skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is a pretty well presented argument for mass unemployment. But it suffers from all such arguments in that is extrapolates "today" into "tomorrow" without acknowledging that there are literally billions of variables at work.

A simple example of the challenges this sort of reasoning present; assume you're a being that perceives time very slowly, perhaps your lifetime is a mere 100 milliseconds rather than 100 years. But your perception is fairly good and you can observe and measure things several yards away in all direction. And you're living in seawater near the beach. Through out your entire life, and for several generations, the amount of seawater above your head has been growing and growing. You believe that eventually there will be sea water "as far as you can observe" above your head.

As an outside observer with a different time scale and perception, we "see" that this being is part of an ocean wave that once the mass of water above the center of gravity moves ahead of it because of water below being slowed by the the beach, the wave will 'crash' and fall into foam.

Now if we could explain this to the creature in the wave, or if the creatures there had some sort of stored history, they might know that in the past there have been waves and the waves have crashed and that the seawater never extended so far into the sky. And there might be debates because some waves reached a height that was higher than any other wave in recorded history and so maybe this time, this time the wave would grow forever.

Except from our time spanning view we realize that all of those fears and understandings arise from the the short lifetimes of the creatures versus the longer time of a wave cycle, and so few creatures will ever encounter another who has experienced "the crash".

These unemployment doomsday articles suffer from a similar myopia. Yes, technology does advance, and yes, it changes how people are employed and what it takes to be employed. Technology shifts however have not resulted in a 'net loss' of employment opportunities when looked at in the full view, ever.

So rather than focus on the 'loss of jobs' let us focus on "transition" support. I point out to people all of the time that we have tremendous gaps between supply and demand in what have historically been called "the trades."

The reality of that was brought home to me when I started a bathroom remodeling project in Las Vegas. For that project I need a plumber, an electrician, and a mason. Three classic 'trades'. I cannot find three people that I can schedule who are licensed contractors, any sooner than 6 months from now. They are all booked up, and as a result leaving money on the table from unfilled demand.

What is more, Las Vegas has very affordable housing. It was hit hard by the mortgage crisis and house prices have still not recovered in large parts of the city. So it isn't like a plumber can't afford to live in the city.

I really think we need to stop stressing out that the number of retail cashier jobs are going away and start figuring out why people aren't able to train for the jobs that are available and going unfilled.
What fall of free speech in Europe?

By aggregate score about every EU country ranks ahead of the US in the Freedom House Freedom index:

https://freedomhouse.org/report/fiw-2017-table-country-score...

The US comes in at 48th. That's not because it's score is particularly bad, it's because freedom is highly valued and strongly protected in many countries.

The only countries with a perfect score are Finland, Norway and Sweden.
I've picked up several things on Noun Project - good to actually see that the designers get compensated for that, even if it is just beer money :)
Also, help people is high stress, and people fight back hard against help (for example, try convince someone to quit drugs).
I did a workup of the iphone with no icons and just text:

http://justinvincent.com/page/2387/if-the-iphone-used-text-l...

It shows just how stark an interface can look without them.
REKT!

How will Drumpfff recover from this??

Surely this is proof that he can be impeached!!!!????
There's also the issue that the Nexus line were perfect budget phones, while the Pixels are high-end. So even with much better advertising, cost becomes the Pixels barrier to entry.
I know I'm generalizing to make a point about ones views and comfort, but I'm curious what you would say your concerns are?

I should mention that by saying "LGBT movement" I'm referring to the overarching acceptance, not a specific or group of specific organizations. I know that these groups have their own issues, as is only human.
Can't law enforcement follow the transactions of the public address of the ransom bitcoin wallet until the bitcoin is sold?
I do a lot of Python work and like most of the other "heavy" IDEs, this doesn't appeal to me at all. The more layers of stuff you wrap around what you're trying to do, the harder it is, in my experience, to make it easy to deploy and maintain. I guess I'm turning into a graybeard.
Well that ended rather abruptly - where is the rest of the article? The remaining paragraphs must be made of type 2 particles.
Hot Stocks Can Make You Rich. But They Probably Won’t
True, although using non-profits for tax evasion doesn't really work out that well if you die. iirc, HHMI was originally supposed to be a tax evasion vehicle, but started becoming a serious research venture after Howard Hughes expired.
quote from article - " more likely, White House social-media director Dan Scavino — happen to see the news on Reddit’s infamous /r/The_Donald"
For this, run Windows update and install all updates.
Additionally, it's smart to disable SMBv1 on all machines.
"Young America’s Foundation is committed to ensuring that increasing numbers of young Americans understand and are inspired by the ideas of individual freedom, a strong national defense, free enterprise, and traditional values."

