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Hi,

My BF is T1D and has an Animas Vibe with the integrated Dexcom G4. I see from an older thread that this is the setup you are using. Can you point me toward any hacking information on this? On the OpenAPS flowchart for the Vibe it merely says to call Animas and advocate for the addition of temp basal commands. If we cannot get him to a full closed loop on this pump, even an open loop system would be an interesting place to start. Thanks for any pointers!
Extradition needn't have come into it. The US authorities could have sent their evidence to the UK police to deal with (assuming the UK police didn't have it to start with).

If we want justice to be seen to be done, we shouldn't encourage "forum-shopping" by law-enforcement, letting them bring prosecutions in a country where the defendent will be artificially disadvantaged.
Thank you so much for sharing this, I've been looking for something just like it.
How is this fishy? It's potentially a very useful tool lots of people are excited about.
Yeah, greater IPv6 rollout would be very useful.
He was found guilty of defrauding investors. He started a fund, lost a bunch of the money trying to make more money for himself doing unrelated things with it, and only gave it back much later by repeatedly lying to the original investors and then making some of the money back via other means (turning it into stock in a new pharma company, iirc).

It was wildly irresponsible and definitely fraudulent.
No, but i see that it looks like spam. Should have been more carefull. The link is nothing but freshman year one MBA material.
Sounds like an upgrade to the balaclava.
And Apple is well known for installing updates that kill their devices by way of ram and cpu exhaustion. I've been called too many times, because Apple update, one of, destroyed machine.

In reality, open hardware is also what's needed, so we can patch firmware ourselves when vendors cant or wont. That too is a massive uphill battle.
In theory it had nothing to do with it, although it's not clear that the prosecution would have gone after him without that negative attention. Also, it had an effect on the juror pool.
Is that true? He has repeatedly said that if they are paying for it directly, he will give it to them for free (or $1 or so?) -- that the prices were only for insurers. Certainly it should be easy to find people that got hurt and he denied to help, right?

Also, this is the system's fault for giving a monopoly on a product to someone. Who knows how many other medicines are out there existing purely on someone's kindhearted desire to not make money.
Rust can use musl, yes.
No it didn't. Provide a source to one person dying from the price hike. His company literally provides it for free if someone can't afford it.
These are words you'd use to describe any successful con man.
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Why couldn't the sysadmins just kill it with a Transport Rule (silently delete all messages containing the original subject) or temporarily reject messages to the DL? Takes a couple mins.
I would like to know more about this if you have sources, I have been following Martin Shkreli on a lot of social media for a while and by his explanations, there shouldn't be any person hurt as result of the price hike that he is famous for.
That makes sense. Loads of people, lots of area, gets really hot.
Okay, I'll bite. Why do you think he's human garbage? You felt strongly enough to reply, maybe you can muster the effort to explain why you think that?
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Looks very nice, although it always takes me a bit to figure out what they're talking about with these sorts of things because I have to remind myself that most ML/DL stuff is supervised. What I research is unsupervised.

They kind of have this weird dissing of unsupervised scenarios, though. It's not like supervised or unsupervised is better or worse, they're just surrounding different problems. They can talk up their product without needing to criticize a problem domain.

It's like if you were making motors for boats, and then started talking about "these crazy people who think it's better to fly." ???
They agreed he committed a crime not that he wasn't a "great dude." I'm not saying he is, just that this is using a claim without any evidence or response to paint a picture of his whole life.
> Jurassic Park – In the midst of a velociraptor attack, Ariana Richards sits down at a computer and says, “It’s a Unix system. I know this.” Then she somehow hacks the entire Jurassic Park security system in a matter of seconds and takes control of the automatic doors. This scene is filled with tension, but what she does is analogous to someone loading a browser on a Macbook and then saying, “It’s Safari. I know this,” and then going on to compromise someone’s Gmail account in a couple seconds.

Well if you put it like that it actually sounds somewhat plausible, since she was on that someone's computer. Most people I know leave their Gmail logged in.
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Collaborative learning means less individual problem solving. The moment there is someone a bit faster then you in the group, the less occasion to think you have.
FWIW, he claims that he gave the medicine away for free to people who could prove they couldn't afford it, so that he was really only screwing insurance companies. I believe that he was trying to draw media attention to the outrageous, legally-allowed colluding practices of the insurance and pharma industries. It would have been in his best interest to not draw attention to himself and slowly raise the price of the drug over time rather than rock the boat and put himself in the spotlight. I think this agitated a lot of the established powers in the pharma industry, but we're getting into tin hat territory now, so I'll leave it at that.
While most of these examples are spot on, I will argue the point of the Jurassic Park Hacking scene:

The 1992 world of computers and networks was much different than our world today. The author uses the analogy of familiarity with a browser and gaining access to a gmail account. I remember 1992. I remember the systems that didn't have lock screens, and didn't have log in passwords. Couple that with a theme park's computer system that's still being built and debugged.

