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Nice clarification - I've been using declension/conjugation interchangeably for the last year or so and I'm glad to see it resolved pretty unambiguously!
You better never encounter a browser that allows printing of websites or downloads generally. It might terrify you.
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The mean reason why DRM will be used in HTML5 will not be for media but for advertising.

Blocking ads will then be targeted as circumvention of DRM.

Google et all must be drooling at prospect of unblockable ads
Chuck Norris supports creationism in schools and is not big on the gays mixing in society.

It's fine to love his movies, politics don't effect art in that regard, but if you think he's cool and worthy of a meme, I guess fair enough, as long as you're aware of his politics and consider it to not effect memes should you disagree.
Sometimes I think that those who complain about 'normal people' on the net have some kind of a point. Would we be here with this kind of dilemma about popularity if the net never took off for 'normal' people?
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And at the time DVDs were launched, many in hacker/geek/whatever circles were pretty horrified by this development.

And yet right here in this HN discussion there are numerous people openly defying the current legal and technological position, which is just going to promote more and stronger technical measures to limit how content can be consumed. For example, it's already hard to just buy a permanent copy of a lot of TV shows on disc any more. They're moving to online, streaming-only channels where it's harder to copy, and that's reducing choice even for legitimate paying customers.

To me, it's more than a little alarming how rapidly we've normalised the idea that end users' devices should be obeying the wishes of content publishers rather than their owners.

I agree, but it's also more than a little alarming how rapidly we've normalised knowingly breaking the law and/or explicit agreements with other parties and totally ignoring economics just because something is technically possible.

In what other circumstances would it be OK to make an explicit deal with someone, then totally renege on that deal and just say "Well, I don't think you really deserved what we agreed anyway"?

In what other circumstances would it be OK to knowingly break the law to someone else's cost and in the expectation of suffering no adverse consequences and just say "Well, I don't think this law is a good law so I'm not going to follow it"?

The everything-should-be-free culture of Generation Me isn't sustainable. Maybe the laws and economic models we're using today aren't the best way forward, but that doesn't mean we should support or condone totally ignoring them until we've got a better idea.
Honestly, I do not understand the intent behind the whole "linux inside windows" trend that MS is on these days. Even visual code is turing out well these days, but I am hesitant as I am not sure of the intent behind it.
Huh? Perhaps you confused OpenSSH with OpenSSL? Just to clarify, OpenSSH implements the SSH protocol, an encrypted Telnet replacement for remote login into machines. OpenSSL is used to secure web traffic in transit and is the one with the Heartbleed fiasco. They're different entities.
The web came to be because people could freely express themselves, share their hobbys, interests and works with a global audience. Monetisation played a minor role for a very very long time. I miss that old web.
I have a Co worker over 40 now. Dr and 10 years of project management and before that programming.

No one wants him anymore. Too old. And he is just slightly over 40.

I doubt it would be different if he would be self employed....
All 100% true… that being said, it's also a little like "Your liberty to swing your fist ends just where my nose begins".

Which is not completely true from all points of view, if I follow you around swinging my fist a millimeter from your nose, it's still an act of violence.

If I paint a tag on the statue, it's vandalism. If I put up a giant dude swinging a croquet mallet next to the Arc de Triomphe, people who appreciated the monument will be upset. (Or Trump next to Mount Rushmore…or a man exposing himself to the girl between her and the bull)

Sometimes art that is motivated by response to another piece of art is itself timeless, and transcends the original. Sometimes it's just crap.

Recontextualizing is an occupational hazard, if you're a statue, or an artist.

We can debate whether the girl elevates the bull, or disrespects and diminishes it. If it's fine art or crap. And if it falls into that grey area of recontextualizing or vandalism.
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I agree with you, but they had the most informative article on this topic.
I think there is a difference between organizing and sponsoring a show, and comissioning an actual work of art with a specific goal.

Arguable though.
But this particular article is from Nov 2016.
I'm curious what you replaced mutt with.
Doing things differently has consistently given me more and better opportunities than ruthlessness. In a way it makes me stand out from the crowd. I tend to be asked to lead teams with poor morale or interpersonal tensions. Usually I'm able to negotiate the power to be able to make the changes necessary for that team to perform better and have a better work experience. The company wins because the engineers perform better. The employees win because they have a better work experience.

In the cases where I am unable to negotiate such things I don't stick around. Any company that doesn't see the employee/employer relationship as a two way street is no company I want to work for.
> I think we have a terminology mixup.

Not really -- my core point was that C++ compilation units are usually smaller than Rust.

Most C++ codebases I've dealt with will be of the kind where there's a single stage where all the cpp files get compiled one by one. Not a step by step process where one "module" gets compiled followed by its dependencies.

