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I think many firms have a two or three year cycle for upgrading their desktop/notebook computers. Honestly, they are far less expensive these days than they used to be. The biggest cost might be retraining people to use the new systems in many cases.

Windows XP is an OS from 2001. It is way out of date and does not include with it all of the security of a newer OS such as Windows 10.

In the case of most firms they upgrade every few years anyway. It might be different for some non-profits or government. But at any rate, I feel it is totally unrealistic to expect MS to support software from 2001.
> Third possibility: their role involves securing domestic infrastructure, in which case they should be looking for vulns and getting them fixed. IIRC this actually is part of their statutory mandate, alongside offensive operations.

This sounds similar to what IAD does. The difference is that IAD focuses on securing systems against entire classes of vulnerabilities and attacks.

SID has the mission of gathering signals intelligence, so that is why it makes sense for them to utilize individual zero day vulnerabilities. They need to get into an adversary system, so vulnerabilities are required (when needed) to get that access.
Not only is this submission flagged, it is also almost a day old (kinda old by HN standards), but you still felt the need to show up and link to what the public sources say. You have no insider knowledge, and the chances of the publicly known story being accurate are pretty slim. Seems pretty low to me. I almost DV'd you until I saw someone else already did, so I figured I would try providing feedback (I hate drive-by DVs).
That's a very industry-friendly number with a very industry-friendly calculation;

> CSDD’s finding, a bellwether figure in the drug industry, is based on an average out-of-pocket cost of $1.4 billion and an estimate of $1.2 billion in returns that investors forego on that money during the 10-plus years a drug candidate spends in development.

Backing some figures out then, the actual cash cost is $1.4 billion to develop a drug. They rely on a 11.8% clinical success rate for that figure, so if you back out the drugs that were abandoned along the way (since they won't need late-stage human safety studies), it's more like $165M to develop a self-originated drug if you believe the self-supplied pharma figures.

It's even more suspect when their $2.6 billion headline figure for increased from $800M in 2003 when the cost of capital has decreased since then and average approval times have been halved:
http://www.raps.org/uploadedImages/Site_Setup/Regulatory_Foc...
If you suffer from lumbar (or any other region) pain in your column, reclining or not is a huge difference. I never had problems about knees getting closer or not, etc., but having suffered from lumbar pain for a part of my life, I can assure you that reclining or not has a big impact.

No, it doesn't mean that pain -> need to recline. Sometimes it gets better keeping it straight, sometimes you get relief when you recline.

The advantage was to have the option to choose it at every travel, or during the travel.

As options get limited, so was my pleasure getting lower.
Western Union at least requires ID to recieve money, and you have to go into a location to do so (you cant claim it online) ... so you will be on camera...

Checks and money orders have to be cashed...

Im not ranting against anything, just a curiosity...
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Craig probably did some math and found out that even if he lives to 800 years old, he will not be able to spend it all so why go nuts? This way everything is manageable and he doesn't need to report to anyone.
Have only checked Rust out a bit, but you mention C#. Does Rust have functionality similar to, and as easy to use, as Linq?
Sounds Benford-y, yeah. The biggest relative "error" in [0,99] is going to be at 19, where the estimate (1 * 10^0) at only ~52% of the actual value (1.9 * 10^0). That local minima for accuracy recurs at 199, 1999, etc. From some quick spreadsheet-fu, the mean underestimation for [0,9999] is 88%.

Meanwhile, with the "teens" trick, the local minimum is 29 (68.9%) and then at 299, 2999, etc, and the mean underestimation is boosted to... huh, only 91%?

Then again, I'm assuming a completely even distribution, which probably won't be true in some contexts.
I am not much of an investment person, but 600M for a classified site is actually pretty impressive for an old, well-established company. If they are able to maintain a high profit with low operation cost, then buyer can project more earning in the future. There is no absolute Craigslist will always make 600M a year. They may lose 10M next year or go bankrupt in ten years. So for 3B for the ten-year forecast (I don't have the data) may not be all that insane. I'd say if 3B is insane, look at all the startups out there, valuation is 10x more and they barely make any profit.
It would absolutely require some level of Windows/OS support.

