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While I'm mostly in favour of EME, I'm sceptical that it wouldn't be possible to strong-arm big content into providing content without DRM. Digital music has transitioned to being sold DRM-free. TV is broadcast DRM-free and can be copied with widely available technology. BBC iPlayer recently launched a HTML5 beta which doesn't use encrypted media extensions. YouTube doesn't use EME for the music videos available on there.

As long as users can't right-click and select "save video" (not possible on any video using DASH) it will still be easier to torrent things.
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> Even on the DRM front, the situation was no better in the past when you had to use Flash or Silverlight for DRM.

The situation was a lot better when you needed Flash or Silverlight, the browser was not broken by design. And you could run a browser without an encrypted bi-directional channel outside of the user's control. (Which incidentally is the argument with which I got the security section into the EME standard.)

On your argument, that content producers are not stupid. I am not claiming that, but their situation with or without DRM is exactly the same; anybody who wants the movie for free can easily find a torrent, anybody who wants a legal stream pays Netflix. The only reason for DRM is, that they want a answer when their shareholders ask what is done against piracy. That is basically the definition of bullshit, a technical standard with a sole non-technical purpose.

The reason free software is winning (Android has a Linux kernel, OS X is based on a BSD, Apache and Nginx run most of the web, etc.) is that the free software ecosystem is quite resistant against this kind of bullshit. Free software developer do what is technically right most of the time, while proprietary software developers have to deal with that kind of market forces all the time. And because of that, we get better software and at some point the market forces are such, that companies switch to the superior, that is the open, product.
If I can have variables + nesting I'm basically good too.
You can have both nesting and variables when using cssnext. See http://cssnext.io/features/#nesting and http://cssnext.io/features/#custom-properties-var. Variables in future CSS are called "custom properties".

I think cssnext is the way to go, just the same way Babel or Traceur is the way to go for JavaScript. Writing in the standard syntax makes your code portable and reusable.
Because distributing boxes is orders of magnitude more expensive than distributing over the existing infrastructure (the internet).
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There will be some way to opt out of EME though, so the presence of the channel outside of user control isn't any different than with flash.

(Hopefully something better than running a fork, but that option is there.)
CPU interrupts aren't too bad in a kernel, because a kernel is built around the idea of frequently switching task, so one more kind of switching isn't a big deal. Also, when the kernel asks the CPU to do something (like write to memory), the CPU will generally wait until the task is complete, or reaches some convenient checkpoint, before stopping and jumping to the interrupt vector.

On the other hand, most programs aren't designed for context switching, so the design overhead of dealing with signals is significant. Furthermore, signals can arrive at any time, even during a syscall, and while it's possible to do reliable I/O in the face of random interruptions, it's quite tricky.
> what are you worried about?

It is said to be similar to chromes. And chrome doesn't support real extensions like tree style tabs etc.

Happy if you can tell me I am misinformed.
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I think idlewords saying he did nothing is a little tongue-in-cheek disingenuous... shooting his mouth off on Twitter is super effective marketing, and absolutely vital the first year of subscription renewals.
1) I really don't mind BGA as long as the pitch isn't too fine and you're using a stencil.

A stencil made the biggest difference for me! I had always tried to save money in the past and just apply paste with a syringe but it's not worth it at all if you have tiny parts.

Once the paste is in place, you can drop tiny parts on quite easily.

Here's what I use for working with tiny parts, including BGA and 0402:

- stencils - they're cheap from oshstencils.com

- high quality fine-point tweezers

- 10x loupe - it's cheap and works very well for inspection

- hot air station - this is a great way to solder everything down without touching

- hot plate - I use this for preheating 6-layer boards to about 200c since they're hard to solder if you have pours

That's it! It's really only a $200-$300 investment for the basic stuff needed to do prototypes in-house.

Here's a time-lapse of me assembling something with BGA and 0402:

https://vimeo.com/168423683
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Your comment history is filled with references to whatever Sublevel is, if you're affiliated you should be disclosing that in your comments. Additionally, a Twitter competitor has nothing to do with the current conversation unless it's also widely used by public figures to broadcast to millions of people.
We didnt need twitter, mainstream TV series (subs, alternatywy 4) and movies (mis, co mi zrobisz jak mnie zlapiesz) pretty much celebrated Polish ingenuity in the face of economic reality :/ examples:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qWnnuaSS4k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37A9YAhNPyI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqiXby24Yvo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57r5dqtnyAU

You can even play a monopoly inspired board game designed to educate about life with constant queues https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolejka_(game)
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That's a great hack and some wonderful advice for having the tools at hand. Thanks!!
Correct. I feel that Touch ID is security snake oil.
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> Not just not obvious, also expensive and quite a PITA to set up.

