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I think the up-down space industry is not necessarily where the future lies. Fighting gravity wells is a huge and someday not terribly useful expense. Bootstrapping an end-to-end mine-to-manufacture space industry is probably where we'll be in the much longer term.

Right now we have to haul 100% of our mass into orbit. But what if we derived that mass from sources that weren't at the bottom of a huge gravity well? If we can shift most of that mass to those sources, convert the raw materials to finished goods and start to construct habitats in space, we can move that 100% up/down to just us and a few things we can't space-derive.

Building out that manufacturing and supply line is where the future really is and it will allow us to handle component assembly on scales far outside of the reach of any space-launch system no matter how cheap. Moving a million tons of steel and composite from one point in space to another is just a matter of delta-V to get it going and to get it to stop moving. Getting it up from the ground may be an impossible endeavor.

The entire ISS weighs only 450 tons. But an Aircraft Carrier weighs 100,000+ tons. Even with a 90% launch cost reduction, it's impossible to build Carrier-sized habitats without breaking national economies.

How does this get funded? Also not sure, but I have a sense that there's enough rich people who wouldn't mind living in orbit and dropping down to any point on the planet in about an hour if their physical presence is required and getting back "home" a couple hours later. But with enough industry, a contract signing ceremony to build a factory in France could simply be shifted to an intra-orbital flight to an orbital factory for a tiny fraction of that cost and time.

There's potential efficiencies in space. And a lot of very valuable R&D waiting to happen to make it work. And I think that R&D hill is where the medium-term money is.
the irony: let me show you how our reality is better than before with virtual reality!

lol

I agree with and support the message, but I was just hoping we could address the irony here.
Docker is just a manager of Linux namespaces. You'll need one to manage your operating systems anyway - start/stop them, copy them to the machine, delete them, etc.
Which systems require you to get an appointment even in an emergency? I definitely want to avoid those countries when traveling if possible.
One day HackerNews is chastising W3C for not adding encryption to the Payment Request API.

The next day HN is lamenting about a standard encryption API being defined.
Companies browser-sniff, rather than feature-sniff.

They shouldn't. But they usually do.
Are you worried someone will dictionary-attack this feature and just claim all of the good names?
I'd be surprised if it'd be that much additional work, if the local SSD options are NVMe -- which is also PCI-e like GPU's.
> And what's your solution (proposal) for the problem they faced?

Make the zero-tolerance for DRM a unique selling point of Firefox.
Here's an example of why you need IDs: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/29420835/how-to-generate...

CSS name clashes are an issue if you have to incorporate independently developed React components.
it will change a bit though. A rewrite for firefox' new plugin architecture is on the way
Mozilla opposed EME very strongly. But when it was clear that Google, Microsoft and Apple all supported it and were shipping it, Mozilla was forced to ship it as well (with a flag that makes it easy to disable for users that want to).
https://www.defectivebydesign.org/
> "As a final remark - I bumped into another British expat over here a few weeks ago and he was walking on crutches after a hip replacement operation. When I asked him how he thought it would have played out on the NHS, he said he'd still be waiting to see a consultant!"

I wouldn't read too much into that remark. The NHS has been underfunded for decades. There was a time when the NHS was one of the most cost effective healthcare systems in the world, but it's been seriously undermined by both Labour and Tory governments over the past 25 years. There's no reason it can't be a well-run healthcare system again, but it will take time to undo the damage that's been done.
Yep.

I'm doing the career I love (Enterprise software) but if I wasn't it would be hard to switch given I have bills and responsibilities.
> Mozilla ended up accepting EME in 2014, because otherwise it would have become "the browser where you cannot see videos"

Rather: "the browser where you cannot see DRM-infected video" - which is an active protection of the user against malware.
tiny open source project for this. https://github.com/williamforbes/pypi_hacked_names
Correct. I wanted have put a sarcasm tag on my comment but I wasn't sure if it was supported by the W3C and their corporate overlords.
It sounds like from reading relevant articles it's not so much business model as staggering debt loads from being taken private that is hurting the company. They have no money to do anything with right now.
But it's still work and those working many extra hours like me always have the choice to work fewer amy particular day or week and triage.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the new "standardized DRM" is just EME which all major browsers, including Firefox and Chrome, already implement, and which has been used by e.g. Netflix for several years now.

And Netflix works on Linux on Chrome and Firefox already, using those APIs.

The actual Content Decryption Modules are not part of the standard, though. Firefox and Chrome use Google Widevine.
> Philosophy of Science, I think, is almost a completely bogus field.

