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I can't get them (legally) like I said in my OP. I usually stream games not on locally to my computer and tabcast to my TV with chromecast but the quality is mega-shitty. We also have an HD antenna in the living room which gets us NBC, Fox, CBS, and ABC just fine so that covers a couple of the games every weekend.

The little exclusivity pact the NFL and the major Cable companies have makes me have zero qualms about just straight stealing the content. If they have me a legitimate way to pay for every Packers game (directly through the NFL, not a cable provider) I would do it in a heartbeat, but they haven't, so screw 'em.

Apparently there's a way to signup and pay for NFL game pass using a VPN and pretending to be in Europe but I won't do that on sheer principle. It's insane to me I could legally pay for NFL outside of the US but inside the US I have to go through a third party (cable company) to get streaming access.
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No, I don't think so. People are perceiving it that way because a few unrelated issues have cropped up lately. Coincidence, not correlation.
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I definitely would not say that Yosemite Betas have been rock solid.
> Use Direct2D instead of DirectX9. The renderer used by WPF has been shown to be very inefficient compared to Direct2D.

Is that why the capability of a user's video card had an appreciable impact on the performance of a WPF-based app that's little more than a text viewer and editor, at least as of 2009 (see http://community.logos.com/forums/t/6200.aspx)? Is the WPF renderer still suboptimal on today's graphics hardware? I'm thinking in particular of Intel's integrated graphics starting with Sandy Bridge. And does Direct2D have a better software fallback?
I'd say the reason is because bitrot is happening faster than ever before, and if something is not being maintained and you are depending on it for a long-lived application you are going to be burned sooner or later. Granted with Microsoft this is much less of a problem than in the open-source world, but given their scattershot strategy over the last decade it's no wonder that people get jittery at the smell of something withering on the vine (especially after Microsoft stopped being up front about killing things).
It's still not comparable to a dynamic language however. Simply constructing a list [1, "Hello"] will already produce an error. Dynamic languages usually allow this, and only signal errors when the values are used in an erroneous manner, like 1 + "Hello". It does exactly what it says on the tin: it displays type errors that were found at compile time with the same type system that regular Haskell uses, but the actual displaying is deferred until run time. There is no actual tag checking going on at run-time.
And episode 8, "Sisters of the Sun"[1], covered Pickering and his "colleagues", several women nicknamed computers, namely Annie Jump Cannon, and Cecilia Payne.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sisters_of_the_Sun
I wonder if they're not releasing that info so they have the ability to lower the price if Apple TV makes any price cuts/big features tomorrow.
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Almost :-) The tokens are one-time only. Afterwards the session is keeping track of the user. Another login requires a different token.

Regarding the emails of Facebook, etc.: Great example, actually! I guess the problem really is that they don't make it obvious to users that they actually hold an authentication token in their hands.
> Am I out in left field here?

A bit, yes. My phone (n5) is used more as a web browsing device and video consuming device than it is as a music player. It is definitely the screen size. My previous phone (HTC Desire, about the same screen size as an iPhone <6) was pretty much a phone plus ipod.
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Yosemite is pretty fantastic.
HBO announcement probably also had something to do with it.
This has already been added to Lollipop:

http://www.xda-developers.com/android/exclusive-android-l-lo...
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Apple's OSX design work seems stagnant as well. I find Gnome since version 3.12 (yes Gnome) looks better than Yosemite. I use Yosemite at work every day and find it's a step down from Mavericks. Most of the improvements seem to be to apps I never use (Maps, Safari). The new dark top bar is embarrassingly ugly compared to Gnome dark theme. The icons look childish and half-baked.

Gnome's design in minimal, clean, and feels out of the way instead of being flashy. Most importantly Gnome is improving rapidly. The new 3.14 looks amazing, where they revamped all the small details (icons, resolutions). A great demo of it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhK_2M0B8Qo

I used to love getting new OSX releases. I'm really surprised to see it get sidelined in recent years. Maybe all of the good designers are working on iOS?
You post a link to an article that has guidelines from NICE recommending the use of newer atypicals and health authorities not funding those and going against the NICE guidance.

I'm not sure how you get to "NICE deny access to latest drugs".

Do you have any examples where it was NICE not recommending latest drugs, and not health authorities failing to buy those drugs? Especially more recent than ten years ago, and especially if the meds work?
i get 1.5 to 2 days sometimes on my 5s...
Is this the device?

https://wifipineapple.com
Don't forget the quick firing canon. The speed of ones like the French 75 mm, ~ 15 rounds per minute, made as much of a difference in WWI, and per my current reading on that war---and in terms of near universal insufficient competence, it's totally topical, but I didn't exactly plan starting that a few weeks ago---that more than the machine guns required serious trench-works or the like.

