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The plan to reintroduce a big cat that might never have existed
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Ask HN: How does post banning work on HN?
Hello everyone, I'm quite new to the HN community, so please forgive me if I'm doing something wrong, or if there's a better way to ask this question. Just please let me know!

So, I had submitted this post this morning under Show HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15277484 and it was gaining traction, was on the front page for quite some time, and then it suddenly vanished from trending/new/show pages.

Due to the sudden disappearance, I can't believe it was because of the downvotes. I think most probably one of the mods(?) removed it for some reason.

Was it done because the post involved Paul Graham? Is there a way I can contact the mods about the reason(or they can contact me)? I'd definitely want to know about any mistakes that I had made, even unintentionally, so that I don't repeat them in the future! Thanks :-)
China's Interference on Bitcoin Tests Currency's Foundation
Something I learned recently is that DNA forms so called "gene regulatory networks" that are like neural networks. Each gene has typed chemical inputs and outputs, acting like an individual neuron. That means a cell can execute arbitrary programs. One such program is that which differentiates stem cells into organs, creating the human body in all its complexity. But we could take over this mechanism and use cells to produce what we want. We'd have self replicating factories.
NIMBY!
The DNC’s Technology Chief Is Phishing His Staff. Good
What does your comment have to do with OP's boss being willing to give him responsibilities beyond just being a coder - despite being rude?
When you want to replace all the nails in your house with screws, so you can throw away the hammer ;)
Skype and Spotify too.
EasyPost (YC S13) is hiring
New climate change calculations could buy the Earth some time – if they’re right
Toys ‘R’ Us Preparing for Potential Bankruptcy Filing Before Holidays
Will it matter? Any organization created to manage web standards is going to be dependent on browser vendors. Google/Microsoft/Apple want DRM so we get DRM.
I just created a new Firefox profile (v55.0.3, current stable), and the "Play DRM content" setting is enabled by default.

You may be thinking of the Flash plugin, which I believe Firefox and Chrome both do block by default and have done so for a while now.
NASA could have totally done this, just not at that cost.
It seems self-evidently unharmful, in that we appear to be in a golden era of delivering content online so extraordinary that it threatens traditional television networks.

I understand that this is an extremely unpopular sentiment on HN, but here goes: at least with respect to video content, the industry seems to have largely proven DRM concerns unfounded.

Update: modulo the Hickson concerns below. Continuing:

DRM certainly has kept some (power) user-friendly features off the market. You can take this as a serious harm inflicted by DRM. But I don't think it's reasonable to take that harm in isolation; the alternative isn't simply a world with no such limitations, but also a world with less content made available online.

But I don't see a lot of evidence that those limitations, if genuinely important to users, can't be competed away. The restrictions might be dealbreakers for Paramount, but in 2017, Netflix can route around Paramount.
It's not harmful to them. I suggest reading this if you haven't already: https://plus.google.com/+IanHickson/posts/iPmatxBYuj2
We have deformed it, redefined it, idolized and frozzen parts of it and restored seperat parts of it. And we are still part of it.

I am a animal. The bacteria inside of me is there so i can diggest other living beeings, who devoured either directly or in a chain sunlight. I am part of nature, and im trying to be it in a responsible way.

Part of that responsible way is to not give into any emotional hipocrisy. I call the one, buying a plant to eat, where a whole forrest had to go forever, erasing all future opposum-opportunitys more cruel then a girl who tired eats a egg in the morning, for which she fought in rain and storm on a non-high-tech farm.
Google wants DRM.
Wouldn't it be a better crime (more profit, easier to get away with) to use the hack to manipulate a company's stock then try to sell all the person data for pennies per GB?
My thoughts exactly. I'm having a hard time getting Qt 5.9 to install thoroughly on CentOS 7, but if this works it will be worth it.
> What, exactly, do philosophers do?

