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Doom, has Denuvo DRM, a very heavy-handed DRM, that is a bit buggy, and has been locking legitimate costumers out of the product, and also blocks many common uses of PC games (Denuvo blocks running the game with custom DLLs, including using Wine, and graphics-altering wrappers, and also blocks any modding that affect the game in-memory binary in any way)

I made a post on Steam, about it, avoiding commenting on piracy, saying only about the problems Denuvo creates for legitimate costumers.

Quickly, got accused of being a pirate.

So I just went ahead, and admitted that I actually own pirated copies of Doom 1 and 2, and explained why, and how I got them (it was very expensive and hard actually), got piled-up by people using many of the most absurd arguments I ever saw, but that I guess are result of never seeing how life in the third world works.

For example, many people asked me if I would steal a car, I replied that yes, if I needed one urgently, I would, gave for example if my mother needed to go to the hospital immediately, I would happily steal a car and drive her there.

Lots of people then replied I am evil, because they would just call 911... and that any argument about third-world emergency services was a lie. (while today we have on the headlines, Brazillian police kidnapped New Zealand Jiu Jitsu champion in Rio de Janeiro and stole 2000 BRL from him, and now he is requesting protection from the NZ embassy).

Also another argument I saw a lot, is that "if you really want it, you work to get it", I mentioned for example a poor kid that might work reselling trash from landfill would want pirated photoshop, and pirated photoshop books, to get a better life working with photoshop.

Lots of people told me that this kid should just get a better job and buy photoshop, or that should work harder to get money to buy photoshop with the current job...

I concluded that many people that defend DRM and is very strongly anti-piracy, don't know how the rest of the world works, that people that are strongly anti-piracy, lived lives where their suggestions: "just move out of the shitty country", or "just get better job", or "just save money", or "just ask help of the government", as things that work, and don't know how it is to be stuck in a country where calling 911 is a good way to get killed, instead of getting help.
I got that from The Register and I agree with their assessment. I can't walk 50 feet without seeing someone with their face buried in their phone, even while they are walking around town, oblivious to the world around them.

It actually reminds of an episode of Star Trek the Next Generation where the ship was commandeered after the crew were "drugged" by a hypnotic game. I believe the episode was "The Game".
and so they could "get it working"
According to the issues he asked for and received permission, so there is no copyright violation.
Ha, such a smart way of introducing web design for a novice. Nice work homie!
It's hard to say, but one can often find people switching from Postgres to MySQL (and vice-versa). For example, see this [0] and the related HN discussion [1].

[0] http://insights.dice.com/2015/03/19/why-i-choose-postgresql-...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9231751
Levine's daily Money Talk is always a quick recap of current events, with frequent refs to prior columns. It's not supposed to be a coherent article with a theme. Think of it like the entire WSJ biz/tech/money/investing sections condensed into one article.

I'm not saying its your fault for not knowing this, though. It's a confusing thing to see on the homepage of HN.
The casualty numbers are out there.. no need for "seems"

Anti-coup casualties: 161 civilians and police officers

Pro-coup casualties: 104 military

I'm no fan of Erdogan's "reforms" after the coup, but there's no need to alter the narrative in favour of a preferred agenda.
"You are saying your right to access the content is more important than their rights, it's pretty simple."

Not exactly; I'm saying the benefits to society as a whole offered by the post-scarcity nature of data on the Internet (infinitely copiable with negligible cost) is so large that, in my opinion, their right to decide who should access the content is far less important and so should be ignored.

It certainly sucks for them; and it certainly means that we need to think about new models to finance content creation (since we are living in a definitely scarcity-based society in real life, for now at least); but there you go.

And you say they are the "owner" of the content; given the current laws, yes, "they" usually posess the content. But the "they" in question is very often great industry behemoths constructed on the old, physical model of distribution; regularly offering incredibly bad deals to content creators.

As I said, when a content creator distributes its content directly or with a non-DRM intermediary (such as GoG) - and I consider, for example, both netflix and steam as little more than new forms of DRM - then I always pay for it. I pay for it because we still don't have a new model allowing free distribution of data while providing incentives for content creators (a global licence mechanism or something similar - easier said than done), and so I see it as a compromise in the meantime. It also encourages those new means of distribution.
The connection handling section was surprising to me, reading that Postgres uses a process per connection! This is pretty shocking to me, in a bad way.
I worked a company what made a popular CAE (Computer Aided Engineering) package. It was really fun to see the connection between physics, material science, mechanical engineering, and software development all in one place.

