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> Having the rights to a show is not having a monopoly, as we're talking about them. If not every single cable company in the world is somehow a monopoly.

Cable companies don't generally produce content. In the case of the ones that do (like Comcast, after their acquisitions), they've absolutely used their content for anti-competitive purposes. This is exactly what Amazon has done with Prime...tried to leverage it to support their less established products. And it's exactly what Google is doing with YouTube. Amazon is getting the same treatment they've given others.

> You can watch other shows.

And you can watch other user-uploaded videos. There's plenty of other sites that host user-generated videos.

> YouTube has an effective monopoly on internet videos. Almost ALL user generated videos, apart from few niches.

This is just incorrect. YouTube is the biggest, but it's nowhere near "almost all" videos. As I said before, the numbers I've seen are around 1/3 of the watched hours are on platforms other than YouTube with Facebook being the biggest.

> Amazon, on the other hand, have plenty of competition. From Walmart to eBay. In videos there's Hulu and Netflix and Now TV, etc.

Hulu and Netflix don't manufacture streaming devices like FireTV. Walmart and eBay don't stream video or sell their own devices. Google and Apple are the only competitors relevant to this discussion since they're the only ones that compete on multiple products. And all three have artificially limited their cloud services to lock consumers into their platforms. All three should be reined in. But acting like Amazon is somehow the helpless victim in all this is just hypocritical. They're getting the same treatment they've given Google and Apple.
Absolutely. Many basic goods are priced internationally now. Aside from deliberate manipulations like import duties, things like cars, TVs, kitchen appliances, etc are similar prices everywhere especially if you minimise labour costs such as through online retailers.

Even in China salaries might be 5x higher now but also the exchange rate has halved, so foreign goods are effective 10x more affordable now. Hence cars are everywhere, compared to when I started going there when owning a private car was an impossible dream for most families and the streets only carried busses and taxis.
The job market for good software engineers has generally been very tight for employers for the better part of the 20 years I've been in the industry (and I say that having worked for a dot-com through the '00 bubble and for Goldman Sachs through the financial crisis).

Salaries seem to be at an all time high. Lots of jobs and not enough good engineers.

Nothing to be terrified about.
“the vast symbolic fields of the humanities no longer form the shared matrix in which psychoanalytic work is organically embedded...owe very little to the best psychoanalytic tradition and suffer accordingly."

Sorry, no. Study after study is demonstrating that any one of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Mindfulness practice, mediation, or even exercise benefits patients more than psychotherapy. There is truly no point in marinating a patient in past traumas or broken modes of thoughts - for years - expecting awareness alone to produce useful behavioral change.
I think a key point is that computers can be extraordinarily valuable for education, but during a lecture or during a seminar they're usually more of a distraction because a goal of that is a teaching interaction and engagement between people in the same room, and modern computers have so many tools to connect people for totally other purposes.

So if someone says "but computers are so important for being able to do online research and collaboration!", that's absolutely right, but that doesn't mean they're a consistent net positive during face-to-face teaching sessions.

Bret Victor (who just came up in another thread) has been pretty adamant about his claim that some future kind of computational media could be a huge plus for collaboration and teaching environments—yet that present-day laptops and tablets are not that and tend more to isolate people.
well, they are the more privacy oriented browser for 1.

performance is a big issue and ram doesn't fix it. processors aren't getting much faster... they are getting more parallelized but not much faster. The move to webext was a way to allow for firefox to iterate faster toward a more performant browser with the tools in place to allow for customization and experimentation for new extension APIs(look at webext experiments[0]). If it's a worthwhile feature you can add it in and they can see that it works and then they can merge the experiment into firefox mainland. it's more work but results in a more performant, stable, privacy oriented browser.

0. see the one for better keyboard support to enable vimperator style extensions.
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That’s TouchID. Can they reasonably steal a full perfect 3D map of your face that can pass the attention checks and whatever FaceID uses to determine its you?

The fingerprint argument isn’t an argument against FaceID. And it’s still kind of pointless because Apple put out figures a few years ago that TouchID lead to a ~50% INCREASE in locked phones.

You seem to be arguing that a secure passcode without biometrics is better. It seems that if the public can’t use biometrics they prefer NO security. So even with that ‘flaw’ it’s no worse (often MICH better) for everyone.
It does make sense to compare them on a USD basis if you trying to figure out what causes a 10x difference in x-ray cost between the U.S. and India (in USD)
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> Which is not a 'safe' distance to a black hole in any scenario.

Sure, if you're a pansy. HOLD MY BEER!
GDPR is also a useful thing for geeks, in order to kill terrible ideas.

