skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The way I understand it, CEG works by signing the binary to a specific Steam account for when Steam is used.

I don't know the technical specifics, but I'm sure that's true. However, I'd argue this is still an implementation of DRM as it goes beyond just watermarking. Offline mode works because it previously downloaded your authorizations from Valve, and those are cached offline for a period. But there's still a key and lock system in place that needs to be met. That is, if you were to copy your game install folder for a title that uses CEG, you would have problems running that executable.

Titles without CEG would still work, assuming there's no other issues like missing registry keys, %APPDATA% entries, etc... (one of the reasons a DRM-free installer is important to me -- improved portability).

I admit Steam DRM is fairly unobtrusive, and its offline mode works way better than it used to a few years ago.

>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).

Just to clarify, is this the same quote of "If Steam ever goes under, we'll release a patch to remove the DRM"? Because I've been following and trying to track down that pernicious quote for years, and have never once found a credible source on the matter. It's always "archived post of forum moderator", or "tier 1 support supposedly said". But never a credible source from the company, in the Terms of Service, or anything that would hold up. I'm pretty convinced at this point people only pass it around because it's a comfortable lie.

I'm not sure if that's the same quote you were going for, however. How the assets are structured seems like it could be a different issue.

>If I needed to be online for my purchases to work, I wouldn't be using Steam anymore.

As I understand, you still need to go online for the initial run, correct? And also if there's been any updates/patches I believe.
Show HN: A decentralized virtual world built on Ethereum
Ahh yes, Geoism. I have a lot of sympathy for some of the thinking there.
This is exactly what happened to me.
It's too bad Unix/Linux doesn't offer something like Windows' VSS API, where the operating system can inform registered applications or services of an impending backup operation.
Socioeconomic Effects of TCP/IP vs. IsoGrid
Google was great because it surfaces the most relevant results, but more ads infiltrate everything it surfaces results with the largest wallets who rarely are the most relevant. On the bright side it's good news for Apple whose business model isn't reliant on ads. While Apple can't yet beat Google's mapping technologies, I think instead it's hoping in the long run Google will ruin itself that people will prefer an inferior technology but one that values their privacy and relevancy.
Man, I wish HERE and/or OSM had an equivalent of StreetView. That's the only thing which makes me use Google Maps at all.
Hi! I'm Travis Martin, the creator of IsoGrid. Let me know if you have any questions!
Keeping governments out of private data is a great goal. I wish the same emphasis were placed on Silicon Valley's own practices of tracking every bit of our lives. At anywhere between 75-200 billion of revenue, the largest Silicon Valley behemoths have more economic power than any of the poorest 122 countries in the world, including places like Ethiopia, Croatia or Uruguay.
To play devil's advocate, sometimes Git is abused to store things that aren't code, and ZFS (or similar) might actually be a better fit in those situations.

Somebody further down mentions art assets. Also potentially relevant are document repositories.

ZFS isn't very easy to use for a lay person, but that's really only a "Time Machine"-esque front-end away.
And today isn't just _towel day_, it is also _wear the lilac day_, a day to remember Pratchett and raise awareness about alzheimer. :/
The problem with biometrics is its a password you cant change. What happens if theres a leak? Unfortunately we can't update our facial structure.

This kind of API might be useful as a 2fa, but never as a standalone authentication mechanism.

Edit: I mispoke. The main problem isn't with leaks, its with other apps collect the same data google uses as biometrics. For example, a video chat app that grabs the same biometric data (facial structure/typing pattern) that google uses for authentication. That chat app then would have everything needed to emulate you.
> it is easier to play along and pretend we enjoyed it, even convince ourselves it was good, than admitting we were lead on and it is pretty bland

Even easier than this is to actually enjoy things. I didn't like it myself, but I'm happy to believe that my friends did.

Why do you claim people are pretending to like TFA but not the prequels?
I don't think anyone is silencing Gawker. Nobody is shutting it down. They did something illegal, so they must pay for it.

