skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Same - except for me it was also Capsela (now called IQ Key), a bunch of cheap plastic crap that let you engineer modular machines.

I think the medium that kids play with 'toys' has changed with tablet and phone devices. Now they're solving puzzle apps and building Minecraft cities - whether or not that's a good or bad thing, I'm not sure, but it doesn't bode well for toy stores.
Well, it supports all of Common Lisp incl. the whole numeric tower, Condition System and CLOS. If you know Common Lisp, it's all there. That means it's compatible with much of the Lisp literature and thus automatically has a well-written specification for its core language. It provides an interpreter and a compiler. One can use it with GNU Emacs / SLIME. ABCL has also more the feel of what one would expect from Lisp, like an interpreter integrated with a compiler, useful backtraces, Lisp-like error messages and a Break-Loop REPL using the condition system. The compiler is written in Lisp. Thus it provides some more of debugging experience 'we' all love. It has much less users, less Java specific stuff, etc. It's also a bit slower than the typical native compiled Common Lisp.
The time for that was long past.
In related news 'Israel moves to close Al Jazeera, ban its journalists':

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/08/israel-seeks-close-al-...
The health/economic experts in the article cite the British system for its quality, efficiency, competitiveness, and access. If that's true, it's sounds like it's funded "enough" for the current responsibilities.

If it was underfunded - especially for decades - then some of those things would be big problems, right?
Here another high profile case

* https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2016/02/22/worlds-biggest-l...
They make EME-free builds. e.g. http://download.cdn.mozilla.net/pub/firefox/releases/55.0/
Libraries Can Be More Than Just Books
Is it possible?

For instance, say you choose to block grant Medicaid to states (a frequent proposal this year). Those block grants are a significant reduction compared to projected spending under current law.

But if states are individually deciding how to deal with reductions and what to do with the funds they do continue to receive, how do you assess the outcome of that policy decision?

And then how do you put that on a slider widget?
No argument from me. I just wanted to speak to the felony being a bit more ugly than presented.

We need to improve on all of this somehow. It's too much in way too many scenarios to make sense. And the problem is when it's all appropriate.

Work to be done here. A lot of it.
W3C is not the web. Check out the history and motivation behind WHATWG. They led on HTML5, then W3C followed.
I personally can't stand jsx, and coffeescript makes it so much nicer to avoid when using React. It's almost like haml / slim / jade / pug if you know what I mean.

I wrote a comparison about it a couple years ago:
http://rapin.com/blog/2015/02/03/reactjs-with-coffeescript/

I'm not doing much react these days (cough elm), but I think it's still mostly relevant.
Software Has a Serious Supply-Chain Security Problem
Restaurants Are Adapting to the Food Delivery Boom
DRM is malware (I don't seriously believe I have to explain why) - so EME is a malware interface.
>And people that contribute are incredibly smart -- far smarter than software engineers, by comparison.

How can you possibly think this subjective, anecdotal statement is going to land well?
Tock: embedded operating system for concurrent mutually distrustful apps
If I stay in a team chat for a long time including files and all of that do all of my devices keep a copy of everything said and worse every file posted?
I agree and I'm very concerned about the same things, although the recovery of habitats after human habitation is gone does make me more optimistic a) because that means we could likely rehabilitate wildlife populations ourselves as long as they are not extinct and b) because we'll more likely kill ourselves off and the world will recover.
While some searching might clear it up, the fact that the article doesn't even mention which type of MS they are talking about is a little vexing.
Visiting all values in an array exactly once in random order
Or maybe try paying for the content you consume.

The "free ride" Internet is over.
Which is why reserved instances exist.
This is one of the better things to happen in ec2 in years for me. We have a bunch of scripts so a spot instance can track when it came online and shut itself down effectively. It took far too much fiddling around to work around aws autoscale and get efficient billing with the per hour model. In the end we came up with a model where we protect the instances for scale in and then at the end of each hour, we have a cron that tries to shut all the worker services down, and if it can't it spins them all up again to run for another hour. If it can, then it shuts the machine down (which we have set on terminate to stop). The whole thing feels like a big kludge and for our workload we still have a load of wasted resources. We end up balancing not bringing up machines too fast during a spike against the long tail of wasted resource afterwards. This change by ec2 is going to make it all much easier.
When will you add file support to the mobile clients? We're absolutely dying for it over here!
I don't think that's true. EME exists -because- we started getting rid of Flash, Java, Silverlight etc due to their security issues. There needed to be something to replace those proprietary plugins or else some of the largest websites on the internet would just break with no way to fix them.