Unless you have petabytes of storage, a very slow internet connection, or need to operate at an enterprise scale, this really hasn't been true for years:

1. Go to CrashPlan.com
2. Download and run the installer
3. Pay your choice of nothing to $12.50/month depending on how many computers you have and whether you choose to backup to their cloud, a friend's computer, an external drive, or any combination of the three.

1. Go to Backblaze.com
2. Download and run the installer
3. Pay $5/month

1. Pick one of the many AWS Glacier backup tools
2. Set a minimum retention policy in Glacier
3. Pay for your total storage usage

The key part is the use of a service for which you do not have admin rights and which has some sort of minimum retention period. Even Dropbox has that now.
This has a lot to do with PR and how it relates to research and development funding. The root problem is that, with regards to funding (as far as I can tell), a headline in a popular newspaper or popular-science magazine is worth orders of magnitude more than a peer-reviewed paper in a journal. This will be a problem for all of the sciences in the near future, as long as there are differing tracks of research being explored.

The scientific method dictates that something should be ideally explored until it's dis-proven. Unfortunately, the realities of limited R&D funding dictate that only the most popular, or public, research tracks tend to attract the funding. This has a carry-on effect in that new students in these fields are forced to go into the most popular fields of study, lest they not get funding.

WRT string theory, have a look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Trouble_with_Physics . I'm not sure I 100% agree with Lee Smolin on this (he has a definite axe to grind), but the points he raises are equally applicable to any field of contentious, or cutting edge research.

Solving this is difficult. Obviously education of the general populous will help, but in lieu of this, perhaps we need mandated percentages of funding to each viable research track (a solution rife with problems of it's own).

In any case, this is a hard problem to solve, and will certainly cause problems in many areas of fundamental research in the future.
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To be clear, I believe that this means that the new service will reinstate the old user database meaning that users who had premium before will regain that status. However, this does not mean that old files that were stored with the original Megaupload will be reinstated.
Like an FBI gag order?
That doesn't make sense. I can't see anything Delicious could offer Pinboard, aside from the domain name.

I really hope that doesn't happen. Pinboard is perfect.
I would be surprised if Firefox and possible Chromium didn't have a feature flag for it.
HTMLElement.dataset is string-typed, so storing arbitrary intermediate data on nodes is clumsy

I use dataset extensively. Once each DOM element is assigned a unique key id, many things get simplified: DOM manipulation, client server state sync, event handling, etc. Now if an additional data layer can resolve key id to semantic metadata, the only problem left would be to expose that data so third parties can read from it. So, the problem could be solved with three data points: url, dom key and the resolved metadata value.

What's really needed isn't a new protocol or set of rules and conditions. OpenGraph probably works just fine. It's a dedicated global database of metadata. A web white pages directory. As OpenGraph is perhaps dominant, it may make sense for someone like Facebook to provide this. Historically, third party non-profit services have not been popular.

All of this is of course contingent on the assumption that content hosters provide that metadata to begin with ;)
If this were widely deployed, ransomware authors would just study it and work around it.
Ask HN: Should i stay as a freelancer or start an agency
I run a successful freelancing business, i have enough work to keep me busy, and even more work than i can handle. As it stands my work has no expenses, and my country encourages businesses that bring in foreign currency, so i'm exonerated from any sort of tax. Been thinking lately of starting my own agency, hire a few people rent a big office... the whole nine yards.

I'm used to keeping 100% of my income, but if starting an agency will help me grow, i don't mind making the change. I'll still be exonerated from tax, but i'll have office rent, employees payments...

What do you think? Should i make the change? And why yes, or no!
You have to be careful how you define 'lazy' in this case. Suppose a developer just quickly writes code that fixes the current problem, but doesn't care about the consequences long term, or doesn't fix the underlying problem - not good.

Now, if you define 'lazy' as someone who will go to great lenghts to not do boring tasks in the future, yes, I completly agree :)
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Since they're using what looks like a fork of darcs named pijul, they could probably use darcsweb, which is a slightly older Python 2x web front-end:

https://blitiri.com.ar/p/darcsweb/

Example repo:

http://www.divineinvasion.net/darcsweb/darcsweb.cgi

Darcs was/is a really nice vcs and I'm kinda sad it didn't catch on more.
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Tim Berners-Lee loves to wax poetic on the evolution of our mental model of what's important and what we consider to be the nodes in the computing graph:

TCP/IP: "It's not the wires, it's the computers!"

HTTP/HTML: "It's not the computers, it's the documents!"

