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> They'll just keep moving the target, it would be indistinguishable from regular content.

Not everyone will have the ability to do that effectively, or even have a platform for it, and users can simply avoid sites where native advertising is obvious.

If some advertising just becomes unobtrusive, and most of it disappears, then that may still be a win-win for a lot of people. This isn't a fight site owners can win with technical measures or deception - unlike every other form of mass media, the web is designed to put as much control over content presentation in the hands of the consumer as the producer, and users are now aware that advertising is something they can opt in to.

If sites offer content with high enough quality, they might be able to convince people to let their ads through, assuming those ads don't interfere with user experience too much. But just trying to sneak it past people isn't going to work forever, any more than ad banners did.
I'll never forget when I realized people were paying for ringtones. Why the heck would you do that? I just downloaded some and stuck them on my phone.

Then I bought Star Wars and watched it at home. VHS for the win! Then the same frickin' movie came out on DVD. I decided to buy it. Why would I do that? Because I was sold on the feature combination of DVDs. Then BluRay. I bought again. Why? The movie had new features, and BluRay was more cool.

I had become those people I was laughing at with the ringtones, spending money for stuff that either should be free or was basically worthless. I love movies. I have a lot of movies in various formats. But re-mixes of the same stupid movie? I'm being taken for a ride.

Now they keep the same movie, the same plot, the same hardware -- but re-make it with currently-popular actors. Why would people pay for this....I asked myself as I sat in the movie theater a couple of months ago.

There's less and less "new people creating new things that enriches society" and more and more "You bought X, you'll really love X1!"

Anybody that doesn't know where headphoneless-phones is going hasn't been paying attention. Ten years from now, when they've finally locked down DRM audio from the seller to the actual device you listen to it on? They'll be charging you multiple times to listen to the same sound.

Plus they make money on the hardware. Double bonus points for getting you on a hardware upgrade gravy train also locked in by vendor.
I definitely have too many projects to tell you for sure. Just look at the two sites [1] [2] and you know what I mean. I have as many projects in the backlog as you can see on these 2 pages. And actually I don't want to concentrate on one. The motivation changes about every month, because I do this in my spare time. And from time to time a project has a status where I can publish it.

So at the moment my motivation for this game is to add more realistic physics for the ship (turns instead of right and left) and a level editor to learn Vue. Then just look at the other comments. You see a lot of great ideas.

But building a 13k game next year based on the Voxel Space Engine is also in my head :-)

[1] https://simulationcorner.net/

[2] https://github.com/s-macke/
> it doesn't support structured data beyond simple sectioning

Not exactly true (nor completely untrue). Look at your .gitconfig to see an example of how it can shoehorned in. Basically, it uses a .dot notation in a section header to distinguish levels.

I wrote an little module a few years back that copes with structure support:
https://www.npmjs.com/package/jsinf#the-format
What the people who keep complaining about this don’t realize and will never realize is that there are tons of users who prefer the new Jack and will never have any issues with it at all.
You keep arguing about this “fiasco” but in reality Apple is fine, the majority of users are happy and this is all just an imagined issue like when they introduced the iPhone which would fail because it was just an iPod with a phone in it, or the touchscreen that would never be able to compete with tactile keyboards or the tablet that didn’t even run a proper desktop operating system.
Dude there is already a tonne of things like this. Just go on Meetup for London area (e.g. CTO craft London)

I'll be frank, most of the time these lunches / socials are a waste of time.

Why, well there are mostly two types of people that go to them:

* the wunderkids who are there to evangelize their amazing product that they built using Haskell and a C++ engine. They aren't really interested in anybody else (fair enough).

* the recruiters / poachers / ruby fanboys , who are there to get you signed up.

sorry Ruby fanboys/fangirls; I had to pick on someone.
That's a good question. However, its easier said than done. Say whatever you want about Google and the likes and hate them, but for a dev, it's still one of the best places to learn, grow and get paid well. At that point most peoples moral compass tilts. I know so many people who said they would never work at Microsoft, Facebook, Google. However when they got an offer they accepted it. :)
Then let them use wireless. Let those who want to use wired keep using wired. The question isn't "Should we keep wireless?".
I had no idea anyone was doing in-depth research into this kind of -- as he aptly calls it -- data labor. This would really merit its own HN submission. Thank you for showing me!
Torrents and Usenet. Prices are competitive, too.
The insanity of international copyright law has turned a lot of people into basically just ignoring the laws which is 100% justified, reasonable and morally sound in my opinion. It is not the consumer's fault that politicans are too inept in understanding the current century we live in, it is not the consumers fault that politicans are too corrupt to bring copyright law into this century.

