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That's not enough anymore: good ransomware will look for backup systems and wipe those out before proceeding. You need read-only, airgapped backups before you can consider yourself safe.
Self-Taught Programmer: Interview with Cory Althoff
This isn't yet the cyberattack "the world isn't ready for" (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/22/technology/ransomware-att...), is it?
It had very little adoption and mindshare, though. All the assembly hackers were on the C-64, Apple II, and a bit later the PC.
Why is this story being flagged so much? It's the biggest news of the day!
Stupid real people creating unintended consequences for the well-meaning legislators. How's a legislator to regulate anything around here ?
This woman's story is just mind-blowing! The author went in for a routine laparoscopic surgery, and through a series of errors, ended up in a coma for a month. The hospital never told her about the errors committed by the doctors. She had to figure it out for her self.
> After the key exchange, both parties use their private keys to sign the transcripts of the entire conversation up until that point.

I don't see how this proves anything as a MITM attack would be able to do this just fine. Perhaps you mean this is where the CA-Cert comes in as the client can then verify that the process has not be tampered as the attacker can not sign with the matching CA-cert?
Here is a tweet from the Ukraine Twitter account
https://twitter.com/Ukraine/status/879706437169147906
The shared memory and atomics proposal was approved as part of the ES2017 spec. https://github.com/tc39/ecmascript_sharedmem
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How LinkedIn Impacts the Attention Economy
I don't know anyone who hasn't discovered that one
Last time roundup came up here I made the claim that it killed my dad (healthy guy, came from a healthy long lived family, he died about 15-20 years sooner than his relatives from the cancer that is associated with roundup, you can google "non-hodgkin's lymphoma roundup" and you'll see a zillion lawyers wanting to talk to you about it).

Yet hackernews people shouted me down saying that it wasn't possible. I'm not an oncologist, I have no idea who is right, it was my Dad who told me he was convinced it was roundup, so what do I know? But it is weird that now the state of California sees it as carcinogen, the lawyers are salivating over it (not that they are oncologists either but they tend not to get excited unless they believe they will win), yet I'm sure people are going to reply that roundup is fine.

I don't know what to believe. It sure _seems_ like there is some bad juju in roundup, there shouldn't be this much fuss if it is just a conspiracy theory. But who are the people here that keep defending it? It would be oh-so-nice if someone who was clearly objective and an expert could lay it out. Does it cause cancer? How much do you have to be exposed to to get cancer? Do you have to eat it? Or does just getting it on your skin or breathing the fumes do it?
1. The ecosystem is available via bindings too (to most transpiled languages)

2. It's still far from the state of the art in PL design and missing:

* Nice static typing with type inference

* Nice guarantees about null access

* Nice guarantees about interop between client and server

* ...
It's interesting how on Hacker News, story about Google getting fined was censored and removed yet PR from Google is still on the front page. It's sad that bias and censorship on here is so strong.
Meta: I would have preferred the Forbes articles tagged [dupe], this one is better researched
Here's a very interesting link I came across from December of 2015, which claims:

“The MoD can confirm that Windows XP will not be used by any onboard system when the [HMS Queen Elizabeth] becomes operational,” the spokesman added. “This also applies to HMS Prince of Wales.”

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/12/18/windows_for_warship...
I've spent time in Memphis, Lockhart TX, and Kansas City, and found KC to have the least distinguished barbecue. You really can't get Lockhart anywhere but in Texas or in rare specialty places. But you can get something about as good as KC most places.
Prisma APK Download for Android
> Tesoro saves linked assets, such as images, Javascript and CSS files.

I'm confused. It looks like image sources in "archived" pages on Tesoro still point back to the origin domain.

Edit: it works as expected. I just didn't notice the relative paths.
There are many drugs like this. This is definitely not news. Examples of drugs that came out way later than their similar genetic counterpart:

Namzaric: combination of memantine and donepezil, both of which have been generic for a while.

