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oomkiller··on Apple Music Matches Files with Metadata Only, Not Acoustic Fingerprinting
I have a particular hip-hop album on my phone that is an orchestra version of the original. Every time I attempt to play the studio album, I hear the orchestra (live) version. It's extremely annoying, and I hope they fix it.
oomkiller··on Binary pattern matching in Elixir
Well, if it is truly unexpected that it doesn't match the data, then you should just blow the process up and have it be automatically restarted by a supervisor. If the pattern is an alternative format, or something that you'll actually want to match, you just define another function with that pattern to test it against.
oomkiller··on Compose Is Joining IBM
Taking a look at Bluemix, I already see most of the Compose offerings listed. RethinkDB is missing though, are you discontinuing that product?
oomkiller··on ElixirConfEU Keynote – Phoenix Takes Flight [video]
There is work going on right now to help add support for API token auth, you can follow it here: https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix/pull/820
oomkiller··on The Medical Bill Mystery
Not exactly, but I am quite familiar with the issues involved. My point is that we need to make shopping and selection easier and better, instead of focusing on what all you were billed for. If we fix that problem, the most important part aspect of the bills is that they are close to the estimate. The health system as a whole is moving away from billing from individual services anyways, hopefully that will continue.
oomkiller··on The Medical Bill Mystery
Well, at the point that you have a bill, you are kinda beholden to the people that sent it. You can't easily dispute a charge with our system. It would definitely be useful to understand the bill later on, if you could actually do something about it. My point is not being able to know the estimated charge before you choose a provider makes it impossible for the market to work, because competition can't happen, at least not with costs.
oomkiller··on The Medical Bill Mystery
How would knowing the meaning and even the average cost for a given code change your behavior? It's still basically impossible to get even an estimate of cost for even the most basic medical procedures before having one.

Also, the bills are much more complicated than what they print out and mail to you. The amounts can vary based on many different factors, such as BMI, alcohol/nicotine dependency, and other risk factors that make you more risky to provide care for.

oomkiller··on Apple WWDC 2015
There is plenty of stuff going on now that you have a chance to be a part of and contribute to in a big way. One day you'll be able to tell your own "back in my day" stories.
oomkiller··on Major Changes from Solr 4 to Solr 5
You could possibly change the text before indexing to solve this problem.
oomkiller··on Watson now brings cognitive speech capabilities to developers
It seemed a bit better with my bose headset, but still was quite lacking.
oomkiller··on Watson now brings cognitive speech capabilities to developers
The ability to create your own models is very important to use this, as your existing ones do a bad job of processing my normal speech. To test I just tried reading a few simple phrases and the error rate is pretty high. The Web Speech API did a great job with the same phrases https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/demos/speech.html
oomkiller··on BMW fixes lock security flaw
I wonder if they are using key pinning and have mitigated SSLStrip and other SSL attacks. Also, they say that it wasn't vulnerable to attacks on braking and steering. If firmware updates are possible over the air, you could theoretically capture and disassemble one and modify it to suit your purposes.

The device the software runs on most likely sits on the CAN bus with everything else and could be used to feed false data in that could at least confuse other systems on the car. Similar attacks have been done before in experiments. Local (USB drive) system updates look to be cryptographically signed, but who knows about the OTA ones, and even then the key might be extractable.