I think it's totally rational that a kid who's familiar with a unix filesystem and a navigator could poke around a system until she found some security scripts.

I take much more issue with the "video feed" of the Dock with the worker Nedry was talking to - and the video playback bar on the bottom of the window.
What was morally abhorrent? Raising prices to insurers to perhaps fund other stuff, while giving away medicines to people that had no way of obtaining it (no insurance)?

If anything he should be lauded for proving how broken the medical system is (why could he so easily buy a monopoly on this product?), while not killing anyone.
> It is unclear from the indictment if Hutchins would have been aware his work was being used maliciously

The indictment specifically states he sold the malware. Unless he was completely convinced the buyers of Kronos were using it for research into browser malware, it's pretty damned obvious.

I'd be interested to talk to malware researchers that are genuinely scared about this.
I get the impression he isn't so much malevolent in his actions, rather he behaves as a libertine and someone who takes the view that the end justify the means.
They mostly didn't agree with the prosecution. He's been convicted on only 3 of the 8 counts.
1. The OP has nothing to do with the price hikes, so your argument might have been true if it was actually addressing a relevant topic

2. It's even arguable that his price hikes hurt anyone other than already rich insurance monopolies. The insurance companies would have had to cover the prices, and any people without insurance could have received the drug for free from their company. And of course the higher profits went into upgrading the drug.
No. How are they producing it?
Thank you, I'm glad you like it so far! :)
Are you guys for real? This is ridiculous! I've been on the old Nexus 5 for ages. I think, if we aren't going to get Android 7, then maybe it will be time for me to switch to one of the fringe mobile operating systems.

I get about 20 - 40 hours between charges, depending on whether or not I need to use Google Maps that day, and I often stay in airplane mode when I am working.
>insurance pays for the medicine, not individuals

And who pays for insurance? (Hint: It's individuals) Shkreli is right in that by raising the prices he wasn't really gouging the sick for thousands and thousands of dollars, he was gouging all of us with insurance for some fraction of a penny. It's still wrong.
BTW it's common for drug companies to do this:

* https://www.medicare.gov/pharmaceutical-assistance-program/

* https://www.astrazeneca-us.com/medicines/Affordability.html

* http://www.pfizerrxpathways.com/
What's wrong with Congress questioning someone about legal but shady activity? If he broke the law, he'd just be prosecuted. No reason for Congress to have anything to do with it. But if what he did was legal but wrong, then maybe the law should be changed, and that's exactly what Congress is for.
Thanks a million, happy to have Android out so soon since so many people have been waiting.
> "They want the project to progress. Desperately."

I've repeatedly hammered home that we're understaffed. Those with the money to spend on staff seemingly couldn't care less. Any middle managers are stuck between a rock and a hard place. The phrase 'rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic' springs to mind.
Find it amazing that my thirty-year old A2000 is still being developed for, both software and hardware. Here's hoping AmigaOS 3.1 developers somehow get Firefox (or another HTML5 browser) ported once these FPGA accelerators become more common. Would love to watch Netflix with my son from my childhood Amiga.
At least programming doesn't try to copy the practices from the movie. If you're in IxD there's always a few idiots who think movie interfaces are a good example of usability. No, they're a good example of what looks sleek and amazing on screen, and what is compatible with the narrative need for exposure. That rarely works out well for usability .
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I interpreted it as, she could probably recognize the directory structure in the visual tool as belonging to a Unix system, and from there guess that it responds to standard Unix commands. It would take a bit longer than is depicted, but she could probably cd into some interesting-looking directories from there and find the programs used to control the park's facilities.
I mean, everybody came out okay - Shkreli really made his investors a lot of money! Yeah, he lied, but he did some incredible work: typical fraudsters take your money and run - he doesn't fit that mold.

Honestly, the issue was that he's an utter asshole, including to his investors. Investors are willing to put with a lot if you triple their money, but Shkreli managed to cross that line. That made him an easy target for the prescription drugs investigation and media circus.
Just think: were HTML replaced with SXML, JavaScript with Common Lisp & CSS with something like LASS, we might have pages which look like this:

(html
(head
(style (let ((bg #x0088ee)
(fg #x00ee88))
(body (background bg)
(foreground fg))
(body.inverted (foreground fg)
(background bg))))
(script (defun invert ()
(with-slots (class-list)
(get-element-by-tag document 'body)
(setf class-list
(if (find 'inverted class-list)
(remove 'inverted class-list)
(cons 'inverted class-list)))))))
(body
(button (@ (on-click (invert))) "Click me")
(p "This is some text.")))

