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I was about to laugh at you for not realising that Netflix's House Of Cards is actually a remake of a BBC series from 1990, but on reflection that probably adds to your point.

Many British films of the 1950's and 60's (also being non-rigorous!) are morally very black and white, lots of war movies, but also things like the early James Bond films have an absolute faith that Britain was a world power, maybe alongside the US and USSR, but still important, whereas by the late 1980's that self confidence had pretty much gone and instead you get the shades of grey and cynicism of things like House Of Cards.

Of course Britain's loss of empire was much more definitive then any US decline, which is mostly a post-9/11 post-iraq war loss of confidence but there is an interesting parallel.

Most programmes are a commentary on the time they are made, not the time they are set so I agree deep reads can be very revealing.
Yes - my rule is that if the other side knows you're using biometrics, the system is too dangerous to use.

The weird part is how unnecessary the Mission Impossible stuff is: replacing passwords is a legacy hassle so if you're going to do that there's no reason not to do so with a flexible public key design which doesn't make assumptions about the client hardware and can be patched when it's compromised. (Biometrics might be a fine usability option for the client store)
I appreciate that the article referenced Bowie's "Space Oddity" and "Starman"
Excellent, thanks!

So GPIO performance won't be a problem, but they note that OS multitasking can cause issues:

"What is not evident from the snapshots, however, is that due to multitasking nature of Linux, the GPIO manipulation is constantly interrupted for short periods when the CPU is doing something else, such as receiving or sending data over network, writing log files, etc"

Running on bare metal should take care of that, so the only remaining problem is how to synchronize the signal generation on the RPi with the recording of data on the host computer. (Sigh, if only RPi had a USB3 port...)
Yes, came to say the exact same thing. I am not at all familiar with the photographic plate procedure, but it seems likely there is room for all sorts of tinkering with parameters like gain, lighting conditions, white balance, whatever that would allow any bias to shine through.
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You take my words out of context. There are well publicized examples from the US where bankers did great harm and were let off due to being high earners. The case that jumps to mind is the hedge-fund manager that plowed down a surgeon on a bicycle. Banker was drunk, doctor was on his way home. Banker did not do a day in jail due to that harming his ability to financially remunerating the doctor. Banker didn't even get a spot on his record for the same reason.
> You don’t have to support old browsers and terrible setups. But you are not allowed to block them out. It is a simple matter of giving a usable interface to end users.

Agreed. This entire blog post is simply an incredibly verbose (and off-putting) promotion of progressive enhancement. Not a bad thing to advocate necessarily, just also feels like a bit of a dead horse.
> “The alien-megastructure idea runs wrong with my new observations,” he says, as he thinks even advanced aliens wouldn’t be able to build something capable of covering a fifth of a star in just a century.

Oh, really? So we are speaking for alien's abilities now because we don't believe in them or their abilities to build things? That sounds like a cognitive bias. Here's another bias in the same vein:

> “No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris …[because] no known motor can run at the requisite speed for four days without stopping.” - Orville Wright

What Orville should have said was, "No flying machine will fly from New York to Paris until we develop a motor that can run at the required speed without stopping until it gets there."
It's clear fraud to lie on an application. I could see charging every single such applicant with fraud. I could also see charging many of the mortgage officers with fraud for falsifying related documents.

It's not clear that the appraisers are doing any criminal activity. I read this:
"In the lawsuit, the couples claim prospective home buyers were presented with false or misleading data on previously sold homes in order to justify higher asking prices on new purchases."

If that's all they were doing, that's not really fraud. HUD should be encouraged to run its own appraisal process on 1% of the received appraisals in order to refine its process.

It's harder to charge the managers in charge of the officers with fraud: They could easily have taken steps to ensure that they weren't aware of any specific fraud on any specific application, even if they generally knew what was going on. I'm sure the prosecutors could find a way, though.

However, it ceases to be fraud for anyone except for the companies immediately processing the mortgage: If they sold the note to a bank, parent company, or to investors, that bank or investor should be off the hook. So I don't yet see any crimes for the people who profited the most(the banks who outsourced mortgage processing to smaller companies).
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>>> “The alien-megastructure idea runs wrong with my new observations,” he says, as he thinks even advanced aliens wouldn’t be able to build something capable of covering a fifth of a star in just a century. What’s more, such an object should radiate light absorbed from the star as heat, but the infrared signal from Tabby’s star appears normal, he says.

That seems a rather unambitious approach to possible alien tech. We today clearly could not build, or think of how to build, such structures. That isn't to say that the technology isn't possible, just that we do not understand it. If aliens were able to create and fly structures of such size I think it safe to say they would also be in possession of tech we cannot contemplate.
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"Death by a thousand strings" I love this phrase, I hope you don't mind if I shamelessly copy it for future use!
Is Azure more expensive? I can't tell, in any simple way.