While you could definitely allow apps to run arbitrary ARM code on it, I also think it would be quite feasible for the hardware or the OS to expose a simpler API as well with basic functions like 'queue download' that would simply take a protocol, a URL, and a disk location.
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What? The seat pivots below knee level by definition, unless you've found a plane where the base of the seat slopes down from the back to the front.

(Since the seat is level or slopes slightly upward from back to front then the pivot point is at the back of the base of the seat. Since the legs are sitting on - i.e. above - the seat, then the knees have to be above the pivot point and reclining does indeed remove leg space.)

Disclaimer: I'm over 6' with long femurs and have had exactly this situation happen to me on a flight. When the person in front of me reclines my legs do not fit in the remaining space, even if I'm sitting all the way back in my seat.

I understand the economic rationale airlines have for separate seat classes, but at the same time that rationale irritates me because I end up having to pay more for something that is entirely out of my control (genetics).
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Note that, FWIW, Free Pascal today comes with the same manuals - a user's guide (telling you how to install and use the compiler, the IDE and the various tools), a programmer's guide (telling you implementation details for the language), a language reference (explaining the language itself, in theory you can make your own compiler from that), a runtime library reference (what the name implies) and a framework reference (reference for the extra libraries that usually come with FPC). Also there is a reference for the documentation generator in case you need to write docs yourself.

https://www.freepascal.org/docs.var
Partnering with others sounds like a much faster route to getting into the hands of consumers (and therefore getting money).

Having to also create and scale up production of a car as well sounds harder and much riskier.
Conduction through the bottom of the pot, which is in direct contact with the bread, might be an important part of it. However, if the heat transfer is much more effective, why doesn't it burn the bottom side?
Great writeup! Another resource that scans your site for various security headers is https://securityheaders.io/.
If this were me, I'd be running away from it as fast as possible.

It's entered meatspace, with players like the FBI, FSB, China (not sure about their acronyms), and anyone else who feels they have a stake.

If you aren't state-sponsored and protected (by a competent state, however corrupt), you aren't going to win against them. Not when you have a physical body, family, and friends to protect.

(And even if you aren't state-sponsored, do you want to be on high-vigilance for 10+ years? No trips abroad? And how do you stay useful enough to maintain that protection? And how, regardless of internal political turmoil?)

P.S. Not to mention, the competent (as opposed to the other) and very resource rich aspects of their intelligence services. Which can add up to a lot of haystack sifting.
Sounds interesting, would love to take a look if it's available anywhere.
Didn't see that coming, eh?
Not to mention the places that post the same ad every day or even more frequently.

Hmm, I'm interested in a Subaru. (I search Subaru) 500 listings of the same BMW x5 come up.

Nevermind, let's see what Hondas are on the market. 500 listings of the same BMW x5 come up.

I throw my computer out the window.
Nobody has mentioned Computer Literacy! It even has a wikipedia page.

That's where I bought huge numbers of programming and theory books in the early 90's working in SV. Better than the Stanford Bookstore. The old store even smelled nice, like a very old library. I so enjoyed spending an hour once a week or so just sampling books.

Anyway, I started out learning basic on a (borrowed) sinclair about 1980, and then learned fortran on a mainframe at GaTech. The way you were taught fortran was to be given lectures on numerical analysis, and then you implemented the algorithms using the fortran manual as a guide (no help from the class). The asocial grumpy nerd behind the counter might occasionally answer a question at 2AM. When Newton's method converged the first time... I was in heaven. We had a fabulous co-op program, and so I learned basic (again, much better) on an HP-9845. Though it was state-of-the-art hardware, the real advantage was that it had a full set of HP manuals, and I got to use it almost full time for a whole summer. And they paid me!