Combinations of hydrocodone and acetaminophen in varying strengths: 5/325, 5/300, 7.5/300, 7.5/325, etc.

Fexmid and Amrix, which are both cyclobenzaprine in different doses and releases.

Moxatag, which is just extended release amoxicillin.

There is one drug that's a capsule form of a drug that was previously a tablet. (Asacol if I recall.) when you open the capsule, the same exact tablet is inside.

Naprelan, or extended release naproxen.

That's just off the top of my head. All a company has to do is extend the release, adjust the dose slightly, add an indication (also treats fibromyalgia!!) or combine two drugs together and bam, it's technically a new drug.

Other less questionable tactics yet of dubious clinical benefit include: isolating a certain enantiomer or creating a "me too" drug - another drug for the same physiologic target - there are so many ACE inhibitors on the market, for example.

As pharmacists, when we see such antics, we roll our eyes and say "are you kidding me."

Most pharmaceutical companies are just marketing companies. Every time I see a doctor prescribe one of these 'new' drugs I suspect there's some kickback involved.
No, but I don't like it when people do in a very public manner as a way to pressure people to conform.

How would you feel about a blog that openly criticizes workplace clothing (I bring this up as lots of people in my office wear things like toe shoes and some males even where quilts)?

I try and be accepting of other people's personal tastes and don't want to enforce through rules/laws/social pressure some common clothing standard that people have to conform to. Same goes for houses in that I don't like publicly mocking them for how they look in order to socially pressure people to build their houses so that they conform to some standard.

*edit: obviously this shouldn't be taken to the extreme as houses do emit externalities on those that surround them which can decrease the value of the surrounding houses. Thus, I think some conformity in a town by town basis is good. However, I find blogs like this and some home owners associations (HOA) to be ridiculous with how far they try and enforce their rules and opinions on how homes/town should look.
But muh free markets!

How can I grift if I'm not free to do so!
>Being a professional programmer is not an entirely stress-free job. Often, time matters and you have to think on your feet

Not once in my career had I had to fix a problem in an hour, let alone 10 minutes.

I have had senior people get mad at me when I couldn't give an answer during a meeting - that's the closest to an interview type scenario where you need the answer now. But even then, I did not stress that I'd lose my job, which is similar to the stress the candidate is facing.
> I'm not complaining about ads and this fine is not about ads. It is about Google favoring Google Shopping links [...]

Google Shopping links _are_ ads though: https://i.imgur.com/m5rGqLa.png
Mathematical functions aren't too great a metaphor for computer functions. They share a lot of similarities—domain, range, inputs, outputs, composability. But mathematical functions just are, there's no notion of changing things—however, the most common purpose of computer software is to change things. So it breaks down, or you come up with some way of defining a change without anything changing, which adds a layer of abstraction to everything you try and do.
Shameful Lack of Security for U.S. Voting Systems Revealed by NSA Leak
Some kickstarter projects doing the same (some in non-obvious ways):

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/studiolorier/ultimate-s...

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1267027760/rigavit-the-...

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/849992274/giy-stick-let...
Institute and promote a brown-paper-bag day, where the citizens (or should I say subjects) wear paper bags over their heads outside.

Better, do it all year long.
I really hate Prop 65. Those warnings appear everywhere without a strong scientific basis backing their claims, so not only does everyone ignore the warnings, it drowns out the real important ones. Those cavalier exaggerations erode public trust.
Lets not also forget that Volvo has been field testing a lot of the sub systems needed for this for several years with things like:
Lane departure warnings, BLIS, Auto break, adaptive speed cruising (that follows the vehicle in front of it) to mention a few.
That's probably not safe, even if it seems like the wrap still has integrity.
They hacked more than the DNC. Lots of competitive districts had their Dems hacked, and the propaganda campaign using bots and fake news.
Backblaze B2, Cloud Storage on a Budget: One Year Later
no.