Semantic Web (/Fathom): "It's not the documents, it's the things that they are about!"

https://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Abstractions.html

I look forward to the day when the idea of discrete, atomic documents is finally abstracted away in the same manner that we abstracted away the physical machines that host them.
Thanks for the outline. I guess it's time for me to get off my butt and actually set up some automated backups beyond Dropbox and Github (which, combined, store about 90% of files that are actually important for me) :).
Right, though there are other examples of secrecy orders too, for example:
https://www.wired.com/2013/04/gov-secrecy-orders-on-patents/
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Just playing devils advocate here, but what I just read was "I got awesome stability and a good paycheck, and while that part of my career wasn't all that interesting I had plenty of time to do other interesting stuff with almost zero risk."
I agree. I'm on the same boat, and despite what idlewords is saying, I can't understand not making even the most basic changes, like when you click the title, it goes to the link, not to something else that never works (like the permalink on delicious), and adding bookmarks.

I think delicious really shined when their focus was on making adding bookmarks easy. It had a Firefox add-on in which you just had to CTRL+D to save that bookmark. Now, you need a bookmarklet (what is this, 2006?) since the extension has been removed a long time ago.
I wished pinboard's focus was on it, it's not that hard. Currently I'm using an extension which has no keyboard shortcut, and after saving a bookmark, it's unclear whether you saved it or not, since it's showing a blank page.
Didn't really get. What do you mean?
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Title.
Extensions are a form of vendor lock in, Google were killing Mozilla in that space because:

- network effects (chrome is more popular than ff)

- chrome extensions are so much easier to write than XUL ff extensions

Now webextensions are implemented in FF, it's incredibly easy to port extensions across (I ported one earlier this week, took about 20 minutes!)

Tree style tabs and all that jazz aren't going away yet.

It's a killer move from Mozilla and makes FF a first class citizen of the web again.
I'm surprised it's "nearly silent". I would have thought that the rotors, not the engine, were the bulk of an plane's noise.
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You're not the devil's advocate here. I remember talking about EME on here before and when it was being spec'd. The general attitude was, "I hate DRM! ...but then again, I DO like netflix!" It was pathetic to watch people sacrifice their principles just because they liked the convenience of netflix. Everyone who did that will regret it eventually.

20 years from now we'll all be reminiscing about the days when the web was still open. We'll kick ourselves for folding on this issue in just because we wanted to watch some throwaway movies on netflix.

Secondly, who cares whether netflix gets the rights to stream movies? That's their problem, not mine. Instead of finding a better solution, they make it everyone else's problem by pushing EME and shoehorning DRM into html.
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In a nutshell, why do a lot of developers dislike Agile?
Can you restate your argument more clearly please? I'd like to respond, but you're not making it easy.
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Location: Kiev, Ukraine

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Probably

Technologies: Elixir, SQL, Ruby, Ruby on Rails.

Résumé/CV: https://ua.linkedin.com/in/gmile

Email: iamexile@gmail.com

GitHub: http://github.com/gmile (as of lately: small contributions to few Elixir libs, Phoenix and Elixir lang itself).

Worked on ~10 big and small Rails projects over the course of 6 years. Went on sabbatical for a few months to clean head from Ruby on Rails. Time has come for a change: willing to work on something using Elixir programming language. Ok to work using Phoenix framework, if needed be.

I like SQL and low level server stuff. Can do HTML/CSS/JS only if needed be.

Fluent spoken & written english. Degree in Applied Mathematics.

My website (updated casually): http://gmile.me/
I don't quite understand why is this useful, but someone could turn it into a browser extension.
I would expect this exact same outcome being Sweden. Being a country with a very good social safety net and low income inequality it stands to reason that a big increase in wealth wouldn't affect the health care and education of children since that role is already well taken care of by society.

It would be more interesting to see this study in a county with low social net and great income inequality like the USA or in a poor county.
'This is on your permanent record'

Something like http://tweet2cite.com/ is very handy in these cases. If there ever is going to be a Twitter v2 it should be block-chain powered and thus impossible to rewrite history.

Blockchain is going to disallow Orwell's 1984 from happening.
> The SDK situation is a mess compared to AWS. Google's complicated style of authentication is particularly onerous on developers.

How so? For us, the JS SDK for GCP has been way better than AWS's, and authentication "just works" if you're running from within GCP. With AWS we hit a pesky, wide-spread bug with random authentication failures [0] that hasn't been addressed in almost a year.

[0] https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-js/issues/692
Pinterest is a significantly different model, with an emphasis on saving visual items (and selling a user's selection choices to advertisers). It's not particularly suited for bookmarking of text/code heavy articles.
this exists, but isn't free. I often use commercial software to generate component footprints
Carte Blanche collection of data with no oversight, no ability to appeal, no ability to even discuss that they've been forced to comply at the direction of a political appointee.