They keep it hot.
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California Today: A Political Push for Affordable Housing
I don't necessarily think so. Just because he manages the risk management offering which is sold to other companies doesn't mean he would be aware of or involved in day-to-day risk management at his own company.

At my consulting firm, the execs in charge of our cybersecurity consulting practice are absolutely not involved in any internal cybersec investigations that happen to our own firm. In fact, we have specific procedures which say that our cybersecurity consultants cannot be involved with internal incidents. All internal investigations have to be done by outside, impartial firms.
> When commenting, remember: Is it true? Is it necessary? Is it kind?

Great formulation and easy enough to remember, but... is truth ever kind?
My primary machine is a X220 I bought a couple years ago for $300: it's 16:9, not 4:3 (not sure why anyone prefers 4:3), but otherwise nearly the same form factor as this X62 with almost none of the drawbacks -- fairly modern CPUs, DP out (The X230 has MiniDP but also the new style keyboard, a dealbreaker for me), a (not great but adequate) trackpad in addition to the trackpoint. The thing that will probably force me to finally upgrade will be the more advanced capabilities being included in the integrated GPUs now.
Most, but not all, grew up very poor. Why do you ask?
Ah sorry, misunderstood.
Tree Style Tab is being actively ported to a WebExtension:

https://github.com/piroor/treestyletab/issues?q=is%3Aissue+i...

For a general progress report:

https://github.com/piroor/treestyletab/issues/1224#issuecomm...
I was interested in trying out the "Dollar Cost Averaging" investment "strategy for Bitcoin. There were a couple implementations of that (for instance https://github.com/0x13a/bitcoin-trading-dca), but mostly based on CRON jobs.

I did not wanted to run this CRON job locally and I don't have free spare server, so I was looking for a cheap way to schedule this purchase task in the cloud.

My solution is an AWS Lambda which is triggered once a day via CloudWatch CRON rule and buys €X worth of Bitcoin on Bitstamp.
This is what we did in California

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_lawsuit_against_publ...
AWS will soon move to EC2 per-second pricing
I'm a bit uneducated when it comes to the cryptography involved, but I'm wondering why people here are so determined DRM can't ever work?

Is it because someone will somehow get a copy and upload to torrents/streaming sites which of course won't have DRM. Thus only potentially annoying legitimate (eg. Netflix) users? Or are there other concerns?
Yeah, tell your wife she can marry the mortage.
This is because Lady Gaga is actually an artist, with practiced skills and true talent, vs. a performer that has to be auto-tuned when on stage because they were picked due to their looks or marketability and not due to any inherent talent.

That's what we still SELL as the ideal of art and music, but very rarely deliver. LG is a refreshing presence in modern music.
When rules develop lives of their own
Great writeup, though I have to be completely honest here and say that I love Patrick's writeups for independent hackers, makers, micropreneurs, bootstrappers etc. His writings and practical case studies gave me the power, as a nobody, to make tens of thousands of dollars in order to be more with my wife and child, while doing the work I love. I kind of miss those essays.
From Impact-boom to elevator-bling in 2 years. Not bad, Mr.Musk, not bad at all.
It can certainly hurt your bottom line to be viewed as a "totalitarian sycophant" by a much larger segment of customers.
People were always dubious of my claims that a neighbor's tree produced both oranges and lemons; I did not realize that this kind of intentional grafting was the likely cause (or that it was so relatively common). Strange the things I just took for granted in the days before there was an Internet that could be used to easily investigate.
Per second billing is somewhat of a gimmick just so Amazon can say they are more granular than Google Compute. The difference between seconds and a minute of billing is fractions of a cent. Rounding errors.

The exception is Google Compute has a 10 minute minimum, so if you are creating machines and destroying them quickly, per second billing will be noticeable.
Read up on the "graphical modeler" for QGIS and see if that's what you're looking for.
I've been waiting for it. I find it an awesome initiative from Lenovo, and it shows something many other big companies have lost. Making products for the hardcore geeks/fans. This used to be common 20 years ago.

