skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems there's a big conflation between DRM (things that actually restrict how you can use your digital goods) and per-customer builds (things that identify you as the owner but don't necessarily restrict usage, like watermarks).

The way I understand it, CEG works by signing the binary to a specific Steam account for when Steam is used. It does not prevent any portability or introduce access control for when Steam is not used, right?

That is, if I'm offline or just have a backup of the game install without Steam, CEG has no effect on me (assuming the game's integrations with Steamworks are not a requirement for the game to function).

At least Valve/Gaben has gone on record on several occasions to say that the digital assets are structured in such a way that they'll continue to work even if Steam/Valve disappears (dies or what have you). It might have been a couple of years, but I'm assuming this is still true.

Edit: Btw, just to be clear, I constantly rely on this functionality. I play tons of games that I buy on Steam while I'm offline (mostly during travel and such). If I needed to be online for my purchases to work, I wouldn't be using Steam anymore.
>high-rise apartment buildings where many people live now

Does anyone have a break down of what percentage of people live in single-family homes, vs. an apartment/other?
In the same way that client-facing bankers don't need to wear suits.

If part of your job is conveying status, bringing an Android to work conveys a completely different kind of status than an iPhone. It may not feel good, but that doesn't mean $600 for an iPhone, even when you can barely afford food/rent, is poorly spent.
You should compare a plain JavaScript object (use shallow or deep compare if you must) version against Vue.

I'm sure Immutable is pretty well optimized, but you still have overhead from all those function calls and iterating through the array of keys manually.
You missed the word 'like'. As he is no lawyer he avoided to give a concrete example, but he tried to describe the lawyer speak with a more understandable example. What is your interpretation of the EULA text?
Health/fitness/notifications is the large market that buys a lot of our products. But we're hackers at heart, that's why we made Pebble Core as open and hackable as possible. The first 'app' for it is Spotify/gps for runners, but at its core it's simply an unlocked Android 5.0 device. We're very excited about the platform.
> we only render elements that are visible.

I'm curious how you keep track of visibility? I have a React app that does something similar to this by checking on scroll, but I kept getting killed by the browser having to check layout so many times on scroll, even if I throttled the event listener.
Through a humane, fast, fair asylum request handling process. It is acceptable for the answer to "Can I claim asylum in your country?" to be "No". If that is the case, it's in your - and the asylum seeker's - interests to come to that conclusion as quickly as possible.
Australians will take lecture from the New York Times after The USA perfects its record.

This article is full of bias-pushing, including the idea that what happens to the people on Nauru is mysterious or that they are in limbo, or that they are in some type of concentration camp.

The families on Nauru are free to leave and return to their country of origin any time they choose. They are free to participate in the local community and are not behind barbed wire.

The people who have self-harmed have been in contact with the legal industry inside Australia that prospers from their continued presence. These refugee advocates, in full knowledge of the state of the people in Nauru, don't seek to help them but seek to play them as pawns in their deadly game.

The undeniable facts of the matter was that when Australia temporarily relaxed the border protection laws, by the governments own statistics, at least 1,500 men, women and children drowned at sea. Most well known was when a timber fishing boat smashed into rocks in front of news cameras as people drowned.

Since the reinstatement of the laws, the only people who have been harmed are those that have self-harmed.

There is zero doubt that the laws save lives, and crucially, also provide the ability for people to support genuine refugee settlement, such as the processing of 12,000 Syrian refugees, more than the USA is doing, despite the USA having 14x the population of Australia.

The laws have broad support amongst Australian voters, including this voter. The advocates for open borders and a 'let them in' attitude are a small but noisy minority.

Australia still maintains a sizeable immigrant intake every year, drawing on people from around the world.

Frankly, the rest of the world can call me and fellow citizens as many names as they like but border protection is an important task for a Federal government, and I'm totally comfortable with it.
I've never understood why people make such a big deal out of that deduction. It doesn't add up to very much in my experience - not enough to make it worth considering in one's decision about which house to buy, much less one's decision about whether one can afford to buy a house at all. If you're relying on the mortgage interest deduction to make homeownership affordable, you.... well... it's going to really hurt the first time an appliance breaks or you have to call the plumber or whatever. Better to keep renting.
It's really a shame that our culture ascribes living on your own to status.

A new living space to heat, cool, light and manage just to live up to our culture's view of success is incredibly wasteful.
This is a big thing that, oddly, a lot of folks in my cohort (~40s) are unwilling to admit.

You don't have to like unions to admit they benefited workers. In fact, the money spent on the destruction of unions points to it - why bother if they didn't help workers?

The post-WWII bargain, where productivity growth was split, is gone and not coming back. Whether there's a way to give workers a voice again or not is an interesting question.

