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> I'm somewhat undecided on DRM, please convince me of your opinion

OK.

You can send someone encrypted data over the internet, with the decryption keys hidden in your software, and decide exactly how that person's computer reads that data. The only way for them to read the data that is now on their system is by using the encryption keys you sent them, but they can't possibly find those keys; only your software can. There is no way for the user to cough debugger cough find the keys, or copy the now decrypted data from their own system.

Of course, that was obviously a bald-faced lie. That lie is so popular, it has a name: Digital Rights Management (DRM).

Of course, corporate executives love this lie. They don't care how impossible or absurd it is, they want DRM to be reality. Why? Piracy. They think to themselves, "if all these people who copy my media have to pay me, then I will make more money!". So, without a second thought, they jump to coercion.

Of course, no matter how hard you try, DRM cannot stop piracy. There are billions of people out there, and all it takes is one to share your content. Some of them use debuggers to find that "secret" key, others just use raw computing power to record the raw data. After all, that computing power is relatively inexpensive compared to the cost of a handful of Blue-Rays at full price.

Of course, the realistic decision would be to give up on DRM, but that ignores just how much these executives hate piracy. They have not only created a culture of hatred using propaganda, they have legitimized their fears using copyright law.

They have such tight control over our law that they even got a new law: "Section 1201 of Title 17 under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)". This law explicitly makes it illegal to find those "secret" keys we talked about earlier, in other words, "break DRM".

So now DRM "works" from a legal standpoint. No actual logic supports the lie, but now it's the law, and has the full force of US law enforcement that make it the truth.

So, whatever, I just have to get the Netflix app, or use EME now. No big deal, right? I'm an honest person! I want to support creators anyway! Screw piracy! I don't have to care about this, right?

Wrong.

Remember Section 1201? Well that doesn't only prevent people from copying movies from HBO or Netflix. It makes it illegal to "break" any DRM. It turns out that "DRM" is a pretty abstract lie. Like other neat abstractions (Monads, anyone?) it can be applied in some "neat", unexpected ways. Here are a few:

[printer cartridges](https://www.wired.com/2016/09/hp-printer-drm/)
[light bulbs](https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20151214/07452133070/light...)
[rectal thermometers](https://boingboing.net/2016/01/14/the-internet-of-things-in-...)

To quote Cory Doctorow, "We literally have DRM up the ass".

So next time you want to refill a printer cartridge, turn on the lights, or accurately check body temperature, understand that you might have to struggle with that because of DRM, and that anyone who wants to help you, or publish security vulnerabilities, will be breaking the law.
What they said was that DRM = user does not control their hardware, not DRM = bad. And that's true.
Nitpick, but your space station isn't going to have walls that are several inches of steel and several inches more of Kevlar composite, so for an equivalent size, it would be much much lighter. Agreed with your main point that we need to start manufacturing in space to get to very large scale habitats, though.
Though since there is an app for iOS, I doubt many people cared.
After listening to him on Joe Rogan's podcast it was petty clear that he still doesn't really understand what he did wrong. If it's true that he only gave 5 million to Livestrong he probably made much more back through sponsor money so you could argue even that was just a calculated move for his own benefit.

The sad thing is that with enough effort he will come back. He just hasn't mastered the art of fake remorse yet.
I'm not sure I understood. I don't know about Swift but do JS and Java have significant whitespace?
I agree, the conservatory really should fuck off. Creativity is definitely present in music, but unless you are a composer, you won't get paid for it. --not much anyway. Unfortunately, creativity doesn't really exist in classical performance anymore. When it exists in jazz, it is happening very rarely. There are exceptions, but no one knows these folks outside of jazz. - as you probably already know. The gypsy jazzers are a fun group of people, but again, it isn't creative, unless some nutball takes a really cool solo (once in a blue moon) which is such a wonderful moment when it happens. They are usually not asked to jump in much, as you probably also know. But nice to say heyto a fellow musician/engineer.
You're saying that like all companies are just widget manufacturers and who cares whether they succeed or fail? But some companies make their money based on a public trust and if you turn out to be abusing that, the government should come down on you with the full weight and measure of their power. We've spent so long in the middle and upper-classes of the First World kneeling at the altar of Shareholder Value we don't see any difference between Someguy's Ditch Digging Service and Arsenic Baby Votamins, Inc.
It seems to me that it's unusual to see something be cleaned up, without that something also being totally destroyed. I hope this goes well!
Obviously YMMV. My hit rate is about one in two, with wildly varying numerators.

Even excluding googlers and facebookers, I have dozens of friends who've made millions apiece. Bay area mortgages paid off, kids off to college debt free, parents healthcare paid for, etc.
Then what purpose does EME serve?

