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No, on Windows, SDL will interface directly with the Windows API, not GTK or Qt. And will give you a native window, the same as if you do it by hand.

Proof: http://hg.libsdl.org/SDL/file/35da714ed287/src/core/windows

If you don't like SDL that is your opinion or choice, but don't come here presenting false facts to influence other people into having your same preferences (e.g: over half of what you said was technically incorrect and not true). You should really do 1 minute of research before making ill-intentioned accusations like these.

Strictly speaking, SDL does all the Windows API boilerplate for you. And also does it on macOS, and on Linux with no substantial cost since SDL itself is very lightweight.

It also does more stuff for you, like loading fonts, images, sounds, etc... and again, in a crossplatform manner.

All of this was provided to the community as open source, for free. Sam Lantinga is a hero.

If you don't like a specific part of SDL or whatever project, find an alternative project, submit a bug report, submit a fix, or fork it. That benefits everyone. That's how open source works.
So this AV1 coded will superseed H.265 and will be truly open ? Color me impressed if this si true.
> It's decentralized, you can deploy your own instance

So it's useless as a social network. Not an alternative.

I wonder when will the anti-centralization people realize that their solutions are not for everyone, and that's why so many people don't care about them.
To piggyback on this question: regardless of the merits of each language, do people think that in terms of enterprise adoption and job opportunity Elixir is more interesting than Erlang at this point?
Limburger here. Had no idea that pickles were a thing at all, I also thought it was with onions.
My Mazda will keep the radio on if you turn the car off while it's in gear or neutral. Then you can put the car in park, and the radio will stay on until you hit the ignition button again.
There is a difference between a material’s chemical bonds resisting the acceleration of gravity and actually being able to lift an object from one height to a second, higher height.
And the house can not vote for something the senate passes too...I'm not sure how you think the House is even remotely "correctly balanced" Both parties Gerrymander like it's their only job to keep their own little fiefdoms intact.
It recently came to my attention that the mere concept of copyright law could be abolished with little economic consequence. In the end, the existence of those laws derives capital from other things, and it works as a sort of economic rent.

Would we be better without copyright laws?
I'm really waiting for this one too. Hope it saves crypto from disaster and I don't feel I'm being hyperbolic when I say that.
There's no free lunch. If you want to start metered home internet connections with overages akin to cellular data plans, keep pushing this argument.

The old bandwidth-based pricing model has been inadequate for a long time. Net non-neutrality may be the only way to save it, which doesn't mean it's necessarily a worthwhile tradeoff. I think I'd rather have non-discriminatory metered billing than unlimited access to NBC News and RT but $0.10/GB to ABC News and NPR.
Realistically speaking, how much control do people have regardless of the OS that they are using? We are talking about incredibly complex pieces of software here that relatively few people have the ability to monitor and very few people have the skills to correct.

Open source is not really a remedy here for the same reasons. We have seen how developers incorporate telemetry into projects, especially projects with mass appeal. Sometimes there is some pushback (e.g. Ubuntu). Other times it is mostly seen as a fact of life (e.g. Firefox).

The only time that you have a reasonable degree of protection is when you're far enough into the fringes that you're a part of a collective that is working proactively to protect a common interest.
I just opened up an incognito window and hit /r/all. In the first two pages, I saw nothing NSFW except a joke about a hotel survey which mentions a hooker that would certainly pass on network television.
This theory only works if you consider that there is only a single distribution of Linux, which there is not. If Canonical start this stuff with Ubuntu then somebody else can (and will) set up an alternative.

The problem with Windows is that Microsoft control it totally. There is no way out.

Although Google control android, they only do so with the permission of the userbase. I run LineageOS on my phone (no gapps) and although Google are the gatekeepers of what goes into AOSP if they become problematic then the opportunity is there for somebody to take what we already have and carry on in a different direction.
The house is not the balanced piece when it comes from the perspective of the states themselves. The smaller states then would have very little say in how the country at large operates.
I'm not talking about force, but about energy. To hold something suspended in air, you don't need any energy. But a steel wire can't lift anything, you need to have a motor (or muscle) that actually expends energy to move the object higher.
Part of the problem with doing that is that it's not quite about filling the bus before going to school. It's usually done because there's only so many buses and they have to get X number of kids to the school on them, so the routes they take end up with some kids getting on and then riding for so long. That said more smaller self driving buses would help in dealing with that, which they can't do now due to the extra cost in personnel costs for drivers, but it'd also need cheaper buses to be able to afford enough of them. I'd also then expect them to try to convince other normal staff members to also ride the bus and act as a monitor instead of driving in themselves to further reduce costs.
Heh, sorry.

