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With net neutrality rules scheduled to be repealed on Monday, Senate Democrats are calling on House Speaker Paul Ryan to schedule a vote that could preserve the broadband regulations. *Aragorn reaches for arrows* Boromir: "Leave it. It is over."
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Google, reeling from an employee protest over the use of artificial intelligence for military purposes, said Thursday that it would not use A.I. for weapons or for surveillance that violates human rights. But it will continue to work with governments and the military. "We're just working with the military in their fuzzier, cuddlier programs."
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Also covered in this MIT article: [^] Quote: AI smarts: Summit is the first supercomputer designed from the ground up to handle machine learning, neural networks, and other AI applications. Its many thousands of AI-optimized chips from Nvidia and IBM can handle demanding tasks, such as crunching through mountains of reports and medical images to help unearth hidden causes of diseases.
Supersized: The machine’s 4,608 servers and associated gear fill the space of two tennis courts and weigh more than a large commercial aircraft.
«... thank the gods that they have made you superior to those events which they have not placed within your own control, rendered you accountable for that only which is within you own control For what, then, have they made you responsible? For that which is alone in your own power—a right use of things as they appear.» Discourses of Epictetus Book I:12
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I need to get my bitcoin miner on that rig!
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The VPNFilter malware that infected over 500,000 routers and NAS devices across 54 countries during the past few months is much worse than previously thought. I have a bad feeling about this.
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Cisco said last month that VPNFilter does not use zero days to infect devices, meaning all the listed models are vulnerable via exploits against older firmware releases, and updating to the latest firmware version keeps devices out of the malware's reach. Not quite as bad as it may seem at first glance. They also make no mention of popular custom firmware so I imagine it targets the factory default.
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For a generation, Americans have been outsourcing work to India, where companies like Infosys grew bigger than Facebook and Google combined and created a new middle class. It seemed as though the boom would last forever. Infosys founder: The challenge of reinventing a company is like “changing the wheels of an aircraft midflight.”
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Ryan Dahl looks back on Node.js and talks about what he thinks about it. Mea culpa, it's a video.
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People. The hardest part of building a business. Step #1: Don't read online guides. Step #2: Lose all hope. Step #3: Repeat.
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No 1. - Don't reduce the job of management into a short list of buzzwords.
2. How do I turn off the markdown?
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Google is bracing itself for what will likely be a record-breaking EU fine in the coming weeks. Why can't we have headlines where "Microsoft moment" means something good, like a wedding day? I love weddings.
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Why aren’t people starting more startups? That might seem like a weird question to ask, in an age when Silicon Valley ventures are hot commodities and money and talent is flooding into machine learning companies. But in fact, Americans don’t start businesses like they used to My skepticism sense is tingling.
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Being something of a child of the 70's, starting a business has always meant to me taking huge risks knowing you will make no money in the first three years and hoping that by the end of the three years you may start to break even and perhaps see a profit in year five.
However the word 'startup' has connotations of immense wealth, innovation and now even unicorns have found their way into the language.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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The days of creating an OS in your garage (a freaking OS mind you, ok, so it was DOS, but there's still the word "OS" in DOS) are long gone. Nowadays, writing even a simple app that you want to bring to market is almost impossible. Kudos to those that succeed, like Slack.
Sean Ewington wrote: Why aren’t people starting more startups?
They key word there is "people." Nowadays, it takes a small army.
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What is the best career advice you’ve ever received? Odds are it wasn’t from an annual performance review. You probably don't want to share this with your manager just 'before' a performance review. Better to do it 'during.'
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Waste of time, huh? So when else are you supposed to ask for a raise?
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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The GLWT Public License
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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From the license: Good luck and Godspeed
... and may God have mercy on your soul!
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Perfect! 🦄
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M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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The Mission Impossible Deniability License (MIDL) is shorter:
As always, should you or any of your team discover or be blamed for a bug in this code, the author will disavow any knowledge of said code. This code will destruct you application in five/ten seconds. Good luck, The Author
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That is a great license.
Just because the code works, it doesn't mean that it is good code.
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Booby-trapped archive files can exploit vulnerabilities in a swath of software to overwrite documents and data elsewhere on a computer's file system – and potentially execute malicious code. Path traversal flaws could lead to data mangling, code execution – so patch now
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