I contend that this is a massive improvement.
I haven't followed everything closely, but did anyone lose money in the end?
Having said that, if the unidentified co-conspirator is from the US and they're going to be tried together, it wouldn't be so unreasonable.
At this point, it is clear that Apache OpenOffice is dead. The Apache board have been utterly irresponsible in accepting Oracle's "donation" of the trademark. They were, quite simply, suckered.

I'm a contributor to LibreOffice, but don't speak on behalf of the TDF. But IMO, I don't think LibreOffice devs would be at all happy with a rename to OpenOffice - that ship has long sailed and the history of obstructionism, poor quality in terms of builds, bad faith comments from leaders at AOO and an utter inability to maintain their own software has sullied their brand to the point it's in many ways a net liability to take on the OpenOffice name now.

LibreOffice has made literally thousands of code improvements and major refactoring is still ongoing. If anything the rate has gone up exponentially, to the point now where we are beginning to actually compete with Microsoft Office. We are already better at a number if things than the Microsoft product - we even produce more compact XML than what is generated by the latest version of Office. In fact, in terms of product direction you have a far better chance of influencing product features in LO and getting issues resolved than you'll ever have with Microsoft. Microsoft Connect is less than useless in so many ways, it's not terribly open and I've seen bug reports that are acknowledged and sat on for years - with LO, you can pay a reasonable amount of money to a third party to get the feature implemented or the bug fixed. You could never do this with Microsoft.

I think that the way Oracle went about things should be a lesson for any company or organization: Oracle cannot be trusted, and if they give you a code dump, if there is a competing fork then seriously consider whether they should be consulted and supported before you accept the "gift" from Oracle.
Dreyfus doesn't know his comp sci. Everything automatable is computable. The interesting question is whether human intelligence is automatable.
20 cents per item just to pick it out of a bin and pack it in a box has to be a significant chunk out of the profit Amazon can make from those smaller low value items that people order individually with Prime.
Mildly supernatural, no reasonable possibility of that... though it would be incorrect to say no possibility of time traveling for a somewhat generous definition of time traveling (for those who have watched the show, think "hold the door").
I was just at this past DEF CON. The good majority of attendees were from the United States.

It doesn't make sense to move it to the Caribbean. That would cause attendance to drop by a lot, and some other organization would just start another conference in the US, and most people would go to that one.
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No, too new of a magazine ;)
By his explanation: There are only a small amount of patient that patients that needs this drug. I think the number was around 2000.

Also drugs are not the largest part of insurances pay for.
Then there's the time United cancelled my early morning flight from SFO to LHR and rerouted me home via an 8pm flight to Dulles and refused to let me use the lounge when I suggested it would be a nice gesture ('some people have paid an annual fee for the lounge you know...') so I spent the whole day moving between restaurants and seats in the departure lounge.

That was the last time I flew with them.

/Not bitter..

//Hell, yes, I was sooo pissed.
Sad to see it confirmed that it's not worth the risk going to America to visit DEFCON. I hope they'll host it in Europe someday.. To see no statement by DEFCON on this whole thing is almost equally sad.
I quite like Martin. I talked to him a few time on YouTube, whilst he was live streaming.

He's whip-smart & knowledgeable. He does, however, have a couple of major flaws. 1) He trolls. Hard. 2) It seems he lies. Which I picked up from a previous news article. (He claimed to have ~$50mm under management @ his previous hedge fund. It was more like $1.6mm. Something like that).

I can forgive the trolling. It's over the top, IMO. But it is what it is.

The lying is another kettle of fish. You can't go around bullshitting ppl. &, as he found out, you can't go around bullshitting investors.

I think he loves money too much. The thought of being poor may have pushed him to do something stupid (ultimately his call!).

I hope he doesn't have too hard a time in jail. Losing his fortune (I believe he loses his shares from Retrophin. ~$65mm. That's already a punishment.

Edit: I don't know why I'm being downvoted. I'm being honest. Fuck you people, frankly.
I believe it was Lady Stoneheart. But I agree, it was a shame that they removed her completely. Now the whole Lord of Light arc feels flimsy at best.
> Okay, I'll bite. Why do you think he's human garbage.

Obtaining a license just to increase a drug's price from $13.50 to $750 for no apparent reason other than greed isn't enough for you?
There is a reason why most international insurers will cover your health concerns everywhere in the world except the U.S. The American health system has out of control expenses that are putting immense strain on its every seam. Making distributors or insurance companies pay much more because "fuck them" (as Shkreli proudly said) only adds to a very serious problem in American healthcare.
That's not a task per se. What I mean is a technical task.
> FWIW, he claims that he gave the medicine away for free to people who could prove they couldn't afford it, so that he was really only screwing insurance companies.