Of course, if the class differential gets too big, there's always the pitchfork and torch route, which I don't think anyone (OK, most sane people) wants.
Introducing GraphFrames
Not really.

You have to consider: your parents' house almost by definition of them being parents, has excess space outside of your parents' needs. Why? Because you had to live there as a kid, potentially with your siblings.

So that's pretty much free housing if you live there. Of course there's an opportunity cost to giving you that space, but it's rarely actually priced. i.e. if you didn't live with your parents, they'd rarely rent out the room to some stranger. So it can virtually always be seen as free housing.

Compared to that, an entire extra apartment for you and your partner, is not free.

Then you figure in some extra factors, like rent control keeping your parents' contract prices way below what you'd have to pay. (my parents have a bigger house, same city, nicer neighbourhood, and pay half of what I pay for my studio). Or conversely, if they bought, their mortgage payments by now are probably low or non-existent, and property taxes are much lower than the would-be rent.

And finally if you look at things like having to buy new furniture vs parent-living, a more sober or less exotic lifestyle of parent-living, and all kinds of tiny economies of scale of living with more than 1 person (partner), plus the likelihood of getting heavily subsidised by your parents left and right when it comes to rent, groceries etc, and yes, for the child, living with his or her parents is generally much cheaper.
From the article: "We aren’t precarious, we’re unnecessary. The money has gone to the top. The wages have gone to the top. The recovery has gone to the top. And what’s worst of all, everybody who matters seems basically pretty okay with that."

That's it right there. We just don't need that many people to do all the stuff. Some of that is imports, but not all, or even most, of it.

Get behind the $15 minimum wage. Then the 8 hour day and 40 hour week.

Overtime is coming back to America, on December 1, 2016.[1] The threshold below which overtime must be paid rises from $455 to $913 per week. This affects about 4 million US workers. Goldman Sachs says this will add 100,000 jobs, as employers try to avoid paying time and a half for overtime.[2]

[1] https://www.dol.gov/whd/overtime/final2016/
[2] http://www.businessinsider.com/goldman-sachs-new-obama-overt...
Chinese cities might start using 'straddling buses' that carry 1,400 people
In a country where it's comparatively unusual to need to live with your parents for financial reasons, the set of people living with their parents is composed mostly of those who live with them for nonfinancial reasons, like codependency.

If everyone in the US was poorer and had to live with their parents, then it wouldn't be correlated with codependency at all, just "not being rich" - or "being normal". Certainly you'd rather be rich, but in this case it'd be normal to live with your parents and you wouldn't make assumptions about people over it.

I certainly hope I'm dead before we get to that point though...
What if that is what is happening and the people in these detention centers just refuse to go home, I have never seen a single article sharing the stories of these refugees showing how they are actually legitimate refugees, just affectionate language aimed at making you feel sorry for them and angry at the government.
Why you want stuff which is not in the spec? It's not in the spec it's not in the polyfill :/ Why the fetch from Github is not good enough for you?
Just like poor health standards enable a toxic and possibly infectious environment...

Could we not argue that poor privacy standards create a toxic environment for everyone, not just the poor who are directly subjected to it?

By moving privacy to "only those who have paid for it" you're moving the liability for privacy to the victim rather than the perpetrator.
They say low power, but also a fluid, is this tech going to be capable of the /no/ power display b/w eink does? That has always been one of the most interesting aspects of it to me.
I honestly think the two aren't linked. At least not as cause and effect, at least. Multinational investment drove the growth, but it was property madness that drove the bubble. So when the global economy faltered, there was a downturn in foreign investment - but it was the property bubble that burst.

I can still say that almost everyone I know here works for a multinational. So while they seem to artificially expand GDP (a huge amount of our GDP isn't actually domestic, and doesn't benefit us the same way domestic product would) - for us little folk on the ground, they still mean a lot, lot more jobs than we'd have otherwise.

How we actually domesticate this investment so it's not at risk of just flitting off to the next cheap destination, I have no idea. But I think that's the real long-term risk & challenge, not the stupid amounts of imaginary money people had pinned on the property bubble.
AT&T Begins Capping Broadband Users
I absolutely agree. I'll be keeping an eye on the progress of this.
The aids epidemic affected a much smaller community than the suicide and drug problem does, though. So I'm a little lost by the comparison.
Also see the Seeed Rephone for a different take on this: http://www.seeed.cc/discover.html?t=rephone
My understanding and experience is that it's more accurate to call it meta-thinking, rather than just thinking. Perhaps semantics, and the lines are not at all clear, but it's helping me find balance in my life.

