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Yes. That was my point. The goal is to change public attitudes, not practical enforcement of copyright. This has always been about shifting public discourse.

> It's a technical standard that no users are actually looking at.

Of course users aren't looking at the standard. The shift happened with the technically-minded people that eventually make recommendations to their friends and family. Just look at this very thread where people like you already accept the premise that DRM is anything other than malware that gives control over your hardware to some other party. The fact that you are making arguments that use language such as calling DRM a "digital lock" demonstrates how far the Overton window has already moved.

> If you went on the streets and asked people if they feel less in control of their media because the W3C approved a standard replacement for NPAPI in browsers, would anyone even understand what you're talking about?

You're trying to frame that question to get the answer you want. Of course most people are not familiar with NPAPI. However, if skip the technical jargon and actually ask people about their experiences, you will get very clear answers. I've literally never met anybody that wasn't directly profiting from DRM that thinks crippled video players are fine. Many have mentioned the things they would like to do but can't because of DRM.

> standard replacement for NPAPI

EME is not a replacement for NPAPI. At best it's a replacement for the DRM in Flash.

> weak DRM became standard and never got replaced. Look at CSS for DVDs.

Except it did get replaced - which you admit - in the next version of the hardware (Blu-Ray). The only reason DVD wasn't affected is the large amount of existing hardware. It's simply not possible to update all of the existing hardware players.

However, web browsers are software that updates regularly.
Yet, you've stated you don't want to allow certain people to file these lawsuits, which are usually the only way of trying to correct the problem. So tell me, why is it ok to deprive some people of this remedy simply because of their job title?
I've got a good bit of homework, and not a terrible amount of spare time on my hands, but I'll see what I can do.
Your Monte Carlo post is interesting, but it doesn't consider the context of markov networks, for example reading Norvig Modern IA there are good examples. There is a subtle point that having probabilities locally you must prove that the global structure is a probability and this requires some order in the vertexes to propagate the information from the root to the leafs, also Markov models can have higher degree and then they are not like random walks. Anyway, the context of matrices and eigenvalues is interesting.
It doesn't matter, the point is that a feeling is captured.

Many people seem to think that photography is solely documentary, but that is only one possible aspect. You also have control over what is in and out of the picture, where objects are relative to each other, the relative tones and brightness of objects, etc., and can use that to tell a story that's not strictly true. If you've ever been composing a shot, noticed that there is a big pile of garbage in the frame, and shifted the angle slightly, you're already doing this.
Could you refrain from calling people shills.
It was absolutely domestically grown -- had the foreign intelligence and NGO's been as strong as you suggest, things would have never gotten to that point, as the money and effort spent on influence by Russia absolutely dwarfed everything else: Ukraine has never been high on anyone else's radar.

The reason Russians have not been particularly successful is mostly due to certain widespread delusions in Russian society, that result in people at all ranks seeing the entire Russia/Ukraine split as unnatural. What I mean is, when you are coming from a prior that there were no underlying differences in 1991, and Ukraine before then was simply a province of a Russian state operating under a different name, of course any disagreement could only be seen as a result of external meddling since that time. Of course, when this view conflicts with reality, the failures are attributed to foreign meddling being stronger than unticipated...
Sabu disagrees, claims the methods and tools are widely shared on the same criminal forums http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/news/450298715/DNC-hack...
MongoDB was much more breakthrough than this little thing called rethinkdb. Hell, people even create the term NoSQL because of it. Maybe the failure of this project came from this dellusional thinking I keep reading in all posts about their failure.
There are a few solutions for scripting with Clojure

http://blog.fikesfarm.com/posts/2015-08-01-planck-scripting....

Personally I wouldn't script in Clojure. If something is simple enough to be a script I'd use bash or Python and leave Clojure for writing non-trivial programs for which startup time is not an issue
May be Drones?
If the women are required to wear the hijab to compete than why don't the male chess players wear the hijab as well?

I imagine wearing something so contrary to what a player normally wears could affect performance.

Other sports have uniform requirements so if the competition has to be held in this location and one set of players have to wear a specific uniform, in this case the hijab, then they should require all players, gender be damned, to wear the hijab.
I'm pretty sure Horizon was meant to fill that niche, though my first look at Firebase had me cringing a little as some of the security model wasn't clear at all, and I am still apprehensive about not having a translation layer between your db and deployed apps that you control.
You're depriving people of a legal remedy, so you are de facto making it ok. So why do you want to make it ok to discriminate depending on the job title? Why are some people not deserving of the same protections as others?
Already done :P

My friends over at http://canberrauav.org.au did something similar in the UAV Outback Challenge this year. They had multiple 3G (no LTE in the area unfortunately) links plus a telemetry radio to control their quadplane. It used OpenCV and a clever algorithm to spot a stranded bush walker.
Controversial? There are ton of articles like this one:

http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-ft-gra...

