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This argument is deeply flawed. It is never about the few people who have the technical skills to circumvent copy protection schemes.

Copy protection needs only to be economic. It works as soon as accepting the copy protection is convenient enough that enough customers prefer it to hunting down an illegal copy with good enough quality and without protection.
You might find it useful to take a look at http://opentracing.io.
With all that bad developments in tech, why don't we build the light net?
There is so much criticism about Facebook and Google and the open web is clearly in danger. Instead of fighting a fight without hope, why don't we start to build an infrastructure and community that delivers the original promises of the internet?

Let's assume we would start over today with all what we know, what would be the principles of a light net and how can be kickstart it?

My first suggestion is that it should be geared towards the needs of communities, not individuals and that it should involve people without a technical background right from the start.
It should be based on transparency and accessibility and organizations that subscribe to it should subscribe to these values, too.

Hope this can trigger some discussion, as I am tired of just talk, no action. I think HN has all the capabilities to make a change here.
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Private Eye and The Economist are really the only titles worth subscribing to [I subscribe to both]. Private Eye is the only news outlet that takes investigative journalism seriously these days too.
Just going through videos 1 through 25 is pretty mind expanding, and can get experienced programmers started with a nice base for their own game, and only takes a few days.
It reads like,

> find someone who has this as a serious business, we will abandon this service eventually
Compare this new dark to one that was there a few versions back. I'm talking about the older one.

Example: https://support.cdn.mozilla.net/media/uploads/images/2016-09...
You could consider the Permanent Portfolio proposed by Harry Browne. Plenty of search results.
How can you tell? I only see one comment in her profile and I have showdead enabled.

I'm not surprised they've been deleted if she's spamming like this but curious if you just recognized the username or if there's another setting I need to enable to see those comments.
Learning to document well. I've written runbooks for tasks that would involve me reading through the code for a day and brought the time involved down to 5 minutes (and that can be handed to junior engineers or new hires). I've also seen really great documentation written by a senior engineer that cut days off of tasks, long after that engineer had left.
I am one of the skeptics who has been dissuading people from buying Bitcoin. At every high, my recommendation is to book profit and exit. Of course, people would call me an idiot for being cynical and short-sighted.

But I have zero regret about not buying Bitcoin. I think it's better to invest money with an outlook for how it can grow. Irrespective of future cryptocurrencies and blockchains, Bitcoin has no fundamental justification for its valuation. I don't deny many people would get rich with Bitcoin. Even $10k might be peanuts with respect to future valuation but I rather have my money grow 10-20% / year, than bet on something which is pure speculation.
For which point?

- For the first, Entrepreneurs In (my group) was obviously, well, entrepreneurs.

- For the second, everyone on both sides of the debate agrees that non-London folk won it for Brexit. You're literally the first person I've ever met that would dispute this.
It has much higher limits though.

Bitcoin is limited to a fixed blocksize and ASIC mining while Ethereum has a dynamically adjusting blocksize to fit the network usage and capabilities.

And IIRC Ethereum is atm handling more Transactions than Bitcoin and ETH TX are arguably more complex, yet the network hasn't broken apart.
> As part of this revamped experience, we’re retiring a few features of the original Google Finance, including the portfolio

So they're basically making it useless.
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Stop using the word 'literally'.

You sound like a kid.
Are you saying this to the average "non-professional" investor? When people read about a cryptocurrency that represents fiat money they think about something simple and they assume you have the money to convert back and forth.

The first page clearly says "A decentralized cryptocurrency pegged the U.S. dollar". This message is a scam, plain scam, you don't need to bring the SEC to realized that. After reviewing all this thread I flagged the top comment.
I doubt i can ever convince someone from over 600 years ago about anything.

Someone who is reasonable well-informed, but living in the year 1371 is still a whole different level of information than someone who is reasonable well-informed today. Lots of concepts have not been discovered/invented and another whole bunch are lost.
If you started this strategy 7 or 8 years ago, you probably didn’t expect the market to climb for so long. Who knows how much longer they’ll have to wait till you can make your move? In the meantime, inflation is slowly gnawing away at your cash horde.
Dodd-Frank it was indeed, thanks.
If you're a developer, use the developer edition, it's amazing. I'm too lazy to give you a feature-by-feature breakdown of what hasn't hit stable yet but... up until just recently "quantum" was one of them.

The news about FF getting faster is just hitting the mainstream now but developer edition has had it for months, and I haven't suffered any noticeable bleeding edge issues (mostly because I'm not on nightly). This might have to do with my update cadence with arch (firefox-developer is in the AUR) but I think more likely it's the distance from nightly.

