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> Music sells fine with DRM too, so do games. Not sure what your point is.

My point is, that releasing for more people = more profit. And the opposite - not serving the demand = lost sales. It's pretty straightforward. DRM-free markets show there is demand. And those who refuse to release DRM-free show they don't do it not because of money, but for some side, shady reasons.

Not sure what your EMI example shows. They offered with DRM and without DRM, and then just with DRM, but it sounds like they didn't address the audience right. I.e. they should offer in all stores, not in one place exclusively.

> The easiest way to combat DRM is to start gofundme / indie gogo campaigns, where the developer gets paid upfront, and that way they don't care about DRM since they already made money.

DRM is not about money, it's about control (i.e. power). A different kind of urge some have. That's why using rational business arguments often doesn't work with such people. Control freaks don't care about lost profits, if in the end they feel "we are in charge".

> In any case, DRM is one of those things that I don't see going away.

It was broken through for music and games. Film industry is the one most plagued by it. And I agree - I see no sign of progress in it. It's too backwards thinking.
> It's really hard to imagine an optical illusion that makes you mistake objects in the physical world for something else- say, panda for a lawn mower or a car for a pigeon, or something like that.

Sure but people do, for example, mistake each others' faces or voices. You don't need to mistake your friend for a lawnmower for it to be dangerous.

Also, for example, I often mishear my own name when someone else is speaking. Might not happen with every name but it does with some.
In a practical sense, I wonder how they'd successfully do it in the US.

Stents cost on the order of $11k-$44k per the article. Wouldn't you just know from looking at your bill afterward whether you got the stent or not?
Plantation forestry grows about 20 cubic meters per hectare-year [0]. Doug Fir weighs ~600 kg-m3 [1]. 3B US tons / (20x600 kg) per hectare-year = 6,796,166 hectares. Plantation lumber is harvested in 7, 14, and 21 year cuts [0], so to ensure you're always sequestering enough carbon you need 21x6.8 million hectares of new forest to defray the current CO2 production... which is about 551,000 square miles, which is approximately [2] Texas + California + New Mexico... or [3] France + Spain + Italy.

The new forest would still be ~20% of the size of the Amazon rain-forest though [4].

[0]: https://www.quora.com/How-fast-do-pine-trees-grow

[1]: https://www.engineeringtoolbox.com/weigt-wood-d_821.html

[2]: https://state.1keydata.com/states-by-size.php

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependen...

[4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_rainforest
MacStories has some nice visualizations of the new quarterly results compared to previous quarters. https://www.macstories.net/news/apple-q4-2017-results-52-6-b...
Sure, but the idea is to do it programatically.
> I have had great difficulty in understanding...

Well, as a thought exercise, imagine that there exist people who apply the "follow the money" standards to military spending, oil cabals, lobbyists, and sugary drink manufacturers but not to green energy companies, abortion providers, unions, etc.
For a minute i read this as "I keep encouraging more and more everyday people.." which made me smile ;)
They are actively working on the FreeBSD kernel, see Drew's post that I linked to (they did enough work to fill 100Gbit/sec pipe with 100,000 TCP connections. Impressive stuff).

FreeBSD is used because they can get their work into the kernel, Linux is harder to change.

The Linux use appears to me to just be VMs in AWS, it's just a service.
I've been around here for a while, but I don't usually contribute in HN, so my karma is a little low, how much karma do you need to access the down-vote button?
I think my issue with your comment is the same one I have with the original article: it focuses on some technical details which don't impact most teams in a major way.

> You will definitely want to upgrade the lower layers (base OS? JVM? Runtime of the day?). In that case the statically-allocated cache hierarchy of Docker layers will be of little utility.

My team deploys to production multiple times per day. We upgrade the OS or the language version every couple months. So the layered structure is optimized for our typical workflow.

> Are we sure that all the Dockerfiles out there can be executed at arbitrary times from arbitrary machines and always generate the same content hash?

Again, the content hash doesn't affect my team. It's "bit-for-bit" enough that, in my experience, if the tests pass locally they pass in production. If that weird library is installed correctly in the local container, it's installed correctly in the production container. That's what matters.

> skeptical that using a specific tool will magically free ourselves from having to care about software quality

I never said this and I'm not sure what you mean. At the end of the day I think the benefits of the "Docker system" are obvious to anyone who ship multiple times a day, especially working on big software systems that are used by lots of people. There are other approaches too, but personally I haven't seen a VM-based solution which offers as good a workflow.