On growing income inequality and the transfer of wealth to the 1%.

You can argue if it's right or wrong but it's a bit of whopper to say it doesn't happen.
Well if SABU disagrees with Mandiant and CrowdStrike...
I'm guessing he's done some research since then. Clearly I don't know, but he doesn't seem like the type of guy to blindly jump into something without investigating first.
I remember his entire series of aircraft, they were often featured in PopSci back in the day. Tight little ships.

They're still around:

http://www.bedecorp.com/
Those problems exist no matter who the victim is. So your "solution" doesn't help anyone except for big businesses.
Using lisp interchangeably with Common Lisp is a frequent cause of confusion in lisp related conversations, so I'm hardly a language zealot mentioning it.
T-Mobile is an example of cellular companies responding to tight competition and differentiating by removing caps / usage fees.

The key is competition though, as you've pointed out.
I'm confused, where does RocksDB come into this? Typo?
You presume Trump has a strategy in mind with regards to Russia. I think it's just as likely he has no intention of actually being president and just likes the attention he's getting, so he will say whatever he feels like in the moment. He thinks Putin is a macho strongman leader and that's the image he has crafted for himself, so it feels right to praise him and draw parallels.
“A good cook changes his knife once a year — because he cuts. A mediocre cook changes his knife once a month — because he hacks. I’ve had this knife of mine for nineteen years and I’ve cut up thousands of oxen with it, and yet the blade is as good as though it had just come from the grindstone. There are spaces between the joints, and the blade of the knife has really no thickness. If you insert what has no thickness into such spaces, then there’s plenty of room — more than enough for the blade to play about it. That’s why after nineteen years the blade of my knife is still as good as when it first came from the grindstone."

“However, whenever I come to a complicated place, I size up the difficulties, tell myself to watch out and be careful, keep my eyes on what I’m doing, work very slowly, and move the knife with the greatest subtlety, until — flop! the whole thing comes apart like a clod of earth crumbling to the ground. I stand there holding the knife and look all around me, completely satisfied and reluctant to move on, and then I wipe off the knife and put it away.”

Exactly this. You can skin and cut a whole sheep to pieces with a small knife while others sweat profusely using a meat axe and a saw and you can do it faster. If something moves, it can be cut where it moves. Spaces between vertebrae and ribs. Articulations.

The bit about the state of the knife is also true: My father has French and German bayonets from WWI and WWII. You have to be very careful near those things.
I second that, at least have a score hidden functionality that hides the score of messages for a period of time (say 2-12 hours) and also ensure that the score cannot affect the color of the font during that time.
Rich get richer in capitalism because they have more money to leverage getting better deals and researching better ways to multiply their money than poor people do.
Agreed... I think compose.io's pricing model left plenty of room to compete directly in that space. I would have loved to have had that option a couple years ago.
Well, that's a bit disingenuous.

She's laughing about not trusting polygraphs anymore; ever since her client, who raped a 12 year old, took one and passed.

Not saying I think it's a rational argument against her being president(it was her job after all), but it is an emotional one that speaks to her character.
Putin "doesn't want war"? He invaded and annexed another country.
I fail to see why the ability to get a job easily should be taken into account whether you get to have a legal remedy or not. And quite frankly, I have no faith whatsoever that a boycott would work, or gain any traction at all. We have had numerous stories of companies acting shitty all over, and yet they don't seem to have problems hiring.
Musk stutters. There are also many awkward halts and pauses in his sentences, and a lot of um'ing and ah'ing in his speeches. "um" is probably the most frequent word that he uses. The overall impression is that he's nervous and just not a very capable speaker.

He really could benefit from a couple of years of basic Toastmasters' training, not to mention how much he could improve with the help of a world-class speech coach (or even a team of them) that he could easily afford.
There's a long tradition in business that once the price of something drops below a certain point it makes no sense to offer it metered, as the cost of managing that exceeds the income you get from micromanaging it.

It literally makes no sense at all to offer metered data. It doesn't help the consumer, it doesn't help the business, and it doesn't help us as a society. Even if it's not a total dumpster fire that doesn't mean it makes any sense at all.

