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That was an excellent summary of Adobe's software giveaway.

Are you sure that the replacement serial numbers are individualized? When I tried googling, some of my replacement serial numbers are found on the web, some aren't. This seems to suggest that they are not individualized -- at least for some product & platform combinations.

My own theory about the motivation of the original giveaway is that they lost the ability to generate new licenses for those old versions, so they made it free. A comment[1] from 3 years ago:

How could they lose the ability to create licenses? I can think of many scenarios: The one server that ran the legacy license code crashed, and they had no backups. Or they lost the database of who had which product and serial number, so there was no way to verify anything when someone needed to reactivite an old product or move their license to a different system. Or there was a new bug or incompatibility in their license generator, perhaps due to a server upgrade, but the source code for the licensing software was lost so there was no way to rebuild it.[1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15732354
Maybe you were dressed optimistically? SF has many problems. Weather is not one of them.
Worth remembering, on the other hand, that the counter could easily be 10X, 100X... a 1000 times off, fragile as we are.
Lion is 10.7, one after Snow Leopard.

I’m not sure why you’d run 10.7 instead of either 10.6 or 10.8 (or 10.9) btw. Lion is buggier than the adjacent releases (which are really solid).
If A is a square matrix, then a left eigenvector v is a vector such that vA = \lambda_v v for some \lambda_v. Likewise, if u is a right eigenvector of A, Au = \lambda_u u.

Notice that u and v cannot be equal, because they are not the same shape. However, if v is a right eigenvector with eigenvalue \lambda, then v^T is a left eigenvector with eigenvalue \lambda, as well. More or less what this means is that we tend to just ignore left eigenvalues and only use the right eigenvalues, because the math is exactly the same up to a transpose operation.

A matrix does not necessarily have nontrivial eigenvectors. Think about the 0 matrix here. But, if A is nonzero, then it must have at least one nonzero eigenvalue, hence one nontrivial eigenvector. This is because a nonzero matrix must have at least one nonzero row and column; however, if you construct the other rows (columns) to be multiples of the first column, you end up with a matrix with only one nontrivial eigenvalue. This also illustrates the conditions necessary for an nxn matrix A to have n linearly independent eigenvectors: the rows of A must be linearly independent.

All of this is covered in a decent undergrad linear algebra course. I would suggest either finding a video course, or getting a good book and working through it, if you want to understand these things better.
Yeah, this is consistent with what I have seen.

At the end of the day, unemployment numbers for holders of PhDs [1] are starkly different from those of the general population.

[1] https://www.nsf.gov/statistics/infbrief/nsf14310/
How so? It seems to me like standardizing would help focus efforts on building safer batteries.

I don't really know what I'm talking about though.
Yes! Also called the surprisal.
Scholarships.

Grants.

Going to school where college is cheap and/or cost of living is low.

Testing out of classes.

Taking a job where your employer will pay for your education.

Living with relatives while attending school on a pay-as-you-go basis.

Different people work this out different ways. The exact details will vary tremendously.

I have done all of the above at various times. I have nearly six years of college and only ever took out one student loan for a boot camp style summer program where I completed a year-long certificate program in eight weeks.
It's outrageous that copyright protection applies to DRM-encumbered material. Simply outrageous.

Copyright is supposed to be a bargain with the public domain, and DRM explicitly renounces that bargain. This is a great example to point to... but as usual, nobody cares who has any power to change things, and nobody with any power cares.
Running all of your Steam library offline is just one Russian steam_api64.dll away.
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You do realize it wasn’t that long ago that most PhD graduates went straight into a faculty position right? The fact that you think getting a postdoc is some indication that things are going okay is just a sign of how broken things really are.

Look at the CVs of some of your full professors and older faculty. You won’t see nearly as many “postdoc” years on there.
Gin and beer it.

Sorry, couldn't resist.
See above https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24858363#24862291
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Excess is the point of the Hummer. If you want practical, get a Prius. I'm closer to the Prius end of the spectrum, but the Hummer has always unapologetically owned what it is and its fans like it for that.
Not to mention there are much less unhealthy ways of consuming nicotine, such as gums and patches.
Standardized Li-On battery could be safe. IMO it's now available as "Portable Power Banks", but its form is not standardized.

Simple 18650 cell can't be safe. Normal consumer may just put/charge raw 18650 cell, then burn.

It seems that no one intend to make standard Li-On battery. Some manufacturers just use other brand's battery. (e.g. Blackmagic products uses Canon's battery)
This is something like 17th in a series - see https://technicshistory.com/the-backbone/ for all of the things leading up to it!

They're all worth reading, if you have the time.
Ask HN: Automated system to help founders simply and clearly pitch what they do?
I read that most founders get rejected by some programs due to their lack of simply and clearly pitching (in writing) what they do. Do you guys think that an automated system to help founders simply and clearly pitch what they do could help?
> But are you sure that the replacement serial numbers are individualized?