Not sure what you are talking about. Godel and Turing demonstrating the limits of some systems are actually giving philosophy of science results. I don't see any bogus in their work.
If they didn't fold, they'd just lose more users to other browsers. Sometimes it's wise to retreat or lose a battle to stay in the fight.
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Having grown up in Australia and lived my adult life in the UK and Switzerland, it is hard to argue with the result. The level of care in CH is outstanding, even at the basic level. The NHS is very good when it's good (eg. IMO emergency care), but can be equally chaotic and disorganised at times (often the "less important" community level care). Waiting times can be a problem. I also had a great experience with the healthcare in Australia while growing up, but I was lucky enough that my family could afford good private insurance that could fill in the gaps. I can't speak for what it's like now though, haven't lived there for over a decade. Overall probably a fair article.
I'm a bit more mixed. I found his presentation style pretty terrible and his specific contributions (viz and software) not terribly exciting. But he's a master at analyzing other people's visualization work with an almost mind-altering critical eye. His books are incredibly valuable.

I think it's probably just worth it to buy the books and read them, but I did find his walkthrough of a few visualizations enlightening.

I still recommend the class, but with the caveats mentioned above.
Hah. I've met a philosophy majors, and most of them just seemed to want to play word games, rather than try to help build understanding or work together in a conversation towards truth.

I don't care of the smartness of any group, but I'd take the methods of rationality over whatever is taught in philosophy any day of the week. You can see sillysaurus3 trying to actually get to the bottom of your statement, and he's being a much better logician than you are.

As a biochemist I'm also allergic to the field of ethics, because it tends to be worried hand-wringing by people who have no technical understanding of the field.
This is not said often enough. Thanks, jashkenas!
Swapping out the panel is fairly easy in most (all?) Thinkpads and they're pretty cheap to source especially if you don't mind buying used. A bit of Googling on the Thinkpad model number will reveal which manufacturer's panels are good and which are bad (often the same IBM/Lenovo part number is used irrespective of the supplier) for that model. Or sometimes another panel with the same dimensions and spec that matches the gpu/connector can be used (often Dell and Lenovo are using interchangeable panels in similar model ranges, used to be the case with Apple too but nowadays they seem to do exclusive deals with manufacturers and don't let anybody else play). Not a solution that everyone can be bothered with but I've vastly improved some cheap 2nd hand Thinpads with a nice new screen.
DRM does work. Whether Denuvo is successful depends on how it is implemented. Implementations of Denuvo have survived a year+ without being cracked. As you said, DRM often isn't intended to be secure forever, just for long enough that the major sales buzz is over anyway.

You can also think of DRM as branching into online services. DRM commonly required some form of interaction with an online service to validate a key or whatever else. As a result, some DRM is in fact built into the foundation of the software and this is the most successful. Think of World of Warcraft or Everquest. To essentially crack that DRM, you have to recreate the server backend which is a serious undertaking. This has been done, but it took a long time, only applies to older versions and doesn't connect you to the legitimate service.

Steam is an online service and games which use SteamWorks are coupling at least some of their features with the online service, but this is not as complicated as something like World of Warcraft so it is easily cracked. Denuvo attempts to fill that gap by more strongly coupling the software with Steam. As a result, Steam is technically the DRM while Denuvo is helping to enforce it and thus is not labeled as "3rd party DRM" on the Steam Store pages.

There is a balance between the popularity of your software and the difficulty of breaking the DRM. If your software isn't extremely popular, then a crack is not in high demand. If the software is easy to crack, then even if it isn't in high demand it may get drive-by cracked. If it's difficult enough, many people will decide that their time is better spent elsewhere even if it is possible to crack.

As we enter the age of encrypted processing where both the code and data are encrypted during execution on the processor, cracking will be time consuming enough and have enough prerequisites that it simply won't be able to keep up with even the most popular software. It will be a while before this can become mainstream, because unless governments start requiring it, there will always be devices without encrypted processing that companies can't ignore in order to maximize profit. It won't surprise me if we see both governments that require encrypted processing and governments that ban encrypted processing.

Obviously for static media like audio or video this is harder to deal with, but there have been a number of novel solutions to this that just haven't been widely adopted. There are also still a lot of consumers with older hardware that publishers want to target, because not targeting them is worse than the concern of piracy. These are more about mitigation rather than outright making it impossible for a time period.
I use a T460p for work and love it. Compact quiet machine with excellent keyboard, quad-core i7, 32 gb ram, dedicated graphics and excellent battery life.

It's hilariously chunky though, but I don't mind.
Is this why my BluRay player needed to be updated to be able to play newer discs?
> And what do I see here? That before it even started people are fighting it.

Ha, I really dig the implication that people are impetuous brats for not wanting this to run on their computers. The audacity..!
What does esri do that modern qgis does not?
Here's the interesting thing about all this; HHVM will always be developed because it's important to Facebook's bottom line and Open Source because it only benefits them to keep it out there and have other people testing it and improving on it.

