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This article made me wonder if I should cancel my Netflix account. I still see them as a "good guy" (and haven't really considered it heavily until now) because of how straight forward and valuable their offering is, the contributions they make to the open source community, and their general underdog-ness in comparison to the entrenched cable industry. They just don't seem to be overtly evil, they seem to be making a fair amount of consumer and even business environment-friendly decisions (they're running a profitable business, not using VC money to suck the air from the market).

I don't know that I blame Netflix as much as I blame the W3C for being spineless/bending to their will. It's absolutely Netflix's perogative to seek the most money, and to try to force their users into apps if that's how they can do so, but the W3C should have been different/stopped it. From my understanding that's the point of a standards body like that (and like the article states, it's in purported reason they were founded at all).

In the end, I'm not as dissapointed with the W3C because the world just isn't that cut and dry most of the time (and browsers still at least give you the option to turn EME off), but
Clockify – An *Actually* Free Time Tracking App
General purpose tools more simplified now
Yes, I think it's fine if you treat it like gambling, or like buying penny shares I.e. accept there's a good chance you could lose your money, and that it's nearly impossible to assess it's true value, anymore than whether the next roll of a dice will land on 6.
So Google built a platform that is excellent for running ad networks. It seems so obvious now.
create-react-app has some basic generators, but I don't know if their system is extensible in the same way that rails' is.
Isn't mass reporting done by people a form of activism. Don't know why you want to diferentiate, activism doesn't have to be "good".
because non-tech guy are actively buying this crap and thus make the raise. Lot of Ad bring this too. For example SwissQuote are making Ad for buying Bitcoin before it's too late. They even state : Be the first ! what a joke.
This sounds like some awesome tech, though the paranoid in me fears that in the off chance power goes off, what would keep these mag-lev cabins in place?

Maybe someone can chime in on this thought experiment, but how would an architect design this into a new building to take advantage of its full potential? From what I can tell, it seems that the system would need multiple horizontal planes for the elevator to run through as well as 1+ vertical planes. And if this should be able to go horizontally across the floor, then you might still need multiple elevator wells on a floor. With this design, I fail to see how this would be more cost effective than the 40% use of a standard system (in the article, Ctrl-F "40 percent")
In addition to assuming that Lightning will one day materialize, you also need to assume that people are willing to store non-trivial amount of their wealth in an inherently volatile asset whose only reason to appreciate in value (by definition) is there to be more people willing to buy and hold the asset with even higher prices (cough, ponzi, cough). (Because if the people are not willing to store their wealth in bitcoin, lightning will make the problme worse by needing more than one transaction in blockchain to achive one actual transaction)
If the car initiates the distance check and the fob does some kind of signature during it, that won't work. Of course that presumes a secure implementation.
Not by anyone who'd ever read the spec you weren't.
Once all Bitcoin will be created the 'fee' will be what miners get for verifying transaction blocks.

They also do now, but coupled with the creation of new bitcoins.
Anecdotal and late to the party, but I once encountered a bug in the Fedora installer. The installer guided me through the process of reporting the bug, including screenshot taking, including and uploading. It told me helpful tips on writing the bug report itself. I believe it even guided me on how to create an account, and so I got frequent updates in my spam account on how the bug got fixed and when and what happened with it.

Recently I tried out their new Fedora 27 release, did the same steps to reproduce the bug, and no bug encountered! I was extremely impressed, being totally new to open source and the development of it.

Your experience may have been neutral at worst, mine was super positive. I highly recommend you try! I got a fun experience out of that little tech adventure.
Cheap and easy to use services work.

I first check Hulu and Amazon video, if it's not on there I pirate it. I can't remember the last time I heard of anyone being burned legally for pirating, and torrents are not difficult to use.

If you can't find a movie on hulu/Netflix/etc, do you then buy it on DVD?
Here is a short list of recent bank failures most of which are very much traditional banks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bank_failures_in_the_U...

Including the United States' largest savings and loan association, until its collapse in 2008: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bank_failures_in_the_U...
Yes, support for European stock markets is part of the development plan, but it will take some time until it's fully available.
While it looks like a tablet interface, I use gnome 3 on the desktop with two 4k monitors and it works great. (I mention 4k, because while I'd love to use a tiling manager I haven't found good support for UI scaling outside gnome and KDE).

