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Most economists I'm familiar with didn't think QE would solve our problems. It was a stopgap measure, the only tool the Fed has left in the box. What we were supposed to have needed to really improve things is better fiscal policy, but instead we're stuck waiting it out because that's not going to happen for political reasons.
Except, in real life, you're also loading stuff like social buttons (facebook, twitter, google plus and so on) and tracking^W marketing probes from third parties. So, to me, HTTP2 is not that interesting.
It's not the hashing of the object code that makes the signature a derivative work. It's the appending the signature and object code that creates one whole work.
We just hire whoever we think will be best at advising startups. When they are too well known people complain. When they are not well-known enough people complain.

But as long as the startups get good advice I'm happy.
Everything Amazon does with the Fire product line I find to be terrible. The Kindle Paperwhite is a delight to use but the Fire is beyond frustrating and, often as not, feels like a device designed for the sole purpose of parting me with my money on Amazon other products.

My 7 year old got a Kids Kindle Fire. I have 20+ years software engineering experience yet I have more trouble trying to do the most basic things with that device. Its infuriating.

We got the Fire TV Stick figuring it would be a good alternative to the Roku. Its not. Most of the time it couldn't keep a connection to wifi.

I don't know what Amazon is thinking but, in my opinion, their reputation is suffering badly because of their handling of the Fire product line. I know personally I will never buy another Fire product.
So I should risk this one by telling them I got another offer?
Using math formulas to create art
> If the FQA said, "Here are some problems with objects

As I recall it actually spends a load of time bitching that C++ isn't garbage collected and more like lisp, which is multiple levels of stupid.
AFAIK Adobe stopped supporting flash on Android some time ago. It would be a considerable engineering effort to get it working again. Plus, (again, AFAIK) flash it not common among touch devices and I would be surprised if all games would work easily without a mouse.

That aside, what if Amazon got it working? What then? Free content doesn't help Amazon any.

The Fire tablets are not just about games/apps - it's about tying the user into the rest of Amazon's media ecosystem. Video, books and shopping. It's Amazon's equivalent of free parking.
Can anyone else confirm? Seems to have added to my basket (on Amazon.com, but with Canadian account). Now, with a $.70CAD->USD conversion...
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A good point. But consider also that in a free and open society with limited government, consumers have more influence. In China it might be the Chinese government that everyone needs to accomodate. Certainly that has been a focus of the movie industry.
You forgot the sarcasm tag.
I wish more groups looked at energy consumption in their applications. Take for example React, which is being used in increasingly many apps. It re-evaluates a complete tree to see if parts of the tree have changed. And this happens for every minor change to the tree. Clearly, this scheme completely goes against all good design practices that address battery life.
I believe this thing only has wifi, so that's not a relevant problem.
>This is the most bogus thing I have read all day.

Says the guy claiming that everything in US dollars is going to be worthless...

HackerNews on financial issues is like reading Yahoo Finance.
libgcrypt was written before timing side channels were an issue. modern crypto libraries (and OpenSSL) are at least supposed to be constant time and not to be affected.
Lawyers in the US (though not much of the rest of the English-speaking world) have a "doctorate" because American lawyers got tired of physicians having a professional doctorate while lawyers only had a bachelor's degree, which is how the LL.B. (Bachelor of Laws) got transformed into the JD (Juris Doctor) -- a legacy of that is that the LL.M. (Master of Laws) is a post-JD degree, reversing the usual order of Masters vs. Doctorate degrees (and beyond that is the DJS/SJD -- Doctor of Juridical Science.)
The problem is going to be end-to-end colorspace integrity. How much content is there going to be that uses the UHDTV color space, and uses it correctly? One thing that is nice about software is that it's going to be pretty easy to make a game use the full UHDTV gamut. Of course half the UHDTV equipment out there is going to do wide color gamut incorrectly, just like HDMI 1.3 "deep color" that only works right on high end displays.
It and the Normanomicon are references to the Necronomicon as others have mentioned.
Then you can pay an extra $15 and get one that doesn't bombard your kids with ads for crap on Amazon.
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IMHO, poor wording in a FAQ by the FSF. The company considers themselves complying with the GPL2 by releasing a scrubbed tree. The FSF looks the other way, having limited resources.

I'm having a hard time digging it up, but I swore I have seen a video where RMS lays out the exact same theory I'm saying here.

It's not a terribly outlandish theory. I'm just getting a lot of flak for bucking the status quo from people who grew up with DRM kool aid and see Free software in terms of the corporations that lock it down.
What is the potential for enterprise software in China?
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Here's my translation:

D-link has accidentally published private keys for certificates which they use to sign their software. It was possible to extract the keys from the manufacturers open source firmware packages. That made it possible for Criminals to abuse the certificates.