For these codebases, you have a huge win if you can touch a header file and only cause a small set of things to be recompiled. For Rust codebases, it's already a large compilation unit, so you're usually already paying that cost (and with incremental compilation the compiler can reduce that cost, but smartly, so you get a sweet spot where you're not compiling too much but are not missing anything either).

But yes, being able to skip compilation of downstream crates would be nice.

(You're right that a crate is compiled into a .exe or .so or whatever)

> Pardon my Rust ignorance, but is this scenario significantly different from C++ templates? The layout of a (judiciously) templated C++ class may not be "immediately obvious" but in practice it's often still very straightforward to infer.

ADTs are tagged unions. There's a tag, but it can sometimes be optimized out and hidden away elsewhere.

You can mentally unravel templates to figure them out. Enums are a whole new kind of layout that you need to understand.
Conversely: anybody knows what's in your fridge better than you do.
Ask HN: Has Facebook turned off email notifications?
I am not a big Facebook user -- I rely on their email notifications feature so that I'm aware when someone sends me a message or event invitation.

Apparently sometime in the last few weeks, I stopped receiving email notifications of any kind.

(I checked the settings page for email notification; it was very cryptic and basically useless.)

Has anyone else experienced this? Is there any way to reenable it?
Someone has to pay the bill.
Well, he won the election. So news about Trump is probably seen as "good" by a lot of people.
That story is particularly curious.

Originally people used to dress male babies in red, because it was the colour of blood, war, strength, etc...

And female babies in blue, because it was the colour of peace, the sky, etc...

Around the 1960s when the feminists started to push for gender neutral clothes among other things, some of them made a campaign asking major companies (for example Sears catalog) to instead use the colours inverted, red for girls, and blue for boys, just to force some 'equality'

The campaign sort of worked, but flew way over people heads, they just started to assume red (and later pink as a softer tone of red for babies) and blue (and later light blue, for same reasons as pink) were the colours of female and male babies, without knowing why...

The feminists that created the switch, wrote several articles and papers claiming these gendered baby clothes were oppressive and existed to control women... I wonder after the colours just switched, what they think.
I think WebDAV would be a much more natural fit for this problem. When people think WebDAV they usually think Microsoft, but it's actually a very mature, open HTTP extension standard.

RDF has a high barrier to entry, and it's going to take a lot of work to get this REST API to even come close to what WebDAV already does-

* Locking
* Versioning
* Expressive ACLs
* Expressive search
* Quotas
* Simple distributed data structures

Granted, some of those features use an equally arcane XML syntax, but at least there's already tooling.
this kind of absurd lionization of the wealthy is part of the problem.

I've met some extremely wealthy CEOs, and they warp nothing around them. It's an elite career track and old boys club, that's it.
And some other languages before Alexander the temporarily Great. This is not a nice way at all to get at linguistics/history questions.
Oh the spam. Back in about 2003 I built a site that let people doodle a small square canvas and add it to thousands of others. It didn't take long for it to be riddled with dick-picks, stars and swastikas. I had a mighty banhammer. But it was so depressing.

The site was called 'blograffiti.com' - Remnants of it still exist on the wayback machine.

Fantastic work by the way. And thanks for the post about it all. I love weekend projects like this. That's exactly what kicked blograffiti off. (And most of my most valuable projects, come to think of i!.)
I love reading experiments like these with actual numbers included.

To me $225 / month (6£ / day) doesn't seem bad at all. Some A/B testing of ad placement could get that to $500 / month. Then you find a freelancer for $100 / month to update it. You could live with 10 such sites in your portfolio, except at least in my case I can never resist spending my time tweaking them instead of starting new ones. "Maybe just one change and it'll be 30% bigger!"
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> Note the word "seems" that is not the same thing as saying "it is."

Like one of the parents said, the reason why it "seems" to you is your reading comprehension.
I speak three languages, and there's a painful truth: on average, English content is just better. Especially TV shows and movies.
Has this old web really disappeared or us it just dwarfed by the new web today?
You've never owned a big chemical plant, so who are you to have an opinion on protecting chemical plants from environmental regulation?

Unless everyone is living on a different planet, some people will necessarily be affected by the consequences of the chemical plant's operations. Looking out for those people is reasonable.

You've never had an income over 100 million, so who are you to have an opinion on how that income should be taxed?

That's a different and actually quite a good question, from an ethical point of view. Answering it without resorting to arguments based on either greed or envy is surprisingly difficult, and almost certainly requires some exploration of both economics and philosophical views on the nature of modern society.

You've never had slaves, so who are you to have an opinion on protecting the property rights of slave owners?

