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I look at this issue in two perspectives.

1. Who is the party responsible for posting the comments?

Clearly it is the FCC itself (or possibly some coordinated entity) posting this comment. The response is directly in line with the President's agenda. It is doubtful that any real person agrees with the concept of destroying net-neutrality.

2. Why are they posting the same comment over and over?

It seems to be an attempt at influencing behavior by the FCC. They think that people visiting the site to leave a comment will be for net neutrality. If the visitor sees a bunch of comments that are attacking their position their reaction is to counteract the bot by leaving a coherent argument disputing the bot's message. What the FCC doesn't want is people leaving trolling comments like 'My body has been modified to run on internet privacy, why are you doing this to me?'
I don't trust Microsoft. But they're less evil than Apple, look at Apple is doing with its locked garden (no GPL, only one browser engine allowed, no JITing except for their Javascript engine, development only on their platform, etc., etc.).

On top of this, Microsoft is a smaller fish these days. They've lost mobile, probably forever. They're behind in search, ads, cloud, etc.

So they're, maybe not toothless, but definitely less harmful than they were in the 90's.

For EEE they need to be able to extinguish. They can't extinguish Linux or OSS now, it's basically impossible.
I understand it's difficult to test against the actual Touch ID, since it has aggressive hardware-enforced cooldowns and other defensive tech.
Given that games have different funding models and expectations w/r/t release dates, yes.
I'm a High Admiral backer from November of 2012, and I feel like I've got my money's worth, and I'm not really concerned about the opinions of people that haven't put skin in the game. "This game is taking forever to be developed!" I suppose if your frame of reference is every blockbuster made by every enormous shitty studio conglomerate, sure. But saddle up or shut up as far as I'm concerned. Play what's available, read the development timeline so you actually know what's going on with development and what's happened so far, and then I'll take any of these criticisms seriously. It's pretty stupid the number of people saying things like "I paid my thirty dollars a couple of years ago and I still can't play!" Well that's your fault for not looking before you leap. You have known two things if you've read the packaging before you bought the beans: 1) Development is ongoing and the final game is not released, 2) Development timeline is not rigid and inflexible like it is for giant studios cranking out titles. This is Chris Roberts being given ample time and money to create a magnum opus. That is what it's been the whole time, and what it's been advertised as since the beginning. Outsider opinion is worth nothing.
Indemnification doesn't seem to deter farmers from complaining. Where I live (France) we have a totally anecdotic number of wolves and bears (there are so few bears that they are almost all descended from a single male), and the state is paying for killed animals at or above market price, yet opposition to their reintroduction and lobbying for their killing persists.

It made news today that a single wolf has been photographed on a road in a small town (La Ferrière) and already the mayor is taking the opportunity to ask for "regulation", claiming that sightings of the animal occur every day in his town (one might wonder why, if that's the case, a blurry photo of a single individual makes national news...).
Why would they return it? Backing something is like an early purchase with risk and discount built into it. You are not an investor. All you are ethically​ owed (and not even legally) is the game with the stretch goals you backed. If they blow past the stretch goals they can keep the money if they wish.
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I don't know about Yellowstone, but I'm in Montana and bears are hunted. If I see on one my land, cool, it will move on. When they become a problem in town a hunter with a permit will "remove" it. Are they a problem? Not really, but they do need to be managed. Some schools get put on lock down because of criminals. Ours was on lock down until they got the bear.
Man, Cloudonaut is just hitting it out of the park lately...
No one seems to understand. This is Chris F'ing Roberts. He's bringing us the Wing Commander sequel of our dreams. This isn't some random trying to scam people. He lives and breaths the entire space genre. Every space game owes him a debt of gratitude, because they took all of their concepts from his early games. If he can't do it, no one can. I wholeheartedly am behind his efforts, and if he needs another hundred million to make it happen then that is what it will take. I don't think I'm alone in this viewpoint.
The other difference from the Cobra effect is that feeding wolves would result in a whole lot of problems for the rancher (as in life and limb to family). Those problems are enough of an incentive not to do those things. You really, really don't want a predator to learn free meals are on your land. You already have to manage the land use when ranching.
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My guess: Star Citizen will eventually raise 500M USD. No full game resembling the original promises will ever be delivered.