Doesn't mean they like Coulter but at least they're not far off.
Seems like Google is trying not to lose Samsung: https://9to5google.com/2016/06/13/report-claims-that-samsung...
I think the perspective you're applying here is an important one.

That said, if we imagine that there is productive marginal work to be done, then replacing drudgery with automation frees up the money being spent there to be spent elsewhere, and presumably increases demand for the better work.

Obviously there are some assumptions, and "liberation" may still be hyperbole, but it doesn't necessarily benefit only the capitalists.
My experience has been that it is usually much easier to look for a job once I am in the new place. In the past, however, I have done research beforehand...once it involved cutting a payphone phonebook in half with a pocket knife and taking it back to my home town, but that is a pre-internet story.

Besides companies, it might make sense to look at hacker spaces and meetups and electronics surplus stores. Also, think about talking to companies that sell instruments and electronics parts because they will know who the local industries.

I don't attribute anything to laziness. There's only so much a person can do and before moving there are a lot of other things to do.
2017 Ford GT vs. 2005 Ford GT
Because people go around saying stuff like "freedom of speech doesn't mean freedom from consequences" and then they smash your head in with a baseball bat as their "consequence".
In defense of these medical devices, that is actually a FDA requirement. The entire combination of the system is certified to work, and even one patch for a security vulnerability leaves open the possibility that the patch breaks something and people die! Of course it goes without saying that you need to ensure that a virus cannot run on this machine by some other means. If these machines can get infected they automatically loses certification and cannot be used for medical purposes.
Yeah, I am pretty sure all governments do this. Why would they release it if their goal is to get unrestricted access to the public. They don't want those holes patched, so to speak.

I wonder how much of their efforts are deterred when good minded infosec persons find vulnerabilities and report them; remember Heart bleed.
As is commonly the case, hardware vendors are more concerned with selling you the hardware and probably spend bottom-dollar for their software developers. I can't say that I've worked in such an environment, but my impression is that management at such companies probably see software dev as a cost-centre rather than something to actually spend money on for quality.
Your last sentence seems to contradict your first, whereas what you would really prefer is to disarm the police. Sadly I don't think that's so practical, in the same way that it would be impractical for US police to go unarmed given the high incidence of gun ownership in the US. I grew up in a country where police are not normally armed (other than with a small baton or similar personal defense weapon) and much prefer that, but when there's a lot of weapons around that's a reality you have to deal with.

As regards these cyberattacks, the NSA is at fault for its poor security allowing the weapons to become available to bad actors, but the mere existence or stockpiling of weapons is not the direct cause of crime. It might be more useful right now to consider who is operating these weapons, where they are firing them from, and how best to neutralize them.

tl;dr when you're under fire is not the time to worry about gun control.
They don't need them, at all. Every business and organization that isn't using CAD or Photoshop or some other CPU / Memory intensive software could get by on thin clients alone. No problem.

Secondly, how the hell are these records being stored? These viruses usually search for pdf,jpeg,doc, and xls files. Is patient data in spreadsheets and word docs? I don't get it.
Political correctness is largely about not being bigoted. It's not strictly un-politically-correct to disagree with something that's a hot topic if your concerns are reasonable and presented politely.
This malware is well written, and uses strong encryption.

I would suggest that you and your father spend the evening reading up on backup practices, and reconsider the value proposition of open source software.

I hope I am not coming off as a smug jerk. My hope is that rather than becoming frustrated and demoralized after an evening of fruitless hacking, you and your uni will recover, and become resilient against future attacks.
well I suspect that such devices should not be connected I was on dialysis at a clinic from one of the effected trusts and boy am I glad that my hemo dialysis machine was not connected to the network.
CMU Researchers unveil password meter that helps users make better passwords
This gives the lie to the notion that a government master key or back door scheme could be protected from leaks and abuse.
Pretty much the only thing I remember from my human machine interaction class aeons ago is a discussion of text vs. pictograms vs. abstract icons. Text is clearest but takes the longest time for experienced users to find what they are looking for. Abstract icons are unclear to new, untrained users but are super fast to find/discern by experienced users. Pictograms are a compromise.

Related: US traffic signs always bothered me because we have trained users who need to be able to identify the traffic signs as quickly as possible so that they can focus on the road. Yet we use traffic signs that are optimized for the opposite use case. Europe and most other countries are way ahead on that.
Why? The CAP theorem has a logical proof which can not be refuted, this seems unlikely to even have a strong informal argument to me.
Welp, here we are.
While I'm sure that methodology can produce personal drive in some people, others can follow the same process and feel like it'll never mean something.

Also, if possible, could you point me in the direction of this "meaning of life" you found. It would really help me out.
>> I noticed iPads on the tables

They're tablets, from Ziosk. iPad is the Kleenex of this generation.

