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Would you like to provide a definition? I don't understand what you are saying.
The reason for DRM is to make casual piracy harder. Piracy will always exist, but if it goes beyond a certain point, it can disrupt and destroy the value of a created work. Creative work as it is is already devalued to the point where you are better off investing the hours spent into working at Mcdonalds and reaping a wage from that. If it gets prominent enough, things could get even worse.

I mean, if all you make from a novel is a $5,000 advance for a years labor, and you find that not only can you not rely on ebook sales to earn that out, the pirated copy cannibalizes print sales too, it's not a good thing right?
Exactly. Wikipedia is full of disclaimers about the differences also. The issue is just with word usage that continues to fuse the two, where is reality any direct correlation ended ages ago.
Wouldn't it make more sense to build a gigantic pipeline from Oregon/Washington to California?
The real coup will happen when energy storage catches up with wind/solar production. The biggest problem with wind/solar, imho, is that they don't map well to how the electrical grid works. Power is produced by the sun shining and the wind blowing, whether or not that matches consumption. The doesn't well match the baseline + peak load model that currently drives the grid (and maps well to highly stable sources like nuclear and coal).

Once storage becomes common and cheap, the grid can be stabilized. Take advantage of cheap production (sun is shining, wind is blowing) and store the surplus, then feed the stored surplus back into the grid when the plants aren't producing. It's a whole different model, one that can support highly optimized computerized pricing and arbitrage. It will maximize the performance cycles of solar/wind.
Why couldn't they compete?
During driver on-boarding Lyft trains drivers to converse with passengers, while Uber actively discourages it. This is the dynamic you're picking up on, and to me it plays out clearly in the customer space. I prefer a quiet ride, therefore I choose Uber, but I know plenty of people like you who prefer the conversation.

I think currently its a good differentiator for Lyft but Uber's preparing us for our driverless future.
"A likely extremely highly paid employee"

We're talking about startups, aren't we? A group of companies who are notorious for paying well below market wages because the promise of stock is supposed to make up for it?

And who cares how "well paid" they are? How does that change things one bit? Here, tell me the exact dollar amount one can make where they can no longer complain about wrong treatment at work. And tell me why it's not ok to treat someone like that at one point, but pay them one dollar more, and suddenly it is ok.

"It is extremely likely if they ask the company for information necessary to value those stock options, they would get it."

Except the whole point is that the company isn't giving it to them.

"How is this person a victim exactly?"

Because they are not being treated fairly by the company.

"If an employee doesn't want any risk in their compensation, they should reject stock options in favor of salary."

That's not the situation at all, and you know it.

"If they decide to take stock options there is always going to be risk, not only due to the information risk we are talking about but because the future is uncertain even to people with all the relevant information."

Except right now you're advocating that the risk be artificially exacerbated due to not getting that information.
I've found that I can tell my team, sorry my brain isn't working anymore, there's no point in staying any later, and they understand.

Actually when I tried telling my manager that, he answered, why are you telling me this, I don't care what hours you work, as long as you get the job done.
I can't help it feel that more effort will go into mitigating Zika if adult males are at risk.
i've gone through multiple ones myself, the e-ink screen is the big failure point.
Google is in a really interesting spot:

- They own a significant stake in Uber via GV (formerly Google Ventures)

- They own Google Maps, which everyone relies on at the moment

- They own the most advanced self driving car and are closest to Level 4 autonomy

- They own Waze, and have a significant community there

In my mind they should acquire Lyft, let it run as is. Then when they are ready to go primetime with their self driving cars, start piloting them as a cheaper/free option within the Lyft app. If the pilot works, expand the cars nationwide and aggressively finance the fleet using their balance sheet.
Honestly, that's all this argument ever boils down to.

"I don't use CCs because I have no self-control"

It's also easily solvable by getting a credit card with a low transaction limit (say, $1000), but people who have no self-control generally aren't interested in solutions.
Isn't transportation a "commodity" service? And if so, how can Uber's and Lyft's valuation be explained then?

I'm not an economist, but I would predict that the future of personal transportation is going to look like a race to the bottom, just like what is happening to cable companies (who transport data instead of people, and actually own some important infrastructure to keep their quasi monopolies up).
Shameless self promotion, but you might be interested in scad-clj [0]: a DSL to write OpenSCAD with Clojure. You can get a decent interactive environment combining an editor with an OpenSCAD window set to only show the render [1].

[0] https://github.com/farrellm/scad-clj

[1] https://adereth.github.io/blog/2014/04/09/3d-printing-with-c...
>By socializing healthcare, we destroy its efficiency

This is pretty rich. What world do you live in where healthcare is an efficient market?
I guess as Wikipedia has it the infection "often causes no or only mild symptoms." Even so it's not something you want. Personally I think they should crack on with the Oxitec GM mozzies which on balance of probabilities should cause far less problems than the disease. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/aug/14/florida-keys...
Google will end support for Chrome apps on Windows, Mac, and Linux
Couldn't this be said about anything magical though?

