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> I wondered when Matthew Garrett would pipe up and deepthroat Microsoft again. He duly obliges.

Personal attacks (and that's an ugly one) are not allowed on HN. Nor is name-calling ("so stupid it isn't even funny, but Matthew likes defending stupid").

We ban accounts that do this, so please don't. You can easily make your point civilly and we'll all be better for it.
On the greyscale gradient- the other way around: Figure 2 looks more even, being a perceptually linear gradient, ie. calculated "gamma incorrectly". Which is to say it's not what a real light would look like (if a light had linear falloff in illumination of this surface?).
Doesn't xfinitywifi use a separate channel to avoid impacting the subscriber's service? Or are you talking about something else? (xfinitywifi isn't really a mesh network).
Sure, it’s an abstract machine invented to research mathematical model of computation.

I’d like to point out, the very moment you hooked second asynchronously moving head to the machine, the abstraction leaked spectacularly. With two asynchronous heads, the machine no longer has state; suddenly we need to consider physical time, not just count steps; and so on.

Turing machine is useful abstraction for sequential computing, but nearly useless to research parallel computing problems. The same happens with many other abstractions and approaches when going parallel.

> either one of those moves completes before the other

Yeah, but in parallel computing, we don’t know that order, and have no way of knowing. Meaning the “sequence of state transitions” idea is IMO nearly useless.
"Sweden capped the mortgage term to 105 years"

Do you have any other citations for this? I have never heard about this in the Swedish news and I'm quite curious where The Telegraph got that information from.
He's not wrong

Matt certainly was wrong when he said: you can only lose money. I pointed out that Cooperman could have made a potential additional $0.07 if the options expired, and you're agreeing with that.

I agree with you that it usually makes sense to close out or roll an asymmetric position. BUT, and this is an important BUT, holding a position to expiration is far from rare.

Here are some statistics (but I can't vouch for their accuracy)[1]:

10% of options are exercised
55% to 60% of options positions are closed out (bought back)
30% to 35% expire worthless

Option expiration shouldn't be glossed over. That final case occurs one-third of the time.

[1] https://www.stockoptionschannel.com/slideshows/seven-myths/m...
Chicks dig YouTube Heroes
Are you more interested in actually writing to PC VGA registers, or just the idea of writing a pixel-by-pixel renderer? There are bindings for SDL and SFML in a lot of languages, and the web technology option mentioned by the sibling comment.

If you like the idea of "DOS-based VGA programming" (taken literally), you could also find a DOS compiler or assembler and run it in DosBox. All of IBM's hardware-level documentation can still be found online: http://www.mcamafia.de/pdf/pdfref.htm
I suspect like you only used C++ IDEs? It's pretty much instantaneous (and always correct) in common IDEs for languages like C#, Java and TypeScript.
This sort of snarky dismissal is what we're trying to avoid on HN. If you have a substantive critique you're welcome to share it, but merely splashing vitriol degrades the quality of discussion we're hoping for. That's true even if the implied critique is right (i.e. even assuming you're right, that doesn't make it ok), and despite the invariable popularity of snarky comments.

Also, this is name-calling:

> myopic silicon-valley bubble child

... and that is not allowed:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

so please edit it out of your posts here.
The title could be rephrased as "Cheap guys risk the lives of thousands of people by promising savings of a few bucks".

The problem is not with the "greedy corporations", but with the poorly dedigned legislation regarding intellectual property rights.

The state created the protectionist environment in which companies can become bullies and be sure that they won't be exposed to any economic competition.

Of course, the complete lack of IP laws would deter companies from investing in research, but the same effect have too strong IP laws. Why would a company risk their money and do research once they found a cash cow which can be milked for a long time, having the state guarantee it?
Here are 10 more options:

http://www.idropnews.com/2016/09/21/10-alternatives-to-apple...

