skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was one of the commenters near the thread you link to; the story was about pervasive melting of Alaska's permafrost. Again in that thread, you complained about "doom and gloom", and remarked "It's not the end of world, people."

Here's the problem with this kind of comment. There is a specific issue under discussion, and instead of discussing the issue (e.g., technical fixes or mitigations), you complain in very general terms about the attitude of the people who are trying to discuss it.

Here, you have further offered (without evidence) a just-so story about "thinking negatively" as an adaptation that is no longer serving those negative people out there.

This kind of objection is especially galling in the case of climate. There are powerful forces that are blocking mere understanding and measurement of climate trends - much less mitigation. It's not "doom and gloom" to recognize the possible impact and to measure and understand. It's solid technical problem-solving. It's the reason things are getting better.
but the converse is also true: if they don't implement EME, then you are welcome to install any third-party attack surface on your PC that you wish.

so why should _I_ have to install the un-auditable attack vector on _my_ machine?

you are well-positioned to understand this issue, so I'm baffled about how you can conclude this should be part of the default software suite in a browser.
Sneak peek #3: Windows Server, version 1709 for developers – Windows Server Blog
Yet users are less free now than ever before. The open source methodology leads to free libraries for devs, free labor for companies, but proprietary applications for users.
You can implement this with a simple auto-scaling group or write a small Lambda function which runs at a certain time to start/stop the instance
You might also want to have her CSF independently tested for nematode worms. (what I mean by this is to put it under a microscope). it surely won't hurt, as some pathologists (although not published yet in the medical literature AFAIK) are finding them in all the samples they have tested for.

More information: https://youtu.be/aTPU87CKQLQ?t=6m30s

If this proves to be the case for your aunt, the good news is that anti-helmintics like Ivermectin, could efficiently treat the underlying cause.

You also might benefit from performing Metagenomic tests ( such as Digital Culture by Karius - kariusdx.com) to look for insidious pathogens that might play a role in her illness.

In other words, there are many different things that might cause the symptomatology described as "Multiple Sclerosis", Lyme disease actually being one of them, https://youtu.be/Fy0ViOX7xNk?t=9m37s
I don't want to grow up, I want to be a Toys `R` Us kid......
> Maybe, it acquired too many leeches feeding from it to move fast and lean since the Moon landings times?

Yes, that's one part - but the "real" reason is risk aversity. Basically, as long as there was the UdSSR to beat in a space race, the American public was 100% behind NASA - no matter how much (money and lives) it'd cost. When the Soviets were beat square, there was nothing worth the "risk" so everything had to be done by the books, with certifications and all that other bureaucratic nonsense.
But you're not pulling the pay scale up. You're lowering the hourly rate, and setting the expectation that others not have a life outside of work. That is a bad thing.
Assuming the motivating reasoning here is that the overarching goal of the browser vendor should be to protect the user, the question still is what timeframe it is appropriate to consider. If the browser does not implement DRM, the user may download an infected native app to watch Netflix or porn from some far shadier website or whatever, sustaining more harm in the short run; however, if the user then is repeatedly infected with malware, chances are it will not take long for a general understanding that downloadable video players are garbage-piled-up-on-grandpa's-computer bad (in the same way that IE toolbar plugins or warez websites' "special download managers" were) to take root. This will maybe chip away at the addictive convenience of Netflix and co, and so they won't be able to dictate terms to the computing ecosystem as they evidently can right now, benefiting the user in the long run.
I guess Google Chrome on Windows must be a niche thing then. Because that only gets 720p.
> I like to think I never do this, but if the price is much higher even I have a limit.

Really? You rationalize going to a brick and mortar international franchise simply because it is physical, instead of going to an online international franchise?

Thats the biggest stretch of "buy local" that I've ever been exposed to.
It's not still work, though. It's completely different.

And no, I don't have the option of working fewer hours. Nobody really does.
>>TV/Movie producers have a legitimate reason to want to protect their media.

I disagree.

>>>The lower the bar is for viewing the content they spend lots of money and work producing for free the more people do it. If there were no barriers to viewing movies then there are zero ways in our current economy to get a positive return

umm they are the ones creating the Barriers, DRM is a Barrier. I can not tell you how many times I have wanted to buy a movie or some other content only to find out it is not on the Platform or service I have choose to use.

Instead they want to only use the Platforms or services they bless. This is where the monopoly power of copyright breaks down.

If I want to watch a movie using my rPi running kodi I should have an easy way to buy a movie that just plays via a standard codec, it should not only be on a netflix, or worse now that every studio is making their own streaming platform we are going to see more piracy because they are simply refusing to sell their content in the manner consumer wants to buy it.

Basicly if you do not use Windows/Mac/Andirod/iOS you are out of consuming media. Linux haha screw you

>>EME is a means to an end. It's not inherently evil

DRM is inherently evil..