Not sure what it's called, but the app launcher + window switcher that comes up when you hit super is really fast / useful even with lots of windows and apps (https://www.gnome.org/gnome-3/).
Is HN dieing?
So, being in HN for almost a decade(not with this user though) I saw a huge decline not only in the quality, but also I've saw some people claiming there's censorship around and suddenly less and lesser upvotes, less interesting content... not to mention that back then, being in a startup was something great, nowadays it's frowned upon. Are we starting at the end, or just a new phase?
You can download local copies of movies in the Netflix Android app. Then you could presumably watch it via Chromecast or HDMI cable to a bigger screen.
And if we used blockchain to create a tokenised TOR, we would have something like Orchid Protocol:

www.coindesk.com/tokenized-tor-orchid-blockchain-decentralized-internet/
If so, then it's that much more disingenuous, considering that specialists are more likely to be aware of issues like those and of options they have to solve them. The Average Joe will never feel compelled to cross-check a claim like this.
You don't have a right to post whatever you want on Facebook. As far as we know they can forbid everyone from posting and call it a day, it's their website after all.
> What's the point when your business is required to support IE9.

EOL for IE9 was almost 2 years ago.

> Nobody would go there because that's not where the money's at.

That's exactly my point. At some point we need to find a way to guide the indsutry back in the direction of technical sanity. If not bootcamps, then it has to be developers I guess.
I'm using Firefox DE, and yes I'm on VPN and using DNS.WATCH server.
Please open an issue on Github. Thanks!
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Three more years until 83, unless I’m misunderstanding.
Trust me, the vast majority of Romanians at the time did not mind their execution one bit, they in fact cheered for it. I know because I was there and cheered along. It's hard to fathom the intensity of hate that the average Romanian had for "Dear Leader"
Navdy contacts would-be creditors, prepares to liquidate
Yes, this is something well known. Chat platforms have long since been used as botnet infrastructures. IRC is/was a big one for a long time because it's very lightweight and the protocol is well known (with a little know-how you can completely IRC over telnet). The only reason it's been ditched is because it's so heavily centralized -- loose the C&C server and you lose control, unless you have a way to push updates. That's why fast-flux DNS became popular.

In other news, water is wet, the sky is blue, etc. etc.
1 Bitcoin is now  $10K. FEE has been promoting Bitcoin's potential since $14
> My point is that VR hits a "close enough" point at a much lower price, and flat screens didn't really do it. This dynamic doesn't exist with, as an example, skiing, where actually skiing isn't much more expensive than virtually skiing.

That's a good point. I'm not sure that skiing is a great example - it can be an extremely pricey hobby if you don't live near a good hill - but I agree there's a broad distribution of the experience achievable against the cost (I imagine an XKCD-style graph in the style of [1] or [2], with "How much it costs" on the X axis and "How awesome it is" on the Y axis, with labels for "VR auto racing", "Actual auto racing", "simulated bowling", "actual bowling", "Kerbal Space Program", "SpaceX", "Surfing", "Simulated surfing", etc.

[1]: https://xkcd.com/1904/

[2]: https://xkcd.com/1880/
Why is that a problem? Isn't "buy and hold" a sound strategy that is recommended by financial experts. Rather than "buy and constantly trade"
> This implies that your boss is ready to trade both ways.

Again, this is the definition of currency. The root comes from Latin and means to "flow" or "run." It's this condition of "flowing" that defines currency. As I said before, this shared perspective of how well a currency "flows" is what defines it's value. Fiat or otherwise doesn't matter. In the strawman presented here, you (and maybe the rest of the company) accept and will participate in the exchange rate, so bananas have become a slightly stronger currency. For most of the world, it's still pretty terrible, but they are marginally better because at least some people accept it as currency.

Unless we plan to go back to bartering, this same logic applies for all forms of currency. There's nothing special about gold, bitcoins, rectangular plastic cards, or green sheets of paper with dead people's faces printed on them. What gives these things value is simply society's willingness to use these as a means of conducting transactions.
Does it though? Ten years ago it was trivial to surf to your local bay of pirates and get a copy of just about any popular film or series. This is still possible (hypothetically of course), but it takes a lot more effort (finding and joining trustworthy private trackers or setting up newsgroups), precaution (VPN, OPSEC), and diligence.

But that's not because DRM works.

Getting a digital copy of some bit of media is still trivial. Netflix forcing its DRM on its customers doesn't mean that you can't illegally download Stranger Things in excellent quality, and their DRM doesn't slow anyone dedicated to doing so down at all.

In fact, Netflix could stream all their stuff without DRM, and nothing would change (with one exception I'll come to in a bit). What's made piracy harder is a combination of factors:

* The legal way is often easier (just pay Netflix a small monthly sum and watch stuff)

* The legal way suffices for a lot of people

* Getting caught infringing copyright has serious consequences in many countries

* Downloading files from shady sources puts your computer at risk (Windows in particular; e.g., ransomware)

If Netflix turned off all their DRM tomorrow, then perhaps some pirates would have a slightly easier way to source their material, but otherwise nothing would change.

Except that the end-user gets a better experience.

