skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a follow up, isn't all this DRM for naught? If you send the video and the audio to my computer, I can record it after it's decrypted. What problem does this really solve? I already use netflix/amazon because it's more convenient than torrenting, unless it isn't. Seems the possibility is nil DRM-free versions of DRM content won't be available anyway.
That is cool if you maintain a fixed number of instances but it doesn't seem to be very cost efficient if you are implementing autoscale
Of course the world is improving on metrics like "deaths by natural disasters". That's just a consequence of technologies and infrastructures improving over time, and charitable funding to developing nations that aren't corrupt to the point that the money just ends up with their politicians.

"Sure we're all getting better, just look at global food and safety" is as inanely pointless an argument as "of course nothing is getting better, just look at poverty and corruption" - both lie on opposite ends of the most obvious basic spectrum of human behavior. If all you're worried about is "will I be alive and breathing" then yes, by all means, you have an "optimistic" future.

The political and economic trends of major countries might seem insignificant in comparison, but the world takes its cues from first-world countries. The state and progress of things in first world countries are a pointer to where things are going to go in those nations once the lowest levels of Maslow's hierarchy are covered.
GNU IceCat[0], which is a Firefox fork.

[0]https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/IceCat
> DRM will destroy the web, and the web will fight back. We don't like your spyware, your binary blobs, your control, and we will resist.

Your average web user has no idea what those words mean, and all they care about is being able to consume content unimpeded. They can't tell how it's implemented. Your decentralized web is not user friendly, and it will not gain mainstream adoption until it is.
Because it does not allow them to protect their content.

Their content will still be distributed without their consent, because DRM is broken as quickly as it is implemented.

And they will not be the one using DRM to control distribution of their content, the DRM vendor will be.

Next: why shouldn't I use the magic beans the mafia are offering me to protect my content?
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Thanks, that's comforting to hear.
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How did you deal with text injection into react forms on facebook?

Whenever I interact with text in a form field on facebook via a browser extension, it is not picked up by react, and the original text is what is picked up on submission. I've banged my head into this problem repeatedly. Is there an easy fix or is this something much more subtle?
Do you have anything in mind for "interesting stuff with AWS Lambda"? Like more granular chargeback for a customer, even though Lambda is already billed per ms for most the part.
Ah, a quick run might help. Maybe to some people, it's the only exercise they get, which is better than nothing. I usually do my workouts on my break days. They help me sleep a lot better too, which keeps me rested for the work days.
I hope Ninite reads this and pulls them off their list of installers. It should be automatically removed from end users by Ninite as a direct response to this.
No, I'm not ignoring those. See my prior comments:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15279688

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15279855
Super Hero was exactly what I just said before reading this comment. bow
It's amazing the way people are unwilling to engage with honesty these days. The story about Trey was very sad to me because it showed that even a quintessential Asheville type couldn't get the people to put away the pitchforks. It really doesn't bode well for the country that communities that are "accepting", like Asheville, are unwilling to forgive. Compare to the people calling for forgiveness (after due process and punishment) of Dylann Roof, a hateful mass murderer.
the gut immune system has 70– 80% of the body's immune cells.

http://m.ajpgi.physiology.org/content/277/5/G922

It seems like a pretty obvious connection once you know that detail. If you have any kind of chronic medical condition, you would likely benefit from improving your gut health. (Hint: Dietary changes are a good place to start.)
By what, banning plugins? Now you're asking the anti-DRM people to do exactly what they're angry at the pro-DRM people for doing: preventing people from running a particular kind of program on their computer. It's an incoherent position.
Auto-immune diseases and their link to gut bacteria is not new. The relationship between MS and gut bacteria alone goes back to at least 2006 [1].

To learn more about auto-immune diseases and gut bacteria, I highly recommend the book An Epidemic of Absence [2]. It's an impressively well researched book that doesn't skimp on the science.

I managed to get my eczema under control by learning about the relationship between gut, food, inflammation, and auto-immunity.

[1]: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=multiple+sclerosis+gut+...

[2]: https://www.amazon.com/Epidemic-Absence-Understanding-Allerg...
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That's what I'm asking about; where was the pushback on those two bits of DRM? The position advocated by the poster I was responding too would take a very harsh view on Flash and Silverlight, even with their other uses.
I was told they usually aren't used until at least a year after the fact, because this line of reasoning. Not sure how true that is.
Market share isn't immutable! Market share changes based on capabilities. I dropped IE for FF when I got a basic understanding of computers, I dropped FF when it became clear it was a memory hog, and now I kind of toggle between Chrome and FF. I think that, with killer features like breaking out of DRM, the market share could change.
Thanks. I will see if I can try it out at some time, if it works on regular PCs, or I may have to get a Pi. The point about easy GUI development interests me, as well as the speed and the message passing system. I had tried out QNX some time ago, when Photon was the GUI system for it, from a CD that came with a computer magazine. It was small too. It was also a message passing system, IIRC, and was also very fast, I remember noticing that, though I only tried it for a short while.
The point is that if they claim that they didn't know better, and that is to be taken at face value, then they're plainly not competent to hold their jobs.