The "investors" will keep saying that with just a little more time, things will be perfect
So what phone do you carry? A Nokia flip-phone?
I was told in science classes that all of a person's cells shared the same DNA. Now I learn, nobody ever actually tested to see if that was true. This is why people don't trust you, science.
Why wouldn't he? All you are doing is buying something unreleased for a discount because of the built in risk. He gets to do whatever he wants with the money left over as long as he meets the stated goals.
I haven't bought into SC yet, but I do support them and have confidence they will deliver something worthwhile eventually.

Right now my main reason for support is that they are planning to go Vulkan only, and Vulkan is what is going to allow gnu+linux to become a real competitor in the pc gaming market.
Thank you for being the one to express the childlike wonder that I felt. The other comments are informative, but seemed to hit the technical aspects of this post (entirely appropriate on Hacker News!) as opposed to my simple, open-mouthed "wow!"
Because right now you are an anonymous entity on the internet making statements about other un-named entities which may or may not be the same as the one the article is about.

To me that's a content free statement, if you were either not anonymous or you named the company the statement would have some force as it is it is a big fat 0.
I think in the newer Windows, they put the license key in the bios. That's the case with my Thinkpad at least. Whenever I reinstall Windows from scratch it detects the key automatically.

Thankfully, you can now also just download the Windows ISO from Microsoft directly.
It depends if you use the control center shortcut or not.
Circulation published a nice review this week on the rationale for atrial fibrillation screening:
circ.ahajournals.org/content/135/19/1851.full?ijkey=StzSPk8eljGaP2G&keytype=ref

The main reason is that 10% of strokes are associated with undiagnosed atrial fibrillation. The patients who present to the emergency room are a pretty biased sample--for one, they're experiencing symptoms. To prevent strokes, we need to have a way to catch AF in asymptomatic people.

Part of the challenge here is that episodes of atrial fibrillation can be infrequent--in CRYSTAL-AF, for example, it took 84 days from randomization to first episode--and existing monitoring devices like Holters or Zio patches are only worn 24 hours to 2 weeks. The great thing about Apple Watch and other consumer wearables is that they're worn for months or years. That means if we can prove the algorithm is accurate, we can get higher time-coverage than a traditional medical device, catch more AF early, and prevent those 10% of strokes described in the Circulation article.
I bought a gift card at IKEA in Shanghai for 100 yuan once. Shortly afterward, I visited IKEA in Palo Alto and asked a cashier how much was on the card. She scanned it and reported a hundred dollars. I asked her to confirm that, which she did, and then she offered me a "receipt" of the scan, which I accepted.

The printout correctly showed that the card contained 100 CNY. I've thought of IKEA ever since as a store where the cash registers are smarter than the cashiers.
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>> have to gains shipped off to billionaires in California?

Uber is operating at a loss. Presently the gains are being shipped from billionaires in California.
I linked the video about building the 3.0 production schedule, and then omitted the 3.0 schedule itself. Behold, the actual schedule! https://robertsspaceindustries.com/schedule-report
The author is wrong, though: only a fraction of Christians think that way. For example, the entire Calvinist concept of predestination is a reaction against thinking you can earn your way into heaven by scoring points. I've often heard what you just expressed as being "saved by the grace of God", and that's the doctrine of a large fraction of Christians.

Basically, the author would have a hard time finding a generalization about Christians theology that's more wrong.
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I like this idea; however, this is very subjective. Laying out 6 solid reasons for _why_ a startup failed is a bold statement. In reality, there usually isn't a concrete reason why, but I guess it's a good exercise to at least think about it collectively.
>I shouldn't be surprised, but the reporting on this makes it sound way different than the actual research. Specifically, none of the research appears to have been performed on, or tested against ACTUAL SMARTPHONE implementations

That is exactly what the article says. Specifically:

The researchers did not test their approach with real phones, and other security experts said the match rate would be significantly lower in real-life conditions.

and

“To really know what the impact would be on a cellphone, you’d have to try it on the cellphone,” she said.

and

Dr. Ross acknowledged the limitations of the work.

Half of the article is about the limitations of the approach the paper used, so I fail to understand your criticism of the reporting.
And you can also get a comparable Mikrotik for 1/3rd of the price.
I would agree with periodization... From what I have seen the current fitness trends are using this as well. Body builders refer to it as 'cutting' and 'bulking' phases FYI.
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> In OOP we organize our processes using objects

We organize our state using objects.