EME is the standardized version of the needed functionality from those obsolete plugins.
I figure we do more damage by limiting their exposure to other people and places filled with sites that they cannot truly experience just by ordering stuff over the internet. we are raising future generations in an environment where it becomes deadly easy to isolate one self from the world.

that environment also gives you the ability to teach your children. from making choices, to behaving in public, to seeing other children do both, to being out of the house in a noisy environment that is strange, exciting, maybe even a little scary, all the while with a parent to help them understand.

plus where does it end, how much do we write off due to our prejudices?
> The real question is how we get rid of DRM in the long term

And your answer is "embrace it in the short term"?

It's this 'give them an inch' bullshit that's been fucking the consumer in the ass for countless years.

> Hopefully content owners will one day realize the economic cost of implementing DRM isn't worth its return

"Maybe if we wish on marshmallows and rainbows, this statement will come true this time!"

> I imagine it might take some years for them to realize this however

Search for the first time that was uttered, then look at the calendar.
What's fraudulent about it?
I just don't understand the people/institutions that give loans to such entities when a simple analysis would show how burdened by debt they are... are these investors really that stupid to loan money at unsustainable rates?
I actually would be fine with a two tier system if the price was right. The problem is that at least in the US the doctors tend towards the shiny and newest because that's where the big money is.
Unix for TOPS-20 users. (1987) [pdf]
Your assertion that standardizing DRM forces everyone to use it makes about as much sense as the assertion that teaching teenagers about condoms will make them all have sex.
How your 1% advantage can win you 99% market share
Relevant frontline documentary from a few years ago: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/sickaroundtheworld/c...
My T470s is almost always silent. I never hear it when doing the usual web surfing and software dev activities. The only time I hear the fans is when I'm doing the things that make Macbook Pros run their fans, too: video conferencing, compiling large applications, etc.
>Whereas in engineering, most examinations are problem sets -- where the worst that can happen is a clever gotcha'

Methinks you don't know much about engineering if you think problem sets make up most of it.
The best C64 IDE gets a new update
Could I ask where you are in your career and when you started this regimen? I would like to adopt something similar, I'm not sure if I have the willpower just yet but I'm seeing one of two options: following your approach or burning out gradually.
If you think about the screen real estate as 1 column, 16:9 is too wide to fill it up with said column (a narrower column is easier to read/follow) and at the same time a lot of UI usually occupies the height of the screen that is the scarce resource in this case (compared to width).

If you start using 2 columns the advantage of a 4:3 is less apparent in my opinion
Indeed. People frequently point to reduced poverty numbers as a sign that we are on the right track. And those numbers are impressive, and very important for the people who moved into the "not poor" category instead of the "poor" one.

But....I suspect it has only been possible by a rapid use of carbon energy, and by expansion into the biosphere. I doubt it is sustainable, to use the more literal sense of the word.
Also consider Karl Popper's contributions towards the importance of falsifiability.
Being able to answer that question may not be easy (as maybe everything goes well UNTIL some critical issue arises - and at that point it could be too late). That being said, I have some colleagues that are good friends outside of work, but they are extremely professional and productive in the office. So I think it ultimately depends on the personalities of the people involved.
So what exactly is the intellectual hygiene he refers to? Being rational and overcoming one's biases?
Just run a screen recorder next time you're online. (Trivial) Problem solved.
Taking a leaf from the DNC playbook. "Who cares about democracy when all you really need is a few agents capable of unilateral action in the private sector" and all that.

Fucking fantastic.
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> "Switzerland has a universal health care system, requiring all to buy insurance. [...] Almost 30 percent of people get subsidies offsetting the cost of premiums, on a sliding scale pegged to income."

This is wrong. It does not matter how much I earn. (Nassim Taleb is right, New York Times is no good.) Healthcare is pegged to income in Germany but definitely not in Switzerland. I pay 279 CHF (300 USD) per month and pay all bills up to 2500 CHF per year myself. If my health-related costs during the year exceeds 2500 CHF the insurance kicks in and starts paying. In this way, people don't go to the doctor for tiny things but quickly go to see one for serious stuff. All health-related costs are deductible from my income tax.

More about "health insurance" in Switzerland in my blog post that I wrote after moving to Zurich in 2014: https://medium.com/@iwaninzurich/eight-reasons-why-i-moved-t...
I like the facts presented in your second link, but unfortunately the tone that it is written in means that it is unlikely to be received well by anyone it is linked to. Have you considered revising it?
Firefox is, AFAIK, the only browser vendor that decouples the EME module from the browser, allowing the browser to be downloaded without any DRM support at all. See the various "EME-free" directories here: http://download.cdn.mozilla.net/pub/firefox/releases/55.0/
I thought EME only worked with audio and video. Is what you're suggesting possible?
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> They make EME-free builds. e.g. http://download.cdn.mozilla.net/pub/firefox/releases/55.0/

A well-hidden build of Firefox to silence the people who accuse the Mozilla Foundation of betraying their principles...
I think i don't get it.