As an intern I remember being fascinated by the ability to build a part, generate a mesh, assign a material to it, assign forced to some parts of it, "solve it" and then watch it deform.

It was also fun to use Irix, AIX, HP UX, and SunOS, but the switch to Windows had already started. It is funny to think that at some point, Unix workstation were the top graphics workstations available...
Precisely. The post even reads like a story more than a problem description.

I don't even think it's a bad growthhack move. Certainly seen worse.
Also that circa-1993 desktop connected to the T1 line is the payroll system. Do not touch it!
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Hi, company lawyer here. Sorry if that sounded dismissive. You're completely right that there's a right of first refusal built somewhere into most stock issuances to team members. They vary in who holds the right, the range of transactions that trigger the right, exceptions to the right, and how it operates. Accordingly, we look at the paperwork for each company and each shareholder in order to structure a transaction that works, if possible.
No reason to use an old camera metaphor. Apple uses it for iOS Camera app though.
We designed Flynn to be easy to install and use and for it to take care of itself as much as possible. Users generally get up and running and manage issues on their own.

Most current users (from individual developers to large organizations) haven't needed or wanted commercial support contracts. The offering is there for organizations who need significant help and/or an absolute guarantee that they'll be able to reach us at any hour of the day, every day of the year.
It's fascinating to imagine it being possible and affordable for a specified minimum number of people to launch a sustainable ecosystem into space and never be seen/heard from again.
Many cities replaced those dead elms with ash trees lining the streets, and now they're facing a similar plight with the emerald ash borer.
It just means the Sutherland/Meyer Wheel of Reincarnation is in full effect.
Wow, this is such a detailed analysis. Having used Postgres and suffered issues with data replication as well as database crashes, this post was really helpful.
Yep, getting a strong back (from pull type movements, as well as squats and deadlifts) has improved my posture more than anything else. Another to look into is weak/mis-firing glutes (from sitting all the time). Apparently planks (of a certain kind where you squeeze your glutes as well) help for that.

http://www.romphysicaltherapy.ie/best-exercises-to-strengthe...
I just googled and it seems like the users have moved over to https://www.epublibre.org/foro/

On the front page it shows a warning about how applications for editor are closed due to having too many. So it seems the community is still alive and well. Here's their documentation as an epub (in Spanish): https://www.epublibre.org/libro/detalle/2398
If you did not want "to purchase or rent " legally why is it ok to do it illegally? Is it that you did not purchase or rent it because you knew that you could simply steal it?
Historically speaking, the only reason anyone "owns" media is due to literally hundreds of years of lobbying. Books, stories, and songs were all once free to copy. This is the nature of religious books, fairy tales, and folk songs.

Ethically speaking, "ownership" has a tenuous position. I find it easier to argue that ownership is a construct of society than it is an innate part of anything. That means it's flexible to what society decides. Right now, on this issue, that's definitely in flux.

From a utilitarian perspective, it's really pretty weird too. Ignoring economics for a second (that's my next point), it is probably better for all society to have information free of barriers. A lot more people can enjoy it if more people have access, particularly when the cost of copy and distrubution is so cheap.

Economically it costs a LOT of money though. HBO would not produce game of thrones without being able to get said money back. And they're only going to put as much money into it as they expect to get back. Why don't we have more CGI dragons? because HBO, while rich, is not an endless supply of money. and CGI dragons are really expensive. Yes, to reiterate the point, if HBO had enough money we'd have more dragons.

And as for the cost? $15/month for one show is actually VERY reasonable. Remember it costs millions of dollars to produce - just that one show. Even if you don't watch any other show you are still getting more than your money's worth. If you do watch other shows (And I highly recommend it), it's still easily worth your money. BTW, Netflix, HuluPlus, etc are also all worth their relative costs relative to what you get out of them.
Rust is wonderful, but inference is actually one of its weakest points. It has only one feature that's incompatible with global inference (multiple types can have methods with the same name), but sadly that's enough to require you to manually annotate `Foo<Bar<Qux<T>>, Herp<Derp<U>>>`s in a lot of places. Rust arranges things so that these places are often, but not always, function type signatures.

In Haskell and ML, you can write tricky recursive functions without annotating a single type at all. Often, I couldn't even infer the type on my own in a reasonable amount of time! (By which I mean “under 5 seconds”, since my patience for these things is rather limited.) The type checker does it for me.
Kubernetes didn't exist when we started, so we ended up building our own scheduling system and management APIs. So it wouldn't really be "adding" support, instead we'd need to switch several layers of the system to be Kubernetes instead of our code.