The consequence of the lawsuit is a fine. Gawker shutting down may be a consequence of the fine, but it is not the lawsuit's objective.
Blow that data monolith to smithereens with microservices and database swarms
Exactly. I've actually had a manager tell me to update a copyright notice from 2016 to 2015. These are the real nitpickers.
CircleCi: It's the Future
Thank you, Peter Thiel.
Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Web Science
Can't speak for Android, but on iOS it is not possible for an app to "listen" to your microphone unless it is in the foreground, and you have explicitly given the app permission to do this (the first time the app attempts to do so). It can also be revoked at any time without removing the app.

The only way around this restriction would be using a private API Apple could have provided. Given that Apple has even integrated some aspects of Facebook into iOS, this is not totally impossible, but it's hard to imagine Apple having an incentive in allowing Facebook to passively record and transmit all user audio. To date, Apple actually seem to be pretty good at protecting user's privacy.
What does Oracle have to do with anything? This is FUD.
Java applets, actually.
I've been living in that world for quite some time.
Also from the States, I read the Hitchhiker's Guide when I was eleven and laughed so hard I couldn't breathe. Predictably, I delight in the Pythons and their works. And Eddie Izzard, who seems to mine the same vein. But the reason I'm posting this is not to reminisce. It's that, out of sheer coincidence and for reasons having nothing at all to do with British humour, I'm carrying a towel around today.
How Marissa Mayer Failed to Turn Yahoo Around
Bitcoin-Scammers need a new playing field; that's how I read everything related to crypto currencies now.
This may be very interesting for the webmaster if the content of its website est copied by other sites. If they do not have the app, they can not copy the content. For the user, it may be less useful unless the app is customized for he/her.
Mirasol made it into the Qualcomm Toq smartwatch, but in ‘limited quantities’: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualcomm_Toq
It's horses for courses really. It all comes down to the cost of an escaped defect: Impact of failure; costs to rectify vs costs of writing bug free code. If for instance you're writing code for a vertically integrated application that you manage yourself you can fix it any time with little cost then simply "move fast and break things" makes sense. If you're shipping software where usage and maintenance is out of your control you should be a little more circumspect. If your code does something critical like manages e.g. a space shuttle [0] then there should be a significant $/£/€ tag attached to failure such that justifying an overbearing process is a no brainer.

[0] http://www.fastcompany.com/28121/they-write-right-stuff
Airport Utilizes Passengers Mobile Devices to Help Reduce Waiting Times
zfs allow zef mount,create,destroy,snapshot,rollback,diff,clone,send,receive mypool/projects

Now he doesn't need sudo in front of most of them.
>I needed a bigger kick in the butt to try something else

At least in Germany Open Streetmaps has vastly better maps than Google Maps. On a global scale Google or Bing maps are very consistent while OSM depends on the local community, but they are well worth checking out.

For satellite images Google Earth is hard to beat, but Bing has good images as well
Yes, that's a story of pretty much every structure big enough.
>> the agonizing (and multiply failed) Hotmail transition from Unix to Windows

Can you share more? I was fascinated by Hotmail and the documents Microsoft published about the transition made it seem like it went very well.
AMD64 and Opteron gave AMD an decent chunk of the server market. They unfortunately lost it again when Intel stopped playing with Itanic and decided to release a non-joke x86 Xeon.
I think if this will fly it will be used by advertisers to run more crap on devices if the need more horsepower.

Otherwise I don't see why wouldn't I just build it with JS.
Could it be explained if what we interpret as radioactive decay was in fact matter interacting with dark matter particles?
> tidy, straight, and clean

and new bugs get introduced into erstwhile fully validated code ;-)
We use the official PG packages from their repo on CentOS. It appears there is an apt repository for Ubuntu too: https://www.postgresql.org/download/linux/ubuntu/
Hmm, but Larry Page is specifically addressing PRISM. And your Wired link agrees with him. And from what I remember, it wasn't so much "documents signed by NSA/CIA officials" as "an internal powerpoint slide".

Didn't the NSA hack Google's own internal fiber? Why would they need to do that if they had the keys to the kingdom anyway?
Traditionally, DB engines avoid FS specific features like the plague.
This is great for the large numbers of people who don't understand the concept that any form of biometrics is a means of identification, not a password.