A company called Microsoft builds a software which is able to render html. This company makes money and talks to another company called google which also is making money by selling movies and stuff and which builds a software which is able to render html. And those two companies are talking to a third huge company, who makes a shit ton of money and also makes a software which is able to render html.

All those _companies_ decided together, that they still are using some form of drm and want to standardize it, to make it easier for there consumers.

Now a few people, who are using the software from those companies thought this code is written for free and without strings attached?

I mean i do understand the risk but still i'm surfing around and use my software, written by companies, to surf primarily on company sites and not for surfing on other private pages.

Even linux and other free software is written, primarly by people who get there money from companies right?

I don't think that DRM would be gone if no EME exists.
Formal verification of software:

We know that no responsible scientist guesses his formulae but derives them and in the same vein we derive our programs by formal calculation. This is a time-honoured tradition, formalization is just a matter of intellectual hygiene, and we should be quite confident that, indeed, this undertaking makes all the sense in the world, but we hesitate and are ambivalent about it because, all around us, our hygienic practices are opposed, derided and ridiculed.
Where and when do you get paid?
(And the web itself.)
It might be "acceptable" or "reasonable" to assume it's not affected. It would be safe to assume that it is.
I have the same error. And what's strange is I believe I do have a per-user key on this device. At least I think I do, based on the output of `keybase device list`
"Don't worry, once we standardize it we won't have to use it!"

Sure, I'd be happy to relegate you to subset of people I just ignore on the basis of their inability to learn from history.
DRM is also how you get media companies to publish on the web.

Media companies couldn't give any less fucks about the web. They can go 100 years without publishing on the web, since they have other revenue paths that they're perfectly happy with.

This whole process of enabling DRM is web developer's efforts to kiss media-companies ass in order for them to publish their products on the web. Artists and other creatives have the option to publish their works wherever they see fit. It's their creation, not the public's. In fact, there are actual art galleries that won't sell you their works if they don't deem you sufficient enough. How you exhibit their work matters to them. That's their right.

The web needs these media companies more than the media companies need the web.

Anyone that complains about DRM is doing it wrong. You are limiting the web because you are saying you don't want media companies to publish on the web. You are now causing the web to compete against media companies private apps or physical media, which is a losing proposition.

No one gives a shit about freedom. Everyone wants to use rights-managed content online. And the ONLY way to do that is with DRM.

So, yah, I'm not seeing any corruption here. Just acknowledgement of the fact that artists own their works, and web developers need to kiss their ass if they want artists to publish on the web.
> Eliminating references. PHP references have unusual semantics, where the function specifies the binding of parameters with no indication at the callsite.

I feel like I called this one in https://circleci.com/blog/critiquing-facebooks-new-php-spec:

> This is interesting because they’re changing the definition of the language through a sort of back-channel. They’re allowing breaking changes by effectively deciding that other implementation choices are equally valid.

> I’ll give you an example, which I’ll get into more below. There’s a little known bug in the Zend engine around copying arrays that contain references. IBM wrote a paper about this bug in 2009. Basically, this bug was necessary in Zend to make copying arrays fast, and IBM figured out a way to do it in a way that was actually correct, for only a 10% performance penalty.
Can you expand on this for people not familiar with the types of MS that might exist?

I have an aunt with MS and got excited by this article, but still wasn't aware that it might be limited to a subset?
I think GameStop makes most of its money buying trade-ins. Perhaps they are more in the pawn shop business than the video game business?
It may be just my lack of familiarity with the PHP / Zend, but it seems like one of the most significant things that HHVM achieved was a wake-up call to Zend. It seemed like they suddenly started putting some serious effort in to PHP7's runtime, and publicising what they were doing. A bit of a wake-up call to a language that was languishing for performance.
Australia's record-breaking winter beats average highs by 2C
Supervillain.
I can't tell if this is satire. Does anyone seriously believe that surrendering the war when you've lost one battle is an intelligent strategy? Mozilla contributes a whole lot to OSS, including providing a browser that can be trivially used without any black-box DRM-enforcement code hitting your system.
Toy stores are a _great_ example of opportunity for brick and mortar. Just like book stores, they operate in a space where curation, discovery and the physical experience adds real value.

The town I grew up in has a great independent toy store, and I make it a point to shop there every time we're in town. Every time I find something unique that I would have never looked for on Amazon, and often I'm hooked by the tactile act of playing with something that couldn't be fully replicated online.

As an interesting aside, this particular store[1] fought for its right to keep their mural (which was awesome but violated city codes) all the way to the supreme court[2]. They lost, but you've got to admire the chutzpa of someone willing to do that.