The faster startup time of VMs is cool and I appreciate the work put into the paper... I'm just saying that it doesn't seem to matter in the bigger picture.
All these takes https://mjtsai.com/blog/2016/10/27/new-macbook-pros-and-the-...
Alright, so if we get tons of install of our root CA cert. Can we start a new CA?
I don't think this is specifically a C++ problem, I think it's a problem for any language which tries to be generalist and encompass many use cases without finding a well-defined niche. Namely, the compromises that a language makes in order to appease wildly divergent use cases will make it less than optimal at many of them, and if demand is high enough for any one of those use cases, then a different language that is custom-tailored for that use case will start to find a foothold.

I think of it like bicycling: one could use the same bike for commuting, road racing, mountain biking, and BMX, and you'd certainly save room in your garage, but most people do not need to do all four of those activities and will instead invest in bikes that make tradeoffs to excel in the use cases that they actually care about.
Here's one: https://www.fossjobs.net/

I've sometimes posted LibreOffice and Mozilla jobs to it.
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In this specific case (installing a root certificate) I would say it's not actually a CFAA violation because they're not "obtaining information", "defrauding", or "intentionally causing damage". You might be able to argue that installing the driver on a "government computer" produces a violation of 18 USC 1030 (a) (3), but the rules for a mere "protected computer" which covers most internet-connected personal computers are actually not strict enough to cover this.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1030
Not to be facetious, but I'd really prefer there to be fewer drawn-out videos of the nature described in the posts above. The issue of payment for content is of course real though.
This has been my issue from the start. I generally feel like I've missed a boat I certainly could have gotten on to early enough, But it's so terribly wasteful, I have a hard time supporting the thing at all. Admittedly I don't follow the subject very closely, but I haven't seen this argument mentioned nearly enough.
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Ah, the programming language hype train. There's always a new bandwagon to jump on, isn't there?
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I published my first tech blog post on medium today. Though it didn't quite get enough traction on HN. I am not much of a writer, though I enjoyed the process.
I worry that over time, data will get stale. If a place stops being talked about because its popularity tanks for a righteous reason, it will still show up on the map as a worthwhile place tovisit.
sure and drain the whole battery on my smartphone/laptop while I watch that video? thanks but no thanks.
Isn't this just exploratory testing? I don't see what's novel about what's being described. If a tester is only given time to test the 'happy path' then they're not been given time to do their job.
Was about to ask the same question. Performance measures vary between companies, sector, and management structures.
Plus WSL. That makes so much pain go away.
This holds for bodybuilding, too, though that is admittedly a very subjective (appearance-based) sport compared to powerlifting where there are real numbers by which to compare everyone. Dexter Jackson placed 4th at this year's Mr. Olympia at age 47.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dexter_Jackson_(bodybuilder)#C...
Sure, but that's side-stepping my point.
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Traditionally, large scale layoffs are hard and avoided, especially in industries where unions are strong. If required they are usually negotiated with the union. Still, there are often ways to avoid a layoff. The union sometimes agrees on a temporary pay cut across the board. There are some legal instruments that help a company in a crisis, Kurzarbeit is one of the most german one: The company can under some circumstances cut work time (and salaries) for a specified group of employees and the state will cover for a certain percentage of the wage loss. This allows the company to retain staff in an unexpected slow in business and be ready and fully staffed when orders start rolling in. In effect a giant insurance pool.
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Tim Cook mentioned specifically that the Mac growth was driven by China. So keep that in mind.
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I do realize that most work is maintenance, but there's a difference between maintaining something written in a fairly popular technology and working nearly exclusively with obscure garbage - the first one makes you employable at other places, the second one doesn't or makes you a worse candidate.

So it's impossible to have someone say "it would be better if you did [x] this way because [y]" or "if you want to know more about the subject you should read [z]"? Weird, I've been doing these things for other people pretty often. Is it really entitlement that I'd like to experience something similar? This is also what I meant about "passionate" people. I do realize not everyone has to be like this, but I'd love to have just one guy around with a lot of knowledge and a desire to share it.