I could see this used as part of 2FA, if you don't mind giving away even more of your privacy, but I will never use it.
I don't think you read the comment thoroughly. This is the point.

Also, the discussion is centered around ZFS, there's no reason to bring up LVM. Everyone knows there's many ways to skin this cat and it doesn't make anyone appear any smarter because they know of one way.
I would imagine people who need either more AWS can supply (or cheaper) but cannot pay for it, and also haven't figured out how to run it themselves, to be a very limited set. Happy to be proven wrong though and curious about what you will find out :) Is there a way to keep in loop?
Mapillary is a company that is building crowd sourced street imagery.

They have a reasonably open license (https://www.mapillary.com/legal.html) and allow OSM to extract information from the photos.

Telenav is rolling out something similar.

They don't really come close to StreetView as far as coverage.
One of my favourite lines from the first book :

"The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't."
Hmmm. So Google invented a way to run small Java apps when you go to certain pages in a browser. Why didn't someone think of this before?
That is why this works.
I'm not deliberately live streaming every conversation I have all day onto my feed.
It feels that ad space is in a downward spiral. The more space these companies convert to ads, the less the ads are worth and the more space they need to convert. Instagram in particular seems to really be falling into this cycle.
there used to be a constantly looped broadcast of this on a shoutcast stream, to fully appreciate the genius, I highly recommend listening to it twice in a row, or more! The stream stopped around the same time towel day began :( I've always wondered whether it was respect, or Mr A was running it, after all, he was fairly into this digital stuff :)
This is all happening because of a decision made by Ballmer. Disclosure: MS employee whose wife was a Nokia employee.
Desserts starting with letter N for Android N
That image does show a 7-11 company logo, though.
This is somewhat terrifying. My fear is that a prankster will make the pasted command be `rm -rf / \n'
When it comes to data privacy and security, it's hard to find a more saavy people than the Germans. I wish we had a chaos computer club out in America.
I see this being a lot more important on Chrome OS tbh. Having a "real" app that (close to) instantly downloads and runs using just the bits it needs, in a nicely sandboxed environment is pretty damn cool.

They just need to avoid the ActiveX/Java Applets mistakes and it could be a big threat to Windows.
Your understanding of the point of the theorem is very different to mine, and I'm moderately sure my understanding is pretty close to correct.

It is a fact of mathematics that there are some statements which are solely about finite objects, but to prove them requires reasoning about an infinite object. For a more accessible example than TREE, I think the Ackermann function falls into this category. The Ackermann function A(n+1, m+1) = A(n, A(n+1, m)) is well-defined for all n and m (we prove this by induction over NxN), but the proof relies on considering the lexicographic order on NxN which is inherently infinite. (I'm not totally certain that all proofs of Ackermann's well-definedness rely on an infinite object, but the only proof known to me does.) Ackermann's function itself is in some sense a "finite" object, but the proof of its well-definedness is in some sense "infinite". Whatever the status of my conjecture that "you can't prove that Ackermann's function is well-defined without considering an infinite object", it is certainly a fact that Ackermann is not primitive-recursive, and "primitive-recursive functions" corresponds to the lowest level of the five "mysterious levels" the article talks about.

So the analogy is as follows. Imagine that we knew of this "infinitary" proof that Ackermann is well-defined, but we hadn't proved that no "finitary" proof exists. (So finitists are not happy to use Ackermann, because it might not actually be well-defined according to them: any known proof requires dealing with an infinite object.) Now, this paper comes along and proves that actually a finitary proof exists. Suddenly the finitists are happy to use the Ackermann function.