At this moment Netflix is refusing to serve 1080p video content to anyone who uses a free operating system and free browser, because 'the DRM isn't good enough'. For 4k the rules are even more stringent; you need Microsoft Windows, Edge, and pre-approved trusted-platform capable hardware (which includes the monitor/TV).

For the rest of us, Netflix and the major content studios begrudgingly allow us to watch 720p video on our way too open computers.

This isn't about protecting the media streams from piracy, this is about making sure that the future of media consumption means consumers will run the media producers' software, using their rules, on hardware they control. We are not supposed to run our own HTPC, or do clever things with media we pay for (e.g., letting an algorithm watch ahead to warn the user of scenes with strobe light effects for epileptic patients, as the EFF mentions, or simply controlling a string of LED lights behind your screen for added effect, or downloading the streams to watch on holiday, or cut fragments out of a stream to use as samples in a lawful manner (e.g., a blog about films, or some cultural analysis), or …).
>I can't really think of many reasons why you would use crypto to pay for a coffee or a sandwich if you live in the West (or frankly, even most developing nations).

Credit card companies/banks sell your transaction data for a lot of money, and plenty of unscrupulous players can garner a lot about your life from such data. While BTC is only pseudonymous, it can provide some shielding from this.
>This whole idea of "coastal elites" and "flyover states" is just a tool that those with real power (corporations and special interests) are using to divide Americans so that they are easier to control.

No, it's a well defined cultural and political divide. Maybe the powerful exploit it but it exists independently of them.

>If you're saying that the electoral college and the Senate are a means of protecting those in the "flyover states",

I am.

>then I would just you how that's working out? Do you think "Wyomingers" are the ones who are going to benefit from repealing the estate tax? The House, Senate, and Executive branch are all controlled by Republicans who should, in theory, be advocating for "Wyomingers" and yet they seem to only be working on behalf of the interests of the wealthy, special interests, and corporations.

Sure because you picked a terrible example. But Wyomingers sure are glad there's a senate when gun control comes up. And they're glad there's a senate when Abortion comes up. And they're glad there's a senate when basically any political issue comes up which divides mostly along geographic boundaries.

You'll sit here and decry the influence corporations have on our country but at the same time want to ignore huge swaths of america.

Middle America exists, it votes and maybe instead of trying to reduce its political power you should try to convince the people in those states.

>If you were the NRA looking to make sure that "bump stocks" don't get banned after a gunman shoots hundreds of people in Vegas using them, where would you focus your resources? On the Senate, of course!

This is the most shit example I can imagine you using. (1) The NRA doesn't care if bump stocks get banned. (2) A bump stock ban is totally meaningless feel-good legislation. Go to youtube and search "rubberband bump fire." A bump stock is just a "cooler" way of doing the same thing you can do with any rubberband or even a shoestring. (3) A bump stock ban is the perfect example of city people with no understanding of an issue trying to legislate it. Maybe next time you should come ask us in flyover land. (;
I suspect you've never been referred to a cardiologist by a General Practitioner. Even if she did know her discussions with you would be very limited. Her job here is to know who the good cardiologists are, and set up the referral.
> UBI is not identical to NIT because the difference is marketing, not math.

But it's not even there, as proponents of both have stated that they are equivalent, and alternate names for the same thing, and they are marketed with the same arguments, and are widely acknowledged by their proponents to be names of the same thing. That is, the marketing isn't different, it's the same, both in content and on that the marketing itself recognized the equivalence.
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Brown University raising $120M to eliminate all student loans
If you're OK with handling a whole bucket of naivete, I'm going to really heap it on:

- the game monetization problem's always around (and always going to be around) -- is there a reason one wouldn't pay for a game in their browser but would pay for one on steam?

- Some of the greatest games of all time made do with so much less -- Isn't the resource problem just a matter of effort/ingenuity? Also isn't that problem bound to go away as time goes on? (though of course the "modern game" target will also move)

- I must not understand enough of why/how the demos are so different. Isn't shader city doing the exact same thing but insted drawing the visible pixels in space (and from a different viewpoint) rather than rendering the higher level polygons? I thought the key innovation/hard bit was the fact that it was inside a single shader.
It's also based on an inexcusable flaw in the key system. Not a good place to start a business.
61 pages to conclude, yes you can indeed pass messages via chat APIs, shocking.

Also stupid if you actually do that since the chat API provider can simply cut you off and you don't have a C2 anymore and lost access to all the systems you infected.
Loophole in Graphene Could Unlock Limitless Energy
I agree for the first part. Common Lisp and Python are my favorite programming languages. I think the second is great for teaching programming and general use (where performance isn't a concern), while Common Lisp, in my view, is a "must-know" for any advanced programmer. Lisp is secret alien technology.