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

[2] http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/city-paints-over-wa...
I'm completely unfamiliar the entire discussion (I've just ignored it in the past), and I don't actually know why you think that. Could you elaborate?
Aren't early detection and survival rates somewhat linked?

I've heard it suggested that one of the dysfunctions of the US system is to detect cancers that would never have caused the patient any harm, leading to stress and needless medical interventions and expense. This improves both your metrics without actually improving healthcare, possibly actively making it worse, even before accounting for cost.
So, some standard emerging does not require creating standards?

And for competing standards to wither, there somebody must have created the other standards too.
A lot of people think that the battle here is EME versus DRM-free content, but that's not the case. You can still have all the DRM-free content you want, whether that's YouTube videos or iTunes MP3s.

Really, the decision being made is between EME and Adobe Flash. Flash was the one cross-platform way to serve DRMed content before EME. And now that EME is ratified, Adobe, Microsoft, Google and Mozilla can all work together to get rid of Flash, and all the 0-days it has been responsible for, and improve security and battery life for everyone on the Internet. https://blog.chromium.org/2017/07/so-long-and-thanks-for-all...

Of course, we should also work to get rid of DRM -- it gets in the way of legitimate uses, and annoys legitimate users far more than it annoys pirates. But rather than vilifying Google and W3C and expecting them to be our saviors, instead we should be talking to Hollywood and Authors to adopt a DRM-free model just as many top musicians already have.

Disclaimer: I work at YouTube, and this is my personal opinion, not that of my employer.
Did Apple actually support this proposal? Seems like their own self-interest would want them to reject this. The lack of a standardized web DRM would push developers to native apps which benefits Apple. And web DRM doesn't benefit the iTunes eco-system.
Minecraft meets Oregon Trail
Have you worked at a BigCo or know what it's like to be in senior leadership? I would not be surprised in the least if this guy had no clue about the hack. These organizations are huge. People are actually very tight lipped when these things happen. You are/should be told not to speak about it even with your peers.

I also wouldn't be surprised if he did know, but just wanted to emphasize these BigCo org charts tend to be insanely big and complicated. At the senior levels you may not talk to or see your boss for weeks; especially when some big shit like this is being uncovered. So totally possible he knew nothing.
Interesting, good to see that they've thought this one out a bit (many other unis too):

% keybase team create caltech

ERROR this name has been reserved by Keybase staff, perhaps for your team. Reach out to (email redacted) for more info. (code 2650)
There are many of us that are still warm to the idea and will help. I personally can donate 500GB of HDD space.

Unless the governments outlaw encrypted communications and/or homemade wireless equipment, it's never too late.
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Do you have a source for that? The latest article that references the W3C on their site already shows them as a member, and it appears that they were heavily involved in Do Not Track work before EME. Did they post something somewhere when they were joining?

edit: The reply below has the link. Thank you!
Google’s Proposed “Remedy”: The Return of the Undead Auction
I dont think that is true. EME exists because media companies have the strange desire to treat their customers like criminals and Technology companies have the desire to ensure the user can not control the devices they "buy" from them.

EME is about control and limiting freedom, not about replacing Flash
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Google is also a media company. (Microsoft too, though Xbox isn't especially relevant here.)

EDIT: Yes, and Apple, I completely forgot about iTunes.
Only while the consequences of "not giving a shit" aren't immediately affecting them.

Those same people are the ones who turn around and complain "what can we do" and organize social media armchair protests when consequences simple enough for them to understand come along.

Not the best allies.

https://xkcd.com/743/
Someone should fork w3c.
which is an active protection of the user against malware.

You should look at how Mozilla implemented EME then. The CDM is sandboxed, in a much stricter sandbox than the rest of the browser even. So no, the CDM potentially being dangerous (for privacy or security) isn't actually that much of an issue.

Of course, someone might at some point claim that the privacy features harm the copyrights protection, at which point choices will have to be made.

History provide ample evidence that Mozilla will make the choice their users ask for (which is, by the way, not necessarily the choice some users will voice the most loudly).
It's crazy to me that nearly all brick and mortar stores that sell video games took out their biggest draw, in store game demos. It was a huge draw as a kid, I'd want to be in the store even if I didn't expect to get anything, but I always knew what I wanted next since I had played the demo.

Do they not exist anymore because most kids are satisfied watching others play on the internet?
I think it's time to start contemplating alternatives to the Web.

The interests of users are no longer front and center. The past several years of the Web platform's evolution have been characterized by privacy invasions, out of control Javascript, spammy push notifications, AMP... and now this.

This is not what many of us signed up for. I don't know if there even are alternatives to the Web at this time but when you can't trust even the standards bodies to act in your best interest, it's time to start talking about how we could walk away from the whole thing.
Audio and video is most of what a given app does.