The actual definition of TREE is a bit too long for me to explain here, but it is an example of a function like Ackermann, which is well-defined, but in fact if you're not allowed to consider infinite objects during the proof then it is provably impossible to prove that TREE is well-defined. So the statement "TREE is well-defined" is, in some sense, "less constructive" or "more infinitary" than R_2^2.
Double Stealth: Some Advice for Marissa Mayer
Do you think it's more likely that they invented a unique id scheme that requires 50 bytes, or that they're using an overly wide datatype for ordinary UUIDs?
Sorry, never heard of creationism being taught in schools around here. Although we do have a replica of Lucy in the towns science museum, and I do have a autographed copy of Dawkin's latest book when he came to talk last fall.
Their point is: the experimental data is most easily explained in terms of a new boson, all (elementary) bosons currently known mediate a force.

A false sillogism, indeed, but that's how you make headlines. And btw doesn't make the discovery any less exciting.
Press partners: Libération (fr) [0], l'Espresso (it) [1], Publico (es) [2] and Médiapart (fr) [3].

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[1] http://espresso.repubblica.it/internazionale/2016/05/25/news...

[2] http://www.publico.es/internacional/cincuenta-paises-dan-vue...

[3] https://www.mediapart.fr/journal/international/250516/libre-...
Your words may predict your future mental health
His bit about wisdom of crowds won't please The DAO fans.
Could the option grant itself be consideration for the waiver? IANAL.
A good gateway drug to Douglas Adams, if you're into talks, may be this great piece of his titled 'Parrots the Universe and Everything' (available on Ted: http://www.ted.com/talks/douglas_adams_parrots_the_universe_...)
They do exist, although at high prices and small sizes: http://www.dasung.com.cn/
> What was the point of this whole exercise? A convoluted way of getting Nokia's masses of IP rights for mobile? Why not just leave Nokia to keep pushing WP?

Nokia only sold their mobile phone arm and licensed the IP. This doesn't seem like the cheapest way to get those licenses.
This is so strange that I have hard time understanding it. :) Sounds like a potential security issues to me.
> Another model is UBI and government as employer of last resort (or a equivalent strong labour movement).

Exactly. It's amazing to me that people claim there just isn't enough work. There is more than enough work -- there's always some way to make the world a better place. And in the USA there are fairly obvious things, from social services (in the broadest sense) to mundane upkeep to large infrastructure improvements.

The problem is that there isn't enough work that's motivated by profit motive in the near-term.
Making the DOM Faster – Anne’s Blog
I'll take security nightmare for 500, Alex.

When I watched this at Google's conference and read the subsequent thread I was extremely surprised to see no real discussion of the security headaches.

Google has added pop-up permissions for particularly sensitive information, but this feature allows a malicious developer to run arbitrary app code on a device without prior user consent so we have to think about security differently.

Or to phase it another way, if app code gets more "free" access then HTML/JS/CSS then it has already been utilised to escalate local access. So people could use it in adverts (e.g. unique IDs, local storage, etc), to try and bypass your proxy/VPN (via the default internet access permissions, resource links, etc), to exploit new bugs in the system/Dalvik/libs, etc.

This reminds me of Flash/Java Applets all over again. Even if you trust Google to do a better job, it is undeniable that this substantially expands the number of attack vectors on Android as a platform.
Bringing seamless checkouts to the mobile web – Google I/O 2016
If you decouple labor (or work, productivity, whatever) from income how do we know who gets what? I can only speak for myself but I wouldn't want to live only at the bare minimum UBI stipend.
Sent email via Reddit, thanks! Can't wait to try it out!
Sure, the Democratic House, Senate and President acted in a somewhat hasty manner to utilize the power that they possessed, but all the complaints about not respecting the process or whatever are dumb.

The press statements made about the Supreme Court confirmation needed right now are a nice illustration of how stupid the process complaints are. Pretty much every person that has made a public statement about what respecting the process means had previously made a public statement taking the opposite of the position that they have taken now.
To derail the discussion even further:

1.)The given audience in any form is always changing. He might have given new information to someone who hasn't seen it before(young,new english speaker, ect)

2.)We are talking about SCIENCE and whats great about SCIENCE is that to do it well requires SKEPTICISM. The article itself even says that the results haven't been confirmed by a different specialized lab. I would be floored if we discovered another fundamental force but like all things we should ANALYZE all points of a subject.
As well as Fawlty Towers I would strongly recommend Ripping Yarns particularly Tomkinson's Schooldays:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ripping_Yarns
Data preparation for trading
Damn, missed it again. I am only glad that Towel Day falls on a Thursday next year... then at least I will have an excuse to not get the hang of it...