Anecdotally I find it to be just the blind amount of "bleeding edge" (others described it well, behind nightly but ahead of stable), and I am now lost whenever I try to debug anything in chrome.
The best place to put your money is typically where nobody else wants to put theirs. IMO nobody wants cash today. They want anything except cash no matter how risky. Stocks at highest valuations ever, BTC (unregulated), emerging market high yield, bonds with negative yields (because they think it will price appreciate), art, cars, volatility selling (fixed gains & unlimited losses), etc.

The least desired asset class right now is cash. Compare that to 2009-2011 or so & cash was the prized asset class which underperformed going forward. Aside from the least desired, the cheapest asset class in the world today is volatility.
As a Lisper, tracing is something I also often miss on other platforms. It's really powerful, particularly when debugging "functionnal" code.
Still no actual suggestion of an alternative.
> Bitcoin is useless, you can't do anything with it

There's a cafe down the street from me that accepts Bitcoin. I could literally buy a meal with it right now.

It may not be rational, but it has actual utility.
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It's also wrong, what are the odds if you bought at 1 or 100 or even 1000 that you'd have held until it got to 10k.
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It's not really useful for that either. If I was a drug dealer, I'd want to use a more stable asset than bitcoin.

Otherwise I risk buying goods when the price of coin is high, but when I want to sell my goods the price might have halved, at which point I'd either have to take a loss, or hold off from selling my drugs until the coin value has recovered, which could be ages, it'd be bad for business.
Right, but now you’ve added tons of serious extra felonies to your attempt at GTA.
Bitcoin is not anonymous, it's pseudonymous. Big difference. If you want actual anonymity there is Monero and to some extend ZCash.
I see bitcoin as the foundation stone, paving the way for better blockchains like ethereum. Bitcoin itself will never be practical enough for daily transactions, it is more like gold, a store of value.
> These policies of "harassment complaint", reputation, and recourse systems seem to me a bit like "you will be safe from indecent people".

FTFY
I doubt "externalized cost" is the real reason professors ban laptops because if that were the case, a simpler solution would have been used: reserving the first few rows for the minority of students to claim to be distracted by others' laptops. My hunch though is that professors use these occassional student complaint as a front for their own insecurity of being ignored when they talk (which bad professors are most likely to be susceptible to).

In my experience the laptop-banning professors are also the ones to practice other the other common destructive behaviors: 1) Deducting grades for missing class, 2) Dropping exam hints in class to encourage attendance, 4) Pop quizzes, 3) Not posting notes digitally. A professor doesn't need to be a charismatic entertainer to teach effectively, but they do need to somehow make their lecture a better use of students time than just reading the book or notes. Trying to make it HARDER to learn using any method that doesn't make them feel good (laptops in class, staying at home and reading the notes and book) may help their ego, but does not help students learn.
Why not?

Why is my 50 cent investment in a wallet years ago suddenly worth 28 bucks?
The reporting is done manually. I imagine the orders going like this: the national party's president announces all the county's presidents to start doing a reporting campaign. We have 40 counties in Romania. All the county level party presidents call the city presidents and asks them to start the campaign. Assuming each county has about 3-5 bigger cities in them, each city needing to provide 1-3 reporting people, that easily makes 300-700 people who report posts in a coordinated way.

One guy from the center sends the profiles to report through channels like mailing lists or chat groups and the reporters mail back the screenshots with the report (so it can be verified by the president that his subordinates are actually following his orders).
They are necessary for some people with older receivers or TVs that don't negotiate HDCP properly and give them black screens/no sync situations.
Perhaps knowing is secondary to acting?
Exactly, it is the tulip craze of our time and a textbook case of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_fool_theory
If I were a time traveler, I would buy bitcoin.
> Bitcoin is useless, you can't do anything with it, except buying and waiting that others buy after you so the price rises up: that's pretty much the definition of speculation.

a) How is that different that how it was in the beginning? and b) I beg to disagree - Instantaneous global transfer of value as well as a store of value that cannot be (easily) confiscated seems like something that could amount to something useful.
I'd call it 12 million monkeys. :)
Network effects. "But why go to $new_net, everybody I know is on Facebook!" For a similar effort, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaspora_(social_network)
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So what? Does it hurt you in some way? I don't see the issue with people advertising their projects when the opportunity arises. This is HN, the home of software hustlers, ya' know.
It would be fantastic if they did this, really don't see why they don't unless they are buying their data from someone else in which case they will have limits on how they can reuse that data.