>>but today there is no way for our modern media to exist in a fully open source world.

That is completely false there is thousand and thousands of hours of media that exist in a fully open source world.

Music is almost all DRM free today, there is a strong push for DRM Free books,

TV and Movies seem to be the last hold outs for Defective by Design DRM.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h94ZKGVg-B8
W3C doesn't care about freedom. It's good to know the real face of W3C.
Anyone tried the Light L16 camera yet?
I figured some people in HN crowd might already have the Light L16 in their hands by now. How is the camera in your opinion? Does it compare to prosumer / DSLR cameras?
Although it is nice to see an open source alternative, my team and I went through a period of trying out different chat services and passed over Slack and MM and went for Discord.

There is something to be said for hosting your own service and knowing exactly what is running, but we didnt have that specific use case. Our main desire was to have a much longer history than what the free tier of slack provided and the ability to have more restrictive channels.

Slack's message limit was a non-starter for us. Not because of the limit itself, but because it applied globally rather than per channel. Once we introduced a "random", screw-off channel, we started to see some of our slower, yet important channels completely lose their history.

Discord is designed more for gaming, but we've been able to use it extremely effectively and its nice to see it follow closely behind the feature additions of other chat services.
FTA: "“Right away we had to figure out how willing we were to collaborate with Twain, and tell him, potentially, when he was wrong,” Philip said. “... He [Twain] can, on one page, seem progressive well beyond his years—he can seem like he’s talking right out of 2017, or 2050, even—and then the very next page he’ll say something that makes you smack yourself on the forehead and say, ‘I can’t work with this guy.’ ”"

Ugh. Is anyone else put off by the modern-day collaborator, based upon this article?
let them go, and take their drivel with them.

if they want DRM, let them convince their own customers; just leave it off my machine.
Women wear makeup to simulate beauty and men act "alpha" to simulate success. If we accept one we should be willing to accept the other. The undercurrent of bitterness and negativity prevalent in the online pickup community is a consequence of the fact that most of these men lived most of their lives with little sexual success and harboring an idealistic view of women. When the bubble breaks they're prone to going too far the other way.
In case you didn't see it, parent replied with a link on my comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15280029
This is why many bookshops teamed up with coffee shops. Even Blackwell's in Oxford has Caffé Nero upstairs. Several indie bookshops do it too.

Nowadays I just go to the Oxfam bookshop near me. It's cheaper than Amazon marketplace (£2.80 shipping). I'm working through the old Hugo/Nebula winners and pretty much every week there's a new classic sci-fi I haven't read. That and cookery, you can pick up lovely books that would cost upwards of £20 for £2.50.

I'm also very wary of buying on Amazon, because it's been flooded with cheap crap from Aliexpress. The exception are a few brands like Anker which are reliably OK.
"Extortion" typically refers to using force to unjustly extract money from someone. Without unjust extraction of money, there can be no extortion. I understand that others have concerns about control, and that's totally legitimate, but it's also not what I was responding to.
Yay digital serfdom! Long live the feudal lords! http://www.newsweek.com/silicon-valley-private-property-and-...
is there a timetable on a drone landing for the dragon capsule?
I think a blanket "nope" stance is too harsh, and leaves no room for nuance. It also assumes that the mods are not intelligent people.
It's like arguing that Flash is a standard because the majority of browsers supported it. DRM isn't the open web and should have nothing to do with the W3C. You want to force DRM onto your users? write a native app.
I'm not a big fan of the new =>, it means the arguments variable will have parent scope in => but not in ->, it kind of erodes into coffeescript's elegance/consistency imho, unless I'm missing something ?
I suspect it's simply a function of which one happened to catch people's eye and where they started their discussion. Multiple submissions on the same topic (from the same or different sources) aren't that uncommon. Once one gets some momentum, it's likely to be reinforced: it'll appear higher on the front page, more people will notice it, more people will comment, more people will notice the comments on that article, which will make them notice that article, et cetera. I don't think you can read much more into it than that. I wouldn't be surprised if a mod comes along and merges the comments from one into the other, if they notice it.

What would be interesting is if they had exactly the same upvotes and comments.
Toys 'R' Us might have been a great store when we (I) were kids, but I went there a few months back--what a wasteland. Barbie, GI Joe, and movie tie-in action figures as far as the I can see. Good riddance. People can buy crappy Angry Birds dolls on Amazon just as well as Toys 'R' Us.

I hope this opens up opportunities for superior brick & mortar toy stores.
Remember that AWS has been in the game for over a decade. Per-hour billing was amazing when it came in.

Also, is the economic incentive really that huge? Or is it just a nicety?
I think "second vs. minute" might be into "distinction without a difference" territory. Sure, per-second will definitionally help at the margins, but I'm dubious about the amount of money it will actually save.