you will know when the big one hits because you won't be able to ask this question online and get an immediate answer.
Ukraine’s government, key infrastructure hit in massive cyberattack
I got good enough at Parsec to go infinite (earn lives faster than losing them) and roll over the score: http://dos486.com/misc/parsec.jpg

Fun fact: even though the manual says the sequence of level colors repeats after 16, it doesn't. It just stays yellow from level 16 onwards, through at least level 24 or so.
CNN are confirmed to be liars. Here's the CNN producer saying Russia story's bullshit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdP8TiKY8dE

Never trust CNN on anything. They're just a propaganda outlet at this point.
Yes, I see no conceivable justification. A program running with maximum privilege that automatically reads every incoming file? Writing such a component in a memory-unsafe language is almost criminal negligence.
While NSA and Prism still happened. It's the 'Technologist' that developed it. Who's to say if Snowden didn't whistleblow things might get closer to what's described in the article?

Yes, US is more democratic and power is more decentralized, but without guardians or more awareness from the citizens, it's easily a slippery slope. Think UK and Theresa May. All Powers want more power.
> I have a plant on my desk that I dump water into whenever it starts looking sad and it's been alive for years now.

I've grown some glorious plants on my desk at work with exactly that method. When the ends get a little droopy, I water them heavily.
Sure, and there were tons of people who were very happy with Microsoft's products, and if you think about it: they were seriously fined for having the gall to believe that web browsers should be free and that the web rendering engine should be a component that could be used for the UI of things like their file manager; in an age when every operating system comes with a free, first-party web browser that you can't uninstall, are you prepared to say that Microsoft did nothing wrong as well?
ASK HN: How do you retain the knowledge picked up?
Hi,

I'm aged 40+ years(18+ years of software development experience). I am passionate about technology and keep reading blogs, articles, yc,... but the problem is that I forget what I pick up in two days. It gives a impression that I'm kinda dull. Not sure what is causing it.

I need help. Please share your thoughts and suggestions on how I can retain more knowledge?

Thanks in Advance.
That doesn't help for targeted attacks, which corrupt the backups as they are being written. Not sure how to protect against that though.
The "OP" is Harold McGee, who has forgotten more about cooking and food science than any combination of Hacker News commenters will ever know.
but probably more toxic than glyphosphate. https://geneticliteracyproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/0...
Using zotero's webshot feature should do this. i use it this way
Some developers are expected to work on the systems that processes a bajillion dollars of whatever per day and when it screws up they are often on the line for it.

I am not saying it is right, I am just saying at some shitty places it is.
Whatever it was intended for, they succeeded in making the browsing experience worse and annoying millions of people daily.
There's still an idea of wearing the pitcher out in the majors. Of course, if you're an ace throwing no-nos then you can routinely go 110+ pitches per game. Most pitchers go about 60-70. The bullpen is stacked with varying arms and pitch types to throw off hitters their 3rd+ time through.
Like the one they issued on January 6th?

https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/publications/assessing-r...
both salt and vinegar are more toxic than glyphosphate.
From what I understand: we just don't know for sure. There is just no conclusive evidence saying 'humans exposed to this amount will have a higher risk at developing cancer'. That doesn't mean it's impossible, nor does it mean we will never know. That is probably what HN was trying to tell you (well, I hope it was, no other conclusions seem justified at this point - again, as far as I know from when I last read up on it a couple of months ago).
Hey, FWIW we had to do some response for ransomware cases recently. There was a lack of decent stuff out there for how IT teams should deal with it. So we contributed to putting together this quick checklist:

https://github.com/0xswap/guides/blob/master/ransomware-tria...

Would be great if more people wanted to add to it.
can you point to a single case where that is true ? Doubt it.
> being forced to give your competitors more prominence

No, they are being forced to give their competitors equal prominence.