If it's magic, it's human intelligence. If it's magic, it's consciousness. If it's understood, it's algorithms.

It's only a matter of time. There is no magic in science. Only in the application of it.
The entirety of programming experience in two phrases:

"That didn't work as expected."

"That didn't work, as expected."

Another facet of programming experience - one character (that can be hard to notice) can change the behavior of a program in major ways, yet it can remain undiscovered for quite some time (by both compiler and humans).
Why Web Traffic Affects SEO and SERP for Better Rankings
Where is all the water going, if it's simply not precipitation enough in these areas?
It's not exactly new ( first studied in 1947 https://www.rockefellerfoundation.org/zika-statement/ ), and basically spreads as quickly as any other STD ( the mosquitos that carry it typically travel no more than 400 meters http://www.who.int/denguecontrol/mosquito/en/ ).
I'm guessing it's along the lines of "Zika seems to only affect pregnant women, I'm either A) not a woman or B) not planning on getting pregnant any time soon, this will all be over by then."
I guess it makes about as much sense as paying employees per hour.
He gave a great live demo at CodeConf about using Kubernetes for 12-factor apps[1] that I highly recommend as well. The video for the talk isn't up yet, but the code he used is.[2]

[1] https://12factor.net/

[2] https://github.com/kelseyhightower/app
Well, at least not for operating systems targeting the majority of the population. You'll always find some masochist, who will gladly take something that moves even faster and breaks even more things.

- Sent from my openSUSE Tumbleweed installation
I continue to be satisfied in my decision to use Windows 7 on my new computer.
I believe the cost of pumping it outweighs the cost of more desalinization plants.
the main sanction was having to un-bundle IE from Windows.
What are some historical examples of markets that have rebooted in the wake of the availability of a single product?
Competition is so last-cen. You need a monopoly, so you can screw over the customers. Read Peter Thiel, "Competition is for losers".[1] "If you corner the market for something, you can jack up the price; others will have no choice but to buy from you."

[1] http://www.wsj.com/articles/peter-thiel-competition-is-for-l...
> You need to put in as many hours as possible and just love what you're doing.

I guess that depends on what you consider "work". I do programming stuff in exchange for money, and it's not always the programming stuff I want to do. When I'm not working I do programming stuff (or read about programming stuff) I do want to do, but not in exchange for money.
It's interesting that Google decided early on that fully autonomous was the only way to go (because half-awake driver + imperfect computer = accidents), but Tesla, BMW, and Uber are bringing to market semi-autonomous vehicles first.

It occurs to me that their incentives aren't exactly aligned, and aren't aligned with the public. If Tesla or Uber brings out a semi-autonomous vehicle and then lots of accidents occur, it poisons the well for self-driving vehicles. People start associating them with fatal crashes, they shy away from them out of fear, and the status quo reigns. In the status quo, Uber is on top for ridesharing and Tesla/BMW/GM/etc are on top for conventional car purchases, so it all works out for them.

By contrast, Google only succeeds if autonomous vehicles become a real thing that people trust for their everyday transportation needs. They don't have a horse in today's race; either they build a fully-autonomous vehicle or they get nothing.

Methinks we'll see a big PR campaign from Google to make a big public distinction between semi-autonomous and fully-autonomous driving, along with a lobbying campaign to ban semi-autonomous driving. They have to get out ahead of public opinion before lots of accidents happen, otherwise the whole category will be ruined.
It is possible to make some money on there. If you own a Chromebook with Chrome OS, it's the only place to get software. There is a torrent app for sale on the Chrome store for £1.89 and has over 50k installs: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/jstorrent/anhdpjpo...
Why is everyone so afraid of going public?
Feel this way about Lyft in SF. I very rarely have bad experiences with Lyft, but with Uber it's been common enough that I only use it when Lyft has no drivers available (which is typically during high surge prices, in which case taking a cab makes more sense).
Another roadblock would be whether the ISS has enough radiation hardening to survive outside LEO.

It has ~100 commercial off-the-shelf Thinkpads on board¹, so none of those are radiation hardened for sure. I can't find any information on whether the mission critical computer systems are radiation hardened or not.

¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Space_Station#Co...
That's the status quo.

I'm in favor of a regime where there is a benchmark for the recall and precision rates for the automated analysis, and anything that hits the benchmarks is acceptable. I don't regard this as a philosophical matter - let's accept any bot analysis that hits a certain threshold.

1) We can certainly set the threshold above the TIGER import in the US, which most people agree is positive, but very crufty.