[short explanation of how the certs work for n00bs]

The mistake was find by bartvbl who informed the reporter of the problem. He had bought a D-Link DCS-5020L security camera and wanted to download the firmware. D-Link makes the source from lots of firmware available under a GPL license. "After looking through the files it turned out that the they contained the private keys which are used to sign the code" reported bartbvl, "It gets worse - some of the batch files contained the commands and passphrases that were needed [to sign the software".

The user was able to confirm that the key could be used by signing a file that wasn't from D-Link. The certificate expired at the start of september, which means that the trick no longer works. Even now that the expiry date has passed, software which has been signed will still be seen as being valid. Windows only shows a certificate error after the certificates have been withdrawn. This withdrawal has already happened so this [bug/failure] cannot be abused.

Software security specialists Fox-IT confirm the findings. Yonathan Klijnsma, a researcher from the company: "The certificate was indeed in one of the firmware packages, version 1.00b03, the source of which was released on 27-feb-2015. The cert was thus published before it expired, which is a big error". He [, Yonathan,] found four other certificates in the same folder.

D-Link have in the meantime released new versions of the firmware which do not contain the certificates. In a statement the company told us that they regularly update the firmware in order to 'conform to the latest security and quality standards'. They emphasized that there is no question of [malicious] premeditation. "D-Link [does everything to prevent development of backdoors, bla bla boilerplate PR speak, etc etc]". D-Link promised Tweakers that they will release a new firmware next week which contains further fixes for the security problems.
I wouldn't use D&B as a metric of if a business is good or bad.
That's great work and I would love to be able to say I helped my company save $24M, but I'm willing to bet he isn't the only engineer in the world capable of doing that. It really wouldn't make sense to pay him $3M based on his past work when it's possible to hire another engineer and pay him $150k, assuming they can do the same job.
>What will they do if the market crashes and the rate is still 0

Go negative.

The idea that they should raise rates to slow the economy so that they can turn around and lower them to stimulate it defies reason.
That's what I was saying. Open source projects are _meant to be_ forked and rebranded. There is nothing to be ashamed of here, license granting.
I can think of two cases.

- the first time there was a confusing instance of chargeback/dispute resolution.. it's easier to say "this is a TOS violation" than to "figure it out"

- if the total amount coming from this account makes different taxes/regulations apply that aren't beneficial to uber
Well maybe it's time for them to acknowledge that money as form of credit should have an interest rate which is variable.
None of those ...

Hope you got my point. The above are only meant as an example.

Main idea is to cripple* the free tier enough to push a chunk of current users from free into pro. Some will leave but you don't want them anyway (they will never pay).

* how exactly cripple? This is the product design / product-market-fit stage work that was skipped when building jsbin.com
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what are some examples of 'complex hand-engineered systems'?
I was mainly pointing out that the presumption of a universe without any gods is just that, a presumption.

Anyway, on the off chance that you (or someone else) want a real answer:

* I decided to give God a shot and He proved himself. It's surprising the number of people that presume God doesn't exist without actually asking Him if He's there and if He cares.

* Christian theology makes a lot of sense. It provides for dignity and equality of all people. It provides for mercy and reconciliation and harmony. It provides for justice and protection of the downtrodden and wronged. It provides meaning for everyone regardless of ability or circumstances. It's simultaneously simple enough for anyone to grasp and deep enough to challenge our greatest minds.

Maybe that's not useful to you... here's a good talk Tim Keller gave at Google that can talk to it better than I can: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kxup3OS5ZhQ
For anyone interested in just programming, he has a great talk here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjDsP5n2kSM about "how to program independent games". Much of the advice seems to apply to other programming projects too.
What is Docker?
Visual Studio is not a "major [component] ... of the operating system on which the executable runs". It's not any component, in fact; it's a completely separate application from the OS, and in no way bundled together.
Patches are welcome I'd guess.
When I was working on developing a site, before it had its own domain setup, I used FB like code for another domain just so it would work. It was a popular domain with tens of thousands of likes. I didn't change it right away while I got the site up, one of the early testers was super impressed how many likes my site had though. Despite being connected to a completely different domain. It was social proof that was never actually checked. I updated to my own domain and nobody has ever cared since, sadly.
Thanks, terrific tool! The ability to just drop a dmg is invaluable when teaching.

Compatibility with more prebuilt binaries would be great indeed (tried to install psycopg2 but it doesn't work)
TLDR: D-Link accidentally included their certs and batch files containing passcodes in a beta package of their firmware. Problem has been fixed so it's no longer an issue.
People are concerned that very low interest rates for the long term will lead to an asset bubble[1]. It's a reasonable concern; it's happened in the past eg the 1980s Japanese real estate bubble[2].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_bubble#Identifying_...