That isn't to say it didn't hurt OP.
I am your parents. We invented nuclear weapons. We still regret it. So what if we decided to stay the course and figure out how to make a black hole? The first thing that would happen is it would be weaponized. That is what we do. Weaponize stuff. It's an extension of what makes us human-the ability to make tools. At least social media cannot be wpaonized in an immediately lethal way. The worst it can do is make us dumber. and therefore safer to play with.
You could start by compare the ratio of executive pay to regular worker pay in both periods.

We've been kicking our earnings up to the top more and more.
That has odd intersection with the Delaware law in the OP.

You can get access to the books as a shareholder specifically 'For the purpose of valuing my shares", but then if you decide to buy or sell shares based on what you learned (and what other use is there to valuing your shares?), you're insider trading?
Keeping in mind that a large portion of these people live in areas outside of Dallas, with the average home price only several hundred grand above $150k[1].

In the greater Seattle area you'd be stressed to find a back alley condo for that cheap. My rent in the outskirts of Redmond for a 3 bedroom apartment is more than my mother's mortgage for her 5 bedroom house in Bellevue, which, despite being a 70 year old split-level home with low ceilings and a hill for a lot in a forgotten neighborhood without so much as one sidewalk, was appraised two years ago for over $750,000.

I can afford to live on my own, but hell if I can afford a reasonable down payment on a house within 25 miles of where I work.

1. http://www.zillow.com/dallas-tx/home-values/
'Including eight primary colours' probably means 3bpp indeed. However, 1600x2500 at 150 ppi is indeed enough to make it practically seamless with dithering; especially on E Ink displays. I can hardly make the individual pixels on my 1920x1090 phone, so I expect a higher resolution to achieve a good effect regardless of the bpp.
That sounds fantastic and I look forward to seeing it hit the market. On the other hand, like you said, the state of the art for off the shelf tools isn't there yet so I think the snarkiness is kind of off putting.
It's worth noting that many, possibly even most, of these people are not actually refugees.

"refugee" is a rather well defined legal term.
Anything that really does compromise my bank account has got through a lot more than Windows' security, and almost certainly entered my system through a vulnerability that Windows updates wouldn't have fixed anyway.

Also, it's not one computer I'm worried about so much as the cost per day of downtime for everyone in my company if a Windows update were to break all our general use PCs.
Wow, I had no idea e-ink had come so far.

Has the latency improved any?
I don't think you're really putting yourself in their shoes.

For most people, things are were better for them before required, high-cost health plans. Most people don't get seriously sick in a given year; that's why health insurance works at all.

And for those with required health insurance, it doesn't really help.

Take me as an example: I'm 29 in NY and the healthcare plans I have available to me basically fall into a spectrum ranging from $170ish/mo with a $6000ish deductible to $600ish/mo with no deductible. At the low end of that range, health insurance does nothing to prevent a person making $15K/year from going bankrupt; $6K in medical costs is more than enough to bankrupt such a person and you don't get extra credit for going bankrupt by $6K instead of $50K. And at the other end of the spectrum, $600/mo is enough to drive many people bankrupt in itself. The plans in the middle don't strike a good balance; they just cost enough that a poor person can't build up savings so they'll go bankrupt if something does happen to them.

I'm lucky enough to have a job that pays much more than $15K, and I can actually afford my health insurance with relative ease. But for most, it's better to just take the risk and not pay for health insurance, because it's not going to prevent you from going bankrupt anyway. Except, now you can't.

And yeah, they can vote for Obamacare, but keep in mind that when you're living paycheck-to-paycheck, it's very hard to look at anything other than proximate causes of your problems. You see the tax coming out of your paycheck, you don't see the pointless military equipment it's spent on or the "privatize profits, socialize losses" companies that your taxes could regulate. And all the help the government promises you comes to nothing most of the time. You don't read the newspaper and spend mental energy on that because you're watching junk television to recover from your day, or just plain going directly to bed. You also don't have a ton of education (which doesn't mean you aren't intelligent). So you vote for the guy who promises to take less of your money in taxes and do less that you don't see.

All of this isn't finding ways to rationalize acting against their own self-interest (although that does happen too). It's a rational understanding of what's in your self-interest given the information you have, the time you have to research, and the experience you're allowed.

And when using democracy to improve your life doesn't work for decades, can you blame them for giving up on using democracy to improve their lives?
Wikipedia dump, textbooks on a wide variety of subjects, any practical information that can be useful considering the limited resources on the island.
Self-flying drones
'Clearly and affirmatively expressed' meaning in terse legalese, 6 point font, on page 16, section 2, sub section iii of document #8 of your HR welcome package.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_net_migra...