That all being said, it can enable a bunch of interesting things (e.g. more interesting stuff with AWS Lambda), and I look forward to see what per-second billing becomes an enabling technology for.
that's the whole point: if your product is so amazing that your users will do that, then it's great! but those of us who are NOT your customers will be able to exist without the attack surface on our machine.
One can build computer just using gears, pullies and other mechanical devices without using any electricity at all. It would be mind boggling to compare cost of mechanical iPhone X to build in 1600s.
The hackers breached Vevo, and then took down the data from their site because Vevo asked them to? Well, that's nice of them.
NFX Guild just showed 14 new companies to top investors in its latest demo day
"the rule of thumb is 2 generations back has the best support "

That's exactly what I said, older Macs (as in those no longer supported by Apple) are great candidates for Linux.
Not quite the same, you don't own the whole core on the t2 and will get cpu throttled.
Primary progressive MS (PPMS), Relapsing-remitting MS (RRMS), etc.
It's just another chip in our ability to own things. It just another way tha makes us more beholden to our digital landlords. This lawyer explains it best: http://www.newsweek.com/silicon-valley-private-property-and-...
OP is talking about a small toy store, but regardless - an international franchise that has a location in your home town employs people from your home town, whereas Amazon (for the sake of argument in this case) does not. That's the core argument of 'buy local'.
getting a little optimistic there...
The key is incremental change I agree; if legislators only interact and record changes in final form with all the mass of changes dumped onto a user for review then such a project would be untenable. Small changes would really improve usefulness, and I daydream sometimes about what sort of dodgy log messages folks would use to obscure intent. Either way it could really empower a lot of analysis I'd imagine.

Do you mind sharing with us the company and the product you developed in this space?
I think HHVM was equivalent to what jQuery was to JavaScript. jQuery forced JavaScript to be better, and the better JavaScript becomes, the less jQuery is needed.

So if we get to a point where HHVM is completely irrelevant, it simply means "Mission Accomplished".
Leveraged buyouts take down another victim. As always, it's shocking that these are legal.
Flash and Silverlight DRM (as an example of 2) weren't previously web standards, and even the 3rd party plugins that included them had significant non-DRM-related uses.

This is a different animal: Adding standardized interfaces to browsers specifically designed to talk to dedicated DRM modules.
It's digital serfdom, pure and simple. Rather than letting us own, they want us to pay rent. It's the electronic feudal lords looking out for one another. This lawyer explains it well: http://www.newsweek.com/silicon-valley-private-property-and-...
I think that these changes mean the death knell for PHP in any version, for small companies. There is still a place for Hack or PHP7 in very large operations, but startups, and businesses that run at smaller scale, really should walk away from PHP entirely as soon as possible.

Two reasonable directions to choose are Python Three with a framework like Flask (lighweight) or Django (heavy duty). Or go to the JVM with something like Grails framework (heavy duty) on the Groovy language. Ratpack is a lightweight framework for Groovy and there is also an interesting option to use Vaadin 8 which lets you put your GUI code into the main app rather than writing separate Javascript code.

When making your decision, be sure to consider the huge JVM ecosystem that integrates quite easily with Groovy including development tools like Jenkins and SOAPUI that can be scripted with Groovy. And the Python side also has a fairly extensive ecosystem of libraries as well.

The skill level of Python and Java/Groovy developers tends to be higher than PHP which has always attracted people who would learn just enought to get by.

The software dev community has gone through an explosion of diversity in the past 2 decades and that has enabled a lot of experimentation with new ways of doing this. There is a lot of good in this. But now we are in a period of contraction. Some of this is manifested in the spread of functional capabilities via libraries such as reactive extensions and functional features being added to languages like Java and Javascript. Another manifestation is the fading of PERL from prominence, and this is now happening to PHP as well as Ruby.

This is evolution. Embrace it or face your personal extinction as a software developer.
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We still have whole computers to ourselves. Those that wish to throw their money away renting can knock themselves out.
Wonder if Amazon will eventually get there? I think they are opening brick and mortar stores now... They can dominate both online and in meatspace.
Interesting thanks
Though it may be an international franchise, it still provides local jobs.
>>It's still a highly valuable brand

Is this true? I don't really connect the brand with value anymore. I think that legacy was firmly in the 1980s-1990s. There's some value there, but I doubt it is highly valuable.
No, it's probably not intentional corruption and malice. Just a belief that users are getting more of what they want as passive consumers paying large companies for services, rather than as creators in a peer to peer web. Realistically, they're likely to be right.
I'll probably be sorry for this, but... why doesn't this same standard apply in the political sphere?

A few years back, it seemed that a huge number of people were willing to give President Obama, and even Lois Lerner, a pass on illegal actions of the IRS based on exactly this theory: it's the responsibility of the manager to know what their underlings are doing.