That seems to be the false dichotomy. The claim is that EME is justified in order to get rid of the oh-so-evil Adobe Flash. But if using native apps is a satisfactory alternative that can also replace Flash then why do we need to corrupt the web?
A pedestrian will never spook a car.

I think the net positives of making fast (no matter how much that prius hogging the left lane my try to impart otherwise) transportation cheap (in term of dollars, hours, or any other metric) are a massive win for society.
same here - lol
I moved to U.S. just a few years ago, but I know what you mean. The bar to kids' happiness is very low, which is, unfortunately, not the same with adults, including myself.
I went from a rails app back to PHP for Symfony as well.
It matters. But not like it used too.

All leaders are very quickly out of their depth these days given the scale, speed and complexity of today's markets and rates at which things change. What they can actually do, to be effective has reduced. Lot of them end up being lightning rods when things go bad. They know this and rightly get compensated highly for it.
Many news sites limit readers to a few articles before throwing up the pay-wall. Usually that means paying $$ for an ongoing subscription (/m, /y). Maybe if you could make a /d or /w micropayment? You've already had an opportunity to sample a few articles so know what quality to expect.
Or, after you hit escape and enter command line mode, you may choose to type q immediately followed by !.

This sequence will quit while also overriding the saving of the file. This can come in handy if you accidentally change a file after you start editing it.

Escape:q!
And for the investor lawsuits against C*Os for destruction of share value due to (gross?) negligence.
Further, because of the amortization schedule, applying that extra principal payment only shaves off the last month of the amortization schedule, which is the smallest fraction of interest of all payments.

One would still be better off investing that money in something until that last month, then apply the payment to save the very small amount of interest.

This assumes the mortgage is like most (all?) mortgages out there that follow an amortization schedule -- which are unlike credit cards or student loans, where early payments have a big benefit.
Better yet try saying "no".
Raw PHP is far from its roots as a templating tool and is a full featured programming language. I don't really see any reason why you'd want to use it for templates.
Not the usual story you see on HN... but it's still interesting - if the trading of US debt is the kind of thing that gets you going.

That said, it does get me going. What this story is telling you is:

1) Futures on US treasury bonds are going to fall, as the DOT unloads 42 million of them. This is a lot, and it will affect the value of your investments/401k in a non-trivial way.

2) Equities(and futures based on them, e.g. ES/NQ/DJIA) are going to rise, simply due to their inverse relationship with treasury bonds.

3) Commodities(such as oil, gasoline, natural gas) will increase in price.

4) Foreign interests will have a "fire sale" of US debt available to them for purchase. Whether or not they will buy it is anyone's guess. I'd say "if you know, you should tell us!", but we all know that won't happen.

What does this mean for the average investor? Short on bonds, long on equities. Your 401k or other managed investment portfolio is likely taking this approach on your behalf anyway(if they aren't, fire them and find one that does).

Edit: If you want to know what these particular financial instruments are and how they work(bonds and how they are traded), see here: https://www.cmegroup.com/education/files/understanding-treas...
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I often wonder if Armstrong could have avoided all of this had he simply made the decision not to return to the Tour De France after his retirement.
MediaWiki doesn't use Hack. Wikimedia Foundation servers (which run Wikipedias and other sites) do use HHVM, but the code is 100% PHP-compatible and still runs fine on standard PHP.
Dinosaurs Laid Blue Eggs–And That's a Big Deal
Can't think Doogie without thinking of Lil'Doogie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7R8umuu7ts
'Climate Change' Models WRONG
Good podcast on this topic: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-lara-murphy-show/id1...
I gave up on Ace like a decade ago... my local Fred Meyer (Kroger) has a better hardware section than my local Ace.

I don't really have any loyalty to Home Depot vs. Lowe's vs. a local mom and pop, just have what I need when I need it.
Yes. I saw this article in the print edition and sent a letter to the editor:

Car crashes figure prominently in "Accidental Killers: The challenge of living after you've caused another's death." Perhaps the best question raised by the article is: Why don't we work harder to build cities and societies that aren't auto-dependent? We have the technology to do so; we just don't deploy it. Every year, about ten times as many people die in car crashes as died on 9/11. Imagine if we had a proportional response.
> And none of that will actually satisfy the free software people regardless, because it's a binary blob either way.

That's kinda my point. Browser vendors had a no-win which-is-the-lesser evil choice: accept an in-browser binary blob but keep the linkability, etc, of the web, or concede the rest of the already-vastly-shrunken ground of the premium video playback market to off-web blobs.

Thing is, in ten years, it's not going to matter, because long-form premium video on web will be such a vanishingly small niche.

> How many sites used to use Flash?

For DRM instead of for ease of development and portability? Not many, I'd wager.
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Horses were dangerous, would often spook and throw riders - most carriage designs are top-heavy and unstable, I won't even start on bicycles - pretty much anything short of walking is dangerous on some level - even then you still might injure yourself, even severely.