That's more like the first question. The slaves are necessarily affected by that arrangement, and again looking out for them is reasonable.

Given that in the sort of cases we're talking about probably no-one needs to have access to any given content, the situation we're considering is actually closer to your second example than your first and third. And I'm not sure exploring the economics of content creation more thoroughly rather than making a superficial analysis is going to lead to the conclusions you want it to.
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The flip side is that as soon as you become more than just pixels on a screen it can change in an instant. Just ask anyone who ever experienced being dox'd. As long as all you are is pixels on a screen it's great. As soon as you become more than pixels on a screen the story can change really fast. It turns out the pixels only influence people opinion of you when there is nothing else to base it on. I'm not so sure that's necessarily something to celebrate.
Thank you. That would be a nice feature. I'll look into that :).
You're making this as a throwaway, but obviously are not writing anything controversial here. So are you leaking industry information to us? Why not write more. It might be slightly off-topic but no more than the rest of this thread and it's interesting.
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> Which Betamax case

Sony Corp. of America v. Universal City Studios, Inc.

Time shifting a video is a protected fair use.

> temporary basis

...which can be time shifted without violating copyright.

> explicitly agreed

As for any contract that may exist, that's separate from copyright. It isn't Google's job to enforce terms to a contract between two other unrelated parties.
The author feels that his height counted against him, but did anyone actually say "sorry you're too short?". It would be strange client or employer who insisted on a tall developer while age I can accept is a factor for people out there, rightly or wrongly. I'm suggesting that it could be possible to project an inherent sensitivity about one's height onto a separate experience.
Saying people should exercise to feel better is not an inappropriate generalization. Maybe you just need to find an exercise that works for you, or broaden your definition of exercise.
Heh. I see what you mean, but that wasn't the intention. I'm not a reddit regular, but I know it's got plenty of dark places. I just don't get the uproar of OMG, something called "xyzroulette" that says it will send me to random places is dangerous. It doesn't seem deceptive or unexpected, that's the comparison I was trying to make.

Maybe I should have compared to outbound links on 4chan.
I was hesitant to use this for the obvious reasons but in the end decided to roll the dice...

Of course, the first link I get starts an immediate download of the ubuntu 17.04 iso. Vindication on the first role.
I can't believe that this flamewar, too, have been imported to HN now.
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It won't be a browser, it will be an app store, or a custom channel for some more restricted device. And these things already exist, and they do remove flexibility we have previously enjoyed on the Web, sometimes under circumstances that would have been useful and not harmed anyone. That is the world people are pushing towards by supporting Google's actions in cases like the one we're talking about.
Basically low iq urbit.
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I met them as well. What industry are you referring to?
If black/white isn't a core requirement look into BluBoard (bluboard.io). They are a Cleveland-based hardware startup that specializes in 18" epaper displays and related content management systems.

Sources:

[1] CES News Story - https://bluboard.io/news/bluboard-at-ces-2017-with-fellow-cw...

[2] BluBoard Chooses Multitech - http://www.multitech.com/news-and-events/press-releases/lork...

[3] Local News Segment - http://www.cleveland19.com/story/34321031/cleveland-start-up...

Disclaimer: I am the Director of Architecture at BluBoard
Not true for c++ unless you include the compiler and version in your "platform".
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seems like we are running out of people born in the 1800s

edit: "She was officially the last person born in the 1800s still living"

nm, we are fresh out
Nice idea, but I don't see huge market potential yet. A simple label-printer (where the labels are easily detachable) would offer almost the same experience.

Also, if used for security badges, how will this prevent others from rewriting them using a separate printer?
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Ask HN: How has Facebook figured out my family doctor as a friend suggestion?
I never use Facebook on my phone so you can hopefully rule out contact list networks - not that I ever had their personal mobile on my list - and location tracking because I haven't attended my doctor's surgery in years. We have zero friends in common. Other than my doctor actively looking me up on Facebook - highly unlikely - how on earth is this possible? I'm willing to accept friends of friends suggestions but this is beyond spooky.
It looks like it's down for me. Is anyone else still able to see it?
The Either pattern for errors works great in OCaml; most of the code I write uses it. I'm not sure what problem you're referring to.
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If-and-only-if an actual contract was offered, understood by all parties, and agreed to, then you're free to find them the user in breech of contract.

Obviously. And just to be clear, this is the situation in many cases where people have been upset by these changes.

None of that is relevant to a tool having any particular feature.

Sure it is, if the tool is actively promoting something that will interfere with a lawful contract with another party. The law often recognises this problem explicitly, in many jurisdictions. (If you weren't aware of this, you might like to look up "tortious intereference" as a starting point.)

