Hacker News: flurpitude

New comment by flurpitude in "Samsung to Permanently Discontinue Galaxy Note 7 Smartphone"

flurpitude — Tue, 11 Oct 2016 19:15:13 +0000

Note 4 user here. Not sure what to do when this one dies. The pen is a great feature that hugely expands the uses of the device. I hope Samsung doesn't feel the need to stop producing phones with a pen.

New comment by flurpitude in "Samsung to Permanently Discontinue Galaxy Note 7 Smartphone"

flurpitude — Tue, 11 Oct 2016 19:11:44 +0000

Meh, my experience was the opposite - S2 died quickly, S3 was slow and with bloated software, Note 4 was and still is great. But anecdotes about one or two people's experience don't prove anything.

New comment by flurpitude in "Open Sourcing a Deep Learning Solution for Detecting NSFW Images"

flurpitude — Fri, 30 Sep 2016 19:50:44 +0000

It would be interesting to see the "deep dream" treatment of ordinary images using this neural net.

Meet TISA, the 'secret privatisation pact that poses a threat to democracy'

flurpitude — Wed, 31 Aug 2016 14:59:37 +0000

Article URL: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/ttip-trade-deal-new-what-is-tisa-privatisation-pact-secret-threat-to-democracy-a7216296.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12398796

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

$19M salary, perks for senator's daughter who raised price of EpiPen

flurpitude — Thu, 25 Aug 2016 20:31:24 +0000

Article URL: http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-epipen-ceo-bresch-salary-20160824-story.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12362236

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by flurpitude in "The Internet of Poorly Working Things"

flurpitude — Mon, 22 Aug 2016 05:10:46 +0000

The only thing in that picture I want is the radio business controller. I would set the dial to BUSINESS and wait for the money to roll in via radio.

Microsoft pitches tech that can read facial expressions at political rallies

flurpitude — Fri, 05 Aug 2016 20:15:54 +0000

Article URL: https://theintercept.com/2016/08/04/microsoft-pitches-technology-that-can-read-facial-expressions-at-political-rallies/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12235453

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by flurpitude in "Classic Shell hacked with compromised update that erases your partition table"

flurpitude — Wed, 03 Aug 2016 15:30:10 +0000

I don't see much value in published file hashes when they're hosted on the same site that hosts the files. If someone compromises the download link they're probably in a good position to update the hashes too.

British Spies Used a URL Shortener to Honeypot Arab Spring Dissidents

flurpitude — Wed, 03 Aug 2016 15:23:09 +0000

Article URL: https://motherboard.vice.com/read/gchq-url-shortener-twitter-honeypot-arab-spring

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12218601

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Phuctor Finds Seven Keys Produced with Null RNG, and Other Curiosities

flurpitude — Wed, 03 Aug 2016 14:34:20 +0000

Article URL: http://qntra.net/2016/08/phuctor-finds-seven-keys-produced-with-null-rng-and-other-curiosities/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12218158

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

After 20 years of Windows Server, Microsoft looks to agile future

flurpitude — Tue, 02 Aug 2016 18:45:06 +0000

Article URL: http://www.cio.com/article/3101375/windows/after-20-years-of-windows-server-microsoft-looks-to-agile-future.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12212216

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Sega Saturn CD Cracked after 20 Years

flurpitude — Mon, 11 Jul 2016 20:16:29 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOyfZex7B3E

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12074096

Points: 1126

# Comments: 223

New comment by flurpitude in "ThinkPwn: System Management Mode arbitrary code execution"

flurpitude — Tue, 05 Jul 2016 15:54:12 +0000

Also found in an HP DV7 4087CL from 2010: https://twitter.com/al3xtjames/status/749063556486791168/pho...

Guix: The Non-Aligned Universal Package Manager

flurpitude — Tue, 05 Jul 2016 15:05:40 +0000

Article URL: http://www.ocsmag.com/2016/07/05/guix-the-non-aligned-universal-package-manager/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12036915

Points: 11

# Comments: 6

New comment by flurpitude in "Windows 10: Microsoft launches intrusive full-screen upgrade reminder"

flurpitude — Mon, 04 Jul 2016 14:59:22 +0000

In my experience, having installed Windows 10 on 7 computers so far, Windows 10 has been unstable and full of small bugs. From blue screens and freezes to missing drivers to blurry fonts to the File Explorer failing to open or taking a couple of minutes to open, there seem to be common bugs at all levels and not much movement on Microsoft's part to fix them. The design is opaque, with settings scattered between two quite separate areas (Control Panel and Settings), and the start menu is less functional than the one in Windows 7 (for example, the frequently used programs don't really seem to be your most frequently used programs, and the tiles are a waste of space and hard to organize). The upgrade advisor will recommend that you upgrade even on machines where crucial components will be missing drivers after the upgrade. In several cases the upgrade has taken me from a stable, functioning machine to an unstable machine with some non-functioning hardware. Windows 7, by contrast, has felt stable for years, and even Windows 8.1 felt more stable than Windows 10. Add the concerns about MS's spyware and it's not hard to see why users don't want to upgrade.

New comment by flurpitude in "How Technology Hijacks People’s Minds"

flurpitude — Fri, 20 May 2016 18:33:04 +0000

As with addictive drugs, the real problem doesn't wholly lie on either side. You can't blame the users entirely for the fact that people choose to supply a harmful product for profit, but neither can you wholly blame the suppliers for being tempted to do so when users lap it up. Regardless of the blame question, it will improve when (if) both sides change their behaviour, or when either side changes unilaterally and forces a change from the other side.

New comment by flurpitude in "Nikola Motor Company"

flurpitude — Thu, 12 May 2016 14:51:09 +0000

It feels like the Steorn of car companies. Or a dodgy Kickstarter. All designed to create a buzz with no real evidence of a product.

New comment by flurpitude in "Aristotle, “On Trolling”"

flurpitude — Tue, 10 May 2016 14:33:12 +0000

Google and Microsoft have made a pact to protect surveillance capitalism

flurpitude — Thu, 05 May 2016 14:50:47 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/may/02/google-microsoft-pact-antitrust-surveillance-capitalism

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11636568

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by flurpitude in "No one wants yearly Android releases"

flurpitude — Wed, 04 May 2016 15:10:24 +0000

"whatever is announced will essentially be an irrelevance since a year from now it won't even have hit double-digit usage share."

I don't get the logic there. Why is it "essentially an irrelevance" just because it takes time to reach a wide user base? Today's releases will have tomorrow's wide user base and be as relevant as last year's releases are today.