I rather like those, nothing like paying (and leaving) when I want instead of trying to track down the waiter for 20 minutes
What are you going to do with your hundreds of millions when you're in jail?
Because they are all connected in a IoT with MongoDB, React, and Node.js

/s
Cars make you broke, average cost of car ownership for an American is $8K per year.
Amanda Fielding is certainly an eccentric person. however, she has a decades long commitment to responsible and scientifically grounded research with psychedelics.
Because people still use USB drives to copy information to airgapped computers. It is easier than the alternatives.
> Right, I'm sure the NSA doesn't currently take any effort to secure their trove of 0-days.

This case seems to show that whatever effort they're making is not sufficient.
Apple is an edge case in so many ways that Android OEMs differ:

* Apple has a greater following of "must have the latest" consumers than most Android OEMs put together

* Apple makes money from the app store. Both selling apps and developers submitting apps that expose cool new features in iOS.

* Apple can release iOS updates that coincide with newer handsets but with software features only exposed in the newer hardware. Which also helps with the adoption of newer hardware.
Maybe, but https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/04/samsungs-tizen-is-ri...
And Google can't keep up with demand for Pixels: http://www.androidpolice.com/2017/03/14/nearly-5-months-goog...
> There arn't many 8 year old+ games that still have this much traction.

Funny that other games with this traction is also *craft.
What do you base this on? Is there some theoretical limit to productivity?
If you're an Android developer basically most of your work is extending existing classes.
Of course Windows Phone had update problems. Carriers would hold back or not even release updates. And then there was Microsoft who was osborning their OS's and phones.
This. I'm a former Big Four auditor, and I can tell you that the consulting-auditing dichotomy is very clear in the industry. Auditing is on the downswing revenue-wise, and consulting will always rake in the dough. My issue is that the consulting relationships (and the big money they bring in) will necessarily impact the independence of the auditors, which is one of the main reasons there is the whole 'Channel 1' - 'Channel 2' split in the first place, and the major reason SOx passed. The Enron debacle was almost entirely because of the fact that Arthur Andersen didn't want to lose out on the major consulting revenue they made from Enron, but were pressured to fudge audit findings or they would lose that client for everything. SOx was an absolute b*h to implement and deal with on the audit and client side, but it made perfect sense from a regulatory perspective. Still, when the clients are paying for their own audits, that's its own ethical issue.

tldr; It's complicated.
I did say something like, just take ChromiumOS and your run own servers.

All systems depend on the outside to some extent anyway.

Is it $300, or $300 per machine? Why can't the machines just be reimaged, what kind of giant corporation doesn't have that working automatically?
They had better at least honor their warantee and replace all this hosed equipment.
This looks like a waaaay prettier version of http://autopsy.io
There are services that will mix your coins making it impossible to track because he will receive other people coins from the pool.
When I worked in the movie box, that was not at all true. People would come in and ask about the movie. How long was it, whether it was any good, should they see another one instead? We gave them real answers. Just because you have a minimum wage job doesn't mean you're a bump on a log. If you've lost sight of the value of basic human interaction with anyone not baked into your caste, I pity you, even if you are in the majority. Also, 99% of movies today are crap, so there's not much to talk about.
(Entirely unrelated to the actual contents)

I find it remarkable how visually inconsistent all of the shown screenshots are. (Look at all the small details that differ between each screenshot, like margins around buttons, button sizing, size of text entry fields, chevron styles and so on and so forth)

Windows (in this millennium, anyway) was never a really visually consistent OS, because it pretty much always had some leftover crud GUIs, and even today some dialogues from the early 90s exist nearly unchanged, though.
>Traditional music notation made no sense at all to me until I realized this.

Can't thank you enough because your characterization is the first one I've heard that adequately explains the foundation of the visual system as one of condensation. I've been shrugging my shoulders about this for many decades!
Keep in mind that on business grade installs the updates are not forced.

And there have already been situations where updates have caused problems. Maybe not as severe as a full on attack, but enough to potentially disrupt production and thus risk someones job.
I don't see any reason this can't be a halfway point though. If he wants to pour effort into building better drills, it's a good way to start profiting now before committing to public transit efforts (and maybe make the proposition a little more attractive to local governments).
this is prejudicial. Fielding didn't say anything about "evil spirits" nor was that her reason for performing the procedure. you're speaking from ignorance and displaying your own biases.
A republic is really whatever someone feels like it means.

Madison really liked the term as a way of distinguishing Roman democracy from Athenian, but there's no hard definition, or in practice there hasn't been.