Just an assumption because I have two legit OS X CS3 Master Collection serials, got two different replacement offline serials for them, and those serials don't work for the Windows version just like the originals didn't v(._. )v
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Dunno... an english professor where I went to college listed his primary research on his faculty website as “determining from the writings of Mark Twain whether he was gay”. I often wonder how much of my tax dollars went toward that. On the whole I have a low opinion of the “english” department, since they get to study a blend of communication, philosophy, psychology, history and so on without ever contributing concrete advancements to any of those fields. For instance, it took all of one month of my first job before I realized that the essay format was a completely ineffective way to communicate (tl;dr) and learned a completely new bullet-point-driven style that would actually deliver ideas to the intended recipient. I taught myself; it would have been nice if the people who study communication for a living actually knew the best way to communicate ideas to others and could have taught me that. Instead they basically taught me the most artistically pleasing way to communicate with other english majors. I’m also generally irked by the english major attitude that there are no wrong answers and every interpretation is equally valid. This attitude prevents them from ever making useful advances at anything.
The fractals are typical, for me, of the onset of the rising peak of a mild to moderate dose which is actually just about perfect for a recreational experience with friends or a party. Moving your hand should produce a hazy trail of after images in the early part of a moderate or stronger dose. I find mushrooms to be way more visual than LSD but you have to do a bit more to tip the balance into a otherworldly trip. I also think mushrooms are safer to play with than LSD since the most intense phase will peak up and come down between roughly 90 minutes. There is a second or third wave after some hours but nothing like the peak.

Since potency can vary a great deal between strains (one type of mushroom could be very intense at 2 grams [this is rare] while another maybe require 6, and so on) I recommend buying much more than you need at one time. Like 20 grams. Take two, see how it goes. Few weeks or whatever later take three grams. My experience From back in the day is that on average, 4 or 5 grams will usually do the trick. 5 grams of dry magic mushrooms usually tastes pretty gnarly so chew them up with a nice premium chocolate bar.

Be careful here. Make no mistake about it, magic mushrooms and LSD can definitely be a humbling, pants-shitting experience that one can’t merely nope out of. So exercise caution and don’t feel pressured to do too much at once.

If you really want it, buy 50x Salvia from a head shop. Fill a bong with the powder, use a torch lighter (the crystals release from the extract at a high temperature, regular lighter won’t be enough) inhale and hold the smoke in for 15 to 30 seconds. Exhale, take another hit. Inhale, hold, and be sure to send the funhouse gnomes my warmest regards.
Security researchers do it all the time.
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Oftentimes, a “likelihood function” is generalized from that definition to refer to any non-normalized function which is still treated like a probability distribution. Any function with a finite integral over the real line can be turned into a probability distribution easily, and there are other functions that can be used in places where you would normally use a probability function, even when they don’t integrate to a finite value over the real line. (For example, improper priors in Bayesian analysis.)

“Function that can in some contexts be treated like a probability distribution” is just too long.
Density is always a primary factor. It doesn't go away just because 10 months have passed.
Having no idea what you're talking about, this is a satirical news site.
> It's ironic that for a company that caters to designers, artists and product folks, all their products have such poor UI.

That's not really who they're catering to anymore, though. Not primarily, anyway. If you pay attention to the way Adobe communicates in recent years, it's all about the "democratization" of design tools. They want their new tech to look like magic to regular consumers. It doesn't need good UI. It doesn't need to help professionals work more efficiently. It just needs to help Joe Everyman use content-aware fill to remove the unwanted thing from his next Instagram upload. If they can do something in that vein once a month and keep the subscription rolling, then they're golden.
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> You could not return opened software

On the contrary, I remember reading EULAs that clearly stated that if the user didn't agree with the EULA they could return it to the store where it was purchased for a full refund - regardless of the condition of the box. I think that was in Microsoft's terms mostly?
I've never heard of this before. Can you elaborate on why this is the case? I tried googling the word but only this post shows up.
In the "good old days", postdocs weren't even really a thing and you only did one if your PhD was too marginal to get a position straight away. It's pretty telling though that some fields are so bad that even getting a postdoc is considered hard.
Fair enough—definitely something we need to reconsider. Appreciate the feedback!
Woah, how cold are these things that you would need skin grafts like that?
>Starting with Chrome 53, extensions cannot be side-loaded anymore

Source
Unpacked extension
Loaded from: ~\AppData\Local\Vivaldi\User Data\Default\Extensions\...
I'm sorry you lost your faith in the Internet. If it makes you feel any better, I'm a Hurricane Electric certified IPv6 sage and I implement text-based telecommunications protocols so well that even Chinese operators use my code, because they like to implement creative extensions like the ones you describe, and the stuff I write is just so generalized that it can smoothly / easily enable that multitude of visions. Why? Is it because I'm unique? No. It's simply because my work follows the same free-spiritedness that's always guided IETF publications. They built us the best of all possible internets, and nothing, including IPv4 address exhaustion, is going to change that.
Totally. This was a scrappy mvp. I’ve got a “redesign” in the works that’s react/go based instead of RoR and that’s all HTTPS.
> Remedying those harms more strongly served the public interest

I hate reporters using this language to describe court opinions. It’s a legal term of art that makes decisions sound political.