So, if they testify that they knew - they're liable.

If they testify that they didn't know, and SEC can prove otherwise - same as above + perjury.

If they testify that they didn't know, and SEC cannot prove otherwise, then at least it is treated as them confirming their incompetence. So if they get, say, a bonus later, or a "golden parachute" for outstanding service on retirement, that is treated as evidence contradicting their claims.
I assumed by x200 you meant x200-series.

I love old-ish laptops, but how is that Core 2 Duo holding up? No touchpad, 1200x800 screen... What do you do with it, if it's not much to ask? I'm truly curious.
of course it wouldn't be gone. It would just be where it belongs.

somewhere else.

unfortunately.

that won't be happening.
One lesson to draw from this story is how it is easy to fail to stay anonymous despite what a normal person may think is a good amount of caution.

>Even as Jared tried to build a following in the manosphere, he hid Holistic Game from his friends and customers, with the exception of Jacob. Then, last August, someone — it’s still not clear who — created “Jared and Jacob Said,” which meticulously built the case that the guys behind Holistic Game were Jacob and Jared from Waking Life and then proceeded to lay out the men’s most offensive social-media musings. (Most of the comments were Jared’s; Jacob participated in the podcast but didn’t write any of the tweets or blog posts.)
I mean, if a site legitimately needs a large amount of dynamic communication back to the server... Fine, whitewall me until I enable your JavaScript. I understand that server-side rendering is basically dead. But it's really frustrating when it's things that could be easily served statically, like blogs.
Correct parliamentary procedure should track all motions changes and proposed changes (even those ruled out of order) to motions I certainly do as a member of a CBC / SOC (Conference Business Committee / Standing Orders Committee)
Bain (and their horrible ilk) put up a tiny amount of capital to secure huge loans. They used those loans to buy the company, taking it private. Once it is private they can do whatever they like with it; they pay themselves back for the loans by loading the company up with debt (and then some to ensure an immediate profit). They cut everything to the bone, fire as many people as possible, then spin the husk back out as a public company (or offload it to some other sucker).

Bain effectively risked nothing to make a killing and ensure Toys-R-Us would eventually file for bankruptcy due to an unsustainable debt load. Banks are happy to loan Bain money for these schemes because Bain makes a killing on them and private equity almost always finds a sucker dumb enough to buy the zombie company off them. (Every once in a while the zombie goes south so fast private equity is left holding the bag).

For loans to the zombie company the terms are punishing enough the bank only needs the zombie to survive for a limited amount of time.

The part I don't understand yet is who is the dumb money buying shares in these hollowed-out debt-laden husks from the private capital vultures? It almost always ends up badly. Even when it doesn't the upside isn't great.

FWIW Guitar Center is almost certainly headed for the same end and for the same reason.
If Firefox doesn't support DRM Video Mozilla dies. Users will not use a browser where they can't watch the videos they want to watch and those videos are under DRM.

You can't solve this problem at the standard level or the browser level. You can only solve by education users enough that they see no DRM as a feature and at the legal level by enshrining user protections in law.
This data will likely surface in the open in a few years, like for most other major leaks.
If you believe this, then you are very bad at predicting the future. I'm very bad at that too. But I can assure you, "better languages" don't win the war. PHP has a lot of software out there and what's going to have it leading HHVM. You will have the "cutting edge" folks give HHVM a shot, but all the practical folks don't care. The only way HHVM will have a chance will be to be 100% backwards compatible.
I've fallen out of touch, but if you want fairly recent, Reasons and Persons by Derek Parfitt is good and is more modern stuff dealing with things that are soon to be very important (what is a person).

He died recently which prompted me to get his On What Matters which has good reviews, but hasn't reached the top of my pile yet.

My view is that philosophy is rather slow moving and gestates with societal changes rather than big thinking leaps. And I tend to agree with pg that philosophy went wrong a long time ago and descended into a war of definitions:

http://www.paulgraham.com/philosophy.html
>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.

What makes space expensive is the one-off nature of the launches. If you really wanted to build an aircraft carrier in space you could take advantage of economies of scale not previously available. It wouldn't break a national economy. Not the US economy, anyway.
You're right, content will always be pirated. However, security and rights management is never about definitive solutions. DRM makes it hard for 99% of the people and that's enough for copyright holders. They can focus their resources on the other 1% (unfortunately including poeple with legitimate reasons).