But I agree, that staying under $30 is key!
If the cost of materials for the injector is about $30, then $150 shouldn't be an unreasonable retail price for it.
Berkshire seems to be good at buying and managing companies in order to make money. But not so good at just buying stock:

http://fortune.com/2016/04/29/berkshire-hathaway-stock-warre...
I don't get how come this item has received (at the time of this writing) 204 upvotes, whereas an earlier item on the very same blog post only received 6:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12529981
See e.g.:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Permanent_Fund

The fund pays a yearly dividend to permanent residents.

The article also mentions that one of the reasons for setting up the fund was dismay with how the initial $900 mill. of oil income was spent.
Been using Sublime Text 3 for years (and I do have a license), and been trying out Atom/VSCode lately. Atom can get real slow, but I feel like the extensions for Atom are of higher quality (linters, TypeScript integration). I think it might have something to do with HTML/CSS/JS vs Python for plugin development.
Yeah, I've wondered that too - unless I'm mistaken it's all done server-side, and they're not able to offload compute to the phone.
Well, yeah, a restaurant can buy more ingredients at a time which makes it cheaper since they get a bulk discount. While you pay $3 for that sandwich, the restaurant only pays $1.50. If the DIY EpiPen costs you $30, then a factory probably churn one out for $15.
More and more big social is democratizing the black magic of boutique PR firms. Want reputation management? Rep-kill your competitors? Damage control your latest scandal? Just hire some mechturks for peanuts to flag the right videos and like the right pages and write the right reviews and submit the right DMCAs and retweet the right tweets and...
Timely article. I recently switched to VZ from ATT where I'd been a customer for years. At ATT, I had a grandfathered unlimited plan. Before I switched, I checked my max monthly data usage from the previous few months. The max was way under 3 GB / mo. After I switched to VZ, I was hitting the 5 GB limit after only 25 days. How can that be?
According to textbooks, lexers are the bottleneck because they are the only part that has to literally look at every byte of the source (I am including hashing as part of the lexing process).

I am not sure if this is true any more. It probably depends on the language.

Even as CPUs grow faster, code bases grow bigger, so the number-of-bytes argument is still important. On the other hand, heavy optimisations and difficult languages like C++ will shift the bottlenecks to later stages.
The Hackers groups are doing what they can to expose Mylan's (EpiPen makers) Greed which is laudable. What is really needed is also an explainer on why a bit of govt. leverage (socialism if you will) is good in Medicine Pricing as well.

Mylan is a really great user of buying legislation.
They leveraged their 90% market ownership of the epinephrine auto-injector market such that

[1] It lobbied hard to ensure that all parents of school going kids (or tax payers) paid for EpiPens by making it into a bill that politicians could easily justify.

Once the bill passed and schools all over the country purchased these by the boatloads, then they just kept raising the price over and over and milking the profits.

When it got too much and they could not ignore the patient backlash they have turned again to purchasing legislation..

[2] Now they want to make it so that the patients do not see the copays - instead every one suffers by paying more for health insurance.

[1] https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/billsum.php?id=hr2094-113

[2] http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/16/business/epipen-maker-myla...

With scumbags like these, is it any wonder that the USA has the most expensive healthcare system in the world?
I was under the impression that Dropbox stored the password because it was able to reinstate itself as an accessibility service as many times as it liked without having to ask for the admin password

That is not necessary. A SUID binary owned by root runs with root's privileges. So, they only need the administrator's password once to install the SUID binaries. Afterwards, they have their own 'backdoor' to reinstate the accessibility settings, without needing an administrator password.

So, when they deny storing your password, it's probably true, they don't need it.

(If you are not convinced, write a small C program that executes a shell, compile it, make root the owner, set the SUID bit. You can be in a root shell without ever typing a password. This is why it is a good practice to have as few root-owned SUID binaries as possible.)
YCMD's racer based GoTo for Rust is pretty fast too, despite Rust having a complex type system.
They used the initial admin access (via the 'fake' password prompt) to install a tool that has setuid 0.