If they execute this well, they'll score a lot of points in my book!
> DRM doesn't and will never work. It only serves to annoy people that pay for the movie/game/whatever legitimately.

I never said otherwise, and in fact I totally agree. A big part of my annoyance at the outrage over EME is the automatic assumption that you must be pro-DRM if you're not joining the furor.

> It's against everything the W3C stands for.

No, that's you (and everyone on this thread) projecting. The W3C is, and has always been, an engineering interoperability organization developing a data interchange format. It's right in their mission statement: "The W3C mission is to lead the World Wide Web to its full potential by developing protocols and guidelines that ensure the long-term growth of the Web". Notice what isn't in that sentence. Everything about "freedom", "openness", etc. is other people projecting onto them.

Before EME, web DRM is documented in the various plugin architectures. After EME, web DRM is documented in the HTML5 spec. From an engineering perspective, the difference is practically nil. The emotional overreaction here is just because of a perceived betrayal that isn't even real.
You are my new favorite person. I love running into these anecdotes - I keep thinking I'm alone in believing that a business can be run according to this policy.
We are allowing large corporations to dictate and push the web toward a closed system. A future where there has to be an App for that, and if you don't keep your head down you will be censored and cutoff from the rest of the online world.
It's interesting to consider that Saudi Arabia could justify their actions in the exact same way. Keep in mind that they still sentence individuals to death for everything from sorcery, to adultery, to apostasy. Their views on "these terrible ideas that must not be promulgated" are going to be different than ours. Interestingly enough even our ideas on this constantly change throughout time. If we lived in a country without such rigid protections of free speech there is every reason to believe we would have, not that far back in the past, declared things such as discussions of suffrage, or the abolition of slavery as "terrible ideas which must not be allowed to be promulgated."

Suppression of free speech is a cornerstone of despotism. It is paradoxical to me that people are lobbying for this given the state of our government today. I could, to some degree, understand thoughts of enabling the government to suppress free speech if we had a practical utopia of a government which you could fully trust to be judicious, responsible, and deliberate with any utilization of said powers.

But that is certainly not our present situation. And that is the issue that is confusing to me. One needs not appeal to some possible future situation to see why this would be an undesirable idea. Look at our president, look at our congress. Does anybody truly want to give these people the power to criminalize words? How long would it take before we'd have an act with a 3 or 4 letter acronym that was aimed at using said powers, we've now vested in our government, to deter critique of the government itself? I'm sure they could come up with an excellent name like the "Freedom of Speech Expansion Act". FSEA.

Of course we would go into an outrage and use all of our social media power to write lots of angry letters, start some digital petitions, and maybe even get facebook and google to show an icon on their homepages to 'raise awareness.' And the government would relent. Of course before we'd even finished cheering our amazing victory, an "Amendment for Socially Constructive Discussion" (which is oddly identical to the FSEA) would be quietly attached to a defense or other must-pass bill, and the FSEA becomes law. Feel free to complain. Hopefully it would still be legal to do so.

Does this sound in any way unbelievable or hyperbolic? Now take the contrary. Our government reluctantly passes the bill granting themselves substantially more power, but uses it only judiciously, fairly, and with the utmost concern for the implications of their actions. Constantly ensuring they never give way to companies lobbying for "speech modifications" and ensuring to never overstep any invisible boundaries that would hinder the rights of citizens. Oh yes, and this also continues on indefinitely through each and every congress. Which sounds more probable?
>The era of Framework churn is coming to an end, and now we can all go back to working on what makes our apps unique instead of spending precious time, energy, and money jumping to something new every year.