Is there a place that offers some simple apples-to-apples comparison for typical use cases? All three require complex calculators that account for bandwidth use, ip addresses, etc.

Edit: I do see some tools after searching some, but they are all flawed a bit because the three providers don't all offer the same thing. Azure's 2 core machines start with significantly more RAM than Google or AWS, so it's not a great comparison. The tools don't make that sort of mismatch easy to see.
Those AAA ratings meant that mortgage-backed securities could be included in risk-averse mutual funds or bought by endowments or pension funds. That spread the risk to parties that would probably never knowingly invest in subprime mortgages on a large scale.

It also meant that bankers could craft poisonous securities, get them rated AAA, and then massively short them. I recall one case like that, though I'm blanking on the details.
From the benchmark description: "This version has been stripped of all of the artwork and eye candy we had in the previous version." "This is running content from a local disk, so the time to download files from the network is ignored."

So they ignore all the things the user waits for, and focus on the frame rate that can be achieved once it's loaded. Bearing in mind that the most likely use of this feature is in ads, not twitch games, that's the wrong metric.
I meant your satellite and planet are moving, hence gravity is a bit behind your actual location due to a speed limit on gravitational waves propagation, i.e. each part of the planet is contributing gravitational force at different times from the past. Something like when you make a photo of a nebula roughly 700ly away and the top of nebula is 698ly away from you whereas the bottom is 705ly - what you get in the picture are pixels from different times, not a single time snapshot of the nebula.
The new raspberry pi zero can be run as a device, so you could use that.
Private protection of capital sounds like a terrible idea. Making racketeering and extortion legal (but only if pure money is involved)? No thanks. I want a justice system that punishes someone who steals money behind a desk at least as harshly as someone who steals bread.
This is an excellent look at the challenge of having a capability vs using it vs civil liberties. I think everyone should read it.
Better question is whether humans are capable of self-recognition without false positives/negatives.
I’ve seen a lot more success with the "hire smart people and get out of the way" methodology of managment. If you allow people the freedom to work together and make their own decisions in a mature manner, you don’t need these childish techniques for making decisions. In practice, this probably makes people feel like they are in some bizarro world than that they are an adult entrusted with real responsibility.

A manager’s role can be reduced to keeping people on track and helping settle contentious decisions, whether by mediating or making the decision themselves.

If I was interviewing for a company and I found out they used techniques like this, I would get up in the middle of the interview and walk out.
Comparison (not exactly apples-to-apples):

~3-4Gb RAM: Azure (2cores, >100$/month), Google (1core, ~25$), AWS (37$, or compute optimized 75$)

high memory 13-14Gb: Azure (>246$), Google (~63$), AWS (16Gb, >172$)

...

UPD: Thanks to tyingq, Azure 3-4Gb RAM (2cores, starting from 70$)
I'm sorry that you wasted your time going to a web toy you were not able to see! :'(

The developer made a mistake in his error handling routing so that it is triggered by a false positive.
This is likely because he made the demo on a time budget, because being a demo, it is not important to be perfect.
Do you have a link to the ARMA streams? They sound fascinating.
I can just say that Azure and AWS cost more than Google Cloud because Google Cloud has the worst customer support I ever saw.
And his second justification is even more baffling:

> "What’s more, such an object should radiate light absorbed from the star as heat, but the infrared signal from Tabby’s star appears normal, he says."

As if intelligent beings with an interest in capturing a fifth of a star's output would only be absorbing the human-visible spectrum of its radiance.
To "What happens with the repository?" [1] NPM says:

- Nothing happens

[1] https://github.com/npm/newww/issues/1757
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That's a serious problem. Controlling access to the vault, when it's being accessed frequently, is hard. It's even harder for Bitcoin, where the threat is someone copying the data. You can have your original data and not have the assets it represented.

Question to ask Bitcoin exchanges: are your people bonded, and who's the bonding company. If they answer "What?", they're clueless about vault operations.
glium in Rust does all of this and more (managing your state for you so you don't have to remember what is bound).
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The by-eye measurement was done by the author himself, so you have a point.

Still, apparently that measurement was much simpler (using only 131 of the plates; the digital measurement used 1232) and only done to be sure that the dimming was not a byproduct of the digital analysis method.

In other words, the real data for the paper is based on digital analysis, not on the by-eye measurement. More importantly, according to the paper, there were 5 control stars also measured digitally. They didn't show the dimming. The paper's graph (http://arxiv.org/pdf/1601.03256v1.pdf) plots two of them.
> And then we have fingerprints, which are very secure and onerous to imitate

Fingerprints are SO EASY to imitate that I taught a group of 10-12 years old to do it successfully with something as simple as a drinking cup, superglue an smartphone and a SLA printer.

You can cheat the Iphone sensor with no problems.

Everything you touch has your fingerprint on it. Secure! Ha!