Modern Society lives in a fallacy - that we can somehow, someway engineer danger out of life, that we can eliminate all risk of accidental injuries or death and make everything perfectly safe and sanitary - and in some ways we can, at an ever increasing incremental cost to do so - a cost that is often not justifiable in my humble opinion.

For example, In 2014 the NHTSA required all new cars to be sold with a backup camera - at an estimated cost of up to 143 dollars a car. In 2016 we sold 17,500,000 cars - if you add 100 dollars to the price of each car sold, you're looking at an extra 1,750,000,000 or 1.75 billion dollars, annually - to save 210 lives - in short 8.3 million dollars per life saved - even if you look at just injuries from accidental backing incidents, there were 15,000 of those in 2014 - you're still looking at 116,000 dollars spent per injury prevented - and this presumes this technology prevents every death, and every injury from accidental backing - Is this a worthy expenditure my gut tells me no (but I might be a cold hearted bastard) - I can just think of better ways to spend 1.75 billion dollars in the public good - an education campaign, and requiring a label, or warning sign to flash in the car would cost far less and probably save about as many lives.

Society doesn't think about those things though, we choose the easy, feel-good answer that all lives are valuable - its why for example, we've not even touched on end of life, and when pouring money into someone who may only have 1-2 years left in their natural life - may not make much sense, and I'm not even suggesting I know the answer, I'm just suggesting we start having the conversation instead of taking the easy approach, and immediately passing another law, then patting ourselves on the back for a job well done.
Why stop there? Implement Tcl in Tcl in Tcl.
They did not disclose details of the engagement so hard to speculate on anything. It somewhat unusual for the name to be disclosed though.
You don't need to be smart to be a good driver, its a fallacy and kind of insulting.
Seems like an ideal position to place AI. Remove the board of directors and the C-level execs in place of one machine intelligence.
Your implication is that nothing should ever be suggested without scientific references and footnotes. That is just absurd in the extreme. Do you do search the journals before teaching your kid to wipe his ass? Do you really think that diet is any different from any other thing that we do several times a day for our entire lives?
Sure... but you don't have to use the app. That's the point. If that's a deal-breaker for you, then don't use the app.
Can equities continue to rise in price? They already seem overpriced at current P/E valuations, disconnected from fundamentals.
btw, pretty sure I know who you are, but won't out you. ;)
Check out this: https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2017-Septem...
But hacky, platform-dependent plugins is exactly what we get. Websites just get a standardized JS API to talk to these hacky binary-only plugins.
It's supply and demand.

Nothing will stop 'piracy' - noting will stop any crime.

Copying DVD's required cost and labour. There's a limit to how much pirating any individual can do.

Over the net - it's rather instantaneous.

DRM'd content raises the bar beyond most people, so it cuts down on piracy.
My opinion:

A little cooking is good for making things more digestible. Overcooking depletes nutrients.

I tend to like things like stir fry or similar high heat, short cook time approaches.

(No, I will not try to back this up with citations.)
Extensive previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15273228
Ace Hardware is a cooperative, not a chain, or even a franchise system. As such they vary a lot, and it seems on average they are getting worse.

We used to have a really good Ace chain around here, with a proper hardware section and quality tools. They now only stock super common hardware, not the stuff I'd go to a specialty store for, and a lot of really garbage tools.

And they certainly don't have any experts anymore. you're lucky if somebody's working who knows how to run the key machine (which also no longer requires any skill)
I love Python, but I always found CoffeeScript took Python's stylistic choices too far. Making {} around object literals and () after function calls optional led to code that was very difficult to visually parse.
No, twykke is saying that in almost every language, even ones that don't technically have significant whitespace, people still use coding conventions and style guides that restrict whitespace to match the curly braces. Some people even use automated commit hooks to reject commits that don't follow the guide.

The end result (or arguably, driving force) is that even in languages where whitespace isn't significant, people read the whitespace, not the curly braces. So the curly braces are basically redundant noise.
I went to a Tufte talk and it was much better. It included "free" copies of his books and to be honest I wasn't very impressed with them either. They didn't convey his main points very well.
The biggest takeaway I got from his talk was that it's better to substitute a stack of low-information powerpoint slides with a few high density images along with a paper written in normal English.
But to be honest, it's way less work to make a stack of low-information powerpoint slides, so that's here to stay.
Yes, this.

Although, for a Vimperator replacement because of the breaking FF/Vimperator upgrades, I've found VimFX to be pretty awesome. I had to write some configuration scripts to get d/D to drop tabs like Vimperator, but other than that it works very well.
The obvious problem with proprietary code is the questionable quality of consulting companies, etc., but I think the biggest advantage to free software is interoperability.