But you're going way too far in claiming that this organization found it "impossible to adapt to changing conditions". Read the accounts, they continually improved and stepped up their game, we Americans are good at that (in our warfare, Vietnam is the classic counterexample of micromanagement at all levels short circuiting that classic fantastic advantage of US soldiers).

But this process wasn't fast enough when potentially fatal isolation errors started the second the EMT crew arrived at his apartment complex. But I'm certain we'll get better, just as I'm certain it'll take quite an infection and death toll to get "good enough". Assuming we don't get overwhelmed before then, this is way too path dependent to predict.
This. I actually had an idea for producing a product that gave users truly commercial free cable (the way it was actually intended to function in the first place).But considering the nature of that market the only real way to make it work, at least based on my cursory research, is to become the content provider (much like what Netflix is doing).
I've noticed this over the past few years. What I've also noticed is a move by Apple towards marketing not what their products can do, but by counting how many new features they they've added to their software. They're still far ahead of their competitors in terms of quality and usability of their products, but not what they once were.
If I was writing line of business software these days, I'd either go the web route and use JavaScript and HTML 5, or if it was something that preferred to live on the desktop, I'd use Qt.

Now, if you've only heard a little bit about Qt, you might be tempted to think you only need it if you need cross-platform, but in my experience it's actually better than any of the Microsoft frameworks even purely on Windows. (A simple test: write a Hello World program in Winforms, WPF and Qt, then try doing some simple drag operations with the mouse, moving the window around, resizing it. Last I tried, Qt was the only one that updated the window correctly, without flicker. This remained true even after I tried the recommended solutions in Winforms and WPF to reduce flicker.)

The fact that Qt gives you the option of going cross-platform if you ever need it in the future is just a nice bonus.
I only play with Rust because I'm a language junky, but I don't think Rust has been built so far with the intentions of being a great language for servers. It feels like a language targeted towards system engineering, which is a bit different than network engineering (which is where I would put web servers).

That said, with a 1:1 threading model, you can still build good abstractions for asynchronous I/O onto those threads. Erlang is kind of like this in that it spawns as many threads as you have cores (unless you tell it otherwise) and uses a thread for async I/O via epoll/kqueue.
REST API is really,really,really ugly
No respect for any good practice when design REST API
When the administration repeatedly claims that Saddam could "Launch a chemical or biological attack in 45 minutes" and that the Iraqi WMD program is "just a series of evil weapons unaccounted for, huge quantities of anthrax that can kill millions of people, huge quantities of botulinum toxin that can kill millions of people, ricin that can kill millions of people." or when Colin Powell says that Iraq has obtained “sufficient fissile material to produce a nuclear explosion”, I think you can forgive people for not considering the handful of 30-year old chemical weapons as justification for the invasion.

Though, I don't expect we're going to agree on much so I suppose HN isn't the place to discuss this anyway.
I deliberately changed the headline as the original ('healthcare workers need optimal respiratory protection against Ebola') does not reflect the significance of the article to a lay reader who is not familiar with respiratory safety protocols. I based the rewritten headline above on this quote:

We believe there is scientific and epidemiologic evidence that Ebola virus has the potential to be transmitted via infectious aerosol particles both near and at a distance from infected patients, which means that healthcare workers should be wearing respirators, not facemasks.
Thanks Malcolm. A few people have mentioned it now. I will update the design to make it look a bit more respectable :)
Since what age or for how long until the reality was mixed up?! Thank you for the link but i dont have marijuana addiction, i just can't do it.. Unfortunately have and had other addictions
Bigger screen means more power needed to light it up, but more pixels takes more computation to push the data. It probably varies how much of a factor each component is, but it's definitely both.
I'm not a doctor, but I have a friend who is schizophrenic, the feeling of hearing cacophony, as well as believing people are hiding in cameras, and things are always about to fall are pretty good indicators. So many mental health issues are on a spectrum where one or two bits overlap with other diagnoses, so it's often hard to pin just one.
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You can just easily argue the other way - recently I've switched from N5 (5") to Z3C (4.6" hovewer with small bezels) and I couldn't be happier. In fact, I would happily go under 4" if there was a flagship so small.
This is not accurate. There are a couple of competitors to Nielsen, but more importantly, most cable providers these days track what everyone is watching. They may not do a ton with that data (depends on the company), but it's not like they don't have the data.
Absolutely false. Password managers are superior because they don't suffer the vulnerabilities I listed with email: high latency, outages, spam filters, and less secure long-lived sessions.
Apple has had a decline in software quality since around the Intel transition. Prior to that OS X had become really very respectable, but during it lots of typical things started happening, like suspend not quite working sometimes, and external display support going to hell. It doesn't seem like they ever recovered.