One of the creative ways of digital self defense is https://unogs.com/ it lists all content on netflix and in which region it is available. This way you can use a VPN service and actually fully use Netflix as the service it was intended to be and you've been payed for properly.

And for that matter it is not the corporations fault for exploiting all laws to the greatest extend possible either, don't anthropomorphize corporations, they are not moral agents, they are soulless thoughtless profit maximization machines it is the fault of politicians and the population who voted for them, to not regulating them properly.
Good. More from among the richest should follow him.
Or, since they're taking the position that you're not buying the media but you're buying a "license", you can purchase it and then pirate a DRM-free copy.

But really, when copyright is so blatantly one-sided against the people, why should the people be expected to wholly support it?

I'm not advocating for ignoring it completely but some rules are just ridiculous. For example ripping. DMCA says that circumvention of technical protections is illegal. If I buy a Blu-Ray, why shouldn't I be able to rip it and add it to my Plex library? What harm does that inflict?

Then there are more dubious questions like is it okay to pirate if there's no legal option? My opinion is yes, it's totally okay. If there's no legal means through which to give the copyright owner money, I'm not "taking" anything away by obtaining it without doing so.
For Linux at least, have a look at resources on kernel.org:

eg. https://www.kernel.org/doc/gorman/html/understand/understand...

or https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/vm/

“Professional Linux Kernel Architecture” by Wolfgang Mauerer is also a great read.

And don't forget hardware vendors' documentation, such as http://developer.amd.com/wordpress/media/2012/10/24593_APM_v... (there's much more in it than just assembly instructions)
What controls and experiments can you do in astronomy?

The scientific method is a thin veneer best left at in the high school curriculum where it belongs. Actual science is vastly more messy and interesting.
I often wonder why people who have so much money already gamble like that to get even more money. If I had roughly a million dollars I'd put it in an index fund and live a happy live without having to worry about work or money. Yet people like that guy have a hundred times more money than I'd need for the rest of my life and risk it all to become even richer.
You’re not the only one. But now I feel like I’m the only one who has the exact same issues with Lightning connections.

I get the same pop when jacking in using the Lightning-to-3.5 dongle. And I mean, making the 3.5 connection first, Lightning second.

Also, Lighting (and I suspect USB C) female connectors are dust, lint, and particulate magnets. What happens when those get fouled, the gold plating on the Lightning cable is scraped off one or more of the pins. So then you have either a broken cable or one that will charge but only if oriented correctly. So same issue, rotate the connector and maybe it works.

AND the thing that pisses me off the most...I have to carry around some old earbuds with the 3.5 in case I want to watch some Netflix on my MacBook Pro because I can’t plug my new EarPids into it. There’s no Lightning jack on any Mac. And there’s not even a dongle for that use case. All the USB M to Lightning F are for charging only.
"minicomputers" with 256kb ram and a cpu running at ~10mhz?

How would you differentiate them from today's embedded devices? ;)
Exactly the point. Film industry should sober up and start behaving properly, by enabling legal DRM-free options, instead of being stuck up in their backwards thinking DRM obsession.
While I agree that "the cloud" really means "someone else's computers", I also believe that that's not something service providers tell their users. When the button says "Buy" and the service says all the content you "buy" will be available on their cloud, the service is promising them access to that content served from the service's own computers. When the service subsequently removes this access, even if not from the user's computer directly, but from their own computers, they break this promise.

Of course the service is at fault for breaking such promises.
Stopped reading at "Group sponsorship by developer focused companies", this sounds so bad when just before they said "no recruiters, no sales people, no gimmicks." => pick one of these two, can't have both at the same time!
I find this page a little hard to scan. I see that you're going for a minimal look by keeping all post info on a single line, but the varying line length means that the number of upvotes, for example, is in a very different place each time. On the HN homepage, I can glance down in a few seconds and see which posts have the most upvotes, but here I need to concentrate quite hard to do the same since my eye has to do a bit of searching.
Haha! Looks like another modern version of zip-bomb[0] or should I say - div-bomb:)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zip_bomb
How is Soverin delivery? It's the first time I've heard of them so they don't seem to have been around for many time. Newer mail companies sometimes have problems delivering to Microsoft or Yahoo servers. Can you comment on that? I'd be very interested to switch.
Considering most hollywood movies are interchangeable (the scripts are all written from the same manual anyway), my solution is to not actually purchase anything. If it's on Netflix or HBO, it's fine, otherwise I don't bother. Same for music, if it's streamed somewhere, fine, otherwise no. I get blu rays for really good movies, but they are so rare it ends up very cheap.

