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This comes up every time WeWork is mentioned, but their model is literally the opposite. They take leases on commercial space long term and then arbitrage short term. Meaning they lose out on massive gains but are totally exposed to a downturn in demand for the kind of space they provide.
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yes & no; via the accessability hooks 3rd party programs can change a surprisingly large amount, but obviously it's not as flexible as the complete control you have writing your own window manager.

to me the big advantage of apple is there's just so many people running the exact same setup. ~ once a year new stuff comes out, some stuff breaks, it gets fixed.

with linux you might be literally the only person running some particular combination of software; you seemed more on your own for fixing stuff. this was years ago, so maybe things have settled down a bit...
That's a perfectly reasonable point (which I agree with). It's naive to dismiss the concerns of content creators out of hand, but surely there's a middle ground we could get to legally over what constitutes fair use (or fair cracking?) when it comes to DRM.
The more difficult it is to strip DRM, the fewer pirate captains there are. You don't need to take out every pirate to end piracy; you just need to take out every captain.

So if only Paisleybeard and VikingVik can crack the GoT DRM, you maybe only need to get cooperation from the Croatian and Swedish police for a few weeks, and then you get some amount of time when pirated shows are no longer available. But then Swashbuggerer and NotSoJollyRoger and Plaidbeard step up, and the pirate crews flock to their standards. But for a time, some people who might have otherwise pirated may have paid. But then you're back to talking to the American and Filipino and Scottish police. And if one of your captains is in a non-extradition country, you may have to talk to Pinkertons or ex-military contractors.

If it is trivial to crack the DRM, everyone can be a pirate captain if necessary, with a crew of only themselves. You will never, ever stop piracy for longer than a few minutes in any pirate-friendly household with that kind of DRM. That's like the difference between posting your property and putting up an actual fence or wall. It is just a virtual boundary that has legal consequences in the out-of-band enforcement system.

And don't forget that when pirate captains voluntarily retire, or are forcibly retired, they can still publish "how to be a pirate captain" guides for the media-seas they once sailed. They can distribute models for 3D-printing your very own pirate ship. So the DRM-makers have to put constant effort into changing tactics and updating technical countermeasures to fight that kind of fight. It gets to be expensive, because the defense has to be perfect, while the offense can breach it through any ant-sized hole. Furthermore, the analog hole will always be there, and every paying customer has the keys to your fortress gate.
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>EOL for IE9 was almost 2 years ago.

Not in the real world. In the real world IE9 is very much alive and going ... well, I guess.
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With the Intel Management Engine does that even matter?
Once you have the vehicle, many models can have a new fob programmed by a friendly locksmith.
Knot DNS is authoritative only. Our main focus has been recursive support and full security support. We haven't used knot dns, but it has an excellent reputation. At the moment, knot dns is more suitable for authoritative hosting (our authoritative features are still very minimal). Although in certain circumstances, like dns leak testing, we have built in support for that.
But Brown's tuition for out of state students is just under $50,000 per year per student.

Does that mean they could be paying those professors $300,000?
Verified by visa (and similar) in the US just never took off. You have to implement it as optional, as most consumers have no idea what it is. So very, very, few people use it if you turn it on.
I just want to clarify, I agree that stallman is right a large amount of the time, but it's just the delivery and the extremes that he will go to that I can't get behind 100%.

But perhaps this is just more reasoning why the battle is a losing one -- people like me are just going to think things are gray while the people who are right are trying to convince us of the fact that it's black and white. It's just too hard for people individually to see past their own blindspots.
That's one of the more hotly debated comment threads I've seen on this site. Lots of "You are wrong" and "You don't understand". People take their food seriously!
Recently switched to Ubuntu for this reason. So far I've been very impressed with the strides they've made with the GUI and overall usability.
A slim jim worked because the wires holding the lock were exposed inside the door. An extremely cheap fix was to wrap those with a metal cylinder.

I was under the impression that this was standard for at least 15 years but since we're talking about automotive industry, some makers may not even be aware of that yet
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Why even use TAs for lectures? There's YouTube. There's automated software for quizzes and testing. Textbooks should be open source documentation, printed-on-demand.

I'm not saying remove the human element entirely, but there's a lot of low hanging fruit in education to consider where technological automation can help improve the productivity of educators.

Check out how Georgia Institute of Technology is offering a real CS Master's Degree for a fraction of the cost using similar stuff: https://www.omscs.gatech.edu/
I worry about egress routes like https://www.christophertruncer.com/exfiltrate-data-via-dns-w...