It's hard to admit now, but at one point I even liked XCode, but again, that was before they iTunesd it.

Maybe it's age, but in my mind they definitely did get worse, and as a result I've moved to Windows (7) as my main machine after over a decade in Mac land.
If you charged $20 for both MyApp N and MyApp N+1, and made up the $80 difference in version-portable IAPs, then you'd get the pricing model you're suggesting.

A good candidate for this would be something like Photoshop, where $20 would get you the "engine" of Photoshop N, and then you pay $5 each for various brushes and filters. When you upgrade to Photoshop N+1, you're upgrading to a new engine—but keeping your brushes and filters.

Games could also work like this, though in that industry, the more common strategy is the "expansion"—effectively, keeping an entirely new version of the app logic/assets commingled with the old version but disabled using feature flags, and then unlocking it through an upgrade-priced IAP. (Now there's a thought. Could you ship two entirely separate binaries within one application bundle, and put a switch in your app's prefpane to toggle between execv()ing N or N+1?)
Seems like voting has now been turned off, or at least I don't see any votes any more.
Similar story happened to a friend of mine, all of a sudden she starting seeing eastern-style patterns everywhere, on people like tattoos and so on. Too much pot.
Looks like no fine-grained control of app permissions, either dynamic/on-demand or manual. This approach (all or nothing) is one major issue that cripples Android usability for me. :(
Played on iPhone. It was really simple and intuitive. Altough too easy to win
Whatever version it is. NEWS is best. NORTH OR EAST WORLD IS BEST!!!
For betas they have been good. I don't set the bar high for those. The last public beta is working really well. Yosemite reminds me of KDE in some of the stuff Apple has done.
And yet engineers, including nuclear engineers, very often build stuff that works despite imperfect software.
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My iPhone 6+ has shown more bugs in 2 weeks than the three iPhones I had prior to that (the original, 3G, and 4). Has hard locked at least half a dozen times, particularly when receiving calls.
This is a legitimate question, not a troll. Are there actually any mobile games out there that you would want to play on your tv with a controller?

Pretty much every mobile game I have ever tried has been a cesspool of micropayment dark patterns, or else something that really just serves to kill time when there is nothing else to do (riding the bus, waiting at an office, etc.)
I have noticed several posts related to mental illness recently. What is this in relation to? Deep learning? Productivity via mental health? Fill me in.
Not even so niche. Businesses are still primarily PC/desktop oriented.
> Bitcoin itself doesn't increase our fraud/risk

Yikes, I disagree highly. You are operating a service that allows people to transfer USD from bank accounts into a relatively untraceable, irreversible currency. You will absolutely become, if you are not already, a big target for fraud.

The most common pattern we see is people trying to pay other bank accounts using a stolen bank account number. I don't think your ACH provider will care if the money is in bitcoin if you did not have authorization to pull that money in the first place.

All I'm saying is, your KYC process can and will fail, make sure you know your liability to your ACH provider/bank.
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I mean.. I guess? Maybe?

Much better to focus on what we can control - making docker awesome for as many people as possible.
It's not at all proof by anecdote. He's saying that there's some evidence the two are linked, and that these anecdotes should remind us of this evidence and to use caution accordingly.
... and width is the only dimension where the iPhone 6 is actually bigger than the Nexus 5.
I think the best thing that Microsoft could do for developers right now is to backport a reasonable subset of WinRT to Windows 7 and provide it as a redistributable, even if we have to pay for it. I'd suggest backporting the XAML-based UII toolkit and at least some of the other APIs, but not the app container or store-based distribution.
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Yep, that he had a healthcare worker visit him weekly after his diagnosis is huge. I have ADD, and when I get on new health care, the options they provide for treatment/care are really really poor. When I was at university, it was much different though, they offered weekly sessions with a psychologist as well as hands on time and task management training.

The larger health care options in the US are basically: go to a group meeting once every 4 months, and meet with a doctor maybe once a month at most, and receive a lot of suspicion. It's pretty shitty, hugely time consuming and offers very little in the area of actually improving my condition and behaviors.
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I consider(ed) myself an experienced sysadmin, however, yesterday I left an Asterisk server on my newly created DigitalOcean droplet open to the public. I thought, on a freshly created machine with a brand new ip, I surely can go to sleep and finish the configuration tomorrow.

Today I woke up to the server making calls to countries I didn't even know existed.

It must be the work of a botnet. The server was brand new and Asterisk had only been running a few hours. I didn't make any outgoing requests which could have tracked that the machine was live. My IP can only have been selected randomly and nmap'd mercilessly for an open port, and it was attacked on the only open port, 5060. Hell, if it were a web or SSH server, I could suppose. But a remotely non-standard service like Asterisk?