When they come up with a guarantee that I can access my digital purchases forever from any corner of the world or solar system, then I'll consider buying digitally from the movie/music industry.
It might be a 20% project. Also, there is a process to clarify / obtain the copyright: https://opensource.google.com/docs/iarc/
What are some best tips and tricks for Facebook marketing?
> wage gaps are evidence that we're not using the labor force effectively

That is only true if we view wages as the only factor in job selection and priority. If we accept that men are greater impacted by wealth through attraction and social status then we also should accept that those should create a bias in how prioritized wealth is.

And as could be guessed, that is exactly what studies show. When given multiple choices, men tend to choose higher wages over other work benefits. An employer that tries to maximize the effectiveness of the labor force might do so by providing the maximal amount of benefit to their employees. Worse, if they try to predict the needs of the their employees the wage gap would be created even if individual employees don't share the overall priority of their group.

We could fix the wage gap statistics by trying to convert all aspects of work that an employee values into a common unit. Job satisfaction could be such metric but normally wages are not considered a part of it so in a mirror reflection of the wage gap, there is a identical gap in job satisfaction that favors women.
There are now, but BASIC was invented in the 70's, and some very powerful versions of it were used to build just about everything in the 80's and even the 90's. There was BBC Basic on the BBC micro, GFA Basic on the ST and of course MSVB on the PC, which if you have windows is most likely still lurking in your system somewhere.

Each of those could be used to write very complete applications including GUIs and such.
Take Google and see if u can do advisory work for the startup on side for equity.

I am bias as worked at Google but left for startup world and would never go back. The Google name can open pretty much any doors
You can figure out that there is no luminiferous aether between the planets with an interferometer. You can observe that the light of distant stars is bent by the sun's gravity during an eclipse. You can check that the planets appear in the sky where your celestial mechanics predict them to be. You can find out what elements the stars are made of with a prism.

There are lots of experiments you can do.
Most people are missing an important point. From FT Website:

> That prompted Nasdaq to cut the entire trade on Wednesday and the exchange confirmed that the loss accounted for all of the exchange’s own default fund of €7m and swallowed €107m, or two-thirds, of its €166m mutual default fund that clearing house members must contribute to.

So a single, one person trader was able to basically bankrupt the Nasdaq insurance fund. This fund is supposed to cover all of the margin trading misfortunes but a single guy/position took it all away.

This means that the Nasdaq (and probably any other exchange) is not ready for a volatility event. In the case of extreme volatility, the Nasdaq insurance fund will be 0. Counterparties in derivatives won't get paid, and potentially the mutual funds/etfs/other structures depending on these derivative trades will collapse.

The next financial crisis is just one trade away.

Edit: re-reading and searching further, it looks like the fund that was depleted was not that of the Nasdaq but rather a mutual fund for several exchanges. The Nasdaq had only 7m euros. What a joke.
> the scripts are all written from the same manual anyway

I bet you mean "Save the Cat!: The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need", its such a cancerous guide.
He got it by gambling, he lost it gambling.
So what.

The sad thing here is that it is indicative of how extremely wealthy people often get that way. The system should reward innovation, hard work etc, but instead it is skewed towards gambling, system-gaming, rent-seeking and so-on.
First, it is a game. The one with largest number "wins". Second, people do not see how much more wealthy they are than most others. They see how much less wealthy they are to the ones having bigger jets and charity programs and whatnot.
It's pretty nifty seeing the impetus for high-tech innovation shift from military applications to entertainment possibilities.
Apparently, based from the comments, it was because he could clear his own trades
One of the most important thing to learn when trading is risk management, how to preserve your capital. Being wrong is part of trading, staying wrong isn't.

It's especially interesting to see it happen to someone that actually worked as a risk manager in his early days ; especially so close to the anniversary of Lehman's demise.
Who do you think was on the other side of this bet?
> But it comes at the expense of more space for batteries or features that more people will use.

Yet Samsung did fit a 4000 mAh battery, a headphone jack, wireless charging, expendable storage, fingerprint sensor, 512Gb of storage AND a PEN in their IP68 Note 9.
Two words: Why Not?

Just as serious. Programming does not always require a solid reason before you can engage in it, quite a bit of it is like playing. If you actually enjoy programming then it is much nicer to do than if everything needs a financial justification.

There is a similar analogy with music, you could make money with it, but you can also simply enjoy it.
It doesn’t need privileges to sandbox unprivileged code. It needs special permission to run a JIT because that implies running binary code that was compiled ‘Just In Time’ on the device, so it isn’t signed.

Normal processes can only run binary code that was verified to be signed. They can’t write to memory and then mark it as executable.
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You aren't owed a full airing of and engagement with your views in the venue and on the topic and terms of your choosing. Neither is anyone else - this 'foundational principle of our modern liberal society' isn't there to uniquely oppress you.

Indeed, I was flaming no one

That's not what 'flaimbait' means.
Or as my father keeps reminding me, sell/stash half of it.