We're watching Kubernetes, it's possible that doing that change will make sense at some point in the future.
How'd you make it transparent?
I feel like this might be going off topic, and maybe you can't discuss the specifics anyhow, but do you mean very competitive with the existing AR0/AR1 board pricing? The only Cavium-based systems I'm seeing are the full server machines, and those are listing 3 40Gbps and 4 10Gbps ethernet ports, plus the rest. That board can't possibly come in anywhere near $1000, can it? I'll be keeping my eyes open for sure, but I'm also eager to learn more :)
> Since when is asking for actual reasons ("I don't like it because I don't like it" is not a valid opinion, in my eyes) a "high horse".

Saying things like your opinion is worth less than nothing, being all sanctimonious about being able to "defend" the position, and acting like you're somehow the arbiter of what worth is, is what I was referring to by high horse.

> That's a very subjective opinion.

It's not at all subjective. MAS is an entire platform. A .dmg is just a .dmg.

..defensible? why is there even a need to "defend" a position? I, along with others, prefer to avoid the MAS when possible. period. fact. end of discussion. there's nothing more to say. I very rarely pirate software so that has nothing to do with it. it's just a personal preference. deal with it.
> Maybe the "old Apple" was happy giving out xx% of their sales for a bit of ideological reasons, but the one needs to find growth where it can?

When Apple first put forth their ideology it -was- new and shiny. It worked in their favor. I agree with you that now it's "boring" and "old."
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CD Project is perhaps the best video game company ever. They have earned all the praise they get.
I would rather they didn't manipulate or censor their leaks. I'm sure I'm not alone in that.
Which most of that is. The vast majority of developers are on salary, which means that 4 AM emergency fix and crunch time are effectively free.
Government, laws, science, technology, management? Do all those things appear in nature without our initiative? They seem to be made by humans.

I don't really know. Ultimately you can argue that everything happening in the universe is natural, but I would make a difference between things created by intelligent creatures and the things that appears with natural selection. That doesn't involve intelligent design.
> What if you believe the tautological kernel at the core of Marxism is what causes communism ("as implemented") to always run off the rails, and become an oppressive authoritarian state?

What if I believe the Sun rises in the West and sets in the East?

If you mean to provide a reason that I should believe the thing you suggest, perhaps an argument and/or evidence supporting that proposition would be in order.
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Pseudonymous identities with reputations and decentalised webs of reputation would be the solution in the old school spirit. But since things like Google and Facebook are financed by ads and trade of personally identifiable information, the incentives don't really align.
You are assuming that everyone agrees copyright is a good thing...
Because it disagrees with the ethical principles someone might want to live their life by.
If you use someone's property without authorization, but don't intend to deprive them of it permanently, that indeed in most jurisdictions is not theft, that is criminal conversion.

It's really not that difficult, you can simply look up what these terms mean instead of inventing your own definitions. "Depriving someone of money" is not the definition of theft. And it not only isn't, it would be a braindead definition if it were. Suddenly, buying from your competitor would be theft. Accidentally dropping your dishes would be theft. Pretty much everything would be theft under that definition.
while Postgress might be better if you use it 'as-is'....
community of MySQL is much better and the tools available are more mature...
just goes on to prove that even if something is not-that-good..
it still might be successful,scalable and popular if there is a strong community behind it..
> Without reading people can't do anything, without emacs most developers manage to work happily.

Illiterate children are quite happy, too — they have no idea of the worlds which open up before them when they can read. They literally don't know what they are missing.

So too for people not using a powerful editor.
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pgbouncer works pretty well for that. I kinda wish it was part of the default Postgres install.
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If your day is only 50% productive, then clearly working only 4 hours a day would make you 100% productive! Only it doesn't work that way. Unless you have laser focus, most people can't pick and choose the times that they are productive. Rather, they show up for 8 hours and warm up getting into things, then are productive for a while, get interrupted, think about that whole lunch thing, eventually get back into a productive mood, then gradually wind down and think about leaving work. Net result might be 4 hours of productive work, but it's interspersed with unproductivity.
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Quality is multi-dimensional.
Fyi... a related (not duplicate) discussion of a previous Uber story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10923848
OTOH, it's important to consider that most places are not and will never be "unicorns", so analyzing things at that scale may not make sense. Just because Facebook managed to make something work doesn't mean that you should follow the same path.
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OP is kidding, I can identify the first statement as the pre-quantum ultraviolet catastrophe argument where everything warmer than absolute zero should emit one single honkin big gamma ray and drop back to absolute zero, whereas in practice blackbody radiation doesn't go to infinity with short wavelengths but goes to a peak (for example "red hot steel")

What I can't identify by name is the philosophical arguments in the other statements.