I believe this to be naively optimistic, but I'm all for Web components or any other development that help simplify things a bit. It's just that there will never be any silver bullet. I can make a list of the types of "The era of <Problem X> is now over and from here on it will be smooth sailing forever" that I've witnessed followed by the introduction of <Problem Y> that couldn't be anticipated. In a world of exponential complexity and creativity, I don't think this cycle is avoidable. It seems that the best we can hope for is that the rate that initiatives of abstraction, consolidation and standardization will manage to keep up with the forces (market and other) of defragmentation and growing complexity.
Is the World Falling Apart? Not at All
There's a catch with convergence funds: EU never pays 100% of the bill. Average is closer to 50%, I think, so it is enough to tempt politicians into unnecessary investments, and not enough to be completely harmless for local community budget (there are cities in Poland with debt to yearly income ratio of 80-90 %).
The US was only in that period from Dec 1941 to Aug 1945, just over 3 1/2 years. Assuming that the build-up years (when "everyone knew" we were going to have a war) were not as intense.
I think the useful comparison people are making is the difference between the previous per-hour billing and new per-second billing. Sure, if they can get some mileage comparing per-second to per-minute, great. At the end of the day isn't the increased granularity better?
You mean like the Social Security Office advised when social security numbers were first assigned?
> And more often than not, they are right.

And yet, every time that the number of standards is reduced, it is by this same process.

So, yes, it is the one way to do it. And yes, more often than more, it fails completely. So, let me ask you, what is the point of complaining that somebody is going through that?
It would take an examination of the criteria determining the exempt classification.

FLSA 13(a)(17) covers "computer professionals".

If you do not use highly-specialized knowledge, or are not allowed to use your own judgment and discretion, you could potentially challenge the exemption. I would consider the number of hours worked in excess of 40 per week to be part of that discretion. And in my opinion, "at will" employees have significantly reduced discretion, as they can be fired at any time for any reason, or no reason, but I am not a lawyer, and I don't think any judge would ever determine exemptness based solely on that. It might be a contributing factor. If you're at will, and feel like working fewer than 70 hours/week would get you fired, a judge might strip off the exemption just from the pure horror.

But definitely read that section of the law, and ask yourself again whether software professionals need a union. That was specifically written for us--or against us, depending on your opinion of it.
I was really pumped about Web Components at first, largely because this sort of argument made a lot of sense to me. A few years on, I'm a lot less convinced that these are the problems that need to be solved.

Element IDs, for example, are useful if you're doing a kind of old-fashioned select-and-mutate approach to DOM management. But if you're using React idiomatically, you're never running query selectors or ever reading from the DOM at all (modulo trivial things like getClientHeight in lifecycle methods). It's hard to imagine when you'd have an ID conflict with React because it's hard to imagine when you'd need an ID.

Similarly, over the past few years I've had maybe two or three cases where CSS leaks due to under-encapsulation were a problem, and I was able to pick up on them and solve them with very little effort. Over the same period I've devoted much, much more effort to solving problems with over-encapsulation in cases where I needed to style a supposedly reusable component but some clever attempt at encapsulation (e.g. inline styling) prevented me from doing so and forced me to do a lot of work or re-implement the component wholesale.

I've known a few projects that were excited about things like Shadow DOM and went through a lot of work to incorporate them only to end up stripping them out (see Atom: http://blog.atom.io/2016/11/14/removing-shadow-dom-boundary-...) for related reasons.

So at this point I see a lot of the touted benefits to things like Web Components as a potentially painful set of solutions to a set of problems I've never really had. I don't really get it, but maybe they scratch some itch I don't have.
I'm not sure what you're analogy is here. You wouldn't switch every nail to a screw in the same moment.
Well of course, if you pay for an hour, you might as well keep the instance running because you might need it before the hour is up, and you’ve already paid for it.

That makes per-second a win/win. Amazon can slow the spend on new compute resource because of the financial incentive to avoid retaining idle resource.
I switched to Firefox (dev edition) a month or so ago almost completely becuase the TreeStyleTabs extension is better than anything for chrome.