The press release literally says: "the Decision orders Google to comply with the simple principle of giving equal treatment to rival comparison shopping services and its own service"
It's possible for such tactics to be useful for consumers and still be an illegal use of their dominant market position.

Compare MS and the bundled Internet Explorer: Yes, it was more convenient for people not to be required to download a browser after installing the OS.

But imagine if MS had been successful, and Internet Explorer had emerged as the only browser: Do you think that would have been in the common interest? (hint: around that time, they tried to get .doc established as the standard, replacing HTML)
> The EU just used their regulatory power to force the world's biggest search engine to make their user experience worse in order to benefit other companies.

It's really quite simple, if Google's user experience hinges on them abusing their market dominance then they have no business in the EU.

Even if it means we can't have certain "nice things", I am perfectly okay with that.

Companies have power. Companies with market dominance have a disproportionate amount of power. Why should a company be allowed to wield all that power without being held responsible for it? So if you're gonna be a dominant company in the EU, you're going to have to take responsibility and not abuse your power to stifle competition.

It's not like the "before" situation you sketch couldn't have been improved in any other way. It just so happens that this particular way also ("conveniently") stifled competition in shopping sites by abuse of Google's market dominance in Search.

Why is this bad? Because abuse of market dominance doesn't always result in a better user experience or product. And we can't even be sure that was actually the case now, because of this market dominance, no other company got a chance, the only way was Google.

Also, the problem in your "before" situation was Google serving its users search results that were spammed to death with low quality SEO crap. This was Google's problem (sure it's a really hard problem, but it's theirs). That shit could only thrive because of Google's popularity. Any real competition, like normal price comparison sites, were already suffering because of this (or worse, forced to join this dark side).

The thing is, this problem had nothing to do with the actual competition. But Google chose the solution (abuse market dominance) which drove them into obscurity. Eventually SEO-spammers (whose core business was never price comparison sites) found other ways to game and abuse the system.

If Google would've done nothing, people would have stopped using Google for finding price comparison sites (and back then, Google was really very good for many other things) because the SEO spam isn't useful. Then competing price comparison sites would have had a chance, and who knows, maybe Google's actual web-searching user experience (which is terrible today) would have remained better. I mean that's what we lost when Google tried to become the sites it linked to, instead of helping people find them. Not saying this would be the only solution, it's obviously not as profitable as Google has been while abusing their market dominance, maybe they could have found something responsible in between.

Also, we gotta be consistent. If the EU Commission on antitrust could say "we'll allow it this time because we kinda like the end result", THEN you should be scared, really really scared. Arbitrary application of the law is very bad, every time you encounter it, no matter what.

The Commission established that they've been abusing their market dominance since 2011 (or 2008). Market dominance put Google in a special position of responsibility, they are now being held to that.
In case someone (along with me) is curious what this option with suspicious name does, here's an explanation: https://jaxenter.com/jdk-9-replace-permit-illegal-access-134...

But I, not being Java dev, still fail to understand what that "illegal reflective access" is.
Alcohol is a poor choice if you are trying to illustrate over labeling, because alcohol, especially heavy consumption of spirits, has some notoriety as a cause of oral cancer.

http://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/Cancer-of-the-mouth/Pages/Cause...
and to be honest, fines are not going to solve this.

Why? making fines to large and forcing companies to pay them up to the point that it hurts them will result in a severe economic impact, which will destabilize te economy.

For real gross conduct people should be held responsible in the company, even to the point that they might be personally responsible. People need a vested intrest to not do this kind of behaviour.
As if this attack purely relied on people clicking on emails. Maybe that's 1 person out of 10.000 but obviously this used various other methods to spread.
I actually read it again. Maybe I misunderstand it, but for me it is about the Google shopping comparison service: "Google has abused its market dominance as a search engine by giving an illegal advantage to another Google product, its comparison shopping service." What that means was this: "When a consumer enters a query into the Google search engine in relation to which Google's comparison shopping service wants to show results, these are displayed at or near the top of the search results."

ow are they going to fix this now? Show five results, one of which is from Google, four from competitors? Which competitors? How bad can the results be, as long as they are returned by Google's request to their service? Can I exclude competitors? I don't want my data to go to Idealo, for example, I only have an account with Google.