And I don't mean to pick on just Obama. Ronald Reagan, patron saint of the GOP, skated on just such a thing with Iran-Contra. They got Oliver North to be a scapegoat and insulate Reagan and Bush.

So if you're wanting blood from the Equifax execs, think about who you've given a free pass to before.
That's not correct - are we looking at the same table? There are more of the reference countries in the top 10 of the various categories (except cost). Here's the number of times each appear in the top ten categories in the Wikipedia article you posted:

Canada: 1

Singapore: 1

Germany: 0

Switzerland: 3

France: 3

UK: 2

Australia: 1

The other larger* countries that feature in the top-ten of these categories - Japan, Sweden, Spain, Austria - all have universal healthcare. I'm not sure where you stand, but it seems that no matter how you slice it Americans are getting a raw deal with their healthcare.

* = those roughly the same population as the smallest country on the list - Switzerland - or more
Very technological.

Based on the success of this post, I'm going to start posting celebrity gossip for the karma.
It's possible to enforce MAP pricing (minimum advertised price) online that matches in-store prices, but if you're a small player you'll lose out on the business of some of the larger buyers who are used to getting their way, and then you run the risk of getting yourself put out of business by trying to help out the little guys.
It's nice to see anyone mainstream tackling the myth that "the rest of the developed world has single payer".
Work Ethic and Culture: Re Andrew Ng
Charge rent/visiting fees.
This is the most hilarious thing posted to HN in a while
There are multiple open source web browsers. You are free to install one without DRM and free to visit websites that don't need that feature. What changes for you just because there is a standard?
Thank you, that's a very useful plugin.
The iPhone 6S is the last of the great iPhones
"No games crackable in 2 years time, said the headline...now the cracking scene, which was mostly dying, has seen some revival"

Do you have a citation for this? Every game, dvd, stream, book etc ever has been cracked. Software protection has a 0% success rate.
Out of genuine interest, did your Phil degree lead to many career opportunities?
> The web needs these media companies more than the media companies need the web.

Why? The web seemed to be doing perfectly well without them. Maybe the profit margins of concerns like Youtube and Netflix need them.
That is not that much different than playing with mindless toys. Research on device usage with children is mixed to say the least.
> Bain Capital

Obligatory Colbert video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSLGt0-bHIA
> A lot of people think that the battle here is EME versus DRM-free content, but that's not the case.

Yes it is.

Suppose that in order to play DRMed content, the user was required to be staked to the ground and covered in angry fire ants. Nobody would be willing to do that, so people who use DRM would have no customers, so everyone would stop using DRM.

EME is in the opposite direction from this, so it will cause more DRM and less DRM-free content.

Adobe Flash has been slowly dying for years, which is not a problem.
Perhaps it is private between transacting parties but still trackable per account (in line with know your customer laws).
How McLaren Built Secret Body Armor for an Anonymous Billionaire
I wish I could talk about how bad widevine is but I can't because NDA. Y'all fucked
"This device is not part of A Bomb. Rather, it implements a common wiring and chemical mixture function that may be used to ignite, and rapidly interact with the surrounding environment. Implementation of A Bomb is not required for use of this device: only the Joke Bang Sign is required to be implemented as a common baseline."
The plot thickens.
Ask HN: How is using React Native going for you?
I just finished a simple "daily reminders" app for a client (using React Native). It's a huge winner for small apps like this. I finished in mere hours with zero iOS or Android experience, but I'm on the fence about whether it's useful for much else. Facebook and Airbnb have the money to absorb its idiosyncrasies, but startups and the app middle class possibly don't.

Whatever camp you may be in, how are you using React Native and how is it going?
OK, so that indeed is a new thing - they found a way to deny requests while not getting legal fees shifted on them if they lose eventually. This is indeed tricky and new. I just wish the article made it clearer that this is the reportable bit.
There is also a Golang Slack client, slack-cli, that is quite good.
some

> Women wear makeup to simulate beauty and

some

> men act "alpha" to simulate success. [...] we should be willing to accept

that different people do different things.
Well that comment went as well as I expected. Can someone give a good argument why someone shouldn’t be able to use DRM to protect their content?
FinTech – Too Big to Stay Unregulated
> you should not have to pay the court costs to fight a system denying you access to public records

True, but that's what it always took if the agency you are asking is stonewalling (and they regularly do). As explained above, the new bit turns out they found a way to do it cheaper, so that they can avoid legal costs shifted to them (probably can be fixed by a law, but didn't happen yet).
The reserved instance pricing model is really poorly implemented. You have to commit to an instance class and a region, and if you need to change you can, but there is some secondary market. When compared to a sustained use model, it is a disaster. Managing all that in a large org is a real pain in the ass.
Multiple architecture system emulation using QEMU