"You'd like to keep this data from this forever? Certainly! Now if your business unit is committing to GDPR responsibility for maintaining this data, we'll notify the DPO and ... oh, you want to delete it? Done. Cheers!"

I am enormously pleased to say that the techies in our organisation are absolutely onside with this, even as it will be work. Because it's clearly the correct idea.
The purpose of the license is to enable the end user to fix the software if it is broken and extend it if they want to. It is to remove restrictions on the use of the software, not the sale of the software.

If avoids the current situation in which equipment manufacturers deliberately insert software into equipment roles which have historically worked fine without software to prevent the users and third-party repairers from repairing them, and criminalizing attempts to fix problems via DRM regulations.

Making software fixable by end users doesn't involve any major losses as most people, even advanced computer programmers don't have the knowledge or domain expertise to fix or extend software themselves. It only means they have the option of locating and hiring other experts to fix themselves if they need to, as goes for a lot of the sophisticated hardware and software devices out there.
> cryptographically locked to Sonic's vendor ID and any stolen stored CC info could only be used at other Sonics.

That's not how chip cards work.
Stats on HaProxy is still problematic when nbproc is bigger than 1 (multiprocessing).
Depends where you live, the distinction is clear where the title of "engineer" is protected.
I agree the system has to protect both sides and that may not always pan out completely. I'm genuinely curious what you think would work better. All systems have drawbacks. Some of them may be systemic but those are harder to abuse than a waiter writing down your CC # and selling that to people who encode them on magstripes.

I think with chip+pin it is at least a lot harder to be vulnerable. More and more credit card companies also have an app that you can easily report your card missing/stolen almost instantly. Also, if you have trouble with a 4 digit # of your choosing, then you should stick with cash which is still open to theft but not digital duplication.
It's true that source code is a blueprint (we don't have builders; for software, unlike civil engineering, the build process is done by automated tools, not people.)

There's certainly an argument that coding is often done without clear understanding of the larger-scale structure that the module is going to fit into, the exact domain functionality, etc., and that much development has gone too far in avoiding analysis and requirements, overreacting to the broken and frontloaded abstract design process that often used to be done prior to writing any code.

But missing blueprints are the wrong analogy.
but at some point housing scarcity causes additional housing unit prices to skyrocket. so the property tax basis for those new high priced units must look pretty good to city councils.

i mean, don't city councils also find it highly revenue-enhancing to encourage the replacement of older housing stock and long time owners with new, high priced, units?
I thought browsers removed the builtin rss subscribe and update though ..
> This is ignoring the fact that code is a more useful blueprint than anything else for programs.

Personally, I find good 'ole bubble-and-arrow diagrams, list of data members, and hand-written C structs with arrows between them to be extremely valuable prototyping tools.
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Always happy to stand corrected on these kinds of things. When it was posted here recently I got the impression that nobody was using it for much of anything, nor would they. Then again I should know better than to put too much stock in comments here. It's full of people like me repeating things they don't understand...
> In 2015 we created the first secure TLD when we added .google to the HSTS preload list, and we are now rolling out HSTS for a larger number of our TLDs, starting with .foo and .dev.

Interesting, I didn't realize you could add entire top-level domains to the HSTS preload list like that.

This seems like a really interesting potential migration path towards a future where HTTPS support is mandatory. On TLDs that preload HSTS, you might not even need to open port 80 or accept regular HTTP requests at all, since browsers would _always_ load the HTTPS version of the site.
Sounds like Anthony Levandowski has aspirations to build Skynet
wow, that is quick, looks good, Thanks!
The idea being that equal opportunity leads to the same thing: inequality
Most "new tech" is passing fads, or ideas that will find a small niche but won't go mainstream. It's hard to be enthusiastic about Yet Another Fad. Younglings don't know the difference and jump in face-first blindfolded. After seeing the wheel reinvented the 37th time, it will take some fancy acting to act happy for #38.

You have to approach an IT career like an athlete: save up while you are young because your days are likely numbered. You can still make a fairly decent living by consulting for co's with older platforms that still need supporting, but you have to travel or move often: an IT gypsy.
If I was still single and childless I'd do it. Wouldn't even need to be "handsomely", just enough to cover expenses.
Agreed. Credit card nums, social security, etc all suffer from the lack of private keys and signed transactions.
To the extent that you need a remote system to retrieve a webpage, and then email it to you so you can read it?! I mean come on here.
Bitcoins can only be transferred if you approve it with your private key; which the other party never sees. You can go lock the bitcoin private key up again, and not worry someone is going take more coins while you're sleeping. All that you have to trust is that the device storing your private key (hardware wallet, phone, whatever) isn't compromised.