As upsetting as the recent death of great musicians and authors have been, no one's death hit me as hard as DNA's did. The thought of no more Svlad Cjelli stories always fills me with sadness.
ZFS (not ZSF) came from Solaris, not BSD.
The Premium plans are (and have always been) "guaranteed ad-free": https://developers.google.com/maps/pricing-and-plans/

Google Maps has had ads for quite some time, (AFAIK) all that's new here is option to use custom logos instead of the old purple pin: https://support.google.com/adwords/answer/3246303?hl=en

Disclaimer: Used to work on Google Maps, but I don't anymore, and I know no more about this launch than what the blog post says.
I've noticed that brit humour seems to appeal to a particular subset of Americans. Not quite sure how to define the ones that appreciate it most, but regardless, it's great to have them in the brit humour appreciation club. Glad to know that someone else out there gets us crazy people, when the rest of the world doesn't. : )
You never thought Apple Maps will be tempting.
It's too bad that VSS is unreliable. If I had a nickel for everytime one of my backups failed due to a VSS writer issue, I'd own Symantec AND EMC. This has been across Win2k/2003/2008. We've been using 2012 for the last year (yeah, old stodgy corporations move slowly), and I haven't seen the same number of errors, but we're also not doing as many client based backups either.
On my machine (ironically an MBP) it does both voice + video.
Thanks for the link to tachyons css. Was just searching for a modular system exactly like this. Plus, great name ;)

http://tachyons.io/
Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Khuj4ASldmU

Repository: https://github.com/manuelruder/artistic-videos
The Higgs is an elementary boson, but it is generally not considered to mediate a force. If it were, it would be a better candidate for the 5th force.
As the phone manufacturers are the same as the danguses adding ads everywhere, the only other option I can think of is to proxy your traffic through another service that does server side ad blocking, and that seems like quite a headache if you want to, for instance, unblock certain content.
I think this is a decent summary. http://stu.mp/2010/02/why-i-hate-the-agpl.html
Japan has had those for quite some time. I presume it's because convenience stores are a really big thing in Japan and there isn't really anything like a universally recognizable generic convenience store sign.
Yes. I am glad I did it in (sort of) order. The radio series, then the books, then the TV series. Loved them all. Jury is still out on the movie - it was OK I guess, but I thought the portrayal of Marvin, Deep Thought, Magrathea etc. were closer to the books/radio and my imagination in the TV series rather than the movie
Or the South Bronx. [1] But, sure, build a bunch of concrete high rises for tech workers on Treasure Island.

[1] https://www.guernicamag.com/features/the-rise-and-fall-of-pu...
Not to forget Blackadder!
“This must be Thursday,' said Arthur to himself, sinking low over his beer. 'I never could get the hang of Thursdays.”
Yes, the entire institution's purpose is to help the FBI. There isn't a single biologist, computer scientist, chemist, or neuroscientist in the entire institution who isn't hell-bent on helping the FBI /s.
You'll get no argument from me here. But I think an erroneous value judgement is what's driving that demand. San Francisco is an incredible place. And a Ferrari is an incredible car. But lots of normal people would be better off realizing they can't afford the Ferrari and buying a Camry. It's not as bad as they think.

And to really strain this metaphor, people who have all their wealth tied up in a Ferrari would be a lot better off if they sold it and used the gains to live a comfortable life.
Robotics narratives: Here, there, and everywhere (robot video)
this article made no sense. It tells 'us' not to pigeonhole or stereotype millennials, and then goes on to pigeonhole and stereotype millennials.

They aren't A, B, or C, because they're X, Y, and Z. they don't fit into this mold, because they fit into that mold. I think they forgot how to newspaper.
Except... http://www.dwheeler.com/trusting-trust/

I think 'nickpsecurity has previously made some interesting remarks on the issue at lower levels...