2) It's the developing parts of the world that need automated road creation the most. The opposition seems to emanate from rich, European nations.
"Big Boss"
Zika has a number of neurological and other impacts on adults, as well as its impact on fetuses.
At some point, I started treating downvotes as feedback on my writing. So I would take another look at what I wrote. Maybe I did not make my point clearly. Maybe what I said was wrong. Maybe it just wasn't worth saying. Maybe I was an asshat. Then I would edit it or delete it or leave it alone...and I've consciously left asshat comments alone because sometimes my intent was to be an asshat.

All of that still applies, though I am more likely to delete something I wrote these days and hopefully less likely to be an asshat because I try to avoid being one.

Anyway, sometimes I downvote in disagreement. It is often a better alternative to writing the nonconstructive thing I'd otherwise be inclined to write because what I'm inclined to write is the sort of comment I don't want to read on Hacker News. It's not the sort of comment I usually want to write either.

That sort of comment I don't want to read includes the sort of comment that provides a lot of entertainment elsewhere on the internet...we've all seen it: clever insulting outrage [feigned and real] written to win.

Anyway:

1. the guidelines suggest not commenting about being downvoted.

2. Questions about the site can be directed to the moderators via the contact link.

3. Good luck.
He might be right, but it would require allowing cars to drive around on roads without anyone in them.

Using a shared, limited resource in that way is such a prototypical "tragedy of the commons" that I can't see any government allowing it.

Traffic will be insane if people can send their cars on errands without having to sit in the resulting traffic, or if hired cars can drive halfway across the city to pick up the next fare with no impact to the car's owner besides wear and fuel.

No amount of incremental improvements in capacity due to "better" robot drivers will make up for that.
See my new kickstarter - 200 MM and keep the ISS flying? A deal!
Actually, Chrome Apps are different because they are offline by default (you need to ask permission to get anything online), have access to system APIs, and have certain rules to keep users safe from cross script attacks, etc.
Phones.

Horse-drawn carriages.
Not to mention even when that happens, a properly invested public mass transit system will still be more efficient.
Reply from the plugin author [0]. Seems like a genuine response, but I really don't buy it. IMO he knowingly added malicious code and is playing dumb. TL;DR he shared is credentials with another developer for a "partnership". He was completely unaware of any wrongdoing, and apologizes profusely.

I made 3 mistakes:

Used same account for all commits. Misunderstood the WP guidelines about remote content loading. Did not properly verify the remote server response, frequently.

....

I apologize

For making a BIG mistake that I could have avoided easily.
For making a lot of users to look for alternative plugins.
For not detecting this issue by myself.
To the website owners, if you are affected by this incident.

I promise,

I will never share plugin commit access to others without having my control over it.
My plugins will never break any WordPress plugin guidelines.
My plugins will not break into users privacy.
My plugins will be up to the coding standard that WordPress suggests.

https://thefoxe.com/blog/404-to-301-plugin-detected-by-wordf...
My point is simply that Microsoft has to convince the community of their goodwill, and it will take time.

I don't think the existence of other companies with (mabye even bigger) PR problems has any bearing. So what? You want to be equally critical of Uber? Ok. Let's make them prove their goodwill too.

Furthermore, Microsoft is unique in this regard, because at the time of their conviction, they were fighting the browser wars with two open communities: FF and chrome.
It's not that part of regulations that are causing housing affordability issues. More zoning regulations that say you have to have x parking spaces with x lot sizes under x height with x impact fees and x long bureaucratic processes.
Our team has lunch together every week or so. I wouldn't be happy with the norm of having lunch together all the time. I like to get out of the office and play stupid games on my tablet over lunch. Doing that around people is seen as antisocial so I prefer going off on my own.
All right, I concede.:) Thanks for sharing your views.
You have to take "what US intelligence knew to be true" with a grain of salt.

Just recently, Obama dismissed Russia as a 3rd-rate military power. You have to believe that was based on intelligence briefings. That tune changed quickly when Russia started flexing muscle in Syria.
Facebook and social networks have done more damage than good to our society. We have gone from a court system with facts and evidence to digital lynch mobs that base guilt and innocence on feelings and emotions.

At first, I just ignored the foolishness I would see on my Facebook feeds, but it has now started to become part of the fabric of our culture. The power-mongers and greedy politicians are also using all of this to grow their base.

I feel like we have actually devolved as a society. It's one of the reasons why 100% democracy is a bad idea.

Mark Zuckerberg may not have wanted to start a company, but now he's one of the richest people in the world. He has also ensured his family wealth for many more generations by starting a trust that will not be subjected to the death tax.

If you read 'Hatching Twitter', you will get a better idea of Mark Zuckerberg: He thinks he is akin to a Roman Emperor and even named his daughter 'Maxima'. This is only one example, but other people that have done extensive business with Mark have said the same thing.
I'm not claiming that that ESR's private message with the threat was the defamation itself. That would come later, in public.