I'm not agreeing with this but it's how it is and I don't see that changing. I agree with another commenter that it's been like this for virtually forever and this decision doesn't change much.
There are already "workflows" designed for parliamentary procedures Citrine's ABC of Chairmanship and Roberts rules are two examples.
It's horrid. Bugs in the components forcing developers to fix those bugs with native code ... almost nothing appears to work properly ... spent about six months watching and occasionally helping a decent developer to iron out simple UI bugs in a simple, but not trivially simple app.

It's trash. IMHO.
Perhaps we should be paying much higher rewards to whistleblowers, then.
I would probably wait at least until everybody's free fraud protection expires, which is usually a year.
What kind of changes? I have a hard time searching google about gut health without feeling like none of it's scientific, and all a scam for advertising or selling products.
I'll repost a comment by mcphage on why this doesn't work, in general. TL;DR is that common ontologies sound great but don't work in reality, because it leaves no room for value-added services from individual providers. (Recipes would probably be OK, because there's just not a lot of value-add you can really provide. Or, alternatively, I'm just completely ignorant about how value could be added.)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13214134

"""

I'm not sure this goal is very practical, even in the toy example you used (being able to swap data sources for weather forecasts).

If you can use a common vocabulary to access multiple APIs, that requires that all APIs implement the same feature set. Which means getting the API sources to agree on the features to implement, and how to describe them, and stop them from adding any features on that the others don't have. But of course, they'll all be motivated to add their own features, to distinguish themselves from their competition.

And once a API consumer is using a feature that other API producers don't support, then the consumer is locked into that producer, and the whole shared vocabulary is for naught. And of course the API consumers will be looking for additional features, because those translate into features that they can offer to their customers.

Basically, this requires API producers to work together to hobble their ability to meet their customers' needs, all to make it easier for their customers to drop them for a competing endpoint. So it looks like a net negative for everybody.

"""
Unpopular opinion: Working longer hours could be fun and exactly what some people are signing up for.

Some people might want more than a job. They want a lifestyle. A new family, a tech monastery if you will. They want to immerse themselves in work. Even with sleep, there's plenty of time for family, just not hobbies.

Of course, if you're looking for just a way to pay the bills, it's not a very good one.

Most of the companies that work extra long hours don't really accomplish anything though, and the extra time is used for busywork that doesn't change the bottom line. If your metric is hours worked and not work done, you tend to do a lot more light tasks that you can do for long hours, instead of the short, intense, really important ones.
That sounds backward to me. Here (UK) my teenagers had their own debit cards -- not credit.
> I understand that server-side rendering is basically dead.

Server-side rendering is a mature technology, don't measure it's pervasiveness in how often you see articles in the news about it...
In the UK you have several options: If you are not sure and need some advice, you can ring 111 - they may direct you to A&E. If it is an emergency you ring 999 (which coves all emergency services. You can present yourself to the nearest A&E (Accident and Emergency) if you are able to get there on your own.

GP visits do generally require an appointment and you may need to wait for some days.

Prescriptions: Flat fee of less than £10 per prescription. There are many medical and means tested exemptions.

NHS Dental Care can be hard to find but is generally available with a three tier flat fee structure for a full treatment not per visit, again loads of exemptions. Eg ~£56 for an extraction or root canal.

Some anecdotes:

A few years ago I had a wisdom tooth problem that hit on the weekend which is out of hours for dentists. I rang 111 and was referred across county (40 min drive). The tooth was extracted within 20 mins of me arriving. I don't remember whether I even had to pay but if I did then it would have been £50. If I'd been on benefits - no charge.

A few weeks ago I fell in my garden and hurt some ribs. It bloody hurt. To be on the safe side I went to A&E. 20 mins later I was triaged to the front of the queue and X rayed etc. Three hours later (I was obviously non crit) I was seen by a doctor and then discharged.

About eight years ago (very long story short) my dad was flown by helicopter from Exeter RD&E Hospital after a couple of weeks of stay to the Royal Brompton in London because the best cardiac surgeon for what he needed was based there. After a couple of months of care, surgery and recovery, his ticker is still going. Cost of care? who knows? A lot in six figures. It cost me a fortune in bus fares visiting the old boy.