Setuid 0 means that whoever executes the tool, it always runs as user 0 (aka root). That is what enables them to continuously re-add their bullshit into accessibility settings.

So they aren't storing a password, they're installing a program that has permanent unlimited (barring System Integrity Protection on newer versions) access.
Well put.

I've got a heart issue going on and I've had some fascinating results from capturing my heart rate on a consumer grade chest band monitor, then uploading it to influxdb and viewing it with grafana. Total outlay a couple of hundred bucks. Invaluable to me in tracking what's going on with my heart.

Yet that whole stack would never be approved by... Anyone!
Yeah - aren't a good 20% of Silicon Valley startups just Unix commands reinvented (badly) as websites?

I'll by a beer for the first person to get to Unicorn status with an actual shell buitin (as opposed to all the SaaS companies that are just repackaged standard Linux/Unix distribution packages).

(Rushes off to register echo.io, pwd.io and logout.io...)
Why is Hacker News behaving in such an unfair way?
Can someone please explain this?

These two items point to the same URL (with a slight user-based URL "token" difference at the end; that's why it's not detected by HN as double).

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12529981
2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12534296

The first one has 6 upvotes, the second one has 204.

The first one was published to HN much earlier (2016-09-19T09:13:07.000Z) than the second one (2016-09-19T20:10:34.000Z).

The first one was published by a user with 3052 karma, the second one by a user with 1476 karma, at the time of this writing.

What is going on?
Aren't all insurances in theory P2P? My naive understanding is that the insurance companies basically collect a lot of money from a large number on people, and then pay it out when needed? Basically, think of them as managers for the money. In addition they try to make the money work by placing bets on a lot of things and hope they make more than 1X.

Not trying to poke holes, but this sounds so interesting to me. This sounds similar to syndicates on the investment side.
freshmeat tried a variation of that model and ohloh did as well, it could be executed better and reduce the amount of noise in a anonymously-personalized way.
New age credit card in India?
Supposing Gallium offers a similar feature set to Electron, how would it differ? For example, how would binary sizes compare?
Please don't.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12553667 and marked it off-topic.
Thanks for the hard work sublime text team for making programming so enjoyable. I already find ST3 so flawless that to think it still can be improved is beyond me. Once again, great going.
Washington Post takes heat for Snowden prosecution call
Worth noting even if a shooting is 'justified' it doesn't mean you have to do it. This also explains the gap, not just illegal shootings. The US police appear to have a zero risk tolerence or desire to de-escalate.
This is a common complaint with a simple solution.

Just look at the curricula for various undergrad math programs at some number of decent universities. They have a set of required courses and the course descriptions usually list the prerequisites, and sometimes this is even accompanied with a diagram of the DAG as a flowchart.

For any given course, there's usually a canonical text or set of roughly equivalent in quality texts.

You can do the same thing for basically any area of study that can be found as an undergrad major at most universities.
Republicans have a new app to spur voter registration
Interesting to see this coming from Microsoft as they are more firmly footed in the AR space than VR. Note that they promote non MS products (Rift/Vive, Unity/Unreal) - because they don't really have any.

I think this points to MS really embracing cross-platform friendliness.
Presumably that means "this is not true for any more powerful class of grammars".

Any particular pair grammars from that class. I mean if you showed me a yacc grammar for Pascal and another one for Java, I am sure I could prove they were ineqivelent.

More tricky, if you gave someone clever a hand written Pascal parser and that same yacc grammar she could probably prove equivilency with some effort. But there is no guarantee that this is always possible.
Sources for that? "Skinner box" is a generic term for a much broader class of experiments.
> And please, keep it civil. There's no need to call me troll just because you don't understand business.

I agree that that wasn't civil, but there's nothing civil about this side-swipe either. Please don't do that.
Multiple people thought this is a good idea.
First, the article in STAT is not a press release...it's a reported commentary/opinion piece where the author has clearly done a lot of reporting.