I've dabbled in it a couple of times, because I'd also like to do some work with it, but haven't gotten very far. By all means give it a shot if it'll scratch your itch.
You're a troll.
Does it have Chrome's async callstack stacktrace feature? It's hard to live without it now.
So tell me again why I should fire up Google, look for some shady website with dubiously dangerous ads to download or stream a movie when I can just fire up the Netflix app, tap the movie I want and start watching?
1. Where is the incentive to keep growing?

Probably the huge tax payouts that they get to keep growing and then keep the same fiber rolled out with tax money dark to falsely create a narrative that there isn't enough pipe.

2. What if they forbid some traffic?

Yeah, enshrining that they can't is the WHOLE POINT of enforcing net neutrality.

3. Unlimited is not warranted unless it's being paid for.

It is being paid for. The US of A has some of the highest cost of internet for the lowest level of service in the developed world. You know that there are services in small farming towns in Romania (fantastic country, great food, great people) that have better access to internet than some cities in the US?

4. Prior to the rule change did we have this problem?

YES, it's why net neutrality was put in place in the first place. It's like you willfully chose to not do any research into the topic.

This whole idea that the market in any way helps the consumer is fallacious. The market helps businesses, which can, on the whole, help consumers when regulated by a sane government that has the interests of the people at heart. We're so far into regulatory capture at this point that we should be rioting. You cannot have a market with a natural barrier to entry or high startup costs that can in any way can be competitive without government intervention.
> You can always rent it out

This is clearly false.

Additionally, if you can't pay your mortgage because the recession hits you as well, then you can lose the house.

There is no bullet-proof strategy.
Environmentalism is fascist now?
Oh, what is it about this article you find so displeasing to associate with HN readers?

I realise some people will be more marginal to the concept of being a hippy-anti-civilisation hunter gatherer... but regardless, the answers given by the interviewee were well reasoned and objective, I thought most HN reader would have appreciated them. The title however is poor and misleading.
Japanese Bitcoin exchange bitFlyer is coming to the U.S
What is more obviously manufactured is bad tax policy, as in way too low top end tax rates. That has incentivized wealthy people to invest in real estate and the stock market, rather than in the working class. That's why a house costs on average 24 times more today than in 1960, and yet wages are only 8 times more today than in 1960. And the tax rates on these capital gains are lower than middle class payroll and income tax combined. Tax policy has incentivized top end hoarding. This is not investing. It's a neo-feudal give away.

The top end tax bracket needs to go well above 50% to make it riskier to invest what's left in those markets, rather than taking a risk on starting or growing a business, the expenses of which are 100% tax deductible.
They are trying: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/608578/can-wechat-thrive-...
Ask HN: When is 2FA not enough?
I've noticed more and more sites ask you to log in with a username and password, then either answer a "secret" question or type in a 2FA token, AND THEN - in addition - "verify" your device. That's usually done by texting or emailing you a PIN that you type into the site.

I was under the impression that username + password + 2FA token was sufficient for anything public. What am I missing?
>But thanks for getting me to re-think my position on this.

I'm equally grateful you considered our conversation.

Worker ownership and worker governance of enterprises, in my view, is the general way forward. I suggest to anybody reconsidering commerce under capitalism take a look at the Mondragon Cooperative Corporation for a living example of super-productive commerce and industry that employs tens of thousands without the baked-in inequality that drives so many social ills.

Cheers!
Yes! The future is bright for video codecs. :)
This acquisition makes total sense. It's totally fits the spirit of WeWork (building professional communities) and also gives Meetup that exit that (I think) they've been looking for for a while. (They took five funding rounds!)

Congrats to the Meetup team!
When I think "enterprise" I think large companies, and in that regard I think the answer is less clear.

For smaller, more agile shops I'm sure there's more Elixir adoption as people look for alternatives to Ruby.

I've never seen any job statistics, nor do I have any useful anecdata.
He wants to undo a rule from 2015 that forces broadband ISPs to be regulated the same way that dial-up ISPs were in the 90s.

The rule from 2015 made broadband ISPs regulated under Title II of the Communications Act of 1934. ISPs that operate over phone lines already were regulated under Title II.

The notion that internet providers were unregulated in the 90s is outright false.
What worries me is that this is the easy to notice stuff that is brought up (AT&T blocking Skype, etc.) what is really pernicious are things like network "optimization" where there is a huge potential for abuse.

Want to influence the next election? Delay requests for a particular party's website by 10s each.

Want to promote your new streaming service? Make competing ones timeout on every 10th request.

Concerned about journalists writing bad articles about your company and your abusive practices? Make their site take twice as long to load.

ISPs are in a position of immense power and in the US there is inadequate competition for a pure market solution/consumer choice. This is something that needs government protection.
What is an example of a site that does this?
I have (More on the Financial Auditing and Web Development side), albeit one not generally related to Technology (Anime Convention)

It's possible to accomplish without significant funding in advance, but you'll either need to have connections or need to think smart. If there's a local University nearby you might be able to get a student organization to book you some rooms for free if your conference aligns with some interests. Some community centers might give you a similar deal. That takes care of the venue[0].