I actually like to write documentation. Currently I don't even have a place where I could put it though. And before you ask - yes, the management got introduced to the idea and they told me that "we don't have time for that". When there is a place to for documentation I seem to be the only one who actually puts any effort into writing it.

The solutions work in a business sense, but require tons of constant maintenance (to the point where it is impossible to focus at other work because everything breaks constantly) or make the job harder than it needs to be. I literally got told to not refactor stuff like one letter variables, obvious SQL Injection bugs, removing dead code or refactoring one copy-pasted block into a function. This like these often lead to mistakes that cause outages for the clients and force the team into working overtime.

I automate what I can. More could be done if similar solutions could be put in production.

At home I work on side projects with .NET and Python. I also like to read programming books and blogs in my free time and it irks me I cannot apply the knowledge I get from these sources at work.
I haven't gotten that, although it's perhaps because I'm just in another office. But I think it helps that the rest of the team is small (3 other people), and we do scrum and have scheduled meetings for design issues.
There are a number of questions here.

Is CO2 rising? Fairly unequivocally, yes.

Has the planet warmed? Again, faily clearly yes, since pre-industrial times.

Is it still warming? Ok, here we get more contentious.

How much of the warming is down to CO2? Contentious, again - e.g. see this book for an argument of how we could explain much if not all of the warming down to various natural cycles: https://www.amazon.com/Neglected-Sun-Precludes-Catastrophe-I...

Is a warming planet a problem? Again, debatable. Rising sea level and ocean acidification scares aside, history suggests that we tend to do better with a warmer climate.

This is actually one of the scarier articles I read recently about why rising CO2 is bad - and it's nothing to do with climate: https://www.politico.com/agenda/story/2017/09/13/food-nutrie...
They've done a lot, but apparently it hasn't been particularly successful. Their new "Documentation" platform didn't really ever gain traction: https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/354217/sunsetting-d...
>Microsoft provides guidance on deleting and managing certificates in the Windows certificate store

Microsoft should mark these as malicious and quarantine them using their built-in AV. If the end user needs them he can remove them from quarantine. Posting advisories no end user will ever see isn't helping much.
Thanks for this, I was unaware, I suspect I am not alone!
This is just about a mismatch of the rate of perception and the input rate.

Good movies avoid it by having depth to let your mind wander in to. I personally have to listen to podcasts at higher speeds not to drift off.
Could we ask you to please comment more substantively, like the guidelines ask?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
If so, there will be a long drawn out investigation at taxpayer expense which results in a fine which is both a) too small to impact the revenue of the company, and b) immediately waived on the condition that they stop doing what they already can't do by law.
>Being intelligent doesn't mean you're suddenly immune to psychological tricks and ploys. If anything it can be used to make more sophisticated sophistries.

And yet here you are being extremely presumptuous about some person's background, motivations, and intelligence because they are labeled 'conservative'. Bigotry aside, that's just poor logic.

I have to assume you would be equally presumptuous when it comes to interpreting the scope of climate change.
Is the reverse true for iPhones? Like even with the (granted not that many) $1,000+ iPhone X's, there was only a 2% increase in revenue, so I wonder if Apple is starting to sell more lower-end iPhones as a percentage of its total iPhone sales.
Mentions "engineered" three times, but "pragmatic" only once. Not conformant with the Go Advocacy Playbook.
Agreed.

Anecdotal, but I recently managed to reorient my Facebook feed into a more "positive" light.

- I systematically un-followed sources of "negative" content (e.g. stupid, demeaning, cynical, deceptive/disingenuous, etc.) One strike, max two. This included some friends (repeated offenders - lol). No engagement whatsoever with these posts (no 'angry'/'sad' reaction, no display of comments).

- I liked/followed many "positive" pages/communities (notably authors, non-fiction books, self-help or growth-mindset).

- I made a point to like/comment/share "positive" posts and comments (e.g. clever, beautiful, grateful, fair, virtuous, etc.)

My main criteria was quality, above topic. E.g. bye-bye "petty" content even if it's "science" (which I like). I was quite selective, as it's easy to re-sub later.

I stayed unusually long on the site over a few days, to extensively clean/curate my feed.

Within a week, everything changed to suit my newfound tastes: basic feed is great, ads/sponsored content more relevant; it even seems there's been a positive shift in post sentiment selected from my contacts.