A fingerprint taken from you works today and works tomorrow and it will work forever.

I prefer passwords or tokens that I could change, that you very much.

What Google wants it to do surveillance on everyone all day long. Their interest are different from ours.
Be aware that this journal is published by Pharma Intelligence[0], which is with high certainty a predatory publisher.
I would take this article with a large grain of salt, as it's authors have not been able to get the research published by a proper journal.

[0] http://scholarlyoa.com/2015/08/27/open-access-journal-provid...
http://webglfundamentals.org is a fantastic place to start.
You're completely overlooking "bowel movement". BM is in use as a euphimistic contraction (no pun intended) for this.
tl;dr increase stake in the goal by committing to destroy $100 bill if you don't.

With a self-aggrandizing tone and link-bait "strange way" I found off-putting.
>"kids would still be dying of leukemia today instead of having a 90% remission rate today"

Do you know a good source for the historical data? I am wondering how they rule out that in the 1950s/60s they saw only much sicker patients, while today a bigger population gets diagnosed and treated. Related, there may be lead time bias: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead_time_bias

Any source with discussion of these methodological issues would be helpful.
A vast trove of unused lithium can be obtained from Hillary Clinton's bathroom cabinet.
It's depressing that internet makes it so easy for a person with a mental disorder to give advice and lure confused teenagers and minors. I wonder if there's anything we can do, short of censoring internet itself.
Yeah, my immediate response was "Don't tell me who my customers are!" This is all a bit like storming into a Chinese restaurant then berating them for not having menus written in Slovenian.

His point about faulty sniffers throwing useless warnings and blocking content that could load is rock-solid, but it's obscured but everything else he's saying.
Make sure you're looking at Linux or Windows VMs for both, Azure's ~3-4Gb RAM Linux VMs run $70-$90/mo, whereas their Windows (the default on the pricing page) are $115-$135/mo. All of Azure's VM offerings also include hard disk storage, which is extra on AWS.

Also, if you look at Azure's Compute Optimized VM running Linux at 3.5Gb RAM, it comes down to $57/mo, which is much closer and includes 50GB of SSD storage, which Amazon doesn't do at that price point.

Also, things like NoSQL databases are completely impossible to compare apples to apples (AWS DynamoDB vs Azure DocumentDB are priced completely differently: DynamoDB is priced on both storage and request streams, DocumentDB is priced on requests/second only)

Cloud pricing is complicated - what else is new?
You also can (literally) cut access to service.
Pure UX Designers are s dying breed. I know a bunch of designers and they confirm this. You need to know how to code on top of UX design. Finding pure UX design jobs are hard and in 5 years it might be extinct. It's just the nature of the industry unfortunately n
Azure just recently announced price reductions to be competitive with AWS. The blog post has some interesting links.
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/helping-azure-custome...

Disclaimer: I work for Microsoft.
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Ask HN: What is future of BI and analytics?
There is so many tools for analyzing data. You have entire Hadoop ecosystem ( Hbase,Pig, Hive), Spark, Storm, Kafka and Flume for real time messaging and queuing services.
There are tons of tools for analyzing data.
You have Tableau, Qlikview, Looker, Chartio as data visualization tools.

Then there is whole different paradigm of ML and NLP and statistical data science.

What is your take on future of analytics ? Where are we headed ? Everyone is collecting mass scale data but where does that leave us ?

If you would starting again with brand new open source idea driving future what would it be ?
Another great book to read is Michael Lewis' Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World (2012) which is a compilation of articles on the 2008 recession that he wrote for Vanity Fair magazine.

The one on Iceland is called "Wall Street on the Tundra - Iceland" and you can see its preview here:
http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2009/04/iceland200904

(The complete article is behind Vanity Fair's paywall.)
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And from the conclusion:

Briefly, if an animal detains self recognition ability, it will recognize
itself in a mirror and will try to clean the alien colored
spot it bears. The inverse is not always true: if an animal
clean itself in front of a mirror, it might do so
without recognizing itself. So, on the basis that ants conspicuously
marked on their clypeus clean themselves while ants
marked otherwise do not, both only after having been in
front of a mirror, it can be presumed (but not yet asserted)
that, for the Myrmica species presently tested, and for
individuals of a given age, self recognition is not
impossible.
> I still didn't get the rocket launcher behind the monitor/poison symbol.

Where was this? I missed it altogether.
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You don't need to use big banks to participate in the financial system. It's easy to get federal assistance to set up your very own credit union. The members of the union often pay $1 to buy a single share of the credit union, so its owned by its own members, with everyone having equal representation. They offer checking and savings accounts, along with personal loans and mortgages.

You do need investment banks to e.g. IPO your company or issue corporate bonds. Let's ignore that issue, since the typical person doesn't 'have to' IPO their company or get multiple billions of dollars in bonds issued.