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_asset_price_bubble
12 technologies that tick off Linus Torvalds
As @deng mentioned above, the Amazon tablets have historically had locked bootloaders -- they won't load custom ROMs. The XDA guys seem to believe it's unlikely you'll ever be able to load Cyanogen on one of them.
I think it's been long enough to conclude: the pg -> sama transition has been a clear success.

YC has innovated in a lot of really promising ways, expanding the partnership, expanding access, scaling successfully, and doing some new things.

Succession is one of the biggest challenges in organizations, and navigating it successfully is a big win.
Indeed. You'd feel a lot better about turning a little kid loose with a $50 Fire tablet than a $500 iPad.
Where do I find more info about that? I tried returning it and they said I was past the 90-day return policy.
You don't have to be a terrible photographer
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I used it the other day. It did say 3d secure will change soon.
Exactly. Even on the higher-end iPads the built-in speakers are pretty much crap for any kind of serious listening.

Not to mention that the stereo separation you're going to get on a 7" tablet is going to be minimal anyway.
"None of those provide any real safeguards". Don't you feel like this is an overstatement? Like if Microsoft commits a fraud I can sue Microsoft. Like yes it's possible that in the future these safeguards wont' be available, but having real legal entities with known individuals you can have a trust based relationship in society is of tremendous value. Knowing that your counter-party in a transaction has repetitional risk is definitely beneficial.
In Australia, where the median latency to the rest of the internet is 200-300ms the difference would be remarkably higher. On this page, I get 5s vs 1.5s.
I totally understand this. I lived in warzones for about 7 years, taking substantially less risks than he did almost all of the time (the most dangerous things I did were transit, and I got exceptionally good at selling to people who owned aircraft and would let me ride on missions...), and maybe felt 1% of this. I bailed in 2007 after one-too-many close calls (just didn't go back after a planned 1 week trip), and was glad I had that luxury; ended up going back a year later anyway -- it's distressingly addictive given enough recovery time.

Of course, things must be even worse for actual civilians living in war zones. People who didn't choose it at all, who might have started from a less-than-ideal position, and who had nowhere to go.
If you've never done rooting/flashing before, an Amazon device is not a good place to start. I did it on a HDX 7 only after a ton of reading, and the consensus is that it's easy to get it wrong and brick the device. There are no escape hatches like there are on the Google Nexus devices. I've done this a ton on my Nexus 5 and my HD2 several years prior.

Also note that the HD 6 and HD 7 are still not flashable, and they've been out for some time. Amazon seems to have gone out of their way to make this a difficult device to tinker on.

My recommendation is to find a well-treated used Nexus 7 and you will have a much better time of things. They are much easier to flash with better ROM support. Please don't buy this thing with the expectation of enjoying some weekend tinkering - it's not worth your time.

(I suppose I'll caveat that the one scenario where it would make sense to get it now would be that v1 firmwares contain bugs that will make your life easier when exploits are found, but still - probably not worth it)
Nice analysis. It's interesting seeing the data (requests complete, etc) over the surge periods.

I also like the comment about how periods where demand is high (NYE) is also where the drivers have most incentive to not drive. I hadn't considered that aspect.
It is not your money. It is the money that the government allows you to have. You live in a society, and you wouldn't have money without society. We have as much right over that money as you do.
> At one time, it was the Federal Reserve's job: "to take away the punch bowl just as the party gets going"

The feds job is to on occasion liven up a dieing party by making a beer run, sometimes a couple beer runs. It isn't the fed's job to drive everyone to the beer store and open a tab. Rather then deal with the reasons why the party is failing, this fed has given them the lift, bought the beer and hired some strippers. There is a fine line between fun and reckless.
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Remy, I'm sorry. JSBin is my favorite live JS environment, and I use it several times a week, and I haven't paid a thing. That's not fair to you.

I'm also sorry that I haven't sent the emails that probably still sit in my drafts folder, because I think that the JSBin genre of software development tools has a very bright future - and I encourage you to not give up.

For now, is it at all possible to just send you $100 via paypal?
Lume Tools released into public domain
All four users (including OP) commenting so far had their accounts created between 45 minutes and an hour ago.

That's not weird.
More documentation here: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Maps

Including the development setup
Impressive! I never thought I would see a project to restore Habitat. It is also great to hear you got Randy Farmer and Chip Morningstar on board.

For those of you who don't know, Habitat was the very first graphical MMO game back in in the 1980s run by the predecessor to AOL. The developers' and moderators' ("oracles'") experience was really interesting for me to read about. They've documented a real-time online virtual world with avatars and its own economy that predates the Eternal September, IRC and the Web. I posted some links in an old comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6390038.
Wow! An apartment half a block from the beach in Santa Monica! Wonder how this Bitcoin business makes enough money for that?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ytx1P7P4XXk
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_security_module - since the parent poster seemed to feel the need to use an extremely uncommon acronym to show his or her superiority.
Genuine question! Have you ever been able to saturate your connection with a single TCP stream or did it require multiple streams (possibly from multiple devices)?
A private sale between two parties is not distribution.
> I presume the rationale to increase the rates is that during the next crash there will be something to lower.

