skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We are taking about DRM here. How do you know they are being stolen by breaking DRM? Maybe they copy DVD's or screeners or hacking a content provider. Not necessarily bypassing DRM. Some that do that I've seen are very low quality, hence my statement about lossless.
I am not sure about origins, but the name they disclosed in their PR is of a very capable outfit.
> Netflix doesn't block Linux users.

They don't block (anymore) they just offer a degraded experience, 720p resolution only. Piracy still offers a superior product.
We can always reclaim Gopherspace!
good to know they went back on the crap they were doing with the E series. I badmouth it because when i saw them in person (bought online, returned) they deserved it so badly that i didn't even consider another lenovo afterwards
Honestly I’m not sure it’s possible to make DRM illegal. On what grounds with that be constitutional? Artists have had rights to control how their work is performed in the US forever. How is this any different? Why would one form get protection and not the other?

I mean legally I don’t know if this counts as a free speech argument or not I just don’t see how such a long would end up passing muster.
Perhaps the end game is that customers will pay $10/family to enter the bricks and mortar store) - not unreasonable, if it has entertainment value/ a cool vibe.

Then the $10 is rebated off anything they buy in-store.
https://medium.com/@joe_brewer/the-mental-disease-of-late-st...

enough said
Would an anti-DRM law actually be constitutional?
In many European countries, the prices of books are fixed [1]. Sometimes it's arranged by law, sometimes by publishers. Toy publishers could try to achieve the same.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed_book_price_agreement
> I'd argue that you are the one doing this. You're labeling something as what you'd like it to be and what it's intended to be, not what it is.

What does "labeling" mean? I'm just saying the value of cryptocurrency depends on whether in the future it will be used as a currency. If it will, then it's value is much higher than it's current price. If not, then it's value is zero.

> This is irrelevant to me. If I can profit off something, I don't need to form conclusions as to whether or not it's a bubble or whether or not it will succeed.

I thought we were talking about whether crypto is in a bubble or not. No? Then what are you talking about? Irrelevant to what?
The amount of death we accept as a society just for the convenience of automobile travel astounds me. It's been normalised at this point, but surely at some time there was an outcry -- at least in the Netherlands they managed to make a change before it became entrenched.
Mental disease of late stage capitalism
Hackers Hid Backdoor in CCleaner Security App – 2.3M Infected
Aren't we having this discussion here because of his actions?

I think he got what he wanted.

Some people are OK giving up a little comfort for a better world, you know?
There are a lot of choices to not write HTML by concatenating strings though.
Light has been stored as sound for the first time
First They Made OkCupid and SparkNotes. Now They’re Taking on Slack
It was already in a pastebin. Added here for convenience, because reading a pastebin on a phone is awful.
If you give it another shot, make sure you are running Xwayland and that you aren't manually setting the scaling factor. In the current version, it will guess a scaling factor based on the DPI of each display, but if you manually set it it will be applied globally and you will be right back where you are now.
Who watches Netflix with their browser?
Netflix has never existed without DRM. Flash, Winevine or whatever other technology they use, they've always had something. Without it, they would never be allowed to exist by the people who own the content. It's naive to believe they would just stop using DRM magically.

They would find another more hacky, less secure and less user-friendly solution, and everyone would be worse for it.
If Toys R Us is responsible for about 10% of all toy sales by revenue that wouldn't be terribly meaningful, but yeah, if they sell proportionally more Mattel toys, whereas other retailers might sell comparable toys from other brands more, that could certainly account for it. Thanks.
What's the opposite of plagiarism? If there's isn't a term for it, maybe we should coin one just for this.
Roku more than doubles IPO targets
YC21 Ministry of Truth is hiring full stack engineers.
Have a source on the "old union slogan"? I would like to gauge vs some other language regarding tripartite division of the 24-hour day.
So now's the time to buy Toys R Us stock?
DRM is harmful. Its prerequisite is that users do not control their hardware. This has far reaching consequences that go well beyond media consumption and entertainment.
> I think that, with killer features like breaking out of DRM, the market share could change.