My Facebook feed is actually somewhat pleasant now. It fits my mindset of choice (away from the overly critical/cynical/negative individual I used to be in previous years). All it took is a little self-discipline and some manual curating (I've always refrained from liking too many sources, so there wasn't much to deal with).
No notice? That seems a bit weird, no?
If they find anything - they will hide it and not tell anyone.
The incompleteness/inconsistency theorem I mention seems to indicate no such ML system is possible. It will either encounter examples it cannot deal with, or it will be deceived. ML can only be guaranteed to work within very limited domains.
But consider that the existing "30 man years" design had couple year calendar time for it at most. Doesn't that say something about the task at hand?

EDIT guess this is just rephrasing of your point, in a way.
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> But only to the select few who are in the right product or looking at the market in the right way.

like RenTec/Medallion... who sometimes look too good to be true, then again, if they were doing something illegal for 30+ years, you'd think by now they'd be caught. The only alternative explanation is they indeed have a unique model of the markets they continuously refine that allows them to outperform most everyone.
I think a large part is that a bunch of separate questions are lumped into a sine question.

1. Is CO2 rising?
2. Is that planet warming?
3. Is CO2 causing the planet warming?
4. Is this due to human caused changes?
5. Will bad stuff happens because of it?
6. Can we actually prevent it?
7. Will mitigation actually be better than prevention?
8. What are actual effective things we can do to prevent it?

I think 1-5 is mostly settled, the others are still open questions. However, many people act like it is all just 1 question.

This would be akin to somebody supporting a ban on all abortions because it is settled science that a fetus is genetically human and is genetically distinct from the mother, and accusing everyone who disagrees with them of denying genetic science.
Interesting; i think it’s fairly clear by now engaging with C++ is not going to lead to reduced complexity at all. When was the last time it removed support for a feature? That’s not what the language needs because it’s more interested in preserving existing code bases than it is at improving them (the latter being a huge effort, truly massive, so i understand the decision and don’t mean it as a slight in the least).
Constructive Criticism:

Get people to post some jobs before posting it to HN. If I saw that there were a lot a jobs on here I'd be more inclined to stick around especially if I was looking for a Clojure job. If I am looking to hire I'd be more inclined to stick around because a lot of posts must mean a lot of people are also viewing those posts. What you have now is just an empty web page with a few links. As a side effect of this, I completely forget about the site once I finish typing this comment.

Not trying to be cruel here, but I have made the same mistake a thousand times already so I know.
I'm a student assistant at SAP in Germany. Even I (as a part time hourly-paid employee) have a one month notice period.
TransferWise has saved me a _lot_ of money over the last couple of years. The website has gotten worse I must say but otherwise their service has been nothing but satisfactory. I'm still hoping they'll offer a credit or debit card to make it possible to pay in foreign currency on the spot without paying horrific conversion fees.
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"...There are a handful of other contexts where a short course of an exercise pill could be extremely useful..."

Missing from the list that followed has: people wearing VR goggles (e.g., Oculus Rift) and never leaving their bed or sofa.

The Matrix isn't as far fetched as it used to be :)
Before the exercise pill, it’d be good to have a pill which helps with exercise. For instance strengthens the ligaments without destroying flexibility too much. Or boosts endurance without having horrible side effects, stuff like that. Seems like an easier problem than an all encompassing “exercise pill”.
I've begun to use the beta and see a lot of value.

One point of concern (and PSA): After creating a document, my browser blocked a CoinHive miner. As far as I know, there isn't a "best practice" pattern for passively mining, but personally, I like to opt-in to this sort of thing.
I have no idea why you're getting down voted here and I agree completely - see the reactions to the mere existence of Soylent as a concept.
"Whoever [...] knowingly causes the transmission of a program, information, code, or command, and as a result of such conduct, intentionally causes damage without authorization, to a protected computer [...] shall be punished as provided in subsection (c) of this section."

"[T]he term 'protected computer' means a computer [...] which is used in or affecting interstate or foreign commerce or communication, including a computer located outside the United States that is used in a manner that affects interstate or foreign commerce or communication of the United States"

"[T]he term 'damage' means any impairment to the integrity or availability of data, a program, a system, or information"
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If you think 200 heads in a row is practically possible on a random flip, I have a bet to make with you.
It looks like you've been using Hacker News mostly against the guidelines. Could you please take a read and starting posting more substantively?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
oh, thanks for that. That's quite interesting.