Many programs have to deal with complex mutable state. The extreme cases are OS kernel state, or game state in an AAA videogame. For such programs, OOP is the only approach allowing people to reason about what’s going on inside these things.

If you don’t have complex mutable state, other approaches might become more practical. One example is compilers; their state is mostly immutable. Another is pure computations without state, especially symbolic computations, like what happens in Maple.

> the thread associated with the input travels through your code, going deeper, then shallower, deeper again

In many programs, input handling is minor part of overall software complexity. Sometimes, most of the code don’t even run on the input thread.

> decouples one set of statements from another, and makes it easier to substitute (or slide) out the second set.

Interfaces abstract away arbitrary stuff (statements, data, hardware devices, etc.), providing strongly-typed API to use that stuff, and hiding complexity of the implementation. In some case (COM interfaces), the statements you’re selecting were written in another language, are implemented in another DLL being loaded on demand, run in different process that starts up on demand, or for DCOM even run on different machine.

> since we are strongly-typed, the factory is only selecting from a finite set

In C#, some class factories take your strongly-typed interface, take other parameters you pass to the factory, and implement the interface in runtime. Because there is infinite set of possible class-factory parameters, that makes the set of statements infinite as well. BTW, this approach is often used in .NET RPC libraries, like WCF.
It's not that they don't exist, it's that current generation tech is not economical without subsidies [that don't exist], and therefore hasn't been scaled up.

And there is no way in hell that a boat filled with batteries is economical compared to one filled with bunker fuel. So if we're not doing economical, it's worth exploring other not-quite-there renewable sources -- especially since a net-zero-CO2 fuel will be more practical: big tanks are cheap, more batteries are not.
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Is there a way to mount the filesystem not on /keybase?
I don't know C#, but I know in C++ I have been burned because I mocked a real class - but I didn't override some function and so my test ended up using a mix between the real class and the mocks leading to code that wasn't testing what I wanted it to. Often the tests pass, but there is a lurking bug.
For the record, the US is one of the only Western countries where drug companies are allowed to market directly to consumers.
About 1) it would still be far better than many, many, medical tests.
Not really. That's actually a better metric in most cases if you a) trust the person saying it and b) trust their ability to review friends choices.

Quite frankly I find Steam reviews to be one of the worst possible metrics and would trust the octopus that picked world cup winners more than Steam reviews.
I understand what you're saying, but... Why should it, though? The Linux kernel is an example of a project that's been ongoing for decades. If Star Citizen puts out a product/service that fulfills the basic requirements -- and they will; at some point they'll reset the persistent universe and it will be very much "live", even while they continue development -- why should they stop iterating on top of it to add new features or other bells and whistles? I would much prefer a situation where Chris Roberts is the good king (a la Linus) of a project that evolves over the rest of his life into a truly remarkable and unique and world-changing game. How fun would that be? I think there's a lot of pressure from industry insiders who have LOTS of money riding on The Old Way of doing things that want to see CR fail. I'd love to see not only CR succeed -- and in many ways he already has -- but to continually succeed for as long as possible.
It's interesting to see how your mind starts chunking it into almost-words if your eye runs into the middle of it while scanning the page.
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I'm rather fond of IBM's z13 mainframe. It just looks like the future as viewed by someone in 2005.

https://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/2015011...
I don't know that he really lied, so much as he over-promised and under-delivered. Lying implies that he never intended to include some of those features.

In video game development, studios are frequently forced to cut significant content or features from a game for a number of reasons. That's why the smart studios are pretty cagey about promises until they're VERY sure they can deliver them. Sean Murray was reckless with his promises and that's what got him into trouble.

It's possible he outright never intended to deliver those features but I don't think that's the case. It's clear they tried very hard to deliver as much as they could.
Those are not the only 2 alternatives. For instance, iOS has neither of these problems.
The government isn't subsidizing ranchers, its paying for the damage caused by something it basically owns. If a bison left the national park and rammed your car, you might fairly believe you were entitled to some compensation. I can tell you from experience that talking to your insurance company will be non-fun.