Right now, there are thousands of data entry jobs, whose sole purpose is to translate data from one system to another, often within the same organization.

A friend of mine who has recently learned simple Visual Basic has told me about what he calls "huge" savings simply from writing scripts to copy and transform data rather than pay people to read and type it.
Most welcome!

And by the way:

-- He told the story of a student giving the obvious answer.

-- For some reason he did NOT point out that that answer would actually only work as an infinite recursion.
> 8.3 million dollars per life saved

Interestingly, this is very close to what the EPA uses as the cost of a life -- a little above 9.1 million dollars when adjusted for inflation [1]. This seems in line with the math for environmental regulations.

[1] https://www.epa.gov/environmental-economics/mortality-risk-v...
Every time I find myself thinking "these are too high...", that's when my short stops start getting hit. When we talk about the equity indices at work, we have been referring to them as "defying reality" for the last 6 months.

Just my 2 cents, but I think they are a huge bubble, and at some point they've got to pop. I wish I had the equity for a very-long-term short, but unfortunately I don't.
You're the 4th or 5th person to recommend this book to me. Guess I have to read it now :)
I'm afraid you're a few years too late!

https://github.com/jiangmiao/toffee-script
Bike shops play by different rules. The industry and vendors collaborate to block big stores. You cant get a Colnago or pinarelo or any top end bike at Walmart or web Walmart (amazon) you have to go to a bike shop and said shop is expected to perform certain services as you buy that bike. They fit it, they assemble it properly, usually tune it after a few rides, etc. the wholesale price has a price cooked in for assembly and those services. There are industry groups that aggressively police it. The small shops are, in essence, representatives for the vendors. There are also agreements that strongly control what's on the floor, a Specialized shop very rarely has Cervelo, BMC, or Trek bikes too, some might but generally the vendors don't allow it.

It changes periodically, Giant, Specialized and Trek are big enough that they are doing their own stores and performance shops and not relying on small dealers as much. It's also different from many other things in that a misassembled bike can result in death. The industry as a whole supports bike shops though
MAP is really hard to enforce, in practice.

When your largest reseller is even 1-2% under MAP you you really can't do anything about it. Especially if they are over half your income - it's a game of chicken that isn't worth playing.

MAP really only works when your resellers are fairly diverse and fairly even-sized. But if that were the case, we wouldn't have online behemoths undercutting everyone else in the first place.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight-hour_day

For something more 'reputable' than wikipedia, check the footnotes of the article, specifically:

http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/417.html
Color me completely skeptical - not that it won't happen (though it might not) but that it will mean what the WSJ seems to say.

One of the things about the "winding" which started all this was that it involved bailing out institutions considered too-back-to-fail.

And that bailing out altogether meant that such institutions had the "full faith and credit of the US government", just like what's printed on dollar bills and these institutions could effectively print money more or less like the Fed.

So the Fed itself has said it will start selling it's particular portfolio, with the proviso that it will stop if anything seems to be going wrong. Which is to say that this is "privatizing the bubble" since the too-big-to-fail institutions can effectively "print" any money that leaves via the Fed's action. Obviously, there are micro ways that this will play out, this will change the color and emphasis of the "Greenspan Put" or it's many latter-day equivalents but those are small adjustments, not fundamental shifts - ie, we're still in bubble-nomics, well, unless the Fed really fumbles this.
I'm not disputing any of your numbers, but if you're going to do the calculation you'd need to also include: injuries (lots of broken legs) and non-injury causing auto damage.
It is ridiculous that we allow ANYONE. No one can maintain the levels of concentration we required for long periods of time, and in difficult conditions. And in the case of this story, with someone running in front of you, there is nothing you can do. But you are still responsible for their death, just so you can save a few minutes of time.
Almost every country, with the exception of Israel, has implemented the anti-DRM provisions of the WIPO Copyright Treaty using similar language to the United States, or worse. In the European countries, it's embodied in the European Copyright Directive: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_Directive#Technologi...

That's one of the reason why we argued so strongly that the W3C should include a covenant. Even if EFF continues to successfully obtain temporary exemptions from the DMCA in the tri-annual review, we can't do that for security researchers or lobby for similar fair use exemptions in every country.
Will this affect only US govt bonds or corporate bonds too?
It likely depends on the asteroid. They have very different compositions and densities.
If there were an Amazon warehouse nearby would that change things for you?

I live about 2 miles from both amazon and jet warehouses, and that doesn't make it feel any more like a local business.
I think we need to start designing our cities so that people walk and cycle on a level above the street, sort of like the Highline in NYC. And cars and trucks operate below that without pedestrians.

That would make cycling a lot safer. Expensive to do for existing cities, but robotic construction may make it cheap enough to do in a few decades.
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It would be cheaper to just give all the cyclists self-driving cars.
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