The judge ruled based on the law. Lawmakers balance public interest. Yes, the court furthers that through its work, but it isn’t actively creating the scales by which to weigh these parties’ interests.
UC Berkeley: $14,254
no, it's because they actually don't know what they do
I agree! There are even some people disrespecting their audience with weird ideas like heliocentrism! The greatest Authority, the church, has already said that's fake news!
AFAIK, nobody is making 0 days for 10 year old desktop software that doesn't usually connect to the internet. I guess maybe you could craft a malicious image file and target a specific person's computer if you were a state level actor, but seems rather unlikely.
This may buttress your point: in Denmark there are very strict labor laws and a very old taxi medallion cartel. Taxi drivers must be guaranteed a base pay, be insured, certified, so on and so forth. At any given time dozens of taxis can be seen queuing up for their right to a ride with no one taking them. Those drivers are all being guaranteed a very high rate and they all drive Mercedes Benz.

We had Uber for a short period and consumers loved it. The taxi medallion cartel got together and pressured the Danish government to push on Uber. The government complied with hefty fines. Uber left.

Now things are back to what they were: hundreds of taxis idling somewhere in Denmark to protect the cartel and no one taking taxis because it's literally 50 dollars for a 15 minute ride. It sucks. Everybody hates it except the taxi services. I really hope this isn't what happens in the States.
I'm 32 years old, and returning to school to finish my undergrad with the intention of grad school afterwards. A grad school salary is a starvation wage that would be tolerable if it were just me, not so much now that I have a family. Which is fine -- I'll pay my way though grad school and study part time. Thankfully my field of interest is one where this kind of arrangement isn't so unusual.

But I'm mainly responding with this because a lot of "perks" of schooling like this are structured assuming you followed a traditional path -- namely, you're 18-24, single, no dependents, not much in the way of actual, adult responsibilities. The more you deviate from that the more inaccessible grad school and school in general become.
Seemingly my sink is never free of dirty dishes no matter how many times I stop in my tracks in the middle of the day and take 10 minutes to do the dishes, breaking all concentration. Everywhere I look there is something to be done. I take a break to piss then see the bathroom is a mess. I go to grab a granola bar and realize I need to take an hour later to go shop at the grocery store, and return to my workspace hungry and defeated. I spend my days alternating between working on the couch and working on the bed, seemingly constantly doing chores around the clock. The list of things to do never ends, I just decide to put most of it off for the day once I'm too exhausted to do any more thinking or spend any more time on my feet. I can't do any deep work anymore with all the shoehorned zoom meetings I have to show face for. I feel more beat at the end of the day than when I was working 50 hour weeks busting ass as a groundskeeper in the hot humid sun.

It's suffocating spending 100% of your time in one place. My apartment feels like a submarine at the bottom of the ocean. My productivity is somewhere down there, too. Despite all this, I drag on, just biding my time for that glorious day when I can get inoculated for COVID.
It was never meant to be even close to competitive to a senior-level professional salary. Besides, to be competitive in academia, which is the actual end goal in mind for any student going through a decently ranked PhD program, the target demographic is not someone looking for a career change so late in life, nor would they even be admitted if they had no relevant research experience or potential.
Am I the only not liking Gmail's new Logo?
This is why I don't use Markdown: There is no such thing as Markdown. There are 1000 different parsers that have the word 'Markdown' in their names, but that's chaos, not a format.

I need features Gruber's Markdown doesn't support, so I have to use some other 'flavor' of Markdown. Ten years from now, how am I going to even know what to use to parse those files?

So now I just use org-mode for everything. It's more obscure (because Emacs) but there aren't 1000 different flavors of it.
Just did this exercise with three senior faculty who are all ams fellows. They all did 2-4 years of postdocs, including one guy who now is quite famous.
Who cares. They won't have jobs if 22 does not pass.
All they would do is hire a company to "decrypt" who just pays the ransom on the clients behalf.
Prosecutors have been going after Purdue and the Sackler's for over a decade now. Forty seven states have sued Purdue pharma over the opioid crisis with twenty nine of those states specifically naming members of the Sackler family in the suits. So if you want primary documents, you have more than you can read.