Second, setting a functional level on measure you're talking about is arbitrary. But the the PACE authors picked a very lo value for "recovery." And they dropped that level after beginning the trial - a very poor practice known as outcome switching. At the end, they defined "recovery" below the physical functioning level for most heart failure patients - and below their entry criteria. That is, a CFS patient could enter the trial, get worse, and get called recovered - all while functioning worse than a heart failure patient. Pretty shady stuff.
NASA Scientists Find ‘Impossible’ Cloud on Titan – Again
Creating an email account is cheaper and easier than that, yet Gmail and others do a great job blocking spam. Any reason why similar identifying rules can't be brought to phone numbers?
> Those $70 are definitely worth every penny.

Same here, buying an ST license is probably the single best SW-related purchase that I've ever done. ST3 works so flawlessly, it's just ironic that it's still technically a beta version. It is actually much less buggy than many "final version" competitors ;-)

On a side note, it is notable how, despite being a closed-source program, ST was able to generate a large ecosystem of open-source plugins; that is not something that happens every day (Jeskola Buzz comes to mind as a similar case: also closed source and with a large open-source plugins ecosystem, but I'm not sure how many people on HN are familiar with tracker-style music software, LOL).
Most likely by year 2100 Mark and Priscilla won't be alive, and people that read about this claim won't be alive either. Then, it is not a legally binding claim. I think it's a way to promote their foundation.
Can this be a side effect of the "free healthcare" goal that the state is trying to achieve?

When people don't have to pay for something straight from their pocket, they're not feeling the ripoff so strongly, so they don't revolt.

That's why I personally think that the systems where people vote with their wallets are much more efficient.
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Everalbum is proof that SMS invite spam still works
This is what I imagine it feels like looking at photos of yourself with a perm or a leisure suit. The washed out colors. The complete obliviousness to how embarrassing it was. The sheer joy of experiencing it at the time. The quiet nostalgia.

Edit: the pride, because it was so much better than what came before. At least you felt like it was.

Edit 2: seriously, the nostalgia. I miss jamming whatever nonsense together on that poor Debian install I had on whatever weird box of discarded parts where I kind of started learning to loonix. And I miss the infinite configurability of KDE, even though everything I came up with felt like hammer pants.
How is the image related to the article?
> iOS you'll need to "reset" then use it for a while.

Which is idiotic, but still not as idiotic as iOS's lack of automatic data usage alerts.
I really liked KDE up to version 3.
KDE 4 seemed like a big departure from version 3 and focused too much on the shell and libraries and not a lot on the applications themselves.

I think the legacy of KDE is the open sourcing of Qt and the creation of the KHTML that then was forked to create WebKit.
This will create massive pressure on the price of oil. Why would anyone in their right mind not try to sell it off as fast as possible as it won't be worth much in a few years.
It's a conspiracy.
>Imagine an OS where you can do something like "view source" with html, you can edit it, and immediately re-execute it.

Do you mean view the kernel's source? Or user program source? Either way, this already exists, it's just often unsuitable for OS software.
State of emergency called after second night of unrest in Charlotte, NC
I'm pretty sure the aviation world inherited this protocol from the nautical world.
Ah back in the early 2000s life was exciting on the Linux desktop with weird and unconventional artistic window decorators that would make plants twine around your borders or have short beOS-style tabs or put the close buttons bottom right and so on! Customizing the desktop was a major time-sink for the students at my collage. :D

In fact, by comparison with how I recall Linux desktops in 2000, these KDE 2 screenshots seem to be ushering in a new era of boring conforming window decorators :(

Where have all the crazy interesting rebelling different decorators gone? I did a quick flick through gnome-look.org and found nothing very different.. :(
I've been using NFSN for quite sometime for a few lean sites. I would recommend it to anyone who wants a site at a very low cost and has some technical knowledge. If you're tech savvy, value freedom, privacy, etc., then NFSN should be a service you should look at for cheap shared hosting.

