these systems and use the value they create to support our most disadvantaged populations.
Prepare to have your heart broken. This is some sad stuff.
If poor people have income not tied to a specific location, I'm expecting that they're going to move to lower-cost locations, rather than stay in expensive urban areas. So I further would expect that this will overall depress rents in urban areas.
Oh yes. BaaB - blackmail as a business.
> On the other hand, the fancy waiter will make recommendations. Will tell you about other things, and is generally part of the ambiance and experience of eating out.

I don't see the distinction. With all due respect to waitstaff (it's a tough job), the function is just begging for automation. An order-and-payment-taking tablet embedded into the table would be so much more efficient:

1. No need to wait for staff to come by, and then do the whole "drinks then wait, then food then wait" dance. Instead, just present a full page description of the food plus a picture, and an "order" button that you tap. You can even order more later if you'd like, without having to summon a waiter. Done.

2. No need to wait for staff to notice you're done eating and need the check. The total is right on the tablet, and it has a card reader.

That would be great. Would probably cut the entire time suck that is restaurant dining by at least 1/2.
Microsoft Officially Released Fluent Design System
What if the upward price pressure is actually people buying massive amounts of bitcoin to pay off new ShadowBrokers-based ransomware? And the corresponding rise in alts is the perpetrators using the alts to launder the ransom?
At 3$/mo (averaged) it's been a great deal for me. I do lots of website/other designs and they're royalty free so I can do anything I want with them (except use them as a logo). It makes it easy for me because say, I want a svg of a penguin, BAM got one right there (169 actually).
> Grandparent talks about freedom but it's only freedom for the upper and middle class. That's not freedom, that's privilege.

Nonsense. Just because some people are unable to exercise their rights it doesn't mean that others should not, let alone that those rights suddenly become mere privileges.

You should try your best to improve the life of everyone around you, not drag down those who are better off just to force them into everyone's misery.
So we don't need cinemas anymore because instead of $11 for a cinema everyone could pay $10000 for a home cinema system and get the same experience. Makes sense...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velocity_of_money
The same way you protect those network drives from an employee accidentally or intentionally deleting everything.

Limited permissions work, backups work, journaling data storage systems with an ability to rollback all changes work.

In most environments nowadays I guess there's no valid reason to have a literal "network drive" - if your users don't need to wrangle terabyte-sized data blobs, most environments can afford the overhead to have the company document/file sharing to happen in some system that stores full history of changes, and where normal users can not remove that history even if they're malicious or infected with malware. Probably even Dropbox or its competitors would be sufficient for that, no need to go to the more enterprisy vendors.
People develop on localhost or local servers, and don't think about what happens when the RTT exceeds a millisecond.
Bel70sampa_46
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Don't enjoy myself? Sure.
Other countries spend way less than that on healthcare (spending more like $3k per person) because they use more efficient systems.

Private healthcare is extremely expensive.

So that "somehow" already has a known solution.
> A method to reliably produce vulnerability-free software is not invented yet

That's not the goal. Well it is, but it's unachievable. We need to get people to care about security beyond ensuring that teenagers can't trivially get in—the current state of affairs for enterprise IT.

A law would at least require companies to give a fuck beyond the "can the CEO's niece break in" level.
Increasing tax revenues to 100% (assuming everybody will continue working like that) won't be enough. USSR learned it the hard way.
Linux should be immune simply because it doesn't use VME.
HN political discussion in a nutshell.
What makes an enterprise class solution ?
VME is an optional feature indicated by a CPUID flag. AMD could have simple not supported the feature flag.
That seems unlikely given the volumes of trading we've been seeing. We probably should have heard about a spike in ransomware last week if there is a causal relationship.

Disclosure: I work for stellar and I have no clue what caused the spike in trading and price.
I believe that would be too much of a headache for Google to manage. E.g., having to deal with vendor push back. The liability ultimately lies closest to the end user, and for the device itself, this is the device manufacturer. Let them deal with the headache of forcing their customers to update. Of course, I could be wrong, but that is just my humble opinion.
How do the alts (other than zcash and monero) help launder bitcoin?
What would 'being smart' about using these services mean? It is pretty difficult to get through life in the modern age without using email for sensitive documents (or at least without using ACCESS to your email as a way to gain access to sensitive services, eg password reset emails, proof of ownership, etc)

Since email in the modern world has this type of importance, what should I do? If you say gmail can't protect their data forever, do I not use gmail for email? What do I use then? No service will be free from data leakage, even an email server I run myself.
iOS updates are pushed directly by Apple. There's also "carrier updates", which I believe are also pushed by Apple, that update network settings and enables certain features
when the carrier support them (VoLTE, Wifi-Calling, etc).
If we look back through history, we'll see Compaq computers with awful software pre-installed... even bundles including ISP software (AOL, Juno, anyone?) But then we started to see Signature edition computers without bloatware (and Microsoft moving to make it easier to remove the extra software.)

We can only hope that phones follow this trajectory. And maybe more quickly, as they can learn from the past.