This is a short term money grab by the worst company in America. That's all.
So The Director of National Intelligence and the Department of Homeland Security are conspiring to provoke a serious intentional problem solely to distract from an already admitted to and apologized for personal server that is only important to Trump voters (ie won't change the election outcome)?

Doesn't that sound just a tad wild even for a conspiracy theory?
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Now that is a very valid point. We recently rejected a very green grad because it was very clear he had no intention of committing to the job more than a couple of years. With a likely 12 month ramp and training period there was no way we were going to put in that level of investment into someone who would vanish a year later.
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I am not sure why Google would need to drive around when they can capture same photos from satellites.

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/googles-satellites-could-so...
SmartParam: Java lib for handling application parametrization and decision making
The cost of transferring more data on current infrastructure is negligible. However, ISPs have a maximum capacity that's well below their number of users multiplied by the user's maximum bandwidth. They're just making a bet that not everyone will use all their bandwidth most of the time. At some point, average utilization goes up, and they have to buy more infrastructure to handle it, which is what costs money.
7AUD/kg is 2.41USD/lb.
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> obviously better

What is better critically depends on the "coordinate system". There was (and still is) something infinitely precious about MS-DOS. Simplicity, ease of accessing hardware, and all that alongside the vast multitude of extremely powerful and useful software that was available for it. In other words, DOS had something that few, if any, other OS could offer at the time.
It's not him but I still love this article about his thought process:

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/ericlippert/2011/02/14/what...
Is he good friends with the Incognito guy?
This is what i've always disliked. I don't mind paying for X data a month - but if i'm going to do that, i want something akin to an SLA.

If they're going to oversell the network[1] and cap my data, what the hell good are they?

Internet is too important to be mis/greedily handled as it currently is. ISPs need to start providing something of an SLA, and we need to start running monitoring tools in user end routers to ensure up time.

[1]: I can only assume this due to speed drops during peak times.
The Bulleit would abound.
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I've just signed up for sonic.
Look up the English expression "for all I know".

I might as well have written ""for all I know the white helmets might be working for the lizard men."

Disclaimer: English is not my first language so for all I know, I might be misusing the expression. :-)
He could have simply summed his "who ruined it" assertions.

He could have said "Allowing an uncontrolled influx of new participants ruined burning man".

And that is precisely right.

Some clubs should be exclusive.
The new T-Mobile "One" plans are T-Mobile rapidly trying to "re-carrier" itself after the briefly exciting Uncarrier days.

There are indeed no caps, but only at the expense of streaming video, which is throttled and restricted to SD resolutions, unless you pay extra to get HD, which seems to me to be a blatant disregard of net neutrality.
Others here may be more familiar with wú wéi as 'flow'.

Edit: wú wéi does have more too it though since it involves generalizing that mind state into an explicit philosophy of living. A big part of it is about being flexible and bending or moving around encountered external objects, as opposed to fighting them (or rigidly holding your stance against their approach). There's an interpretation of the above story where the knife blade is the soul, and staying along the smooth track is an expression of this philosophy of being flexible and non-confrontational in one's life.
The big issue is that mortality seems to not fit any of the normal statistical distribution models. If it did, we would have a few stragglers at 150+ years old. That never happens.

So, the question becomes: "What is inherent in the human body that causes mortality to not be statistically distributed?" That's the real argument.
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That is pretty amazing. I'm not sure why your post got flagged. Are people that afraid of the word "dicks"? Have they not heard the meme?
Lots of languages do it already. How is it impossible?
When you say "engineers," do you mean actual engineers (i.e. aerospace, control and power systems, etc.), or just web and app developers?
Yes, that's exactly what I proposed.
Obama administration's approach to conflict has generally been "they are making threats and can escalate them, if they do, we would not be willing to respond in kind, therefore let's do nothing and avoid conflict, and hopefully eventually things will be nice between us again, because somehow magically history is on our side". This is quite a radical departure from the "peace through strength" approach that has kept the US safe for the 60 years before that.

Of course anyone who's ever gotten into a fight in middle school can see the fatal fault with this line of thinking :(
I don't know if I understand. At first I thought you meant that we shouldn't drop entire providers because one of their customers spoofed an IP, but of course the burden should be on those providers to make sure spoofed packets can't leave their network (since further up the chain you're getting packets that are originating from many networks). Are you talking about something else?
I wish I could migrate to a local provider, but in my area there is literally no other option. We don't even have a phone line, and even if we paid AT&T the surprisingly huge fee to have them install one, we still wouldn't be able to get DSL because we live too far from civilization. (About 10 minutes up a hill just outside Redwood City in the CA Bay Area.)