Here's an excerpt from a recent New Yorker article:

The 2007 case was not supposed to end the way it did. For four years, prosecutors in the Western District of Virginia gathered evidence on Purdue, subpoenaing millions of documents. They found a widespread pattern of illegal misconduct in which Purdue systematically misled doctors (and the general public) about the risks associated with OxyContin. In September, 2006, the prosecutors detailed their damning evidence in a hundred-and-twenty-page memo, suggesting that the wrongdoing at Purdue was so pervasive, and so consistent, that it could have been authorized only by the company’s leaders. This memo, an internal government document, was not made public until August, 2019, when the Times published excerpts of it showing that the prosecutors had intended to bring felony charges against three top Purdue executives: Michael Friedman, Howard Udell, and Paul Goldenheim. The full memo, which I have reviewed, describes the Sacklers as “The Family” and notes that the company was owned and controlled by the brothers Mortimer and Raymond Sackler and their heirs. (The heirs of a third Sackler brother, Arthur, sold their interest in the company prior to the introduction of OxyContin.) The company “trained its sales representatives” to use “false and fraudulent” claims about OxyContin, the memo states. The prosecutors noted that the three executives they intended to charge “reported directly to The Family.”

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-sackler-familys...
> The judge ruled based on the law.

Are you basing this on anything other than the ideal that we Americans are taught about how courts work? In practice, a reasoned argument can be made for two or more interpretations of law and judges are often entirely "political".
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Well, that could easily still be the case if there was one code for Windows and one for OS X.
I suppose for tax revenue. Sri Lanka recently started mandatory IMEI registration, and all existing phones are not required to do so.

IMEI registration do not require any ID, but a tax money.
If property (land + building) taxes are significant, then property is already leased.

E.g. in NZ you buy property, but the local government taxes it, so you are essentially paying a small lease. Enough so that some retirees with no income have to downsize because the rates are a significant burden.
we use nomad in production, no issues. Way less complex than k8s. We deploy Prometheus out of your list. We use NGINX, not Traefik. PG is deployed but not under Nomad, mostly just from laziness.

We run a local instance of send.firefox.com, redis, metabase, docker registry, a speedtest tool, a bunch of batch/periodic jobs, some internal custom services, all of our web hosting, etc directly out of nomad.

Our CI/CD runs make which builds the code, generates .nomad files and runs them, so it's super easy to re-deploy, rollback, etc.

k8s management on your own hardware is a full-time job. There are 2 of us that do all dev and ops for our product and there is 0% chance we could manage a k8s cluster w/ only 2 of us, but managing a nomad, consul and vault cluster is easy for us.

There are nomad templating tools, but we started using nomad back when it was brand new, so we just used sed for our meagre templating needs. Works a treat, and never saw any value to using some specialized tool(for our needs).

Totally recommend checking out nomad.
I thought in this thread the problem was that you can't charge your Hummer quickly enough. I'm not arguing that a Hummer is a sensible choice for transportation. I'd choose a bicycle instead.
Would that be the only explanation, that they simply do not know what they do?
I see people writing this off already in the comments. Probably people who are knee deep in k8s and already have their favorites.

For the 20 year data center guy getting reborn in the cloud, walking down the cereal aisle of service mesh offerings, nginx is going to look like a warm blanket of familiarity.
> $40K/year for similar academics you get almost for free in Europe.

If you pay $40k a year in the US and think that you are paying for an education, then, yes, you will be disappointed.

For schools at that price point, you are paying for the network. Whether the network delivers or not is a different issue — sometimes it does, and sometimes it doesn’t. It’s very context-specific.
I tried yo search one of the link from CNET news in archive.org. It said archived is removed (per request)
> AFAIK, reverse engineering APIs isn’t illegal

It doesn't matter whether or not it is illegal. What really matters is whether some prosecutor somewhere thinks it is illegal, and dislikes you sufficiently to prosecute you–or sees enough political benefit from it to make it worth their while. "Hacker indicted for sending McDonald's $18,752 of fake orders every minute". It might be misleading (or even just plain false) but it makes a great headline. Even if they end up losing the case, they can still make your life hell for months on end with their criminal charges.

As the saying goes, "You might beat the rap, but you can't beat the ride"
> Most of them ended up with postdocs at equally or more prestigious institutions than the one we graduated from.

And then another postdoc.

And then another postdoc.

And then another postdoc.

This is not an example of doing OK.

To give you context, in the 80's, the math department at my (average) undergrad routinely hired faculty members straight out of their PhD. Postdocs were only for people aiming for a faculty position at a top school.

I just checked all the new faculty members there since 2010. Most had 2 postdocs before they got in. A few had only one postdoc. And this much trouble for a no name school.
That, amusingly, would probably not be allowed on the App Store.
Thats cute, but why wouldn't something like your favorite database's XML import get you were you want to go without the rust.

Presumably that is after all where this data actually comes from. The state has it all in some ancient database, and they opened it up by using the "dump to xml" option.

Your favorite database probably has utf8/16 column and/or conversion functions too.