Indeed, that would kill Firefox once and for all.
If I'm on my computer as opposed to a mobile or TV device, I use the browser. It's not as often, but I definitely have done so, even within the past week.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h94ZKGVg-B8&t=8m23s

If they are not corrupted they certainly acted in an extremely suspicious way.

I advise you to watch the whole video because it gets better and better, the press conference part in particular.
What to do varies because human bodies, environment, and gut bacteria composition varies. It's more than diet. Inflammation due to lack of sleep, stress, or smoking is also a huge factor.

That said, the biggest factor for me was eliminating dairy. I used to drink more than a gallon of milk a week. I saw results after about two weeks of eliminating dairy. My dermatologist was shocked. She refused to believe there's any correlation between diet and eczema. Patches didn't start completely going away until I also eliminated wheat. They are basically gone when I regularly eat fermented foods, take a soil-based probiotic, and get good sleep.

You might want to try an elimination diet (starting with dairy, then wheat/gluten). If you want something more structured check out an auto-immune paleo protocol like Whole30. I wish that existed when I got started. Had to learn the hard and slow way on my own.
it's totally dependant on your workload. for some users there will be absolutely no difference, for others it could easily be thousands or tens of thousands of dollars of savings over a year.
This is what canvas+webASM is designed to do. Legit content and tracking scripts will be delivered to your browser as a single binary blob.
I noticed that too. If they released breach information before trying to patch it up, that would have been a horrible play.
What would happen if someone got malware on to your machine that specifically targeted PortableApps.com?
Requiring a server to playback the media is already the strongest form of DRM possible. If that's not enough they can just make their own native applications that implement all the DRM that they could possibly want. The only disadvantage of a native application is that they are not crossplatform and EME CDMs aren't exactly cross platform either. They are native code that require the module to be ported to the operating system that.

What's the point of the web if it's just another crappy proprietary platform? EME is basically Flash 2.0.

>Such a sad loss for the web..

What loss? Is the only purpose of a software platform to devour everything without any integrity and it's worthless if it fails to adhere to the will of multibillion dollar companies?
"There's a lot of money involved, therefore there must be foul play."

I personally would much rather have a secure, optimized and clean implementation, rather than hacky plugins and poorly developed solutions that put me at risk and destroy performance.
Of course for the worse. As usual worst things in the world come with a silent agreement of majority.
SoftBank’s Vision Fund is the biggest technology investment portfolio ever
I suspect inland China.

But, yeah, I translate that as "We chose to fail" or, less kindly, "We chose to fail because this won't make us rich in 12 months."

If someone offers you "carte blanche" to basically do R&D from prototype to industrial scale, that's a pretty big deal. If you can't figure out how to follow through, you probably shouldn't be running a business.
> What's the opposite of plagiarism?

Original authorship? Or am I misunderstanding what you're getting at? (It wouldn't be the first time :)
Wasn't an option until Windows 10, I think. autoruns from SysInternals is my go-to.
When I went to Harvard as a math graduate student in 1976, the professors I was most looking forward to engaging with in some way weren't mathematicians. One was Ken Arrow, in large part because of his Impossibility Theorem, which I later extended in various (unpublished) ways. The other was Putnam, in large part because of his paper The Mental Life of Some Machines, which for me was quite effectively blew up mind/body duality.

I sat in on an undergraduate course by Putnam. It wasn't all that exciting, but a few memorable moments were:

-- His confession/apology about having greatly changed his mind in recent years on political matters. (Apparently he'd been a leading left-winger in the then-recent Vietnam War protest era.)

-- A crack that "If it weren't for the parallelogram law of forces, physics would be like sociology."

-- A crack that Unitarianism was the belief that there exists no more than one god.