Now that they're getting rid of direct PHP support, HHVM is only going to get better. This will unlock a whole host of language improvements that HHVM couldn't otherwise make.

HHVM is faster relative to PHP now, and it will only get faster with these changes. Typing is an important part of making JITed code fast and unless PHP ever decides to fully add it, it will never have the potential to catch up. This is important to PHP-based companies as they grow and want to optimize on cost and development efficiency.

Undoubtedly, this split will be painful initially for those of us who are bought into the symbiosis of the HHVM and PHP ecosystem together. How painful it is to split will just be a question of where members of the PHP community want to go (or both). The nice thing is that converting something from PHP to HHVM isn't terribly hard; not anywhere near like converting from PHP to Golang. For HHVM, it's mostly just adding type annotations.
I used CoffeeScript for personal projects and absolutely loved the syntax.

Wasn't able to promote it at work though, because of the lack of support at that time (it felt kinda rusty, most 3rd party libraries were deprecated, and no jsx).

Glad to see things are changing, the new release looks great !
Frankly I'm far more interested in which developing or first-world locales, if any, exist where net freedoms like these are protected by the majority, rather than having to be fought for by the minority against a wave of complacency and apathy.

I'm pretty much done with trying to fight the american capitalist ideology which empowers these companies to steamroll over the average consumer happy to give up their own rights and freedoms then left to complain with the extortionist environments that leads to.

I don't think the world can continue on the way it's going without some serious ideological fragmentations in the near future, and the moment some country embraces its "Pirate Party" or creates an "Internet Bill of Rights" establishing the core tenets the EFF and others fight for as the basis of their internet-related litigation - is the moment I know where the sane people all probably went (or would go as time goes on).
Do we really want our kids to enjoy fluorescent-lit warehouses full of cheap crap that will be thrown away a couple months after it's bought?
That first sentence made my tongue tingle... and made me feel a slight sense of disgust. Goes to show how some sensory rhetoric can help drive a point home. I agree, by the way.
To support EME on linux, they need to create an EME plugin for linux. Leaks in that plugin would kinda break DRM, so it needs to be designed well.

Writing and maintaing a crypto plugin is quite expensive.
This is the perfect keyboard design, but it has reliability issues. After 1 year of use, certain keys stopped responding on mine. This is apparently a common issue, as evidenced by other online comments.
I mean don't those words mean the same thing?
Although I share your enthusiasm, I don't think closing the barn door after the horse left is going to help. Customers have to organize and demand an end to DRM by force of withholding money, clicks and eyeballs ...

"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will." - Frederick Douglass
I don't think he ever said HTTPS. By "unsigned content" he meant that video files for example can't be played unless a Hollywood rightowner has granted playback access for the file.

However in the future this DRM will be an freedom-of-speech issue. The goverment could use it as means to silence people. North-Korea is currently ahead of us. Any videos you take could be automatically signed and later on pulled by the gov. by revoking the signature. Now extending this to basic text, images, VR?, and whatever new mediaformats there will be in the future.

I highly recommend watching video where a tablet from North-Korea gets inspected. It explains how NK keeps control of its citizens.

https://youtu.be/fAtWwadP6CY
I am so mixed about this. In principle, this is a terrible idea, and I share many of the concerns in this thread -- I am not a fan of DRM. But as a consumer/end-user, I'd much prefer a standard DRM over Flash/Silverlight any day of the week.

The real question is how we get rid of DRM in the long term. Piracy isn't going away. Hopefully content owners will one day realize the economic cost of implementing DRM isn't worth its return, and only serves to alienate paying customers. I imagine it might take some years for them to realize this however.
Ouch. W3C is just a trade association at this point.
Thanks for the recommendation – I've used PHPStorm when doing large refactors, and it's incredible.

Unfortunately, you can't force everyone to use it (especially given its price). That's why a bunch of people have written separate PHP static analysis tools:

Phan (https://github.com/phan/phan), PHPStan (https://github.com/phpstan/phpstan) and Psalm (https://github.com/vimeo/psalm), the last of which I created.
Unfortunately they failed to anticipate the future during the 1990s, which is especially egregious in the case of Sears which started out as a mail-order only business.
Sometimes I have the feeling that the problem with NASA is not bureaucracy but subcontracting.

Maybe, it acquired too many leeches feeding from it to move fast and lean since the Moon landings times?

Perhaps somebody more informed in the organizational differences between then and now care to share his opinion.
> Mozilla was forced to ship it as well

If anybody was forcing them, it were the media companies.
A bum note and a bead of sweat will do. - Roger Daltrey (Pete Townshend?)

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/rockandjazzmusic/36...
What you said is technically true, but it is literally impossible for someone to be up to date on every piece of information that affects them. Even just limiting the domain to legal terms, the US government doesn't know how many laws it has. How is someone supposed to "do the analysis and work" on all of that, on all of the terms of services for every single product that exists, all the information pertinent to their health, for companies they never even consented to work with ala Facebook and Equifax data tracking, etc?