What association should I draw from your response with that story to my proposal? He was an idiot, but there are idiots everywhere.
posts involving vectorization are always nice, especially if it involves compression. I'd love to see a vectorized version of arithmetic coding, that would definitely be interesting
This is exactly right—the benefit is to prevent strokes by detecting undiagnosed atrial fibrillation.
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I don't think that's totally accurate. That $140M could be considered preorders, basically.
Alan's not working on startups. The rest of your comment can be compressed to name-calling ('horrible', 'unacceptable'), and thence to nothing.

Please don't post like this to HN. More than half the thread is now in these weeds.
Certainly, and perhaps I'm being a little unfair to the average consumer who got caught in the hype. As a programmer I looked at what they were saying they could deliver and figured that it was a bit too ambitious for the resources they were working with. Average people might reasonably expect that a video game developer would only show major features in demos that would make it to the final game.
>It seems that using commercial fingerprint software and captive systems 'similar to the one used by Apple TouchID' is very different from actually testing your theories against, you know, Apple TouchID.

In theory, there's no difference between theory in practice; In practice, there is. ;]

OTOH, Here is a supposed example of an attacker circumventing TouchID iPhone-access controls:
"The video shows in detail how CCC member "Starbug" managed to fool the Touch ID sensor of Apple's new iPhone 5s – using only a scanner, tracing paper, a pcb and wood glue." [1]

https://www.heise.de/video/artikel/iPhone-5s-Touch-ID-hack-i...
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It's not clear if it's the intended result, but that link (for me, and quite unexpectedly) redirects to an Imgur picture of a testicle in a teacup, which is a little funny but which one might not intend to display.
Different things work for different people. I lost about 70 pounds over 10 months in 2006-2007, and have mostly kept the weight off so far. I am about 5'9. My strategy consisted of eating a good lunch portion every day: rice and meat (mostly chicken), and some vegetables if possible. It could be Thai or Mexican or Chinese or Indian... Didn't matter, so long as it had a good ration of rice and meat. Make sure it's enough so that you are not dizzy from hunger in the afternoon, but not too much so you don't go back to the desk feeling sleepy. As you are finishing the lunch, before each of the last few bites, ask yourself if you are full. In the evening, I had Lean Cuisine and a banana. LC boxes don't have too much sodium, and a lot of them are actually quite tasty (Swedish Meatballs!). You can get them at Target. I always went for the ones that maximized the proteins/calories ratio, at least 15 g of protein for a 300-calorie box. At home I kept some diet soda (0 calories) around to quelch the "sweet-tooth" cravings. Obviously, lay off the greasy stuff and regular sodas. At the Mexican places, skip those items that appear to be swimming in cheese, and also those "refried" beans and the chips-and-salsa are not good for you. At the Thai places, the rice-with-some-meat items are nice; lay off the pad thai.

Bananas and apples are good because they are so large, they take a while to eat, and don't have too many calories; grapes, raisins, and strawberries are not so good because I can eat like 30 of any of them in one sitting and not even notice. They are all "high-energy-density" foods (a lot of calories in a small volume of food). Not good. Once you get to your target weight you can dispense with the Lean Cuisine.

On days that are particularly stressful you might have to compromise, just don't go overboard. Don't eat like 3,000 calories or something. That's actually pretty important: on the days in which you have to take a break, take a break, not a BREAK. Don't kill your momentum. The hardest part is the first two weeks, when you are getting started. BTW, the body adjusts and tries to conserve energy in that second week, so you might lose little or no weight on Week 2. Maybe don't weigh yourself the second week. Good luck.
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That's actually probably the case. Xbox 360 banned making arbitrary pages executable (not even the Kernel could do it, the Hypervisor call to mark a page as executable had to come with the signatures signed by Microsoft's private key).

So they probably can get away with static recompilation.
I interpreted that as sarcasm, actually.
So it's a lock that's too hard to pick to prove how easy it is to pick?
Indeed, but the drop in demand after the 2 day shutdown was more impactful than the 2 days alone. Demand dropped, and didn't return to pre 9/11 levels for 3 years.
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Yeah I think we're far past the gold-plating stage and into platinum-plating territory. At least they've delivered playable content to backers but expanding the scope so dramatically also dramatically increases the chances of never delivering.
Imagine what CR could do with ample time and money... Aaaand that's Star Citizen! It's been very exciting watching CR work, and playing the stuff he's built and released already for Star Citizen. Absolutely incredible opportunity to be a part of. I'm very happy.