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www2.jpl.nasa.gov 6y ago

The Probability of Collisions with Earth

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www.cnbc.com 7y ago

Amazon's move off Oracle caused Prime Day outage in one of its warehouses

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bigmachine.io 8y ago

The Imposter's Handbook

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lkml.org 8y ago

Linus Torvalds questions Intel microcode patches

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www.npr.org 8y ago

U.S. Says North Korea 'Directly Responsible' for 'WannaCry' Ransomware Attack

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www.bleepingcomputer.com 8y ago

Trump Signs Bill Banning Kaspersky Products on Government Computers

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www.cell.com 8y ago

Dietary Carbohydrates Impair Healthspan and Promote Mortality

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damienkatz.net 9y ago

Notes on Building Noise: A JSON Search Engine Written in Rust

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www.bleepingcomputer.com 9y ago

CIA Co-Developed Athena Malware with US Cyber-Security Company

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www.cbc.ca 9y ago

Canada Revenue Agency services outage linked to Apache Struts 2 vulnerability

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finance.yahoo.com 9y ago

HP Enterpise and CSC to merge, DXC Technology revealed as new name

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www.spiegel.de 9y ago

MH370 Disappearance: 'There Is Absolutely No Mystery to What Happened' (2016)

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www.bleepingcomputer.com 9y ago

Oracle to Block JAR Files Signed with MD5 Starting in April

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www.theregister.co.uk 9y ago

Solaris 12 removed from Oracle roadmap, Solaris 11.next planned as next release

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news.nationalpost.com 9y ago

Russia extends Snowden residence permit, may qualify for citizenship next year

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www.tomshardware.com 9y ago

Canada Wants Backdoors, Decryption Capability and Records Storage

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www.reuters.com 9y ago

Web giants to cooperate on removal of extremist content

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www.reuters.com 9y ago

Russia says foreign spies plan cyber attack on banking system

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www.networkworld.com 10y ago

Is Salesforce planning a post-Oracle future?

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www.macrumors.com 10y ago

Apple Releases First Preview of Swift 3.0 for Developers

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www.gamespot.com 10y ago

John Carmack to Receive BAFTA Fellowship Award

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www.lnklnkr.com 12y ago

Show HN: Lnklnkr, an interactive browser-based mind map for Wikipedia

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m.psychologytoday.com 14y ago

How Geniuses Think

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blogmaverick.com 14y ago

Mark Cuban: Success and Motivation (2007)

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news.ycombinator.com 14y ago

Ask HN: I need a lawyer

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www.twitlonger.com 15y ago

John Carmack's America

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fabiensanglard.net 15y ago

Quake Engine Code Review

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www.groupcomplete.com 15y ago

Group Complete: Android Mobile Data Collection Platform Using ODK + CouchDB

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news.ycombinator.com 15y ago

Ask HN: Technical Sales Engineer

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media.armadilloaerospace.com 15y ago

John Carmack on government

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The Zones of Thought series by Vernor Vinge, and A Deepness in the Sky in particular.

If you check the series out, and I highly recommend you do, read it in order. Which would mean starting with A Fire Upon the Deep, which is excellent.

but the plane itself is salvageable.

You're probably right. From an engineering perspective.

Would you fly in a 737MAX post-fix? We have an engineering mindset here on HN and so I would expect many of us to answer "Yes". But ask this same question to the general public? How is Boeing going to repair the damage to both it's brand and this plane's reputation, and convince the general public to fly on this model?

Come on now. What other plausible reason, besides being someone's daughter, would a girl that young have for being on that island with these old men? It doesn't take an MIT-calibre mind to ask this question.

Interesting idea.

How would ownership extend to metadata derived from your profile? For example, one of the claims made during the Cambridge Analytica hearings was that the data that they had in their possession could be used to derive political leanings, sexual orientation, purchasing habits etc.

I'm certain that this is where the value of the data is. No platform genuinely cares about cat pictures and birthday wishes - they care about how likely you are to purchase an advertiser's product. Or, cynically, they care about how many degrees of separation you are from a person under investigation.

This is not data that you've created directly or intentionally.

This happened to me. Several rounds of interviews with a well known colored-hat company, then... nothing. No response to follow-ups either.

What was especially frustrating to me was that up to that point, the tone of both the conversations and email exchanges was very positive and cordial. I would have expected a "Thanks, but no thanks" follow-up at least, especially considering I was an internal referral from a Sr. Mgr. But... nothing. Made my reconsider my view of that particular company.

He wants everyone to magically develop on their spare time for free with copyleft licenses. This is craaaaaaazy. People gotta eat.

You are flat-out misrepresenting him. Read his definition of "non-free". His concern isn't with the commercial aspect of software. This is clearly stated by him, repeatedly. His concern is with closed source, walled gardens, restrictive licensing.

Ken Silverman, the guy behind the Build engine which powered Duke Nukem 3D and number of other games from that era, would prototype everything in QBasic before converting to C for raw speed.

You don't know anything at all about the design of your targeted system and networks.

They must have spent years devising ways to get in, slowly gathering info about their target, figuring out a way to achieve the assigned goal of screwing things up without getting detected.

I'd speculate that given who the intended targets were (Iran, North Korea) and who would have an interest in disrupting their enrichment operations (Israel, US), and given the level of intelligence gathering activity that both of these nation can (and ostensibly do) engage in, that the team tasked with creating this virus had plenty of information to go on from the start.

Centrifuge models with firmware revision, network topologies, deployed server configuration, etc were likely known in advance.

Can you clarify? Assuming you are talking about Travis Kalanick, are you implying he was ousted by a 3rd party with an interest in surveillance/control?

The connotations that the name "coach roach" stir up aren't positive. People are grossed out by coach roaches.

The good news is that DBs are a niche of their own and as such don't need to appeal to the masses, making the name choice somewhat less important. But I still think, as someone else already pointed out here, that selling an exec (or non-tech decision maker) on this will be just slightly more difficult because of the name, as irrational as that might seem.

Presumably Zuckerberg did not consent to this conversation being captured/recorded and shared.

Do you feel even the slightest bit of embarrassment at the irony and hypocrisy of using this content, that you acquired without consent, to further your argument against the trustworthiness of this guy?

Presumably Zuckerberg did not consent to this conversation being captured/recorded and shared.

Do you feel even the slightest bit of embarrassment at the irony and hypocrisy of using this content, that you acquired without consent, to further your argument against the trustworthiness of this guy?