I LOVE having nested tabs. It totally prevents me from getting lost when I'm links deep in technical documentation.
"It is very difficult to make someone understand something if their livelihood is predicated on them not understanding it."
Grassroots populist opinions of the people only prevail when the wealthy and corporate interests already coincidentally happened to be lobbying for it. And by coincidence, I mean overlap, so it isn't just a matter of convincing the wealthy interest groups either because they don't care.

This study was regarding laws passed and regulations changed, but it would apply to non-state consensus garnering organizations.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-poli...

> Multivariate analysis indicates that economic elites and organized groups representing business interests have substantial independent impacts on U.S. government policy, while average citizens and mass-based interest groups have little or no independent influence.

Same study, in article form with graphs, responding to critics of the study

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2016/05/2...
The long night;

The sound of the water

Says what I think.

-Gochiku
One option could have been to use top-level domains for a team (e.g. add a TXT record to prove ownership of 'example.com' and then you can create that the 'example.com' team).

Out of interest, is there a reason you didn't go for that? Would be easy to memorise and validate while also ensuring uniqueness. Feels like it could also play in quite nicely with letting people on-board — e.g. you could have a feature that anyone with an email address in my domain is allowed to join the main team without needing admin approval.

That said, this sounds great — can't wait to try it out :)
I think you're reading the "Taler is not suitable for illegal activities." wrong. They're not saying you can't (as like you said, of course you could), they're saying you shouldn't

I guess what they're saying is, "we don't want you to doing anything illegal on our service, but we can't really stop you easily if you were to do that".
Don't be ridiculous. Nobody would waste the effort on Pokemon Yellow.

Everyone knows Pokemon Red is clearly the best Pokemon game of them all.

:)

I would also add to this that once the basic mechanics are learned, it should be much easier for that AI to pick up another similar game (for instance, Pokemon Gold or Silver). Adapting to slightly different but similar environments is a plus.
I use one of these X62 systems as my laptop.
Tree Style Tab is being ported to a WebExtension:

https://github.com/piroor/treestyletab/issues/1224#issuecomm...
"Philosophers, in short, do all kinds of things: from pushing the boundaries of exotic logics, to solving ethical problems, to systematizing natural language or understanding the metaphysics of causality."

I think you're mostly talking about analytic philosophy.[1] That's dominant in English-speaking countries, and in the process of dominating most everywhere else. But Continental philosophy[2] also exists, and has pretty different concerns and methodologies.

I encourage everyone to check out both.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analytic_philosophy

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental_philosophy
If your claim is that your philosophical position can not be verified, then sure, nothing verifies it. Typically, however, philosophers actually claim their ideas are in tight correlation with reality. That offers plenty of opportunities for verification.
On one hand, this is terrible for freedom in our software; on the other, this isn't the "death of the open Web" that some are proclaiming.

The media groups want DRM and they will get it. This doesn't mean that we are going to lose all freedom on the Web. It's a step in that direction, certainly, but we're sure as heck not there yet.
>The only company on the list of browser makers that really has any desire to try to exclude DRM is Mozilla

Didn't Spotify just abandon Safari (OS X) because unlike Mozilla it doesn't support the DRM they need?
Anti-SLAPP is great, but the kind of lawsuit described in the article has nothing to do with it, since the suits do not attack the speech rights but seek to prevent disclosure. That's a completely different (and sort of opposite, since they don't seek to prevent speech but to prevent them from being compelled to speak - or, disclose documents) thing.
Shame, shame, shame.

We're losing the internet day by day, if we haven't done so already.

I've seen people and posts here and there calling for attention on these issues, but imho it's all too subtle. We should start using harsher terminology for what's actually happening. This is flat out CORRUPTION, and I'm not seeing anyone express it as such.

It's probably too late already, and unfortunately, this is merely a reflection on what's happening in the world in the larger geo-political context. Corruption everywhere.
My guess is they claim it can't work because they don't want it to work, and figure with enough agreement someone somewhere will be convinced. (Saying this independently of my own views on the matter.)
That sounds like a strong case for anonymous authorship.