Then next came a PC about 1986. I spent about 15% of my total income for that machine, and never regretted it. What that enabled was a platform for Turbo Pascal, and a little later Turbo C. As others have noted, those were heavenly development environments, with outstanding documentation. I think one of the authors of the documentation was kinda famous for his literary style, but I have forgotten his name. I also in about '88 spent $600 for an 80MB HD. This was about 5% of my then income as a math grad student. Never regretted that either. All of this investment in money and effort might have been entirely wasted, but instead I got my dream job in '89.
On web it's under Account > Content (the bottom section).
The idea that we should all simply trust one entity to "approve" drugs is pretty farfetched.

I think there should be multiple "stamps" of approval from a variety of entities that consumers can use to determine whether they want a particular drug...

Why not have stamps from the FDA, insurer groups, physicians groups, etc.
I know a lot of small business owners in SF, and Borderlands' story is one that I've heard before. The minimum wage hike is killing a lot of coffee shops who had previously been able to offer quality coffee at not much more cost that what you'd find at Starbucks. With the wage hike, Starbucks takes the hit, keeps prices the same, and the smaller shops are forced to hike prices and turn away customers.

I'm guessing I'll see a lot of commentary about paying a living wage and how these businesses must be mismanaged and that this is just the way the market "works." I won't necessarily disagree, but what is happening in practice still feels wrong.
NHS cyber-attack: No 'second spike' but disruption continues
Definitely true.

Tangent: a lot of people wonder who would pay $1700 for a 6950X. The answer I always give is "people want to do intensive work and gaming on the same system". Otherwise the 4/6C chips are better choices for the money.

The great weakness of that system is - as you note - the lack of ECC.

I strongly, strongly recommend building two different systems for this situation. Depending on your needs it can almost be more economical to do it this way. i3s (and now Pentiums) support ECC and make good ZFS servers. The 4C Xeons aren't too bad either. You can also do some cheap E5 Xeon builds using engineering samples. Many-core Xeons are more than sufficient for the kind of stuff you need ECC for, even at relatively low clock rates. A 10C at 2.4 GHz is roughly comparable to 6C at 4.13 GHz (I use mine in Handbrake). And uses 2/3 of the power to boot.

And then you can focus on gaming performance in your gaming system. Like 3x as much for a given level of performance.

It's a lot like laptops. You're going to spend a lot more if you insist on only owning one system that can do everything.

The segmentation here does suck, I would rather see it supported even on consumer hardware, but practically speaking I don't think Intel is going to change this any time soon. Even if AMD does.

(and note: unless the manufacturer is willing to stand behind ECC, Ryzens's "unofficial" ECC support holds about as much weight as using Intel's engineering samples)
"Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy." - Paracelsus

The same fentanyl that a junkie might overdose on was used as a general anesthetic in my surgery.

All drugs can be used UN-safely, but some drugs cannot be used safely or cannot reliably be used safely.
To boot, I have two machines, 2000 and XP, and they can't be touched. Why? Ports I know will not be used are locked down, both systems have their firewalls configured on top of that, and those machines only access certain sites in a non-HOSTS file that Windows cannot bypass like it can in newer versions because it's in the router, an older one which they cannot touch.

And no UEFI Windows Partition driver BS, either! Get with the old times, people, before needing Ring 5+ mitigation, when people would actually FIX THEIR HARDWARE.
I support reclining, but almost had the screen of my Thinkpad mangled when someone reclined and the tray table hook caught the top of my screen and started forcing it downwards in a way it shouldn't go. I was fast enough to scoop the laptop out of the way, but it sure was scary.

It also made positioning the laptop a little trickier, but it was totally manageable and just a price you pay on an airplane.
I think it's helpful to overlay a lot of American history with a timeline of not-so-great things that were happening at the same time.