Sure, computer manufacturers liked new versions of Windows pushing computer purchases, but now we're at a point where Windows 10 exists, and updates are something not even the consumer can block.
Enjoy your subsequent trips to the oncologist.
An Analysis of the WANNACRY Ransomware Outbreak
I've seen a lot of security people sticking to "this is not an 0day you idiots" retort, downplaying the importance of the leak. Frankly I think that's a pedantic argument that ignores too much of the real world.

The NSA leaks contained previously undisclosed security vulnerabilities that were patched only because they were stolen. In MSFT's case it was less than 30 days, and they basically skipped a patch week to make it happen.

It's manifestly obvious that 0day and 30day can both be considered extremely dangerous in the real world.
I don't know why you think I'm advocating that attitude. I'm not disagreeing that open source is a good thing for security. I'm just saying it's not the silver bullet that some people are claiming it to be.

I would be equally concerned if my surgeon said "I already know the best possible techniques for surgery. No point in investigating further or exploring better methods."
> I mean I see a 1KB file take nearly 1 second to download so why wouldn't an 80KB file take 80 seconds to download.

This does not follows though, TCP doesn't works like that, the initial congestion window is usually small and grows as more packets are received, that's why using Keep-Alive is so important, so you don't have to rebuild the socket and TLS connection before every request. Add some ping into the equation and getting the socket up to speed can take several seconds (even minutes) depending on the bandwidth, and the connection's packet loss.
I don't believe you're engaging in good faith, so I'm done here.
Shadowbrokers claiming blame: https://twitter.com/0xSpamTech

Analysis here: http://blog.talosintelligence.com/2017/05/wannacry.html
To quote Göring,

> Göring: Oh, that is all well and good, but, voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country.

Patriotism is both a wonderful and terrible thing, and it is made worse by fearing the "other". Any time people create a boogeyman (China, Mexico, Muslims, what have you), be on the lookout for what the true motivations are.
A lot of African nations speak a decent to very good level of English. My home country of Zimbabwe has one of the highest literacy rates on the continent. I'm not sure about now but I know our education system used to mirror quite closely that of the UK in terms of curriculum, exam material etc.
I was referring to evidence of a young earth, which was discussed in comments now [flagged]. Here are 3 quick examples:

https://www.icr.org/i/pdf/research/rate-all.pdf

http://creation.com/images/pdfs/tj/j13_1/j13_1_14.pdf

http://creationresearch.org/crsq/articles/47/47_3/CRSQ%20Win...

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I can't think why ping should need setuid; having the capability for opening a raw socket would be enough, I think. (Unless I misunderstand how capabilities work, but this seems to suffice for Wireshark.)
"Question: Is that what Stallman intended to accomplish with the GPL? Pay a fee for GPL source code and bypass the GPL? (I apologize for my ignorance here.)"

Probably not. Although from what I've seen, he was rather short on explaining how devs would make money to support themselves under GPL.
Extending the Microsoft Graph with custom application data
> Will be interesting to compare them to Intel at their slightly lower performance but much lesser cost.

I've read HPC papers which demonstrate that even Opterons beat Xeons due to their higher throughput. The "lower performance" bit should be taken with a grain of salt.
All I want is to put on my GearVR, and have a set of floating terminal windows and various editors.
> We buy systems we have no clue how work.

Well that doesn't seem like a good starting for any but the smallest ventures. National governments have a special interest in safety and security. Fixing this, even in a piecemeal way is surely a step in the right direction.

The attitude of the your post and the higher GP post sound more like people lamenting something some natural disaster that can never change. Instead you could be looking at a system built by people and maintained by people and on some level understood by people and choose to make it better.
I asked this in the Reddit discussion, or something related. I'm thinking it would be interesting to have std::net offer options for swapping in different DNS resolvers, for this specific case, and probably would be interesting if it offered this option for any/all libc functions, especially around network operations.
> The part of my brain that was able to rationalise the distorted thoughts had stopped working, and now I was believing every irrational fear that came into my brain as if it were absolute fact.

I descended rapidly into paranoid delusions which had me convinced that the world was going to end that very day -- and I was the only one who knew about it.

Yeah that's a pretty deep low. Mine was when I was convinced that a classmate was a ghost, and seemed to be stalking me everywhere. Eventually I broke down and confessed to him, and like a smashed mirror, all illusions disappeared. In horror I took a year off my studies.

Recovery from deep holes like that may seem impossible but it's not. Accept also that there is no quick fix, no magic bullet, and that even when you're out of the tunnel, it may still take a long time to be 'normal'.

But this will also make you stronger and more empathic - and that is valuable. I don't mean it in a hippie way, but too many people lack these, and so in a way you're blessed, because your worldview has shifted and you to begin see 'more'. You will also eventually learn to make peace with yourself: it's OK to trip up, it's OK have these 'glitches'.

Final note: I cannot emphasise enough about having a good support network. Even if you have no one to trust, at the very least avoid toxic company. And by the way, you'll be surprised by what you'll get when you reach out just a little. After all, your dignity is nothing compared to your sanity, so confess to your mom, blubber on the phone with the Samaritans, break down in front of your tutor ... usually, you will find that at their core, humans are kind.

Edit: typo
> Why can't the text just load first?

Because that wouldn't involve several layers of unnecessary Javascript.