-- His description of his standard final examination: "Part A: Write a question suitable for this course. Part B: Answer it. You will be graded on both parts."
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> Slack is also used for some casual communities as well. For instance if I were to use the Screeps/EVE Online slack like I do a work one, I'd never be off my phone.

Slack's been pretty clear that they don't want their product to be used for this use case, and have even nudged some larger "casual" communities and open-source projects off. So it's not surprising that they plan their feature roadmap according to what (they think) will be useful to businesses.
In case anybody else is wondering, here's the key for the letters on the map:

C = Communities

P = Parks

R = Reserves

S = Sanctuaries

D = Developments of Distinction

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International Dark Sky Communities
Communities are legally organized cities and towns that adopt quality outdoor lighting ordinances and undertake efforts to educate residents about the importance of dark skies.

International Dark Sky Parks
Parks are publicly- or privately-owned spaces protected for natural conservation that implement good outdoor lighting and provide dark sky programs for visitors.

International Dark Sky Reserves
Reserves consist of a dark “core” zone surrounded by a populated periphery where policy controls are enacted to protect the darkness of the core.

International Dark Sky Sanctuaries
Sanctuaries are the most remote (and often darkest) places in the world whose conservation state is most fragile.

Dark Sky Developments of Distinction
Developments of Distinction recognize subdivisions, master planned communities, and unincorporated neighborhoods and townships whose planning actively promotes a more natural night sky but does not qualify them for the International Dark Sky Community designation.

Source: http://www.darksky.org/idsp/
You're missing the point; if the information content isn't there (i.e. "no clues") and you're not providing it somehow (e.g. by "cheating" and providing more than one image from the Internet), there's literally no way to reconstruct it -- this reeks of the Nyquist sampling theorem.

It's not something that can still be accomplished by someone who isn't a pessimist; it's provably impossible.
My yard is 11 acres, and I wouldn't trade it for the world. 17 min commute.
The Cold War on the Ocean Floor
DeepFreeze? I thought it was all software.
A toy store that isn't even a little magical to walk into is not long for this world.
When they closed down its flagship at Time Square, I was expecting TRU not doing very well.
Linux is a small meaningless edge case for these companies anyway, I just mentioned it because the portability of a plugin is much higher than of a full native app - so if there's any chance it'll be supported, it's in the web-based world.

How many sites will be using this outside of stuff like Netflix/Amazon/PS Vue/Sling and co? Buying someone's DRM solution or building your own only makes sense for high-dollar content?

But again, from my perspective as someone who wants to write code for anything but browsers, anything that moves dev jobs away from the web is good news for me.
Eh, that's not entirely true.

To still allow for competition, you define a base feature set and representation, and then you allow vendor extensions. You need some sort of standards body that can promote vendor extensions to standardized, supported things. And clients can choose to support whatever (or no) vendor extensions that they want to.

However, I agree with you that it's not very practical, but for different reasons: 1) competitors don't necessarily like to cooperate to that level and 2) it will slow down progress a lot, which is a decently good reason for #1. And 3), which I think is the big one:

Companies doing this stuff really don't want standards if they're the first-mover, because standards necessarily enable competition. If I'm an anti-competitive producer (or even just a producer that doesn't mind competition, but wants to maintain a head start long enough to secure a market position), I don't want to start off with a standard: I want to do my own thing, and get people to adopt it, and then I can lock them in, at least temporarily. If someone comes along later and clones my format, that's fine, but they have to do work to figure it out, and I still own the format, so I'm naturally ahead.
Not exactly a corruption, it is just world doesnt belong to national governments - only to corporations. That wont change any time soon and will only worsen.
It reads less like a perk, rather more as a warning filter. Hopefully the "transparency" saves both applicants and the company time.
I will buy a Chuwi HiBook for any developer who wants to make Linux and HiDPI not suck.
> Even if this tool could abstract away some of the complexity, it is still very difficult to model textiles or other wrapped components on a solid.