The implied "Second Amendment Solution" threat of "I will find a way to make you regret it" is that Raymond the angry gun nut would shoot Perens, but Raymond's plausible denial after the fact was that he actually only meant he would make Perens regret it by attacking his reputation in public.

He must feel inspired and vindicated by Trump's antics.

I'm still waiting for you to mansplain how Raymond was justified in accusing members of the open source software community of being "fools" and "thugs", and how "thugs" had absolutely nothing to do with the racial context of "Blacks are Lazy".
Though I didn't build a game, I have made money (see above) around $1k/year.
The best would be "fully autonomous cars" with the ability to take over the control from the automation.
This is beyond a doubt the biggest problem with these valuations.

However, it is obvious that in the short and medium term the largest company wins. It is also noteworthy that the battles they win against each cities taxi mafia will be one less battle for autonomous cabs. We could see a surprisingly smooth roll out whebever it happens
While in general it is less problematic, it happens with Linux too.

I have a laptop with integrated Intel GPU. Not powerful but good enough to play a few simple games from time to time. After updating from Ubuntu 14.04 to 16.04 most games won't work properly anymore: they run fine for a while but then the display freezes for a few seconds. Most of the time after that is start working again, some other times the game will crash (I am blaming the GPU since sound and games logic continue regularly, and CPU usage is unaffected).

I have also a raspberry pi. One day, after a routine update the sound started behaving weirdly, sometimes going faster/slower, some other times burping weird sounds. As with most audio problems in Linux the solution was simply to nuke pulseaudio from the system.
Are there 2-3% balance transfer cards?
It's a combination of factors. Some's being exported as food (nuts, beef). Some isn't being recaptured, as aquifers are being depleted to the point of collapsed. Etc.
Please report overall long-term life success that includes the family :)

Exactly, personal "gold rush" journeys look good on a blog, Wikipedia article, or TechCrunch post, but what are these people like in the flesh? Three marriages, children who don't know their fathers ... but hey, they "made" it, right?
Get-drunk-in-shitty-hotel-con isn't really about the talks, it's about goofing off in NYC w/ friends from IRC.
Maybe living in a desert isn't such a great idea?
Next week?

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/uber-autonomous-c...
From last Friday: "Lyft Said to Rebuff GM Takeover Bid".[1]

[1]: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2016-08-12/lyft-said-to...
So, I know disrupting ecologies can have profound consequences that aren't obvious ahead of time, but let's do a thought experiment. Let's assume we have a 100% effective way to kill all mosquitoes within 18-24 months.

What are the known disruptions and consequences of this? Do we have ways to combat problems due to that?

What are the probable/theoretical distuptions and consequences? Do we have have to combat these?

Not that I'm suggesting we do this, but with our current understanding, how much trouble do we think it would cause in the case of mosquitoes?
Like in all other mixed economies, EVERYTHING is illegal, but the authorities mostly turn a blind eye.

EXCEPT when they want to destroy your life or make you suffer for any reason, then they'll look at you specifically.
The Olympics.

1. The journalists really want to travel to Rio to report on the games, so they evaluate the risks rationally and suddenly the risk does not seem so great, none of them ever plan on traveling to rural West Africa.

2. News organizations don't want the Olympics cancelled. Olympics == page views.
Yes due to salary caps which distort the free market, NBA stars are underpaid.

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/kawhi-leonard-like-all-t...
Ask HN: How do you handle inter-team dependencies?
Our company isn't very good at prioritizing inter-team dependencies. For example, team A depends on team B to deliver a new API, but team B fails to deliver. The API is the most important thing for the company, but often Team B is prioritizing their own projects. Team A ends up repeatedly pinging and negotiating with team B, but then ultimately implements their own hacky workaround, degrading the product and introducing technical debt.

I have a few ideas for how to fix things, for example by having each team maintain a backlog for their dependent teams, or instituting some sort of story point "currency" that the requesting team can spend. But I first wanted to ask people here how they solve this problem. Ad hoc conversations? Constant pinging and negotiation? Something more formal? Maybe this can't be solved with process and must be solved culturally instead.
Here's a complete tutorial--from concepts to step-by-step command-line scripting. Eg, you provision EC2 instances, deploy a Hadoop cluster, and build a simple data processing pipeline on the cluster.

this is intended primarily for data scientists; two mid-level devs in my shop worked through it, and said it was solid.

https://blog.insightdatascience.com/introducing-pegasus-one-...
If you can afford the allocation at every iteration, the iterslide crate might work for you.

https://github.com/slapresta/rust-iterslide
> Deep learning, ... is infinitely more complex

When I read this I interpret it to mean they have no idea how deep learning works. (More specifically: why it works as well as it does.)

And the part about being modeled on the human brain just seems to be a fortunate (?) coincidence.
Sea anemones may hold an answer to the problem of hearing loss
#phoenixdownthetubes
Thanks! I could hardly understand the blog post.