If you can afford to gamble half go for it if you want to, but if it goes all tits up you still can live off half of $X which in this case is a lot $$$!
Easy. More money compounds faster.

First, he likely got that wealthy by taking aggressive positions. Meaning he is comfortable with it.

Second (and this is obviously an extreme example). Say I have $50m. I borrow another $25m. I put all of that money in a single concentrated position, that is very likely to go up (i.e. Amazon). It doubles in a year. Now you made $75m (excluding some interest payments).
fun project! care to share the code? could be easy for companies and organizations to have their own "list-site'
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This one almost bankrupted the casino too. That's pretty newsworthy.
Large scale agriculture will add up, until someday it doesn't. This fable told by Jeremy Grantham explains it quite well.

<i>My favourite story is about the contract between the farmer and the devil. The devil says, "sign this contract and I'll triple your farm's profits". But there are 25 footnotes, as there always is with the devil. Footnote 22 says that 1% of your soil will be eroded each year, which is actually horrifyingly close to the real average over the past 50 years. The farmer signs and makes a fortune on a 40-year contract. And his son then signs up for the next 40-year contract and makes a fortune. And his son then signs up for the third and final contract. He still does very well, and in the final 20 years the family has accumulated enormous wealth, but the soil has gone. It's the same story for all his neighbouring farms and everyone is out of business. My sick joke is that at least he will die a rich farmer when all the starving hordes arrive from the city.</i>

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/blog/2013/apr/16/jer...
Whether mainstream economics has issues is wholly uninteresting, unless you are proposing a different theory with fewer issues. "The academy is flawed" doesn't mean that what the populists feel in their hearts is correct. It's the closest approximation of the truth we have.
BASIC is far worse than that. Like, at least in Python, len() is a regular function. In BASIC, tons of core features are implemented as statements, with rather weird syntax that got even more weird over time.

LINE (x1, y1) - (x2, y2), 5, FB

Can you remember what it does? (no, it doesn't draw a line; it would, if not for "FB").

Or, for example, MID$ is a function, except when it's not:

MID$(s$, 1) = "foo"

Then there's stuff like DEFINT and GOSUB and ON STRIG and ...

The reason for all this is that BASIC was never designed as a language in which the standard library could mostly be written, or even described, in that language. Thus, most features were implemented as intrinsics, with magic syntax and/or semantics, which varies drastically from feature to feature. This goes even for the standard functions - e.g. MID$ is a function (except when it's not, as above) - but it can take either 2 or 3 arguments, which is not something that you can declare yourself. As a result, when language evolved, it also did so in a haphazard way, as with LINE re-purposed for other reasons.

The original BASIC was very simple (but also non-extensible). The BASIC that most people remember - at its peak - was actually more complicated than an equivalent subset of Python.
What makes you think it is normal to charge your phone every day? I charge mine on average every 4th day when the battery has run down to about 30%-35% (or at around 12 hours of screen time). I use two phones, one for daily use and another for work in the forest/on the farm. The daily phone is a Xiaomi Redmi Note 5 which can last for up to a week on a charge, the work phone a Motorola Defy of around 8 years old which now lasts for around 4 days, it used to last for a week as well. While I might be a bit of an outlier with these devices I don't see charging a phone daily as a norm to be espoused. In the age of "dumb" phones charging the thing once a week was the norm, not the exception. If these devices are to be the go-to for all things digital they should have longer autonomy.
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No. Simply because it have many use, from music play with external stereo to mobile-POS (credit card payment via audio/dummy modem) etc.
I tried it on my iPhone X and it triggers a kernel panic (agxk_mmu.cpp) when trying to allocate memory for WebKit.

It seems it exhausts the memory so fast that it triggers an assertion error somewhere?

Screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/6tDr44q.png

Full serial console log of the device: https://gist.githubusercontent.com/KenanSulayman/867cc399e97...
it seems so weird to me how many companies seem okay with choosing just one cloud vendor, when operating across two isn't that much extra overhead, if you limit yourself to products that two companies provide, and gets you a lot of negotiation and business continuity options.
The ether was a part of dynamics.

Elements in a star is part of chemistry.

The rest of those are not experiments, they are descriptions of natural phenomena we have no power of repeating. Which goes to show that you can have a science that does not have experiments but does have observations.
It's not thinner. Maybe by a few microns?
It's a fault in their UI and UX design. They could say e.g. "The Australian version of movie X is not available to download in your current region (Canada) due to licensing limitations. You may still download your purchase from within the Australia region."
You can't get a 350 sq meter rooftop home in Oslo with only 1 million dollar.

That would barely get you a flat in SF/NYC/HongKong/London. It really takes $10M to be comfortable.
Wow quite handy this site is. Although, there is always room for improvements.