Screwing insurance companies means increased costs for everyone. I'd really rather not pay 20% higher premiums every year to pad someone like Shkreli's pocketbook.
It's not fraud if investors make money? Someone better tell Madoff that he's getting out.
I would not be shocked if Defcon moved out of the US.
He's not kidding. He's not human garbage. It's not astounding that different people have different opinions at all. Your post suggests that you're very emotionally attached to your opinion, which is not good. Nor takes into consideration some basic premises which are necessary for people to understand one another.
This seems, amusingly, like something I could imagine him actually getting involved with.
Plenty of people who one would classify as "human garbage" make hundreds of millions. Frankly, it does not matter.

What matters is: 1) did people lose money, due to some scam? and 2) did he do anything illegal.
I wonder if the location of the arrest influenced the prosecutors' decision: "We 'caught' him at a hacker convention where they broke a voting machine!"
Tim Horn of the Treatment Action Group and Carlos del Rio of the HIV Medicine Association, said [Shkreli's] actions were insufficient, given that patients initially treated for days at a hospital typically have to continue the treatment for weeks or months after leaving.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Shkreli
* Because almost all “hacking” is boring, and/or conceptually dense and/or non-cinematic.

* Rule of Cool.

* Because screenwriters typically have little knowledge of the subject.

* For the same reasons (the ones above) films and TV can’t portray lawyers or doctors or teenagers or police officers or drug dealers or scientists or bartenders or art thieves or Wall Street or soldiers or college students or anything else accurately.
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I wrote games and engines in C++ for 15 years, and Unity for about 5. I strongly prefer manual mem management, hands down. Optimizing for Unity's GC, in pathological situations, is the nightmare.

If the game is relatively simple, and the heap relatively small, it's not a big problem. But if you're trying to make a large, complex simulation that's actually pushing boundaries, the GC becomes a constant adversary. People always talk about allocations, but not allocating during a frame is just the minimum price of admission. The real trouble is the static characteristics of the heap, like size and graph complexity. With manual alloc, at least the problem is straightforward: don't leak, and don't dangle. With a black-box GC, where you can't even hint to it about the lifetimes of objects, you have to be much, much more aware of memory management, then go through a lot of different non-idiomatic contortions regarding every single thing you put on the heap.
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This was so cool as a book. Ben Eater did a fantastic job of making these videos, explaining each concept, but the computer he builds (the SAP, or Simple As Possible) is directly from "Digital Computer Electronics" (c) 1977 by Albert Paul Malvino.

He even goes so far as to mention it and shows a copy of the book in his first video:
https://youtu.be/HyznrdDSSGM?t=49

I stumbled across the book 4 years ago when I followed this instructable:
http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-Build-an-8-Bit-Comput...

The instructable is nowhere near as detailed as Ben's videos, but it was all I had at the time, and it recommended that book. Note: when I purchased the book 4 years ago, it was only $5, now I'm seeing it for upwards of $99:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0070398615/

The paperback is only $22, but it lists an additional author not present on the 1977 version, so I don't know if it's the exact same book.
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I'm sorry. Soren Kierkegaard's philosophy a big response against Hegel and German rationalist which Kant fell into that school. People like to think that SK had a debt to Kant, but in no way would ever acknowledge it if he did. Personally I imagine SK hated Kant's philosophy and thought it was incomplete and was apart of the "Speculative Rationalist" that he despised. So I am one of the few who also feels that Kant's concussions were incomplete.
United lounges are unfortunately pretty full already with their awards programs plus their "tens of dollars" upgrades. If they let every person they rerouted or canceled in, it'd be even worse. Though it doesn't mitigate how crappy it must have been for you.
What's the takeaway here? That they use a rudimentary security system as a mild deterrent which is easily exploitable. That it's okay to commit fraud as long as you use tech to do it?

You wouldn't see this kind of thing on a lockpicking forum, "Airport lounges will let anyone in, provided you brink your kit."
That was already a thing, for a while. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=9042.0

Can't tell if they are "honest" people who closed shop when they realized how bad their idea was, or if they just threw smoke and went dark.
Can you log a bug? And can you provide a link to that localised page? I'll alert the team.
I hope it goes to trial, and he is not found guilty. Should be a relatively easy case to win.
> Obtaining a license just to increase a drug's price from $13.50 to $750 for no apparent reason other than greed isn't enough for you?

This case isn't about that. Are you suggesting we should convict and punish people on trial for one crime because we don't like their past activities and behaviors? Even if those other behaviors were illegal, they should be considered during a separate trial that's actually pertaining to them.
It would be determinative only if all the header fields[1] stayed identical. A change in something like file name or mod time, would change the hash of the zipped archive without affecting the hash of the actual file.

I don't think you can expect the file mod time to be identical, as it isn't preserved through many forms of file distribution.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zip_(file_format)#File_headers