It's hard to keep up with the cleverness of attackers.
Good god! I'm sick of bitcoin, too, but this guy is way off his rocker. Maybe while your opponents are taking "red" pills you could take a few chill pills.
On Android, system apps cannot be uninstalled but can usually be disabled. In "Settings", "Apps", select the app and choose "Disable".
> I must not understand enough of why/how the demos are so different

The difference is that the shader city is a pure function of the inputs. For every value of 'time', it generates the colours for each pixel in the scene. Infinitown can maintain whatever state it likes in javascript.
Extremely similar.
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This article was originally published in 2016, and HN had a lot to say then as well https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10944966
The articles point is that we've actually made a lot of progress in treating chronic illnesses versus where we were decades ago with the discovery of statins, beta blockers, aces / arbs, metformin, insulin etc. this is "low hanging fruit". The next generation of drugs for chronic illness face a higher bar than the previous generation of drugs: they can't just work better than placebo, they must work better than a drug that works.

And while we've identified many many molecules associated with diseases, only a very small portion of these are amenable to targeting with current drug tech. These have been picked over fairly well. A new generation of drugs will need a breakthrough like "fracking" in oil to create more novel drugs

I'd disagree that there are very few cases where the body's response is inappropriate. Arguably in every diseases this is the case. We have identified some instances of this but not as many as we'd like, and in many cases even if we've identified instances we can't do anthying about them
Yeah, the Wikipedia article talks about an implementation that has a processing time of 1 ns (which gives the distance within your foot). The questions are whether it is secure against the world or secure against just the implementers and how much it would cost.
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Rarely do I want to see a particular movie that's not included in a flat-fee or free service. Having saved enough from those cost-cutting measures, most of those few are available for $2-6 from Redbox, iTunes, or Amazon Video; as I'll pay that much for a cup of coffee, and far more often, the convenience of shelling out a few bucks far exceeds the benefits of relenting to the annoyance of pirating. For the very few movies I otherwise can't get free/cheap, I likely want them enough that actually buying at retail is satisfying.

Torrents aren't difficult, but typically I'll burn more time trying to get what I want, uncorrupted, than my available time warrants. Legal burn is unlikely, but burned by bugs or malice is likely enough to waste time I could have spent just watching it via inexpensive legal sourcing.

And then there's that little issue about ensuring content creators actually getting paid, so there is actually content worth consuming.
You can't create value out of thin air? What is software then?
Who came up with the concept of "servings"? The only purpose I can see for this is to make large quantities look smaller. For example a lot of small bags of chips contain 2 or 3 servings although almost everybody eats the whole bag in one sitting.

Edit: I guess it was lobbying by the food industry.
You can have a professor teach more than one class too. Then your math changes significantly.
If anything, RMS was being optimistic.
Markets price in expectations of future events. Yes, there was indeed a panicked frenzy in the futures market. But by the next morning, the consensus clearly emerged that the result was a positive thing for the stock market.
The bitcoin mining industry will end once the electricity (and hardware) becomes more expensive than the value of mined bitcoins - it stops being economically feasible. If we're already breaking .1% of the world's energy consumption, then we're probably pretty close.

Bitcoins will continue to be valuable, short of some security flaw wrecking them, simply because of scarcity and functionality. But if they can't be used for a majority of (legal) financial transactions, the value will be limited. And as long as the exchange rates are highly unstable and exchanges are unreliable/untrustworthy, mainstream banking won't touch it with a ten foot pole. They don't want the risk.
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his intentions were there from the beginning, results not so much

also I've never seem a response to this paper here from the Eth crew https://download.wpsoftware.net/bitcoin/pos.pdf
A better analogy is this, You buy a paper book but it comes inside a big glass box so you can't xerox or scan it.
To read it you have to use a key that you received that will unlock a stick inside the box that you can control to turn the page.
A pirate buys the book, brakes the glass, makes many copies, all the pirates then can read comfortably, can take notes on the book, can go fast trough the pages, yopu the person that uses the legitimate DRMed book you use it in a uncofortable way, you can't make notes, skipping trough pagers is super hard, lending it to a friend is impossible.
So DRM made it harder for legitimate users, for pirates is still easy.
My negativity toward bitcoin is that it’s used by con-men to scam naive techies out of their money. These kinds of financial operations never end well, and when they do, people will lose their life savings, their retirement, and many will respond by taking their own lives.

And people won’t be able to get out in time. When the price begins dropping in earnest, liquidity will dry up completely.

All of this has happened before, and will happen again.
This is the most predictable thing in history, including the fact that Cassandras will be ignored.

And that makes me bitter.
Aren't there other expenses like maintaining the campus and paying for journal subscriptions and research equipment?
Nice cherry-picking ;-)

Look at the market at virtually any larger timeframe, and you'll see that the market is marching along almost exactly as it has over the past ten years. To attribute all gains since Nov 8th to the market's confidence in Donald Trump is completely ridiculous.
These new-style tech companies have become very good at keeping the underdog/one-with-the-masses image while slowly turning into market-cornering behemoths the likes of Bell. Netflix is just following the Google's playbook IMO.