I'm about 90% sure one is a metaphysical Copenhagen interpretation of QM (You've heard of Heisenberg's lucky cat?) but I'm not as certain as the UV catastrophe analogy. Depends how you read it, I guess.
I work in the US and get 4 weeks of vacation a year, but I wouldn't take it all at once in the summer. My kids are in school and schools close for 3 weeks during the normal school year - one between Christmas and New Years, one in February and one in April. The Christmas to New Years week coincides with 4 of the days my office is closed (Christmas eve and day, New years eve and day), so I can take 2 to 3 days off and be home for that stretch. That leaves about a week and a half in the summer for a summer vacation. If you're taking 4 weeks in the summer, do you not take time at all the rest of the year? Do schools in your country not have vacations?
Related: epochs and lockfree data structures in crossbeam https://aturon.github.io/blog/2015/08/27/epoch/
visited the museum a few years ago. We watched a film and when it was over, the father archeologist who discovered the steamboat and unearthed it was there to greet us. Really amazing museum. Behind a few booths you can watch them still cleaning and documenting items found in the wreckage decades later.
I like release announcements that explain in the very first sentence what this piece of software does. Thank you.
so you're pulling one line from the article to tell me that i'm wrong?

on-disk format/write amplification:
> For tables with a large number of secondary indexes, these superfluous steps can cause enormous inefficiencies. For instance, if we have a table with a dozen indexes defined on it, an update to a field that is only covered by a single index must be propagated into all 12 indexes to reflect the ctid for the new row.

How wide is their data? Depending on the answer to this, it could be that they've over-indexed, have a poor indexing strategy, or are reacting to the poor queries generated by an ORM (not sure if they use one, or if they hand-code their own SQL).

data corruption: everyone has bugs. https://bugs.mysql.com/search.php?search_for=&status=Active&...
add in mysql's tendency to loosely-adhere to the SQL standard and there are many ways that you can actually corrupt your own data.

i'm not here to debate whether postgres is better than mysql. i'm just saying that it seems like a lot of research went into justifying a switch. who knows, maybe that research could have been spent optimizing their current environment.
You're getting closer, but for the analogy to work then you had consent from the dealership, and the car manufacturer is suing both of you.

Except you're not actually being sued by the manufacturer either, you're actually being sued by the manufacturer's delivery company.
I like the strong mission statement "it might be worth..."
Aside from the Overdrive 1000 as already mentioned by others: http://softiron.co.uk/products/, there is the LeMaker Cello forthcoming (which was supposed to have already shipped but...) available for pre-order here: http://www.lenovator.com/product/103.html
Beautiful. Personally, I would've probably stopped at the "Custom font" step (I don't really like header images and the share buttons) to keep it simple, but hey that's just me.

Nice work!
Yes, mixing languages is a pro's version of this. Earn 10 points for every language and 20 points extra for every interface between them.
Macro languages like XML do count.

Additionally do some build system breakage with automatically partially generated code for extra credit.

Of course if you create some DSL or XML, never include schema or any kind of documentation that is not the parser.

And absolute worst: include optimizrd binary only code - no documentation and sources. Reverse engineering is fun!
MySQL can hardly be described as shiny new toy. The peak of its hype cycle was around 2001
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Some data stores (Mongo, CouchDB) do support in-place updating of JSON objects
Do you have any specific beginner's routines you'd recommend? I was doing 5x5, which has pulls in the form of barbell rows and deadlifts; I don't know if that's sufficient.
We have the equations, its the computing power that is the limiting factor. You can do a full DNS (direct numerical simulation) of fluids on the order of a few cubic meters. That will simulate flow to the particle, and fully turbulent, with Reynolds numbers (Re) on the order of 10^6 (IIRC). Re goes up proportional to length scale, so if you want to do a km or so, multiply this by 10^2.

This is way ocean models parameterize turbulence (large eddy simulations (LES), and Reynolds Averaged Numerical Simulation (RANS) for example). It's also why observational oceanography is still done.