My biggest cost is the domain name renewal by a huge margin. The cost of storage, bandwidth and resource use amount to so tiny a figure that I always think about the other shared hosts (which are usually oversold) where most people pay a lot more than what they use. I also use the free tier of CloudFlare in front of the NSFN sites, and that has made my site costs (minus domain fees) negligible (like a few dollars a year - yes, a year). Of course, my needs are small, but I believe this would work well for most people who want a site that's not run by some other company selling ads on their content.

Since the costs are usually very low, it also has an amusing side effect where members start counting pennies literally and try to optimize it further (I've indulged in that too)!!!

The owner/admin, jdw, is a no-nonsense person who's quite helpful. Reading his comments and views on the FAQ, in the feature voting system and on the forums provides a lot of insight about NFSN and can also be a nice learning experience on many topics - technical, freedom, policy, political and others.

There are three main downsides that I have noticed, which may make using NFSN a bit more frustrating for some people:

1. You have to have at least some technical knowledge if you want to install anything for dynamic websites. Otherwise you'd struggle since there's nothing like cPanel or any other interface that allows one-click installation of popular web applications.

2. There is a feature voting system where one can propose new additions and have other members can vote and comment on. But you'd find many voted features just sitting around for several years with no action on them, even those that look quite simple. On its part, NFSN is quite clear in stating that these may never be implemented and that it may take up only those that are cheaper and easier to do and maintain. And there are many feature requests that have been completed. But it's difficult to accept that some simple ones aren't done for a very long time.

3. Paid support could be a relatively bigger drain on your expenses if you do need it. Again, NFSN does not believe in users cross-subsidizing each other and tries its best to put actual costs (or close) on the user requiring something. But this may come as a surprise for users.
So if we're applying restaurant maths to this they might be okay charging $45 or double it to $90 for their proprietary delivery system?
Beautiful description and great examples. One thing confuses me. I'm actually using PS CS5 (supposedly the last 'correct' one?) and resizing figure 11 to 50% actually results in B, not C. Is there an option/setting I can use to fix this?
About 15 days. They started contact on August 28th.

It's not that long in the business world, I'd personally wait about 90 days before making a public stink about anything except something that'd terminate my company before then.
As a Canadian I feel so cheated learning about Norway's Oil Fund.

Our government hasn't hardly saved a dime of our Oil Income.

We have been taking a small cut of the hundreds of thousands of barrels of oil we have been producing daily for the past 100+ years and spending it as fast as we possibly can.

>Most of the oil companies exploring for oil in Alberta were of U.S. origin, and at its peak in 1973, over 78 per cent of Canadian oil and gas production was under foreign ownership and over 90 per cent of oil and gas production companies were under foreign control, mostly American. [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petroleum_production_in_Canada...
XSA-186/CVE-2016-7093 HVM guest administrator can escalate privilege to the host
You might be able to write that as a Webpack plugin with a couple of hours work... could be neat.
I think you are supposed to add the colors then divide by two to keep the brightness constant.

This is not how light behaves (it doesn't divide by two on a wall), but it's what you need to make a gradient.
How long do we think until colorful and glossy icons are in again?
Censorship based on feelings of a "heroes" group. What could possibly go wrong?
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Hacker house blues: life with 12 programmers, 2 rooms and one 21st-century dream
I mean, that's still "who cares"? It just sounds fancier.

"It's not unlikely that you can say that your data can be partitioned into N distinct clusters."

Of course not...that's tautological. You can say it because that's what it means. DBSCAN isn't some wizardry that peers into the nature of the universe...its just a clump finder. Whether those clumps have any connection to anything interesting is a coincidence. You could roll a six sided die six times and run dbscan on the results and be like "holy shit! I've discovered how to partition the natural numbers 1 2 3 4 5 and 6!!"