It's also remarkably difficult to simulate fabric draping. Look at how much trouble Pixar had modeling hair in "The Incredibles"--now make all of those hairs have cross linking hairs and simulate it--yikes!--that's fabric.

I'm surprised nobody has taken one of these big GPU clusters and tried something new.
How would you know?
Bonus points for using social graph data for boardmembers and the fratboys they hire to front-run terrible CEO hiring decisions.
> "Part A: Write a question suitable for this course. Part B: Answer it. You will be graded on both parts."

This is brilliant. Thank you for sharing it!
The tracker/torrent numbers I see are consistent with more than a quarter of US college-aged people using them, and more than three quarters watching media obtained that way—those are better numbers than HBO. It absolutely has a role in tastemaking.
I would presume we need them because every healthy human being has them after one to two years of age.

We also know that antibiotics that kill gut flora lead to health/digestion issues until the gut flora is replenished.

It doesn't take nearly as many why questions to get to a "we don't know" answer with biology versus physics. There's lots of stuff about biology we can observe but do not understand the why as well as we understand something like the physics behind a microprocessor.

There are even theories that gut bacteria can drive human behavior at some level.
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/06/gut-bacte...
Wordpress are just starting what could easily be a multi-year rewrite as a result and Drupal has specifically excluded React from evaluation - both on the basis of the patent issues
The only reason I'm resorting to violent metaphors is that our moral intuitions are usually more clear around those than around fairly recent societal constructions. Given the choice, I would rather be beaten up than subjected to any of the potentially life-wrecking legal threats listed in section 3 of https://www.eff.org/files/2014/09/16/unintendedconsequences2..., and I would think that this preference ordering is neither uncommon nor irrational. Given that, in what sense are the violent metaphors "too strong"?
Sure, that combined with the fact that courts simply refuse to refer to anything involving software a 'negligence', no matter how extravagantly negligent it might be, would make that a pretty good strategy. The only flaw in it, really, is that it would also open you up to things like the Sony hack which actually had them shut down operations for awhile. As much as companies REALLY do not want to ever admit it, no matter what they do, their software IS their business in every sense. Without it in a working state, they have to shut their doors. So I suppose you have to strike a balance... secure enough that things keep working, but not so secure that it actually costs money...
We pitted cars, bus, bike and skateboard at rush hour, with a surprising result
Pale Moon will be the last outpost in the world of suitable open-source browsers?

https://github.com/MoonchildProductions/Pale-Moon/issues/135...
It is absolutely ridiculous we allow vehicles traveling at many kms per hour a few meters from our front doors. There is no way if we didn't already have this system, that we would ever implment it now.

But somehow most people think it is acceptable. For the chance to get somewhere slightly quicker, or not have to use PT or cycle.
> most elegant abstraction over data

This may be. We should also step back consider if building functional abstractions over data is a good way for modelling all of computation itself? Or something like 'smaller virtual computers all the way down' (i.e. smalltalk) is a better model? Decomposing a thing into the smaller things of the same kind seems cleaner from a certain perspective, at least.

In Haskell, higher level functions can be composed from other functions, which is very clean. But the state isn't inside the function (like it is for a real computer), so it doesn't model a computer completely in my mind - it models one aspect (the transformation).

Another perspective is thinking about building large scale systems and coupling of modules (how do you abstract over data from a third party library where you don't have the source code?). I kind of get smalltalk's answer here (an object scales up to become a distributable module), but I don't know if there is a good answer in a full Haskell based world.

(BTW, I'm not saying one is better, I'm still thinking these things through.)
No one could forget the force of Steve Jobs that brought back Apple and that ambitious Travis Kalanick who built Uber empire.
But you also had rights enshrined in law, like resale.
How Microsoft DevOps org creates "Self forming eng teams" at scale (2015)
The case that cited "fire in a crowded theater" was pretty much entirely demolished in Brandenburg v. Ohio. While there hasn't been a specific case on opposition to the draft, telling that you do so is certainly within the "imminent lawless action" line set by that ruling.
The best way to hide entitlement is to phrase things so their surface sound innocent.