For example, the american revolutionary war was an important event... but also we had slaves (some who were forced to fight), it fractured many indigenous tribes, and the first presidential election 10 years later only allowed male landowners to vote.
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While I love that and the related books, I think this is somewhat silly. At a base level where you are depriving your body of everything, food is medicinal in nature. Without it, you die.

Now, I get that being cognizant of what you add to your body seems beneficial. And, to a large extent, adding extra burden to your liver and other organs is not a good idea. However, to think that you should avoid all medicine unless acutely sick seems disingenuous. And to modify that for allowing chronically sick people opens a wide door to a ton of chronic states.
I think it's 3rd party libraries/tools/SaaS, all sitting on top of a much more complicated stack, causing most of the problems. They provided enough of a boost to productivity that you can't justify avoiding them, but mean you swap thinking about and fixing real problems for googling obscure broken shit in these almost-always-terrible libraries et c.

It's the difference between 8 hours, 1 of which is wrestling with dumb broken crap, and 4 hours, 3.5 of which is wrestling with dumb broken crap. The latter is way less fun, very demoralizing, and more mentally draining IMO. But it's almost all one gets to do these days, because you do get done faster with them. A blessing (to productivity) and a curse (to fulfillment/happiness as a developer)

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I think that, at typical oven temperatures, both can be approximated well enough by black bodies.
> On a somewhat hilarious note, when I went to visit Taliesin, there were several rooms which I thought were poorly designed, but had an element that I considered a saving grace. In literally every single instance, it was something his wife had added/altered after his death.

Sounds like Frank Lloyd Wright was the George Lucas of architecture.
Seems more likely to me that a lot of Windows users own an iPad but not a Mac.
I really like a static website command, NextJS impresses me every time.
(Yes, I know about the six-year-old prior submission with 4 points and 0 comments.)
Didn't BeOS have some awesome database-like file system indexing and query system?
Elm for JavaScript Developers – Creating HTML Elements and Using Libraries
Part of the problem with welfare (and unemployment benefits) is that you have to prove you're looking for work, which means living in a place where $9k doesn't go too far. But that'd be enough to scrape by in say rural Georgia.
The world wold benefit from some sort of map (or catalogue) of database engines and systems currently available.

Anyone aware of such a thing?
I just remembered that I sent them money after Snowden and I didn't get that promised t-shirt.
Avocados Are Why You Can't Afford a Home, Millionaire Says
How are you defining complexity in a programming language?
Drone Harmony Mission Planner (DJI)
I'm passed edit window; but Google:

"craigslist" + "offerUp"

You will see a lot of articles about how Craigslist makes money; is dangerous; potential revenue models; is going to finally get dethroned.

The one that made me think a campaign to promote these 2 companies was about bad site design.
Rudeness? Insults? I said "this is naive", not "you are naive."

Surely we're all adults and can talk about ideas candidly without having to beat around the bush and tell each other little white lies.

A while ago you told someone, "You speak in broad generalizations that miss many points and make many faulty assumptions. "

Any difference between your statement and mine comes down to how individuals respond to specific words. How about we rise above such pettiness and focus on the subject matter?

You've added nothing to this discussion and have wasted people's time.
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Apple releases iOS 10.3.2 update for iPhone and iPad – 9to5Mac
Super Saver shipping was never 2-day, it was always 5-7 day, at least since 2002 which was the first time I've ordered from Amazon. Prime also started at $80/year, I looked it up. Paying $80/year to get my items slightly earlier sounds like a terrible deal.
Show HN: Glue – Generate typed Golang RPC clients from server code
Woke up today, went to hackernews while still in bed, found this article, read 2 sentences, bought one.

You better be right!
Depending on the airplane/seat, it actually makes my legs have a tighter fit. I'm 6'2".

Whenever I fly for work I usually pay the extra money for a better seat personally.