It's extremely disingenuous to call people lazy for not analyzing all of that when there is not a single person on the planet who has done so
Cryptography allows Alice to share a secret with Bob without Carol listening in.

In DRM, Alice and Carol are the same person.
The opinion is based on the broken computers and applications that happen after running CCleaner.

That software basically go through your computer and delete a ton of things that it considers useless. Have you ever seen the defaults settings? For instance, it used to delete the history, cache and settings from all major browsers.
If you want a text-only web, with no major content producers on it, you already have that. Just disable your browser's multimedia plugins. Or use Lynx, or some other browser of the 90s. The open parts of the web will still work.

Anyways, Netflix, Google, Apple, and Microsoft (probably - they aren't making their votes public) support this, so this is a great time to cancel your subscriptions and stop using their products.
Lol. I definitely pull the pay scale up but I also do increase expectations. And you think that is a bad thing?
I you care about a decent file manager in your editor, nothing tops TextMate 2. For me that at least is one of the reasons I'm still using TextMate. Although it's sad to see that a lot of bundles move away from the TextMate format, but are continued to be developed for Sublime, Atom, VSCode, etc...
Oh, interesting! I'm so used to reading it in papers that they're first anesthetized before being put in CO2 (along with many lab experiment that do it) that I thought that was SOP.

Thanks!
This the only possible way to win on the long run.
>And yet, every time that the number of standards is reduced, it is by this same process

Is it? I'd say it's usually rather because:

(a) Some of the competing standards wither and we get rid of them.

(b) Some standard emerges as the winning one and is adopted by everybody.

But very rarely by the addition of a new standard.
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First and foremost that depends on the content being popular. For example there's a ~30-minute video I paid for on Amazon Videos that I would love to have a copy of so that I don't need an Amazon account and internet access just to play the video, but I can't. Why? Because of their DRM and the fact that I can't find it anywhere else. (Admittedly I haven't directly searched on piracy sites since I'm not into that sort of thing, but Googling didn't pop anything up even on piracy sites, and I would be surprised if it's actually out there somewhere.) Sad reality is it's not even because I wouldn't pay for it; I already paid for it once and I'd even pay for it again if someone sold a copy. But the DRM is "working" in terms of making it too hard to get a copy.

But even if some content is popular, DRM certainly prevents people like me from saving a copy, since I'm not one to go on piracy sites and the only reason I want a copy is so I don't have to get authorization from someone every time I want to play something I already paid for. It might be a dumb business decision since I'd already pay for it before getting a copy anyway, but maybe they think that still makes business sense even if I'd pay for it. Regardless of that it still seems to be working as intended.
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We should call them the Turing Police, like they were in Neuromancer
> If they didn't fold, they'd just lose more users to other browsers.

They rather lost a unique selling point. Not implementing EME/DRM is a form of protection of the user against malware.
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>I lost, but winning was not the point. Playing was. :)

Ha, that reminds me something from the book "The Soul of a New Machine" by Tracy Kidder:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Soul_of_a_New_Machine

From the article above:

[ The motivational system is akin to the game of pinball, the analogy being that if you win this round, you get to play the game again; that is, build the next generation of computers. ]

The idea is described better in the book, though.

[ The book won the 1982 National Book Award for Nonfiction[1] and a Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction. ]
Do you have any evidence or reason to believe there is actual corruption on the committee (aside from them making a decision you disagree with)?

I suspect I agree with you on DRM but this style of debate, where there is no attempt to argue or explain the issue, and the first line of argument is personal attacks or denigrating anyone with an opposing viewpoint, is depressing. Consider that accusing climate scientists of corruption has also been fairly effective.

For this particular issue, Netflix etc already requires DRM to play in a browser, and the browsers already provide DRM for Netflix etc to use. I would like to understand what the consequences of this decision are, if some of the way this works is standardized. Will this lead to more DRM? Is the only conceivable explanation that the MPAA is slipping the W3C members some bribes?
Aw man, I've just rediscovered this place with our 9 month old son. Was looking forward to going there as he grew up. Hopefully they can work out some sort of restructuring..
Of all the things in the world, children's toys are THE most amenable to replacement by makers, tinkerers, and other people who want to do something in the real world.

(Alas, that's not what's happened. People just buy the cheap plastic crap from Amazon.)
Good riddance. Turn them into multi-use developments and let local stores start to repopulate the area. Like a forest after clearcutting for agriculture.

Edit: at least in already-built-up areas. Tough to say what to do in remote places where you have the "no jobs -> no money -> no spending -> bad place to start a business -> no hiring -> no jobs" feedback loop.