A nearby public park system may also have Shelters or small buildings to rent on the cheap (<$500) but you're less likely to have amenities like Wi-Fi power outlets, and Air Conditioning. It may also not have nearby restaurants if it's out in the sticks. If your guests all have cars and smart phones that's fine and dandy, but some demographics don't. Consider who you're targeting when picking a venue.

If you're doing this without advance funding, you had better have a very small event where you can do everything yourself, or volunteers. If you aren't paying volunteers you had better have some good non-monetary incentives for them [1].

I wouldn't organize this kind of thing from scratch for the profit. Conventions can be profitable, but unless you really hit it out of the park it's not something you can reliably live off of. For perspective the convention I helped organize sees >3000 paid guests annually and gets over 130 paid vendors. Not particularly large, but not really small either[2].

I can tell you now that even with freebies from the university and sponsors we couldn't pay one organizer a livable wage, let alone a team. Part of that is because we don't really milk our guests and we've reached a market cap for are area, but even if we doubled our prices I still don't think we could pay one livable salary reliably.

[0] Depending on the university, you may not be able to charge an entrance fee for rooms obtained in this way.

[1] I suspect this only works for the convention I helped organize because not even the lead organizer gets a dime of payment. Volunteers arguably get better rewards then the "staff" do, because once they've worked a few hours, they get free admission whereas the "staff" are just always working during the event.

[2] Big enough to worry about the fire code and get local newspaper and TV coverage, but not big enough to be considered Wikipedia notable. (Ironically shortly after a Wikipedian accused us of being in bed with local media outlets, our Marketing Director was made a admin of a local newspaper's website. A broken clock is right twice a day.)
Every single push-button start car I've driven has the ability of "engine off, radio on". On the downside my current car (2012 Mini Cooper S - push-button start) will only play the radio for about 10 minutes (??) after the engine is turned off.
>Isn't this covered by anti-trust laws?

have you seen any enforcement of anti trust laws lately?
ROM might imply that it's a different hardware storage device or some such. That's not normally the case; it's just a different partition mounted at /system. User apps are in /data/app while system apps are in /system/app.

/system shouldn't normally be writable at runtime on non-rooted devices, so updates get installed to /data/app like user apps. A proper uninstall with root, e.g. using Titanium Backup does remove the app from /system/app.
Olympic Doping Diaries: Chemist’s Notes Bolster Case Against Russia
What's the appropriate process for situations like this one? Would you just make a note of the copyright holder and have someone contact him if the client likes the mock-up?
Most athletic departments fund not only the football coach's salary but the salaries of the coaches and staff for all the other "non-revenue" sports as well as all the scholarships. The big thing that has developed in the past decade are the conference TV deals such as the Big Ten Network. Schools make a LOT of money from that, as well as from other licensed merchandise, ticket sales, and donations.

If Cal Athletics is in debt, they are doing it wrong.

Athletics salaries and facilities are very visible and often breathtaking, but in general they are not the cause of tuition inflation.
The "rule change" in 2014 mostly served to codify as regulation the de facto practice in the US and in response to a US Federal court ruling that through out the previous FCC position on network neutrality.

Prior to 2014, ISPs in the US frequently tested the boundaries of what they could or could not block, with Netflix seeing routine "slowdowns", with the resulting penalty being typically not much more than a slap on the wrist.

The "benefits" you dismiss are the environment the Internet has thrived within since since commercialization of NSFnet in the early 1990s.
"However, it is a well-documented fact that intelligence — as measured by IQ, which is debatable..."

>>sufficient number of communicating, above-average intelligent agents could expand the intellectual environment

>Haven't we already got that, with the internet?

Up to a point (with all the intelligent agents being human, as we don't have AGI), but it would be rather surprising if what we see now just happens to be a hard upper limit.

I am not necessarily convinced by all of the points you raise, but they are certainly reasonable in the context of arguing that singularity-like events are by no means inevitable (a point of view that I share). What the author is claiming, however, is that it is impossible, which means that he has imposed on himself a burden of proof (that goes beyond plausibility) for a number of conjectures.
What the Stoics did for us
Been a while, but IIRC people losing their jobs, or making less money.
>The number of people newly diagnosed with HIV in Europe reached its highest level in 2016 since records began [...]

>That year, 160,000 people contracted the virus that causes AIDS in the 53 countries that make up the World Health Organization's European region [...]

This is confusing, is 160,000 referring to people who are diagnosed or people who contracted the virus that year? The fact that they are newly diagnosed with HIV doesn't mean they contracted the virus that year. In fact, later the article says

>The trend was particularly worrying, the organizations said, because many patients had already been carrying the HIV infection for several years by the time they were diagnosed, making the virus harder to control and more likely to have been passed on to others.