Remind me how we are a free country again /s.
So the cheapest degree you can get is a diploma mill that will mail you a degree for $100, no class required. Is this really what you want?
The primary concerns I have, which I left Firefox over, are:

- Dropping XUL breaks backwards compatability and it seems Mozilla is willing to break it before they provide adequate replacement APIs

- The design of the new addon signature requirements turns AMO into a walled garden and I very much do not appreciate that
It is for me.
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a cursory google search shows that apparently qlink has been reverse engineered ( http://orrtech.us/qlink/index.html ). I wonder if this would help them...
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The fallacy of that argument is assuming that tool X being able to build artifact Y means that X is "sane". The only thing this says is that tool X is able to build Y, nothing more and nothing less. For instance, I could easily implement a tool which is only capable to build `yesod`, and only `yesod`. Would that be a "sane" build-tool?
I think we should lay the blame for that with source-based compilation systems.
Awesome that seems pretty good validation
This is what I make of the situation:

- Foo tweets

- Bar takes a snapshot of Foo's tweet

- Foo deletes tweet

- Bar displays Foo's deleted tweet on own website

Twitter tells Bar to shut up.

(Twitter would, however, continue to store the deleted tweet. It wouldn't display it, though.)
Good luck with that. People have weak passwords on lots of systems, it is quite often not possible to separate using a weak password and having an account compromised from having a password shared.

So essentially, now having a weak password is a federal crime.

And that's besides password re-use which frequently leads to accounts on all kinds of systems being compromised.

I understand what the judge is trying to achieve (to make sure that one 'buyer' of a netflix subscription equates to one consumer) but the side-effects of this ruling are considerable and very wrong.
Yes you can. I do

freshclam

to update the virus DB and then

clamscan -iorz /

to scan the system.

(see `man clamscan` for the flags)
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According to this[1] it's a 350HP electric motor.

[1]: https://youtu.be/T_9-V73nT1k
No they wouldn't. YouTube doesn't use EME, at least for user-generated content.
OT, but as an iOS user, I found my Pinboard usage went way up after buying the 4.99 Pinner app...I've always had a bit of trouble with bookmarklets...being able to add things via iOS actions ended up being a huge convenience for me but YMMV. http://pinnerapp.net/

Main complaint is that it's not from Maciej but the author seems committed to keeping it stable with improvements.
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You might be fine simply with Dropbox since they added an extended history plan which seems perfect for this:

https://www.dropbox.com/en/help/113

The main thing I'd worry about is locking down your default browsing profile & otherwise making it less likely to be compromised in the first place. I would imagine for most people on HN, the greatest inconvenience would be dealing with the mess if malware got access to your employer/customer's servers, data, etc. That's harder (e.g. rigidly separate accounts or computers, reducing the amount of access you operate with normally, etc.) but avoiding that mess is worth it.
Without DRM how would movie studios agree to letting you watch their movies on TV?
You can (or could when I used it) but it's coded to ignore some files. MP3 was the one I wanted to scan but couldn't.
Try standing next to one even at low rpm. Rotor noise becomes a factor at high rpm, but then the engine still is noisy itself. As a private pilot, small-aircraft engines are noisy as f... Among the reasons: No development at all for about two decades when the small-aircraft market was down (which is why you see so many built decades ago, then a big gap, and only in the late 1990s new developments started to come to market). Other reason, but it's part of the first one (due to the costs involved): being conservative. If you only have one engine and you have a very reliable one, that's what you keep using. Especially when the costs of developing something new and getting it approved - and you have to repeat that in different regions with different government agencies - are very high.

It is true though, when a propeller airplane flies overhead you get significantly more noise when it is directly perpendicular, when you get the most noise from the propellers.

Jet engines had a significant positive development in this area. On the small Livermore (CA) airport I had the chance to compare two small jets, an old one and a new one. The old one made me cover my ears. The new one - less noise than a Cessna, quite amazing.

In this context, an anecdote, but about noise on the inside: I always thought sitting in a glider would be quiet. It is - if you keep the little window shut. But then the cabin heats up too much (at least flying in California). I was very disappointed about my 1 hour in a glider.

On the other hand, sitting inside a small airplane the noise from the engine is significant and a big reason why you really want that active noise-cancelling headset.

I can relate to this pilot (except that if he had used a good headset he could have had it much easier): http://www.askthepilot.com/small-plane-misery/

Tip: When flying in a small piston-powered airplane, always bring a good isolating headset, or ear plugs (or even both!). The movies are lying, those cockpits are as noisy as... I can't think of an equivalent, but it's on an "industrial level". Noise is a major stress factor in small aircraft aviation, as you could see from that pilot's article.
Related XKCDs:

https://xkcd.com/1205/

https://xkcd.com/1319/

https://xkcd.com/974/
further google-fu shows https://github.com/ssalevan/qlink and https://github.com/jasmaz/qlink but it looks like http://www.lyonlabs.org/commodore/qlink/ they really do need the original qlink software to continue the work
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