Ancient Rome, the UK, Venice, North Korea, the US are all "republics".
You classify sending un-asked-for mail as evil? (I admit the company that provides this service is not doing God's work by combining/selling all their customers' databases to make this possible, and so by enabling them neither are we. I'm not seeing how it's exactly evil though.)
SpaceX YouTube Live Stream- Mixed Reality
That's assuming the attacker doesn't know how to launder the coins. It is not very hard.
its pretty hard. alot of reaching out. contracts dry up for a wide variety of reasons. so you have to keep the pipe full.

body shops will reach out to you - thats usually suboptimal for alot of reasons, but its work

sadly, alot of my contracts come from interviews for full time positions where the customer is hiring for some special skill, but its clear there isn't a long term role for me there. that can lead to work

old contacts are the best way, but you have to stay on people's radar.

sofar I've found gig sites to be pretty useless. the site wants to constrain communication so that you cant have the normal design discussion up front - they just say 'microcontroller work <$250', bid yes or no

my impression is that the mvp webapp space is still pretty easy to make money in. not really in systems - decent employers know that its hard to make a contract work well and would rather have you as a resource ongoing. and everyone is just doing staple jobs these days, so 'kernel' and 'test' and 'embedded', and all the old specialties dont get you anywhere.

i would try to leverage someone you've worked with before who is now in a position to influence a contract decision. someone with whom you have a level of mutual respect. once you have something ongoing, always spend time trying to open up new opportunities.

the thing that i find hard is that as a hired gun, you can present your opinion for consideration - once. its not your role to pursue and agenda, you're there to provide hourly services at the discretion of the customer and you need to demonstrate concrete value.

to circle around, its this carefully negotiated per-task relationship that both removes the pain of trying to work around useless colleagues and eliminates any reward you might feel for shaping a product. this is not your party, you're just serving canapes.
I found this debate to be helpful in my understanding of the UBI:

http://www.intelligencesquaredus.org/debates/universal-basic...
It sounds like the vendor abstraction layer will make things a lot simpler for manufacturers and vendors, so the cost savings alone should tempt them.

I'm not sure, but couldn't this benefit vendors/manufacturers/users upgrading to O?

Also, remember that manufacturers have probably known about this for a while.
see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet
Yes, but also others have tried and have not gone back (yet?) like GendBuntu[1].
Munich was about 15,000 computers [2], GendBuntu is 70,000.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GendBuntu

[2] http://www.zdnet.com/article/linuxs-munich-crisis-crunch-vot...
I don't think that disables the "online" flag. As far as I'm aware, it's not currently possible to disable that one.
> They just convicted a protester from Session's hearing.

"She did not get convicted for laughing. It was her actions as she was being asked to leave," the jury foreperson told the Huffington Post. "Ms. Fairooz's comments as she was being escorted out caused the session to stop. It disrupted the session." [1].

> They just arrested a member of the press because they asked the wrong question of Tom Price.

"Kellyanne Conway, counselor to President Trump, was with Mr. Price, and at one point in the recording, a man’s voice is heard saying: “Do not get close to her. Back up.”

"...a criminal complaint said he “tried aggressively to breach the security of the Secret Service” and was “causing a disturbance by yelling questions.”" [2]

1. http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/no-a-woman-wasnt-convicted...

2. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/10/business/media/reporter-a...
Yeah, those are the best of both worlds when you're not dining at an upscale place. Don't have to use cash, don't have to wait for them to complete two round trips just to leave.

I never understand why waiters don't give me a chance to hand them the card immediately when they drop the check. I don't need to sit with it for 10 minutes, especially after it took 10 minutes to flag you down for it. Years ago I was a waiter, so I don't really sympathize with an argument that they're too busy. The whole system could be revised.
I know it's easy (and fun) to hate on Microsoft, but damn do they employ some great engineers/researchers: Erik Meijer, Anders Hejlsberg, Simon Peyton Jones, etc..
> the PC version probably isn't slow because it's Java, it's just poorly written.

Maybe the initial java code base, but like someone said they had 8 years and enough resources to rectify the issue.

Do you have any recent info to back your claim?
Presumably all the good days make up for the very bad ones, else you wouldn't do it. Those must be really really good days (I find it impossible to imagine this as well.)
And how do you think large scale disruption of current job markets will affect the amount of demand for a skilled tradesman?

You could have done away with most of your comment and just left the last bit.
Would they? Or would 99% of them not know about this kind of stuff until it was too late?

A huge percent of people with Android phones think they're Google phones (not Motorola or Huawei or Acer or whatever), so if they decide to avoid their old 'brand' wouldn't they try to avoid Android?

Of course if they know they have a Samsung they can avoid that, but...

This is what, the third or fourth try at fixing this problem? It needs fixing, but I'm rather skeptical at this point. Just because the hardware interface doesn't need to be re-created doesn't mean the vendors will ship updates. It will just be waiting on something else like vendor/carrier software customization that they're not going to bother with because they'd rather work on the new model.

Good luck Google. This would be a great thing for everyone. I just don't hold much hope.