I fear this is just opening a can of worms, becasue ultimately I am searching for something, go to a search engine for this, and want results. If I wanted results from a different search engine, I would have used that one. Now I get mixed results that I did not want to see. Is it really so bad that Google (the search engine) "understands" what I was probably really searching for and offers a specific type of search results - links to shops where I can buy SearchedProduct(tm)?
In quality circles this is known as cost of poor quality. We might need Deming type thinking again to counter the short term thinking.

* Deming's chain reaction: *

http://www.transformationforum.org/Chain_Reaction.html
Because labeling everything desensitizes people to the label and distorts risk analysis. Desensitization allows people to overestimate the dangers of some substances, while potentially severely underestimating the dangers of others.
Is this similar to a man's IQ dropping when there is a beautiful woman nearby?
Sleeps with Monsters: Older Women and Tomorrow’s Kin – Tor.com
SHATTERED DREAMS
You would be better at memorizing numbers but worse at something else. Maybe you'd remember fewer contacts. Also, we have become worse at adding big numbers in our head, but we actually make fewer mistakes and are faster with big numbers since we have started using tools for that.
The Limits of the CAP Theorem
I was really good at parks & rec basketball. I was so good that sometimes I'd score for the other team, too.
Short answer: yes.

Long answer: Yes, and it's an acceptable drawback because being allowed to underpay worker is an unacceptable competitive edge. If one wants exceptions it's better to do with directed efforts such as lower payroll taxes for small or new companies.
'Petya' ransomware attack strikes companies across Europe
That's my favorite software engineering joke:

A tester walks into a bar and orders a beer...

And orders 2147483648 beers...

And orders 0 beers...

And orders -1 beers...

And orders "banana" beers...

EDIT: I just thought, you might actually get a Bananenheizen if you order the last one in Germany...
This is an interesting link: http://gajitz.com/about-face-defeat-face-recognition-softwar...
TV Solidarity
Take a page from Trump; let them think they're making fun of you, while they're actually spreading your gospel. Trump did this so successfully he actually became president, against all odds.

Whether it comes through the Google PR machine or not, people are still getting the key message: Google has been fined for playing unfairly. Most people don't read past the headline, and defending against these allegations still just makes the allegations stickier in the minds of public; it strengthens the association between "Google" and "unfair" in the public's psyche.
Air Force Research Lab develops brain-like sensory supercomputing
ah well, i should have been more clear in my comment. PAT especially is a disaster.

One to One NAT translation is fine although it still breaks a lot of things, especially on the IPV6 side of things. (like MTU path discovery).
A similar phenomenon causes birds to spontaneously combust when flying near industrial solar power plants: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICLXQN_lURk.
I was involved on the IT side, not the materials side. I was probably thinking of hydrocarbons, not VOC.

Also as far as I know, the clear coat is still solvent based, but I may be mistaken about that.

Thanks for the detailed comment.
Will self driving cars need to be outfitted with SSD arrays as well? Will mechanics / shops be swapping out HDDs as they fail or do I have to go to the genius bar for that?
Let me ask: what company do you work for and how much effort does it put into finding, attracting and most important! retaining! people who are any good?

How much say do the people working on a team have, in who gets hired? I mean people who'll actually be working with the person day to day, not some manager.

If the answer is 'we tell recruiting agencies we're hiring for vague role X, Y and Z', then why are you surprised?

Is the work any interesting? No? Generic corporate codebase perhaps? And you're getting generic people applying? How strange :)

ps. This is not directed at you in particular. I just find it strange when people don't do an inch beyond 'we pay money', and then expect a mile beyond 'i do just enough to get paid'