The rate of newly diagnosed (18.2 per 100k in the area with 900 million people) suggests that the 160k figure refers to newly diagnosed.
Are you sure? I do not use Netflix but DRM books(at least some of them) you can't copy paste text, I think many people will miss this.
Someone explained that Netflix app buffers very bad, this seems to be a problem caused by DRM but I can't prove it.
> Nearly zero self-promotion and never once met a salesman

We're totally out there :)
> Surely if they are overpriced someone will step up and undercut them.

Then where are the real competitors to Comcast and Time Warner/Spectrum the consistently most hated companies in the US? Why does the US pay so much more for so much worse service than most everywhere?

Through extensive lobbying and regulators unwilling/unable to enforce the terms of infrastructure handouts the existing players are in pretty plum positions where they're able to drop prices a lot whenever a competitor starts to come in and thus starve them out. Look at how Comcast was magically able to provide double speeds for the same price as soon as Google Fiber started to move in in (iirc) Arizona.
Just to clarify: CRSP is great but not the gold standard. A lot of big comapnies use services from Xignite,CaptialIQ and ICE Data.
You do need DRM to strategically put specific people in jail for pirating, in a way that would not be dismissed by your consumer base as either petty or draconian.

You need the DRM to go after one Kim Dotcom, instead of getting civil judgments from a thousand unremarkable people who were just doing the same thing that hundreds of thousands of other people do routinely and innocuously, without ever getting caught. You need it to narrow down the size of a class of people until it is safe to demonize and turn into examples, without alienating your potential customers.

Without DRM, when grandma gets sued for $10000 because she sent a copyrighted video to all 8 of her grandkids, the rights-owner looks like a bad guy. But when a nerd cracks the DRM and seeds a torrent resulting in thousands of downloads, prosecutors can pile on the computer crime charges, and it looks like the hacker is a dangerous criminal, who was probably stealing your identity and browsing through your cloud photos, too.

It's all about public perceptions. Shooting people in the head is somehow less acceptable if you didn't draw a line in the sand first. People get distracted from the main issue--which is people getting shot in the head--if the victims could have made some choice that would have yielded a different result. The public then gets fixated on where the line should be drawn, rather than taking away the shotgun from the homicidal maniac.
> Remember that ISPs bear massive fixed costs, which means they are motivated to maximize the number of end users. That means not cutting off sites and apps those customers want. Moreover, even in the worst case scenario where ISPs did decide to charge Google and Netflix and whatnot, they could price discriminate and charge the Netflix competitor nothing at all!

I don't really get this argument. If the ISPs are able to get another revenue stream from content providers, such as Netflix, etc, then this doesn't really follow. There could even be a world where they care more about content providers than consumer! Also: they're not necessarily going to "cut off" these other apps, they could simply throttle them, making that app seem to work poorly. So, the consumer just stays with Netflix, who is paying the ISP.
But a steel wire can be reeled in using a reel. And if we don't include the airpump required for these origami muscles in our "muscle weight" then we don't need to include the winch weight in the case of the reeled wire.
But he's making the same argument that you say he was making on his podcast.
Regulation has a cost.

The article literally states:
"To believe that Chairman Pai is right is not to be against net neutrality; rather, it is to believe that the FCC’s 2015 approach was mistaken."

The FCC doesn't have the authority to regulate ISP's as the law is written. To get around this in 2015 they "reclassified" ISP's from information services to telecommunications services. This allowed them expansive authority over ISP's. It also applies a bunch of archaic rules that were meant for ma-bell and in no way apply to modern internet services.

If network neutrality is important to you then call your congressmen and tell them to pass a law that actually codifies it.

If you think your ISP is being a bad actor, then send a report to the FTC. You know the agency that's tasked with preventing and punishing anti-competitive behavior....
In the valley and some big US cities you have choices but in the rest of the world, HP is highly valued not because their quality but for their support, even with the basic one they will send a representative in less than 72 hours with the spare part. Lenovo, Dell, Samsung, Asus et al would take weeks if not months for the shipment part to arrive (most of the times without a representative to install it) or ask to send back the laptop just to get it back with the same issue a couple of months later.

On point: HP and Apple are the worst companies to buy a laptop, expensive as hell but they usually have local support staff in your city.
Also Thinkpad suck, they feel super cheap for the price they ask and install even worst spyware preloaded.
"So to recount: one Portugal story is made up, and the other declared that a 10GB family plan with an extra 10GB for a collection of apps of your choosing for €25/month ($30/month) is a future to be feared;"

So, to recount: this author doesn't understand the concept of phasing something in, and thinks that if something doesn't appear all at once then it will never appear.