Australia is #23

United States is #40
And who elected those filibuster-threatening senators? Were the senators acting of their own accord, or on behalf of their constituents' desires?
Hex literals work pretty well for defining masks.
Just the other day I sat on one of the Computer History Museum's Cray I's. As much as I appreciate the fact the Cray machines come in industry-standard racks that fit seamlessly in any data center, I miss the age of exotic shapes and the immediately recognizable machines.
First hit on Google

https://aws.amazon.com/enterprise-applications/oracle/

Also things like SAP HANA are now on AWS.
>I'll echo

I think parrot is the word you're looking for. Had you read the article you'd have seen this is a trend that started in the 60s and started accelerating in the late 90s.
The AIDS epidemic affected a community. The suicide and drug problem doesn't affect a community, which is why the community banded together to create change and the non-community hasn't. It's a contrast, not a comparison.
System design 101: keep business logic into the layer above database layer rather than relying on specific db system to implement them. In this way to design an system, there shouldn't have any different between using MySQL of using NoSQL, their role is just storage engine. So, you don't need to follow the relational database practice, like for example, foreign key, constrains, normalization anymore.
Coinbase Co-founder: Ethereum Is the Forefront of Digital Currency
It seems a little unreasonable how much you are being downvoted, the parent comment uses uncertainty to cast doubt on the idea that TOR is safe from the NSA. That can easily invoke fear.

Unfortunately that is largely what we have to go off with the NSA.
It was ~54 when he became CEO in August 2011, and now it's ~98. So ~100% return when you factor in dividends.

SPX went from ~1280 to ~2080, so it's close, but not quite as much.
Check out charge.co. Discussion from a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11744875
> your AI should ultimately know your favorite restaurant, your girlfriend’s name, but also your health record and everything else you might not always feel comfortable sharing with the world at large.

No. It should know what the user wants it to know. Which may or may not be those things.
The article mentioned the displays being reflective, so that would likely mean that they're making low/no power devices.
"ACeP achieves a full color gamut, including all eight primary colors, using only colored pigments."

...

I want one now :-)
>where you could comfortably live on one income in the suburbs.

Does anyone have statistics on how many "traditional" single-income households there are in the U.S.? I live with my wife and four kids (home schooled) in a fairly large house, with a single income under that is apparently under the starting salaries for newly minted software-engineering graduates in the big urban areas.
Well, the contrast lost me because population size wasn't contrasted.
> people mostly wilfully accept to be tracked by companies

Most people accept this because they do not know the extent to which they are being tracked, and because they assume their data isn't being widely shared for purposes beyond being served 'better' advertisements.

Most people accept tracking because they don't understand the implications of mass surveillance. Most people are unwilling to think about their government's efforts towards population-scale control. Even in the era of surveillance whistleblowing, it is still taboo, and in the realm of conspiracy, to speak of these things.

I think the reality is that the demand for truly private platforms will remain very small because people trust Google and Apple, and at the end of the day, they have 'nothing to hide', so mass surveillance does not affect them.
The dude made money, but it was already baked in to the stock price. People already saw the money coming in. (Monopoly on office, growing market for technology, etc) The mark of a CEO is how they do above and beyond the hand they were dealt. Ballmer underperformed expectations.
Withdrawing your consent (eg checking Do Not Track) will hardly affect the behavior of these companies.

I agree that the best assurance is indeed technical, but let us not set our moral bar too high, blaming users when they do not do everything possible. The data leaks in our software are security vulnerabilities, which these companies are exploiting.

There is little fundamental difference with government surveillance. After all, backbone providers are commercial entities that once again you are voluntarily using, who then voluntarily pass your data to USG. There only seems to be a gap because private-no-competition ISPs haven't fully gotten around to monetizing your traffic yet.
Not useful for MS Shareholders. You'd have half of MS users worldwide (that dont require ActiveDirectory) moving to CentOS tomorrow if they could run their old VB apps, MS office, etc.
Naturopaths: Changing the Way We Do Healthcare (At Last)
For most people middle class and higher it lowers the effective interest rate by a third or more. That's a much lower interest rate and changes the math a lot.
Wrap your app in a class (extending Sinatra::Application or Sinatra::Base), require (I gemified it for componentization) then mount in routes:

mount MySinatraApp => '/some_path'

(you can also mount it as rack app in config.ru, but not sure if you'd get access to things like authenticated session, etc)
Headline (and article) are wildly inaccurate. The bill in question [0] amends exactly two federal laws (one section of each), not "all federal laws", to change the use of terms for racial/ethnic groups: the "Department of Energy Organization Act" and the "Local Public Works Capital Development and Investment Act of 1976".

That's it.

[0] https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/4238...
In that PR the browser is running AdBlock plus.

I'm intrigued as to whether that would make a difference overall and whether there is any difference between the frameworks when using ABP.

Difference is likely insignificant, but if React is not touching the DOM unless it needs to, does it actually lead to a performance benefit when a user is running an ad blocker (constantly parsing page changes etc).