Been a cofounder of a finance startup and working with any of the major data providers in finance is a complete nightmare. You are paying exorbitant fees, for what is essentially public information, which is delivered through the most antiquated methods, and then you still have to spend a week writing various parsers just so that you can convert that data in to something usable.

I never knew how messy the data was until I had to be the one writing those parsers and it is a huge mess.
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The only thing that vps attracted me is the pricing of bandwidth.
Completely agree with this mindset. All the non-cash assets and investments I hold onto I intend to keep for over 20 years. Short term corrections in the market even as bad as 2008/9 don't concern me. As long as you're not speculating debt against market performance and have emergency cash on hand you can hold and buy the assets at a lower valuation.
For now that's just a plan. Assuming people become interested in, and start using Unum, I'll post more about it on the blog.

For now, I'd really appreciate any help in getting people to take a look at Unum.

https://www.medium.com/unum
> are the Netflix original movies DRM free?

Everything on Netflix is DRMed, as far as the user is concerned. You cannot get a copy of the video file for offline playback. You cannot play the movie on a video player without the Netflix app. They remove stuff all the time and then you lose access. Hell, they even control the quality based on which browser you are using (only Edge can play 4k).

Netflix is in on it, plain and simple. They want to control your movie-watching. That's what earns them their monies. The only upside about Netflix original content is they don't put any kind of geographic lock on it.
> Well, surely DRM prevents enough users from copying the product to make it worthwhile?

What I don't understand is that it's not how it works, all it takes is for one single user to make a copy and upload it on newsgroups/bittorrent/... and it's available for everybody.

That means that in order for DRM to work you need a 100% success rate at preventing unprotected copies. This seems absolutely implausible.

Since I'm unhappy with the selection and compatibility of the current streaming services offering I keep pirating all the TV shows and movies I watch and they're always available for download mere hours after their official/legal counterparts. It's not like videogames where intricate anti-piracy measures can take weeks or even sometimes months to break, here it's mostly about the time for the pirated copy to disseminate on the network.

I wonder by which metric video DRM can be said to work. It's a pain for legit users because they can't view their movies and shows on all of their devices easily and it's a complete non-issue for pirates.
I share your disappointment as somebody else who wants a trustless electronic currency for the future. But what you describe is no different from any other investment. Why do people buy shares in a company? It could be because they want to influence the company's direction, but it's more likely that they want to sell those shares at some point in the future. Any system which lets you do this over a long period of time has value. Otherwise how would we save for pensions etc. when we can no longer work?
That's not even remotely a sensible argument, since we didn't have UBI then.

You are either not arguing in anything remotely resembling good faith or are not tall enough for this ride. You may have the reply to this unopposed; I'm done here.
It's scary what QE did. Inflated the largest stock market bubble & bond market bubble at the same time. While most portfolios are split across them for diversity.

It's more likely they both get crushed unless of course bonds continue to do what they've done in the past meaning nominal yields go to -3% & real yields -5%. It's possible I guess.
But with a 4 dollar transaction fee why would you use Bitcoin for such things?
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Nowadays Bitcoin is much less anonymous than it once used to be - the nature of its blockchain is inherently transparent and I imagine every large law enforcement agency in the world has resources allocated towards blockchain analysis.
All the cool kids are buying their drugs with Monero now, since its blockchain allows for a much greater degree of anonymity.
The people in Zimbabwe seem to be paying premium prices for Bitcoin just to get out of their hyperinflation.
There would be a lot of millionaires if it was possible to know at which level a stock has bottomed out. And Bitcoin isn't even a stock, which makes it absurd to speculate when the currency has become cheap enough to invest into.
Do you have a pile of expat Russian/Ukraine friends? If so, they’d be the first ones to ask. Otherwise, if you live in a US or U.K. metropolitan area, they are pretty easy to find.

Also, have you visited as a tourist already?
Warren Buffet is one of the world's greatest investor and what he says about gold makes sense. However, there is more than one way to invest. Buffet has made fortunes taking a fundamentalist approach and values companies. There are also other successful investors that try to predict macro trends.

I also suggested foreign assets that are not holding onto a lot of US debt.
Time Travel totally works in forwards.

In backwards it's probably more like winding up a tape; you can rewind all you want but the tape contents won't change.
Ok, fair enough. Systems like that do exist, but practically nobody uses them. We need an alternative that actually addresses people's need in a way they access. But even in the system you describe, what is to stop biased operators from infiltrating the system and biasing the distribution of messages to filter out opposing views, or generating fake content? How does a system like that maintain integrity? Until you have a reliable functional, usable system it's just pie in the sky.
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Like this man?