So whatever Comcast want to do, we're literally stuck with it.
GP clearly said Trump doesn't want war (implicitly, specifically war with Russia), citing as one bit of support Trump's admiration for Putin.

Not that Putin doesn't want war.
Let's please not do this. I don't want people to be encouraged to submit their own articles, and I don't think that AMAs need to be encouraged; they are already plentiful.
Now if only I didn't constantly see "insufficient bandwidth" on Amazon or apparently-throttled downloads and streaming of other data with my "Performance Pro" package I could start being more upset about the bandwidth cap and less about being charged ridiculous rates for paltry bandwidth.
Reference to the Khmer Rouge

https://redditblog.com/2015/10/14/cambodia-khmer-rouge-murde...
That's for bulk field-grown tomatoes. Canadian greenhouse tomatoes sell for around USD1-3/kg (depending on variety, size, season &c.) which is $1000-3000 per metric ton, or 17-51M USD gross.

Also the article is unclear if the $200M investment is in USD or AUD, which makes a fairly significant difference.
No update since 2016-04-05. Previous discussions:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8557654
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11534905
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12643975
Ah! I mis-read. Thanks.
I've emailed them to mention that low lit photos seem to score much lower than they should, and they plan to look into improving that.
>> we will send you a courtesy "in-browser" notice

Another good reason to use SSL everywhere
Brexit: UK trade deficit doubles as sliding pound does little to boost exports
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The original Sun-1 only had 256K of memory, not the multi-megabytes you wound find in late 80's workstations.
Hope they don't adversely affect Node's performance with this tuning for low memory devices
Sweet thanks! It's a bit safer than modding my actual car ;) Kendrick does love his unicode.
> OpenSSL supports ECC X25519 since august this year.

"The former landed in OpenSSL 1.1.0"

> X25519 Is also supported in Chrome

"only the most recent Firefox nightlies and Chrome support it"

> Apple uses 25519 for iCloud encryption as well as encrypting AirPlay and wireless communication with various accessories.

I was referring to its use in HTTPS/TLS, but that's good to hear! :D
Hopefully they'll add it to Safari soon.
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Exactly, the standard of not being able to make criticism of HN or suggesting improvements. It's automatically the fault of the sugestee.
Hints of tool use, culture seen in bumble bees
I guess it depends on what the DRM problem really is. If the problem is that companies don't make enough money because of pirating, then Steam did solve the problem, because they make enough money despite pirating.
Medicine hasn't even attempted to extend human lifespan. To date it has only adressed causes of premature death. These conclusions have this baked-in as a (quite probably unconscious) assumption. Medicine needs to grow beyond this short-sightedness.
We know of at least one such thing: telomeres.

Cells have a definite amount of time before they undergo mitosis, and telomeres always shorten with each mitosis.

This puts at least one limit on longevity; there are likely to be others. Evolution exerts little-to-no selection pressure for organisms to survive past the caretaker period; in humans, that's grandparents at most.
There was worry with the collapse of the USSR that Russian nukes would be donated to terrorists. It was a very common theme in 90s fiction. It ended up not happening at all, in fact the only major nuclear proliferation since then has been from Pakistan to North Korea, which is not mentioned by the western media because Pakistan is a very important ally against the Soviets. Wait...
The conflict of interest is that one media company is publishing negative articles about another media company amidst acquisition talks.

What is their interest here? How do they intend to affect the perceived value of Twitter? Are there sources cited? Data? Figures?
A fourth improvement:

Put a VERY brief outline of the key parts of being a good contributor to the HN community in the post input box as a reminder. Remind me what good content here is. Have an AVOID line right above the add comment button. Remind me if I should reply more than once with different parts of relevant discussion if there are a few points that should each have their own reply from a parent post/article. etc.

Also a link to HN formatting near the add comment button would be nice.
> To disagree, this was my experience at HS and college.
A lot of my US history classes involved covering the history of corruption in the US. As an example, we took a look at the funding sources for the revolutionary war. That was a very direct and immediate way to deflate belief in everyone being involved solely for the sake of liberty.

If you don't mind me asking: when and where did you graduate from high school and did you learn this in a Civics course or an American History course? I'm curious if it's a generational thing, or a geographical thing (ie coastal vs midwest, rural vs urban).
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