Even when a contract actually exists (a ToS is not a contract), the browser creators are an unrelated 3rd party.

They cease to be unrelated when their actions interfere with the first two parties in a way that harms one of them.
Competition is good but I kind of prefer genuine competition.

Except in the industries and product areas where IP is being used for land-grabs, rent-collection, little-to-none innovation and roadblocking any and all competition. In those cases (as E-Ink), I am glad there are still places in this world where people can continue to push the envelope and innovate to create better products for our species. IP be damned.
I thought this was interesting the first time I saw it... but you've submitted this to Show HN 13 times now, including multiple domains that redirect to the same site, and you're also using multiple HN accounts to keep resubmitting it.

Don't you think that's a bit much?

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=Yeroniomus

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=sentinewsteam

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=hacakton

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=sentinewsmob.ml

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=sentinews.ml

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=intellexer.com
I like the point the author makes about the incredible intolerance there is against different points of view online, usually from both sides of the spectrum.

For example, it's impossible to talk about women's rights without having people take extreme sides are reject any form of intelligent communication.

Unfortunately this has been leaking more and more towards real life. People in large part repeat slogans and take predefined stances instead of using their own heads.

This case is no different: the world is not divided in good, left leaning, progressive people and bad, right leaning, conservative people.

A more realistic spectrum is bigots, people who think religiously about things and don't accept uncertainty to people that embrace reasonable change and diversity of opinion. People that accept that art expresses emotions and people that don't accept art that does not conform to their philosophy (remember the Talibans defacing the Buddhas in Afghanistan?)
> at least there are some women on their team

But mostly in staff, not investment, roles. So don't give up your bucket of pink just yet.
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The book Barbarians At The Gate about the leveraged buy out of Nabisco.
reMarkable[0] was mentioned here a few days ago. Do you think they are vaporware?

[0] https://getremarkable.com/
I'm going to guess you meant OpenSSL, in which case yes, there is a Foundation for that. Perhaps (not so) surprisingly, it's the same one that supports OpenSSH development. You'll find LibreSSL mentioned right on the front page!
If you are interested in trying to listen your local radio system, try out Trunk Recorder: https://github.com/robotastic/trunk-recorder
It works with the cheap $20 RTL-SDR dongles.
Um you are right. It used to be HTML5 and in 2012 they switched to native. My bad.

https://techcrunch.com/2012/12/18/wunderlist-2-goes-native-o...
It seems his "current blog" failed too lol. Cyclelove.net points to nothing.
Isn't the net big enough for everyone? In fact people who don't use centralized networks benefit from the infrastructure invest from those who do.
This is a really awesome application of SDR. It has really grown since being presented at the GNU Radio conference a few years ago.
No, missed that. Interesting.
All things that you list are very specific domains, you'd have dedicated people responsible for them in even a medium-size corporation. The thing you really need to know, is how to make sure these people do not lie to you and do their work honestly and responsibly. One of the options is having corresponding competence yourself, but that doesn't scale.

Delegation is a black art, that's what I mean, but without really mastering it you cannot manage anything with >10 people, especially in high tech.
Cool! I last played with it a couple of years ago. Will have to mess with it again. Great work!

Do you know if the newer versions of RPi or other small boards have enough power to run this (i.e. dedicated RX feed nodes sort of like the ADSB RX nodes)? I know DSD is pretty processor intensive.
Absolutely fair - but to bring up their past comments in a debate you're having with them is extremely tacky, in my opinion.

Part of the reason discourse on this website is considered so much better than reddit is that it's generally considered poor form to dig through users past comments.
Prednisone won't cause that. Its a very safe anti inflammatory.
> For hostkeys on DO you can probably get a script to run that'll request a signed certificate from a server you own.

Or just embed the signed host certificate in cloud-init.
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I couldn't agree more with you on this.

Since this principle applies many other areas of design (beyond application UI design), I'd like to add a specific example: watch faces.

I've been thinking about buying a new wrist watch and was looking for watch faces that aren't totally overloaded with unnecessary (and frankly, usually rather ugly) markings. One simple way to do this is by typing "minimalist watch face" into your favorite search engine.

Seeing those results, I am still amazed at how many "novel, stylish" watch face designs there are that might look cool (not really according to my taste, but perhaps someone else would like it), but are obviously terrible at doing the one thing a watch is supposed to do: telling you the time.

Compare the Nevo watches (ignoring their smart watch part)[1] against the Nava Ora design[2] for example. To me, it's really clear which of the two designs is a better watch.

[1]: http://www.nevocollection.com/

[2]: https://www.watches.com/nava-ora-lattea-white-42mm