Botnets may be the business of the next decade, both for the black market and for security analysts. But what can regular sysadmins do to protect against them, besides being cautious?

This leads to the question, is there any reliable data regarding botnets? What are the most common attack vectors? Is there a known IP database of zombie machines so that we can firewall all requests from them?

I'd like some insights extracted from real data so that we can protect ourselves from this plague.
Sure you can go half-way. But that's optimum if you value human life over all other considerations. However, there are people who are willing to take risks, and those people can drive the cost of science, development and colonization down by an order of magnitude. You just have to accept the mortal risks involved with launching an outpost using unproved equipment in an unknown environment.

Then there's the benefit if they survive. Not only a 2nd human population in the galaxy, which increases the odds of long-term human survival by some huge margin. But the inspiration they give to others that it can be done. Who knows what would come next? Moons of Jupiter? Venus?
This marks an interesting if subtle change in direction for Google. Suddenly they are talking about productivity on their tablet and even including a keyboard. Also recently we've seen massive upgrades to the Google Docs suite of apps as well, after they long languished as almost comically useless on Android for a long time. Once again, it makes me question whether Pichai taking over has had the unexpected effect of boosting Android and making it into their premier platform across a range of form factors instead of what seemed before to be mainly pigeon holing it as a phone / small tablet platform mainly for entertainment. Interesting times.
I suspect they count "sub contracted to a manufacturer" as in-house, and off the shelf as out of house.
I have sonic net, and I pay (a little handwaving here) for amazon prime, netflix, and hulu plus. So monthly, that's $42 (sonic) + ($99/12) (amazon) + $9 (netflix) + $8 (huluplus) =~ $67 a month. I also have a digital antenna. I'd be locked out of espn (sonic net and no cable), except that I have an .edu domain so they allow that through for most programming. It's a mish mash but it kind of works.

There's plenty of wiggle room here for HBO, and because it's more a la carte, I could easily drop a couple of things there once I have HBO.

Not sure what they'd charge for standalone HBO yet, but I think it could be as much as $50 a month and I'd still come out ahead (especially if I dropped something). I got rid of comcast a while ago. As I recall, if you get the minimum level of cable service required for HBO plus specific surcharge for HBO and your internet service through them, I think it's was over $120 a year… I know I'm being vague, but that's largely because comcast doesn't really want to make it easy to figure out what things cost, though, and you can play various games (threaten to quit and get a deal that they hope you won't notice when it expires)… but they weasel right back and get you on all kinds of little things, though, so you have to pay close attention to your bill.

Also, every now and then comcast will tell you to return something like a cable box, and then claim you haven't returned it, and send you a letter threatening your credit history if you don't pay for not returning it even though you have, and then ask you why you're quitting. So you have to factor in that extra cost too.
The later versions have been decent but I installed the first public beta and really regretted it for like a month or two until it got a bit more stable.
I can not find any distribution updates yet, neither for Red Hat nor Debian.

Am I just stupid or are they not out yet? I guess I've been spoiled by the many embargoed and coordinated releases that was made recently.
Yeah I assumed they were one-time only. In examples I've seen, each link had a different token, so if you forwarded something, one of the links may work if you hadn't clicked that particular one.

When ever I explain this to people, and forward them one of my notifs from Facebook, they get pretty paranoid and shocked, then eventually accept it because of the convenience :)
You are oversimplifying the issue.

For instance, we actually have tried something like the NHS in the US, it's called the VA, and it's much, much worse than the regular US healthcare system.
Exactly. Essentially this reduces the algorithmic complexity of compilation which is a huge boon given that even simple programs these days result in the (repeated) parsing of millions of lines of code. Instantiation of templates obviously won't change, but recursive traversal and repeated re-parsing of includes will be completely unnecessary as the compiler can trivially[1] cache the intermediate version. Which is as it should have been from the start, but then hindsight is 20-20.

It's really an elegant solution considering the constraints they're working under.

[1] Preprocessor macros don't leak from includers to includees, so headers become independent of each other.
Indeed, the nation's worst mass murders by far used arson. Worst school massacre explosives.

I seriously studied biology and chemistry, up to part way through MIT. If I wanted to kill a very large number of people ... I wouldn't even use anything I learned in those classes and labs, but stuff I in part picked up from the EEs I hung out with.
As I see it, there are tree reasons for ridiculous six inches.

1) To fit a larger battery, better screen, more horsepower, better camera with OIS they just have to make them bigger.

2) Nexus line has gone out of control and people instead of buying other phones are queuing up for nexuses which initially were meant to be just reference devices for new android oses. Instead they became so popular that had an impact on sales of other Android devices.

3) They got focus groups or questions all wrong.