For the fraud, let's pick on a specific company: Goldman Sachs. Everyone hates Goldman Sachs. I hate Goldman Sachs.

Their CEO at the time was Lloyd Blankfein. What did Lloyd Blankfein do that was considered fraud and that should land him in jail? I don't believe that Goldman directly loans money for mortgages, so he should be immune to criticisms of mortgage fraud on any specific application. If you were going to prosecute him, which event would you focus on?
My IP doesn't work. It says "undefined"
I agree. It is much more fun for the builder. But this is to be an "Heirloom" object. Focus should therefore be on those who will actually have to live/work with the finished product. The desires of the craftsman are irrelevant. If they matter, then this is an article about a hobby more than product design.
In general I agree, but the lack of radiation is a real problem - we would need to have some fundamental error in our understanding of thermodynamics for their tech to be capable of that. That, or the structure itself isn't collecting the energy but only [somehow] redirecting visible wavelength light.
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The TL;DR of the whole crisis is that some high-level financial professionals found a loophole in the way risk was calculated and then applied pressure on their subordinates to create more of the raw materials necessary to exploit that loophole.

Maybe you don't believe that's criminal, but financial crimes are often cases where the victim "should have known better." Enron's deception was apparent to industry insiders long before it was raided and shut down, but that doesn't mean No crime was committed.
Absolutely. Just bought a house on the Peninsula a year ago. I feel ya.
Install `sl` on everyone's machine. `sl -al` FTW.

Edit:
cf http://man.cx/sl(6)
Read the TPP
Would it be accurate, then, that if you don't see a massive laundry list of skills that the employer in question is having trouble finding people to fill the position?
You don't understand how I could think that lying for selfish reasons is wrong?
> It ceded $5b of market value to Stripe

Not just Stripe. Braintree, I've heard, is comparable or bigger.
http://www.digitaltechnologylicensing.com/peqtulhumachka-hun...
That's basically the extreme end of the destructiveness of premultiplication.

You also lose precision in general, which can lead to a grey-brown soup at semi-transparent fringes. He mentions 16bit colors further down, but they're not always available, e.g. in webgl.
Quantity is not quality... You could perfectly dont understand the Drupal core and still build billion Drupal site.

And after reading your critics, you seem to really don't understand how Drupal entities work.
What do you mean by "with better accuracy"? How can one matrix multiplication algorithm be more accurate than another?
You have to click on the IP not just on "Analyse" with the empty IP field. Ran into the same problem.
How is that the better question?
What? There are plenty of European retailers that do well in the US... IKEA, H&M, Zara, etc.
No. I am not aware of either one creating a market for censorship. Though I've only ever spent a handful of dollars at Best Buy anyway.
It's a thermodynamic argument, not an anthropocentric one. Irrespective of your technology, you can't just absorb all the energy of a star without re-radiating it, unless you want to cook yourself inside a gigantic space thermos.
Like a mirror? Or a mirror that selectively reflects certain wavelengths but not others?
> some people are so small and have nothing more important going on in their lives, they engage in activities such as these.

Personal attacks break the HN guidelines, which require you to post civilly and substantively or not at all. Please (re-)read
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html and do not do this again.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10912417 and marked it off-topic.
For some reason this article received a fair amount of negative feedback here. I quite enjoyed it.

It's good to remind developers that they should ensure that their products degrade gracefully, and to give a few examples of what could go wrong. Mentioning the (somewhat basic, but still generally effective) fault-tolerance of HTML/CSS vs JS along with the user's basic viewpoint also helps to get his point across further.

Maybe I'm just used to reading longer form content, but I didn't feel that this brief blog post was a waste of time.
Insider trading and undisclosed conflict of interest is the primary issues with GS.

How much of that is the CEO's fault is a little up in the air. But, you could likely get him for a whole lot of conspiracy to commit X crimes. However, we don't know because he is not being investigated. So, the dude might be squeaky clean.
I'm not discussing how IT at these places is, merely how it could be. We are discussing hypothetical use cases, are we not?

As for the more general point, that's fair, but people keep bringing up things that are not DRM as examples, or use cases where DRM is not a good solution.

I think my original idea of individuals applying DRM to their own medical records is a way better example of how DRM could potentially be useful to protect privacy and give people control of their own information.
It's about using their power to create and push an inferior product (censored music created especially for WalMart). At the time (early-mid 90s) I was a teenager, so it was a big deal that others who couldn't drive no longer had the option to buy proper versions of music thanks to WalMart's heavy hand.

WalMart shoppers vote with their dollars, and so do I.
"Forbes asked readers to turn off adblockers then immediately served them malware" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10870892
I don't think so, but that would be an awesome tool.

I have seen many companies alter their operations to take advantage of cost savings on a given cloud platform, so such a calculator wouldn't be a definitive answer.
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