I have many more but that gives you some idea. We habitually whinge about the NHS (OK: everything) here in the UK about waiting times but when the shit hits the fan - it is always there to pick you up and stick you back together.
yes that is how its done you normally produce an omnibus showing motions with the amendments next to them plus a list of Consequentials eg if motion 57 passes motion 63 falls.
Whether or not there's actual corruption, it's inevitable (in my opinion) that this sort of thing would happen. It's the march of economics. The open web just doesn't allow suppliers to meet demand. One way or another they'll find a way to do it. DRM snuck in the door via Flash. We just about stamped it out, but wouldn't you know it somehow it came back in a more insidious (if innocuous looking) form. People on our side like to claim that DRM is a foolish business model, but I'm not convinced that they're not just deluding themselves.

Whatever the answer is, I don't think it's stopping DRM with brute force. I think it will need to involve either coming up with alternate business models that are anywhere near as viable, or a way to keep it in a box to use for the few applications that really benefit from it.
Your 10-ISS-doughnut habitat would be a nice objet d'art, but what happens next? It can't pull more stations up after it.

Thinking for long-term space habitation requires projects that make human space presence self sustaining, at least in some sense or other. That's the point of space-based manufacturing and huge habitats; the more industrial power we have in space, the cheaper all future space missions become. At some point, they might become as cheap as terrestrial projects- then we'll have colonized space in a meaningful sense.
Right. What we now call science was once subsumed under "Natural Philosophy", and, as an example, "atomism", or the idea that matter is made of atoms acting under the influence of natural laws, was once a philosophical position, such that different philosophers disagreed on its validity.

(No, the "philosophical atoms" of Democritus weren't atoms as we now know them. For one thing, the word "atom" means "uncuttable", as Democritus imagined atoms to be the indivisible units of matter, and, more importantly, he had no larger experimental and explanatory framework to slot his ideas into, so he couldn't come up with ideas like molecules and chemistry that, to us, follow quite naturally from the notion matter is made of atoms.)
I wasn't meaning to say that the legal prohibition to do something in this case is comparable (similarly bad) to deadly force; rather, I believe the relation between "prohibit DRM" and "use DRM to prohibit exercise of rights" is similar to that between "kill (in self-defense)" and "murder", and it seems accepted that in the kill-murder case, the latter justifies the former even though it would not be justified on its own.

On the other point, I'm not convinced that supporting better fair use laws is enough on its own. An equitable compromise between two parties with fundamentally opposing interests can rarely be reached if there is a deep asymmetry in terms of their ability to just take what they want and run. Maybe, if comparison to anything involving murder is going too far for you, we can instead make one to (ironically enough) stealing: if the local group of school bullies keeps dragging you into dark alleyways and taking your lunch money, will you also support better rights to keep your lunch money but think it is going too far to demand that they be put in detention, because you see a pretty good argument why they should have a right to free movement?
I've seen some hints that GCE uses NVMe emulation not PCI passthrough. This would allow the hypervisor to implement features like live migration.
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Rasterio ftw! Way easier to use than gdal's Python bindings.

Fun fact: Geopandas uses Fiona and shapely under the hood.
The end of history? What a ridiculous comment you make! Ahhaah! Listen everyone; we will never evolve our technologies ever again! Because Facebook will prevent it. Ahahahahah! Why don't you jump off the roof? Is your name 'despair'? Gave me a good laugh.
Are you lazy-loading your (thumbnail) images? this js library seems to be highly recommended by its author: https://github.com/ApoorvSaxena/lozad.js but I don't have any experience with it.

If users typically view the full images sequentially, then a lightbox that preloads the next image(s) may help with perceived performance.
> Media companies couldn't give any less fucks about the web.

This is pure bluster. As if they'd just walk away from one of the highest reach distribution platforms and all the money that comes with it just because they were denied a gaping vulnerability surface that provides no benefit for either them or the consumer. Sure, instead of learning the lesson from Spotify they'll just leave pirating as the #1 accessible and convenient method of getting content.

The media companies are coming to the web, DRM or no DRM, but of course it costs them nothing to bluff and claim they will take their ball and go unless they get all the special treatment they want.
I'm guessing the folk around here include some who can make a browser happen.

If it takes only well formed x/html/5 it's not that big a deal.

Ideally a lot of "hooks" so that the more determined can make it do their thing. Not the thing that somebody else wants to force on them.

I wonder who's game?
We have these things. It's even cheaper in most cases. :)
You'll also see a few of these on http://php.net/manual/en/migration70.incompatible.php :p
Previously discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13533714
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>Blocking a road is not free speech. Preventing people from going into a building is not free speech. This is just private citizens attempting to restrict the right of movement of other private citizens.

It's a march. It's a protest. Protesting is free speech. Of course it's free speech.

>The right to publish any media, no matter how obscene or political, is free speech. And the US has the closest to free speech of any major country.

No, that's freedom of the press. Freedom of speech is about protesting.