Also: this duality was why I was suspicious of the end result of the Net Neutrality (as opposed to net neutrality) in discussions couple days ago and I got completely shredded. People should be more critical of everything and not fall for feel-good phrases by faceless corps.
I'd suggest aiming for a "devops" role, given your background managing deployments and infrastructure. Study up on the AWS platform and automation/orchestration tools like Chef or Ansible.

You can tell a plausible story about moving from managing real infrastructure to managing virtualized cloud infrastructure.
This is from a time when we thought Bitcoin would be the only cryptocurrency.
In the meantime the core devs have spend countless hours on twitter arguing with trolls and there are a dozen or so new blockchains with better features and covering different use cases.
The medical school structured itnas a clinical trial with people volunteering to participate. Medical studies have different regulations than just reviewing public postings.

This is a reflection of the way they’ve chosen to go about things - no doubt in response to past kerfuffles - rather than an actual legal obligation on fb’s analysis of public materials.

HIPAA regs aren’t hidden from the public. Peruse at your leisure.
To stay relevant as a content platform and limit the scope of proprietary code to a small encryption module instead of a bloated behemoth like Flash.

That's not say that's a great argument, but the problem with making EME a battleground is that there is zero leverage over the content companies that insist on DRM, zero. Studios have the content people want to watch, if they can't watch it on the web they'll use proprietary apps. Technologists like to believe we shape the future, but browsers do not shape the content industry, rightsholders do. From their perspective, refusal to implement EME is damage they will route around, and they have the leverage to do it. Also note the inefficacy of DRM in general.

The place to win this battle is in congress. We need to move towards strengthening fair use and outlawing DRM, that's the only way to take the teeth out. The idea that the browser is an important battlefront is nonsense, EME is a sensible compromise that keeps the browser relevant. I respect the Stallman-esque view that the web should in no way be compromised but it's not a winning move in the long-term.
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The bitcoin mining industry will end once the electricity (and hardware) becomes more expensive than the value of mined bitcoins

You do not understand mining difficulty adjustment
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You can actually download things for offline playback, they added the feature recently and the app won't stop reminding me.

I'm not sure where it gets stored, and it certainly isn't just an mp4 that can be used with my preferred player, but it does technically work.
I bet if jeff bezos walked in this person's home, kicked him out of his dining room and ate his dinner, he would have written an article just as positive.
Perhaps add an option to hide the to-do list once you get it setup, so that the user can't see any items except the one they rolled. This could be a useful tool to force me to finally pick a task off my list instead of just staring at it wondering how I'm going to accomplish all my items.. so if we are able to hide the list, it would help minimize distraction when your site has told me which item to work on.
You could also have a look at this essay,
http://lambdaway.free.fr/workshop/?view=lambdacode, following Peter Norvig's lispy, written in less than 300 lines of plain Javascript and working in any web browser.

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It looks more like an interface change, like what happened with hotel room finding where they rolled it into regular search.

Search is core to Google and it's not like people are going to stop searching for info about stocks, so it makes sense to use that UI and avoid having separate web apps where possible.
"Disabled"

https://qz.com/1131515/google-collects-android-users-locatio...
I agree, but people forecast the stock market to go up again in the next year due to the tax reform but that was alredy the reason for most of the gains in the last year... And it's not yet a sure thing.
Same here, been using Windows since 3.11 and MacOS the past 6 years. But when i installed Ubuntu 17.04 on my new HP laptop, i was really impressed and haven't needed to switch yet.
I dont think they (netflix) design a dvd inlay inhouse tbh. I think the design agency should know better but nonetheless i dont see the harm done.
"sudo apt-get install xfce4" has worked awesomely so far.
Apparently Apple does something similar to this in order to unlock Macbooks with an Apple Watch. I don't have a link right off the bat, but I remember watching an interview with Craig Federighi where he explains that the Apple Watch uses precise timers to ensure that users are actually near their computers to avoid relay attacks.
The exploding cost of education over the last generation doesn't boil down to an increase in teaching or even research staff costs. These costs are stable, largely thanks to the very low cost of junior academics.

In the US, "administration staff" (everyone else) has blown up by 500% or more, proportionally. There have also been increases in non staff related costs. University' are fancier, more expensive and more income focused.

What the OP is saying is that education has become unaffordable because it has become expensive, not because of how it is financed. Fixing Brown students problem with donor financing is great for Brown students, but does not scale even if is sustainable at brown.