"10,000 bitcoin bought 2 pizzas in 2010 — and now it'd be worth $20 million":

http://mashable.com/2017/05/23/bitcoin-pizza-day-20-million
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> You can at least both "Log Message" and "Evaluate" in Chrome with conditional break points.

You can obviously do that in any browser, it's just inflexible, ugly, error-prone and inconvenient.
In countries where the dot is used as the thousands separator, it is not a 'decimal point'. In fact, much of the world does NOT use . as a decimal separator:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_mark#Hindu.E2.80.93Ara...
Where does one achieve 10-20% gains outside of speculation or owning a bank?
Sanctions have always been a pretty good indicator of war when levied from one sovereign to another. That indicator has probably gone from flashing yellow to red recently.
Removing global menu and placing the clock in the middle was a mistake. Now I have 2-3 lines less code in my editor, so why was wasting space considered a good idea?
Given that BTC transactions take time (and high fee), how does it work for cafes or any micro transactions of this kind?
Why Mac only? :(

This sort of app can easily be on the web, at least.
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At least when you buy a share you literally own part of the company. If you were to sell all of it, including all the possessions of the company, you would still get a share.

Because a company has a value.

I'm still struggling to define what's the value of BTC
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If you're investing why wouldn't you just use your investment company's tools?

I've used several and they're all far superior to Google Finance. I use google just for quick lookups.
exactly! you should really only be worried about a need to time some action if you are very close to retirement. otherwise just watch and wait, markets tend to rise and they will rise again eventually.
Technically sure, but that makes it less discoverable as developers tend to look for breakpoints rather than tracepoints.

So UX/discovery-wise adding these features as advanced extensions of breakpoints is more sensible than breakpoints being a special case of tracepoints.
What's stopping those from starting up and doing the job right now? Sounds great. Where are they? Is there some aspect of the current system that's rigged against them somehow? I know a few of these do exist, usually founded on what was essentially a gift of the starting capital to the collective, but that doesn't seem like a scalable model.
Why tax income?
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I'm not sure GP's claim is true. HN search shows one "Show HN" post and two comments with that website as links, all submitted by different usernames. I don't think this is an inappropriate level of promotion.
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> It would be fantastic if they did this, really don't see why they don't

Google really doesn't do open APIs anymore. Every new product is without an open API and they've been slowly deprecating and removing APIs from old products. I guess they wanna be like Apple.
> All the calculations are done on a per-pixel basis.

Is there a term for this type of shader? Am I correct in assuming that this approach is primarily for demos, or is there a benefit to this approach for gaming or visualization?
> Don’t forget that time zone boundaries often change

I always thought time zones boundaries were static... TIL
Mass human psychology, the price rise leads to more people buying, from 'fear of missing out'. Also unsophisticated investors pile in after all the news coverage of the price rises.

This all creates a self reinforcing dynamic, where further price rises feed even more of this sentiment, which leads to more buying and price increases.
Once again I learn HN is only good for tech talk... I have not said that any of the current cases are slander. I have said that the general state of laws allows slanderers to forcefully impact people's lives. But fuck it, everyone is here to find something to attack, some way to demonstrate how they are with the victims.

This is like me saying "some dose of alcohol can be lethal" and you going "yeah so you say we ban alcohol consumption because most of the stupid people who die consume alcohol". Good god...
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That's $100'000 for sensible people, the comma or dot is confusing no matter which you pick.
I'm also skeptical about how constant the quality of the fries from one place will be. If, as I suspect, there is a large amount of variation over time, this test is useless and more like a lottery.
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Marketing. Marketing is what MongoDB got right, along with a small helping of being early to market. It's not even the best or most convenient document store, doesn't have the most features, isn't the most secure, doesn't handle high availability the best, they basically got everything just "good enough" (and sometimes not), along with stellar marketing.

They marketed their asses off while they iterated to build a document store that was worth the praise they got people to heap on to it.

IIRC the acquisition of the wired tiger engine was basically a rewrite, because the previous implementation was just bad. So if the database engine wasn't good, and distribution wasn't good (until later), and schema management wasn't good, and the query language wasn't all that great, what did mongo really get right? Marketing and being early to market/new and shiny at the right time (when everyone was deciding that writing the frontend and the backend in the same language, javascript, was an awesome thing -- which I don't necessarily disagree with).

If someone needs a database these days, I always just suggest postgres. if it's good enoguh for reddit (https://github.com/reddit/reddit/wiki/Architecture-Overview#...), it's good enough for the next facebook for dogs (unless your problem is completely different then of course you should explore whatever database paradigm fits your problem the best).