I typically don't recline my seat on a plane, because in most cases it makes my ride less comfortable to be behind someone who reclines.
Did someone come up with a generalized rule about putting SQL on top of every possible system that contains queryable information? Here is first-pass:

>eventually every system that contains information that can be queried will have a sql interface
> Paying a ransom is the opposite of this. The action only helps yourself, but harms everyone else, but providing funds to the ransomer.

Reminds me of my relationship with the people who call themselves the taxing authorities.
What do you mean by forced? Logically Microsoft should decide ahead of time how long they are going to support a given version and publish this information so that potential buyers can decide whether its sufficient before buying. They do this, and you can read online how long they intend to support the software you are buying today.
Agree with previous commenters. Interesting, but I can't wait to see materials that truly regenerate – rather than simply providing a buffer against initial damage.
If they don't also fix "end-of-life" that's also in the wild, they'll get a ton of black eyes every time something like this happens.
I am running an integer programming solver in the browser with wasm: https://www.strandmark.net/wasm/glpk.html

Its single-threaded performance is essentially native, but I don't have the numbers.
> I just googled him. He's super famous. So he probably has that Frank Lloyd Wright thing going for him, where his buildings have glaring flaws but they are let off the hook because their work is so acclaimed.

Architecture as a discipline has a real problem with this. Far too little attention is given to usability and the prosaic question of how a building turns out in practice; there's far too much back-slapping about "vision".
> "Then why are so many healthcare providers who were caught last week saying they couldn't upgrade from Windows XP because some essential functionality of other software or equipment no longer worked on Windows 10?"

In the US, they might possibly be in violation of HIPAA health data privacy laws because by running on an unsupported OS they are leaving themselves open to cyber attacks and stolen health care data.

Best to deal with vendors of software that upgrade their software to the newest OS versions, especialy if it has anything to do with health data.

> "You keep writing things like that, as if the only practical alternative in many cases was not turning the equipment off altogether."

Microsoft had been warning for years that they were going to discontinue service and they have done it with previous OSs, so no surprise there really. Software vendors and their customers need to prepare ahead of time.

If properly maintained by their IT Depts, these Windows 10 Upgrade messages never come up.
Linq, ick. It's a performance nightmare. No one knows what it is actually doing in the background so firstly, everyone writes horrible O-cubed performance with it, and then it is a series of random poking around to try fixing it.
Or harder still, how many drugs never get to the public because of the expensive process of FDA approval that skyrocket costs and kill people without getting reasonably priced low-risk medicine.
It does seem Waymo is going the path of the component supplier (at least right now). While they have the active partnership with Fiat Chrysler, there was a report[0] in December that they were in talks with Honda as well. Then from reddit pointed out a job posted for Waymo looking for people that speak Japanese[1].

[0] https://www.recode.net/2016/12/21/14046496/waymo-alphabet-ho...

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/SelfDrivingCars/comments/67w27p/fia...
I could not agree with you more! Today is my last day clutching a frothy latte, ever! I gave up on chocolate recently due to Cadbury's being bought by Kraft and since then I have moved to the equally sugary fruits for my treats.

So now I am going to eat what I eat when I am not well - fruit, salads, fruit and more salads. No beige foods and not necessarily cooked meals. So no chips either.

I also happen to be vegetarian so I really just want to fine tune what I eat rather than go on a diet, which rarely works for people who do such things.

I also think there is something cool about being 'powered by fruit, nuts and vegetables' with only a bicycle for transport.

I am not convinced about any medicines, particularly pain killers, I will save those and the antibiotics until I get past 8 on the A+E pain scale.

https://www.fastcompany.com/3050319/how-giving-up-refined-su...
I think we'll see smartphones plateau a little bit soon as well — once you hit a certain processing speed and saturation... it's hard to justify constant updates. The average web/device user really only needs so much to browse the web, email, and use apps.
Well, assuming the small coffee shops are well-managed, then we still have to ask ourselves which is more important, the cheap good coffee or a living wage for the workers?