Although to be honest, there's Clojure, which isn't as easy to learn as Python nor as flexible/powerful as CL, but sits in confortable middle ground.
Did you try allocating hugepages statically at startup? This will also remove the fragmentation.
If you've read the article, this quote sort of stings in the sense that the article is mostly about labels within frontend development and backend developers are then accused of breaking caching!

There are only two hard things in Computer Science: off by one errors, cache invalidation and naming things. - Phil Karlton

... more at https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup
I keep seeing this problem (and likely suffered from early attempts a few years ago, when my car was effortlessly broken into), but nobody seems to be talking about solutions. What's the answer? It would be nice if I could ask about this when I get a new car in a couple of years.

* Is it about making the exchange more computationally complex, so it can't be just replayed? I guess that would require some sort of clock in the key?

* Have 2FA with something like a phone? Like requiring TouchID on the phone to confirm when you press the key.
For me MasterCard is the first result. Maybe they just fixed it: https://imgur.com/sSWqxG6
I think a Tor hidden service would probably be a really good way to run C&C infrastructure. I'm surprised it doesn't get used more often. Or maybe it does?
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Introducing the Data Sharing Economy
> then it has to be developers I guess.

Experience comes with time, most developers sooner or later will realise that writing easy-to-read code on stable boring technologies is much better.

I don't think a bootcamp can help with that tho :)
This link is a summary of https://www.computerworld.com/article/3238512/microsoft-wind...
Interstate 95: How America’s Most Important Highway Fails
Perl Programming Cheat Sheet
Bitcoin itself is useless as a currency, a currency needs to have stable purchasing power, i.e. One coin will purchase roughly the same amount of goods next year as it does this year. Bitcoin by design doesn't allow this.

Hopefully one day we will create a currency where the supply is determined more by demand, so it has a stable purchasing power. This'll make it much more practical for businesses and consumers to use for buying goods and services.
>I've seen plenty of people with 3 months experience do better than people with 3 years experience. Some also have dealt with logic or projects at a much younger age or in college

That's the undefined - and, most often, unencompassable - aspect of informal experience.

Personal example: I was doing pretty intense C++ programming starting when I was about 13 as first an apprentice, and then a "real" developer on a finite element analysis program. I wrote the 1-D, 2-D, and 3-D mesh generators. I learned a couple DOS graphics packages for visualizing the mesh, the analysis, and the results.

None of that was especially documentable: it took going through school and blowing most of my programming courses out of the water to get the formal experience.

And, because I was doing this as a hobby/side-project with a friend, I was also missing a lot of what most people would think are core aspects of programming (didn't learn recursion, for example, until my second year in college - a solid 5+ years after it would have made our project far more manageable and expandable).
I've often felt web sites need an inverse mode. On some sites, I prefer all the negative comments to the upvoted comments.
GP is being sarcastic. Obviously outlawing finding and exploiting vulnerabilities in software would be useless (since black hats would ignore the rule) and actively harmful to the security of the modern software ecosystem (since white hats wouldn't).
I can think of having to ship in time for a "test run" 17.10 release (the one before the 18.04 LTS) as the only justification. I hope it will be worth it and they will be able to prepare 18.04 LTS all the better because of that. You don't have to update the OS every 6 months, anyway.
NFX Launches $150M Fund to Transform How True Innovators Are Funded
> Is the adventofcode.com fun/educational/worthwhile?

For me, the answer to all three questions is - yes.

It depends on your previous knowledge, so some problems might seem too easy and/or some other problems might be too hard.

If you are an experienced programmer, maybe use AoC to learn/practice some language you didn't use before?
Very interesting. Do you have any further info on 'Ark's superdelegate method'? I only found yourself mentioning it via google. I'm interested in how oracles / off-chain data can be decentralised.
In fact, the linked tutorial addresses how to do exactly that in Firefox: https://mozilladevelopers.github.io/playground/debugger/04-c...
This was an interesting challenge. Here's my attempt: "Merry Christmas."

The more PC term is "Happy Holidays", but I'm not so sure "Merry Christmas" is offensive contextually -- at least, not always.
What an awful and tone-deaf lead in. Also that advice isn't even good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9EbPxTm5_s
How can something be a store of value only?

For something to be a store of value you want it to appreciate in value and have enough liquidity for you to cash out.

If you want it to appreciate in value there must be something driving the price. It cannot be others who only want to store their value as then the price is dependent on greater fools entering with new capital. Pure speculation cannot uphold the price long term.

Wanting Bitcoin to be only a store of value or only digital cash misses the point. It should be both.
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Not cash.
> 1. Generally left leaning politically

I'm always surprised to hear this, because to me HN has a dominant right-wing bias.