If my mother were to say "I would love it if you call me more", do you think it's simply a notice, with no other meaning behind it?

Because that's not the way I take it.

You still haven't answered the question of why Ballard would want to make it easier, given that 1) he's no longer working on it, 2) it's available under a free software license, 3) with a git repo, and 4) others have already put it on github.
non obfuscated article archive because nobody can read the WSJ at first place :

http://archive.is/uUnGp
I do performance / app triage work, but see the same thing. Often I walk in to a supposed "emergency" only to discover the problem has been occurring for months, if not years. Often, there is a significant cost (IE: in the millions) but either the organization isn't willing to remediate, or isn't even aware of the full scope of the cost (IE: "It's not my budget so I don't care"). In at least one case, I came across a security problem where the response was "oh yeah, we've known about that for years". Sigh. Sadly, too often unless companies have a very large customer who gets angry with them, or they are publicly shamed for a problem, they just let it magically go.
I think that's the fastest loading page with heavy graphics I saw on Hacker News today, and I saw a lot of pages because I've been training an A.I.
When was it anything but Barbie, GI Joe and movie tie-in action figures? That is mostly what it was in the 70s and 80s when I was a kid. 1/2 the movie action figures are probably Star Wars just like when I was a kid.
The paradox of tolerance is not about tolerating hate speech. It's about tolerating violent actions.

If you tolerate hate speech, there's no paradox: you can do so, without surrendering the protection against intolerance for those members that speech targets.
1. "Snap has a reputation as a nude pictures app." is about as relevant as WhatsApp being a reputation for a nude pictures app. That legacy is years old, especially now as Stories is a larger part of Snap's reputation and because Snap has been removing larger pornographic accounts.

2. "Why doesn't Saudi Arabia block Snap?" It really seems like you haven't been up to date on what Snapchat is. Snap is a huge social network, and I'd imagine someone is fighting to keep Snapchat so that they can still post their stories about their 20 lamborghinis they bought this morning. Again, blocking Snapchat would be like blocking instagram.

3. The real reason Al Jareeza is being blocked is political. Nudity isn't a "real" issue, much like you can certainly find Saudi princes allegedly drinking alcohol. Al Jareeza is a real thing royalty is cautious of, nudity is not.
Not 'helping them', just diagnosing a breach. Part of their due diligence to make sure they don't run afoul of the reporting laws. Once it was determined they didn't have proof of data leaving the network, I imagine they booted that security company immediately. They're not going to spend money to improve their security just because a non-reportable breach occurred. They don't give a shit about your data.
Murderer? Accident? Clearly this is your story to tell and not mine, but those two words don’t usually go together. There’s probably a sense in which using the word “murderer” is technically correct, but it goes well against the grain of what the word connotes.
I 100% agree, and I wouldn't have agreed to it had I not been on a standardization committee in a before/after situation. The before was mainly implementers. At least they had a super majority. After was 5% implementers and it was a complete disaster. That 95% was like a kid in a candy store: no regard for implementation difficulty or what it would do to language consistency. Thankfully, the effort died quite quickly, so I never had to make much of the issue.
FDA Approves Spinal Cord Stimulator
Perhaps Canada, as well. I paid my rent with a check deposited into the landlord's mailbox back in 2010.
Scientists Can Now Repaint Butterfly Wings
You can have arbitrary exceptions to ensure coherency. There is no reasonable need to have a position without exceptions. Reality isn't that simple.
If I were a shareholder in Equifax, I would probably be looking very closely at what those executives are paid. They adamantly insist that they had no idea about the most significant thing to happen at their company in years. Clearly, they're not just lazy, they have to be aggressively, emphatically incompetent.
SAD? Standard American Diet?
BoxStarter is looking promising - http://boxstarter.org/
Aren't you still limited by the number of HDMI ports anyway?