This also roughly applies to chip-and-pin systems, where the chip holds the private key. They're both like cash in a wallet -- giving someone cash from your wallet doesn't give them the ability to magically disappear more money while your wallet's sitting beside your bed later that night.

Whereas with a (non-chip) credit card, once another party has your information just once, a theft can happen anytime from then until years later when the CC expires.
I think the difference is that those devices were created and used with the expectation that they won't monitor users. The new age devices primarily want to monitor devices.
Have you ever been robbed? Tell the wrong person you don't have money, and they'll attack just to make sure.
As someone living in a rural area, near a nature preserve, I'd prefer the opposite.

I'm tired of being woken up way too early in the morning by gunshots. Waterfowl season started last weekend, so it was shotguns going off a mile away. Rifle season for deer starts soon (it's bowhunting season now), and that will bring its own set of loud noises from even closer.

I'm all for suppressors, if only so I can sleep past 5AM without having to keep my windows closed.
The EU already had regulations, in the form of the Data Protection Directive from 1995. The GDPR improves and expands on it.
Has anyone been able to break into the smartphone market lately?

I can't imagine beating Xiaomi, Samsung, Apple and the other big billion dollar conglomerates this late in the game without a significant Nobel prize worthy idea.
As a Mac developer, I can tell you that supporting new OS versions is often a lot more work than adding new features.
If someone actually want to work with such things as opposed to trying to solve the problem directly with huga amounts of code, where to apply?
you could do the same thing to Internet Explorer with simple image link
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The workers that discriminate older people forget that one day they're also going to have 50 or 60?
I misread the upthread comment as implying that FaceID “passwords” were more legally secure than regular passwords, not just more legally secure than plain FaceID.

I agree that the description you provide is generally correct.
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> so valuable

Some poor MBA SOB probably already ran a spreadsheet on that.

Actually, probably a bunch of poor MBA SOBs, and the results are all over the map, so there's some mana raining down from the optimists.

One of these days they'll converge on a lower valuation, and turn off the tap. Or shrug and say, what the heck, the free stuff ain't worth much either, and it keeps the rioting down ...
One of the problems with SIMD is that we can't do this kind of shuffle at bit granularity, at least not in one instruction.
He had the money to retire before the blog got big, but yes he and his wife still work, but only when they want to.
Maybe it would be easier just to remove "A foreign key must reference columns that either are a primary key or form a unique constraint" restriction, stating that any unique index is enough.
You're getting downvoted because everyone hates when Bitcoin idiots force it into every damn conversation.
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I've heard Bria 5 is pretty good.
Adaptive streaming sure, but can you not handle the different audio combinations using source-tags? And HEVC/VP9 with h264 fallback I would imagine is the primary use case they (WHATWG?) were thinking of supporting when creating the source tag.
Foursquare buys location data from instagram and then resells it to companies. Then they look at the location data and figure out that people are going to places like an Apple Store and then they take appropriate actions.

See https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-08-31/you-re-us...

EDIT: Changed from Hedge fund to companies. Couldn't find source of Hedge funds.
This is the correct answer and the reason that NSURLSession really came into existence - there is a need to partition behaviors between different frameworks and subsystems and the previous NSURLConnection model relied on a smattering of process global configuration options.

I'd be surprised if AFNetworking didn't also offer the ability to create a "private" NSURLSession with custom storage objects.

I'd also recommend looking into debugging these types of issues using, eg, Charles Proxy. There's more information on logging at:

https://developer.apple.com/library/content/qa/qa1887/_index...

See also:

https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2013/705/

Disclaimer: NSURLSession contributor...
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thank you much. Was frustrating try to read the article without knowing what it is about
I wish they sold a version with a bundled controller: not because I had any trouble buying a MiFi controller separately, but because the fact that I had to do that means that there are far too few games that are built expecting me to have a controller. If there was a bundle, I imagine it would booster developer support as well. Also I think it would help justify its comparable-to-console pricing to many people.
You have to separate between what layers call Lex specialis and Lex generalis. The former one is usually national accounting laws, archiving laws, banking laws etc. that apply to certain organisations, industries etc. These laws take precedence over Lex generalis which are general laws that apply where there are not any special laws. GDPR the latter, is a general law...
Ignoring the rediculous level of technical sophistication needed...

You can’t ‘get their face’ if they’re ‘walking by’, you have to go through the whole enrollment. How are you going to trick them into that?

Also even if they go through some Herculean process to get your ‘face hash’ Apple could simply change the hash algorithm and reset it. For all we know different phones will use a different per-device random seed in the algorithm and that attack wouldn’t work at all even if the algorithm isn’t changed.

Again, you’re talking about getting a fully accurate 3D model of someone’s face that passes the FaceID tests and can be used to trick the attention sensors. That’s an INSANE level of effort for Joe random.