oomkiller··on Show HN: Cappio – stock research that isn't overwhelming
Have you run your %w[Buy Sell Hold] indicators over historical data to see how accurate your suggestions are? It would be really nice to offer this feature for transparency and to keep yourselves honest. It could also improve your product and help users to better understand when you make errors. Does your app do sentiment analysis on tweets? That would be insanely cool if you get it right.
oomkiller··on Monit Team Widthdraws Inspeqtor Takedown
Glad to see it ended well. You got yourself some good PR too, I will definitely be considering using inspeqtor in my projects now; I didn't know about it before.
oomkiller··on Artificial sweeteners linked to glucose intolerance
This seems very misleading. The abstract (available without paywall) mentions a group of sweeteners, whereas the findings seem to show that only saccharin has these negative effects. I feel like NAS are probably bad, but without evidence to support it they should not claim that in the abstract.
oomkiller··on Canon printer hacked to run Doom
Older laser printers with network support is what I prefer. No drivers, just point postscript at its IP address and go. Some have weird gotchas on Linux, so try for older HPs. Don't mind their age, they're built to last and 2D printing technology hasn't changed much in years.
oomkiller··on Show HN: Sobrr
Looks interesting, kinda like Snapchat's My Story on steroids. I would suggest redoing the voiceover with a better mic and less gain, there is some obvious clipping going on there. Also, cut the music track down a bit, and maybe pick one without vocals. It was kinda hard to understand at points, but maybe that's just my rock-concert ears.
oomkiller··on A Comparison of Ruby Application Servers, Part 2 – Performance
Benchmarking on VMs (especially on EC2) is a no-no. It introduces a lot of other factors that can skew results drastically. There are entire companies built around the idea of variable performance in the cloud. If you want to do a decent benchmark, do it on a real piece of hardware.
oomkiller··on Tell HN: I want out
Please Relax.

Don't leave. Write down your problems, and logically develop solutions to work on solving each of them. It sounds like you're in charge of your company. If so, change things up so where y'all can work together to deliver a successful product without killing each-other. If there is too much work, take on less, and plan better.

If anxiety is an issue, there are many anti-anxiety drugs that you can use to help control it (see /r/nootropics and/or a psychiatrist). Anxiety issues can affect your perception in many ways, and they're often invisible, which is what makes things seem so difficult.

Also, you may need to sit down and figure out exactly what you want out of life, then align the rest of your goals and plans with that. Getting a good life balance can be tremendously helpful in these situations.

oomkiller··on A Comparison of Popular Ruby Application Servers
Looks like that's already been done: https://github.com/celluloid/reel/pull/3
oomkiller··on FOI Request: leet speak (FBI)
Did they purposefully try to make this un-OCRable?
oomkiller··on Firefox Developer Tools – Editable box model, Sublime Text keys
Use snippets and just hit the run button for a near-identical experience. There is a keyboard shortcut for it too IIRC
oomkiller··on Intel Clang-based C++ Compiler [pdf]
Traditionally (with ICC) the criticism has been that it just checks the vendor string for "GenuineIntel" instead of actually checking for feature support with CPUID. People just want the option to be able to just check just for feature support.
oomkiller··on Follow up to the investigation results
Continued attention in the media, I'm guessing. While this issue seems to have died down mostly (still going on Twitter a bit), it's important to patch this up properly so it doesn't affect recruiting talent.
oomkiller··on Digital Ocean needs to start showing outages on their status page
OVH does a much better job at this I think. It's not the prettiest status page, but it lists a lot more things. http://status.ovh.com
oomkiller··on TextDrive shuts down
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TextDrive
oomkiller··on Support for Ruby 1.9.3 will end on February 23, 2015
When I saw that 2.1 was released the other day, I took 5 minutes to upgrade my app (mainly building from source and removing some unsupported gems from my Gemfile). I was happily surprised that my app booted 30% faster, and the entire application was noticeably faster, especially the Ruby-intensive pieces obviously. Anyone that can upgrade to 2.1 and doesn't is hurting themselves!
oomkiller··on [dead]
Don't make more open source projects, contribute to existing ones.
oomkiller··on AngularJS 1.3: a new release approaches
There are plenty of places to offer feedback on Angular, general or specific. All I'm saying is that it's nice to look at the docs and not have to see a big string of "OMG AngularJS docs suck" (only a slight exaggeration).

Also, if your comment is going to be useful on a documentation page, chances are it will be even more useful as a commit to the docs themselves. Mad about doc quality? Whine (give feedback) about it on Twitter, maybe even mention one of the committers.

oomkiller··on AngularJS 1.3: a new release approaches
Angular's Disqus comments were a perfect example of the hate and entitlement in open source that makes people quit contributing. While they're not the greatest docs, they're quite passable, especially with the rest of the info on the web (videos explaining concepts, egghead.io, etc). On top of that, it is really easy to contribute. I saw a few small doc issues, fixed them, and they were merged within 6 hours. If people could be more civil and constructive, comments would be fine, but I'm glad they're gone.
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