The rationale for increasing rates is to forestall inflation rising above the targeted level; inflation remains below targets and is expected to in the short term, so there is no reason to raise rates.

> What will they do if the market crashes and the rate is still 0?

Whatever they do won't matter much, just as it wouldn't if the market crashed with the rate target raised to 1/4 - 1/2 percent instead of 0 - 1/4 percent where it is now.

If the economy hasn't had the kind of strong, broad recovery that would support higher interest rates before the next crash, monetary policy isn't going to do much to deal with the next crash (and monetary policy isn't going to produce that kind of strong, broad recovery, either.)

The Fed as an independent central bank, while it has important responsibility, has a fairly limited role; most of the strong economic policy levers are fiscal policy that is in the hands of the political branches of government, particular Congress.
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I just checked, and the 1080p PC version looks almost identical to the 1080p PS4 version. Basically, it looks like crap compared to 4K

In 4K mode (with identical graphic quality settings) there are way more pixels, and as a result, the image is much more crisp. You don't see any pixels or jagged edges. It's like looking through a window into a different world.
If you do have an offer, then yes. If you don't actually have an offer then don't chance it. You don't want to come across as money being the main motivating factor for this internship rather than the internship itself. So tread carefully.
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I'm not sure I would agree with that.

First, from a technical perspective, a well-designed React app should only evaluate the minimal parts of the tree that have changed. And React can do that easily with the PureRender mixin, or you can do it manually with the componentShouldUpdate method.

Secondly, from an empirical perspective, one of React's major selling points is that it renders many classes of DOM-based apps (and others) much more quickly than previous methods (e.g. jQuery, Angular) could achieve. React reduces the overall time spent performing CPU-intensive tasks, even if there is (_if_) there is an increase in CPU-time spent book-keeping.

Of course, it would be moot if the DOM wasn't so utterly dreadful from a performance perspective. But apparently it is fundamentally broken or it would have been fixed years ago.
Would it be possible to have the option of using an existing python installation? I have project-specific conda environments, so it would be great if I could set which Python should be used.
even with a rather full punch bowl set out, the party steadfastly refuses to get started

Doesn't that depend on which party you're talking about?

I'm under the impression that the Fed's current policies are correlated with an asset bubble, and that's a classic "party" central banks are known to end in preference to a much worse end being forced later.
mediatek: http://bgr.com/2015/09/16/amazon-tablet-specs-50-dollars/
Interesting/practical use of ggplot2 for case studies, too.
They're expecting their investment to appreciate as the value of the company becomes evident to other investors. However, that value is ultimately contingent on when the profits will be realized, and what the interest rates are going to be.
Or Elixir, which is nicer if you prefer Ruby syntax over -Java- (updated:) Lisp
Yeah the fact that it was even possible for dlink to leak keys in this manner just shows how utterly incompetent their engineering is.
I didn't remember Master of Orion had anti-piracy feature, but I still remember Microprose's F-19 Stealh Fighter had a similar one: there was a screen where it asked you to identify the silhouette of one of the planes in the game. Which is probably the most ineffective form of copy-protection ever... I had a pirated copy with no manual, and it was a joy to me to simply enter the right plane because I loved planes and knew the name of every one of them! To me this was like asking me to name the animals in the zoo.
> What you are talking about is not blatantly anti-gplv2

Someone who buys a router running locked down Linux lacks two out of the four essential freedoms, so yes tivoization is blatantly anti-gpl2. I would say this is a popular (edit: non-legal) opinion, especially given the upvotes I have received.

But the legal interpretation may diverge from the spirit and purpose of the license, so I would love to hear the opinions of an experienced lawyer...

I don't see any real difference between "scripts used to control installation" and "scripts involved in installation", "installation scripts", "scripts used to install" etc, unless the specific wording has been used to create a huge loophole. But as you say, there is not much case law so I don't think this is so.

What exactly would you say that "scripts used to control ... installation" includes?

A script that says "cp -f a.out /bin/" most certainly qualifies, no?

And how about "st-flash write foo.bin 0x8000000" ?

And then "st-flash write foo.bin `cat BASE-ADDR.txt`" ? I would think BASE-ADDR.txt is still considered part of the "scripts" in the legal sense?

Surely you're not arguing that these scripts "perform" the installation rather than "control" it ?
Sometimes the NYT boggles my mind with its utter misuderstanding. But maybe it's on purpose.
The web site of the game itself (http://the-witness.net/) seems down at the moment, but their Twitter account has links to more articles:

https://twitter.com/witnessgame