Whether through donors, loans, public financing or parental savings, we cannot afford to give everyone a $150k education. Any solution that builds on the premise that we can is an elitist (or at least elite) model.
What about adding a "Disagree" button? And show the text "Some disagree with this", if some people disagree. Or "Many disagree", if many disagree. — So, there'd be two kind of downvotes. One for "disagree", and another for "I don't want this kind of comment here at HN" (currently HN in practice only has the last one).

Look, a demo of how this can work and look: https://insightful.demo.ed.community/-7#post-3

— scroll up just a little bit to see the "Some disagree with this" warning just above the comment. And if, below the comment, you click the `V` button, to show various types of votes (in addition to the Like vote), you'll see there's a Disagree vote.
> If security researchers are (legally) prohibited from investigating EME technologies in browsers, then EME extensions become a big vector attack, and standards-compliant browsers that include them, become much less secure than browsers that don't.

That is wrong (from the EME standard[0], section 10):

> User Agent and Key System implementations MUST consider media data, Initialization Data, data passed to update(), licenses, key data, and all other data provided by the application as untrusted content and potential attack vectors. They MUST use appropriate safeguards to mitigate any associated threats and take care to safely parse, decrypt, etc. such data. User Agents SHOULD validate data before passing it to the CDM.

That is, a browser has to be secure to implement the EME standard, if it is not secure it is not in compliance with EME! (Next up, anybody who falls from a building is in violation of the W3C gravity standard and as such flying is possible.)

I trust I don't have to point out that I am joking.

[0] https://www.w3.org/TR/encrypted-media/
Agreed.

I think what the EFF is saying her though is that the claimed protections for content creators is just a cover for anti competitive behavior.

If they would agree to only enforce DRM/DMCA laws on people abusing copyright laws it would be easier to get behind it.

Unfortunately, we have no protections on one side, and anti competitive shinanigans on the other.
Well what's the issue ? just suffer 6 months and then spend 600$ on a new machine with, finally, the latest intel cpu, octocore, capable of making even hard computing tasks like idleing fast !

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I think we oughta make a common repo + windows service to remove crapware.

[user-complaints] -> [scripts] -> IO happiness
I recently met an American here in Europe that mostly grew up here the last few years who wanted to go to NA (more specifically Toronto) for university when she could basically enrol here in a good university for a fraction of the cost. I pay less than a gran every year for my software engineering master's degree and can't fathom someone going to a different country knowing you're gonna be in debt for a large portion of your life. I'd rather study here and move to Canada after than study there and get a huge ass debt piled up.

I really don't get how these universities manage their cashflow. With such an exorbitant amount of cash you can basically put people on Mars for all I know.
* bought and not sold

People lose money because they sell. Sometimes because they need to sell independently of what the price is doing.
I think Scott Alexander touched on this in his "I tolerate everyone but the outgroup" post. He noted that it is relatively easy to get along with those very different from you, particularly when you're uniting against your proximal enemy. He pointed out that even the racist Nazis allied with the Japanese against other Europeans. This isn't tolerance; it's just another way to gain power in a struggle against old foes.
You do not need DRM to put people in jail for pirating, this thing happened before DRM.
The first sentence of "Accelerando" is transcendentally beautiful, something to be quoted for generations to come.

The rest of the first chapter is pretty interesting. The domme/sub relationship thing is well written although the sex act depicted sounds implausible. The second chapter also has an interesting scene where Macx is rescued by Anette with the recording earrings. Not long after we have a rant by an Italian politician that already showcases most of the Strossian School of economics. Then the book gets muddled but that's arguably part of the concept.

Basically people keep listening to Stross for this sublime sentence: "Manfred is on the run, making strangers rich."
> If there was no DRM you could just save the movie to your HD with little effort.

...after subscribing to the streaming service. At which point they have your money.

And it's not like you can cancel your subscription after that because then you wouldn't get new content, which is the entire point of having a streaming service instead of watching the same pile of old DVDs you've had since 1998.
Looks like whatever webkit variant they can find.

https://github.com/nEXT-Browser/nEXT/tree/master/next

"Use CCL Cocoa Library to use native webkit backend"
> I'd say DRM works really well for some definition of "works".

Well, it works only for crooked purposes, and that's exactly the point EFF is making. DRM is therefore unacceptable, including in the context of the Internet.

And you are still missing the point. DRM doesn't make any pirating difficult. All it does is giving power to undemocratically extend copyright law in arbitrary directions by slapping DRM on something, and saying that breaking that DRM is illegal. It's a power grab tool. Just take a look how this garbage was used to prevent users from switching mobile carriers, claiming that unlocking the mobile phone (i.e. breaking its DRM) is illegal.