This is not a realistic attack, and FaceID is not designed to secure anyone at any time from any government with unlimited funds and resources. It’s designed to be better than the trivial passcodes that almost no one used.
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GPS based on solely on satellite signals tends to require several to tens of minutes before it can provide an accurate location. Cell phone geolocation tends to much much faster because it utilizes terrestrial radio signals from cell towers and wifi networks and who knows what else...a database of such signals is part of the what else.
I'm surprised Krebs end up plugging chip-and-PIN instead of the current leapfrog technology exemplified by Apple Pay. I feel there is not enough awareness of just how much more secure this is.

A huge advantage of Apply Pay is that you get the security of a PIN without the hassle of entering a PIN -- or the risk of it being stolen during PIN entry. You just authenticate with your fingerprint or, soon, your face. (Please no comments speculating that this is less secure than a fingerprint. It's premature to say and unless you know something Apple doesn't, you're probably wrong.)

Another less understood advantage is that Apple Pay takes the strongest approach to tokenization, which makes it effectively immune to merchant hardware compromises. Even chip cards rely on the card readers at points of sale to handle tokenization, so a hacked reader could in theory leak PANs. On top of that, lots of merchants/processors don't even bother with tokenization, so it's a crap shoot with every merchant.

Apple Pay tokenizes when you enroll your card, so the PAN (primary account number) never passes through any merchant systems anywhere ever. This means the tokenized numbers that hackers could steal from merchants are useless outside of two-factor-secured Apple Pay.
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Well, the clients could just keep indexes rather than the actual history, and then fetch the specific messages as needed when the search is performed.
If you've got any experience or interest in programming, I'd recommend having a stab at Google Summer of Code[0].

[0] - https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/
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I'd love to hear what the use cases are besides ordering stuff from amazon.

I could think of maybe using alexa to control my IoT devices (I don't own any) but even then I'd be more interested in controlling them when I'm not home.

If there's a market for these devices it's as a replacement for premium speakers like sonos / bose. Apple seems to be going in that direction with the homepod and it has a great shot at dominating because most of the consumers in that market already own other apple products.

My phone is next to me 99% of the time. Google knows when my meetings are, where I'm flying next week and who I talk to. If there is a shift to voice it will probably be because of another wearable device (like airpods or glasses).
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A Big Mac in India costs $2.76 USD vs $5 in US. See the Big Mac Index [1]

1. http://www.economist.com/content/big-mac-index
We've been going through the same exercise for the last 6 months. As a dev company that services a bunch of small to medium size clients we found we couldn't get insurance for data loss - and increasingly our clients require a clause in the contract that makes us liable.

One step we've had to take is to stop using copies of the live database in our dev environments (I suspect that practice is fairly common!). Instead we've build an automated rule-based system that produces 'munged' copies of the data (i.e. realistic size and type, but with no useful information), transferring that to our build and dev systems nightly - and reporting on what steps have been taken.

Shameless plug - we're also in the process of building plugins for platforms like Wordpress[1] to simplify some of this for smaller projects.

[1] http://datamunge.io
Its not about a 15% raise today, it's about a 15% raise every year indefinitely. Rents are increasing at 10-15% annually, no company can afford salary increases of that year after year after year.
No, because you can (and should) disable usb connectivity/debugging.
Mining is just finding a combination of values that the hash of them will have a number of zeros in it. (intentionally brute force problem)

Public key crypto is used to confirm that the coins can move from one account to another, or to be more precise from one output to another input. (there are no accounts in Bitcoin, that's just an illusion)
Any kind of quantitative science or engineering.
Unfortunate reality is some mental disease can't be effectively treated, if you can't clear the barrier of "not a danger to self or others" then it's best for society to keep a patient isolated from it.

Still, our history with mental health facilities shows that we have a less than stellar reputation of actually treating individuals - wouldn't surprise me if to this day there are still people locked up in these places that SHOULD be capable of release.
What do you use to store your mind map? My preferred methods for notes are either outlines or mind maps (obviously related), and it would be nice to use mind maps for the top level topics but then those drill into deeper, more full notes.
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The converse (bad law makes hard cases) resonates more with me--glad it's mentioned in the article.
> A report from a tester who goes by "AP" in July tipped us off to the need for a few further tweaks. AP found that trying to insert 2 billion rows into a newly-created hash index was causing an error.

This is what I call trying things "at Indian scale" :D
You can argue that is extreme (it's certainly more extreme than I'm able / willing to do), but your earlier comment was claiming a disconnect between his web browsing habits and the public persona that he maintains. I don't see his cultivated public persona at odds with his private desire to be un-tracked on the web.