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The Blu-Ray video format is pretty cancerous in terms of DRM; there's not really any salvaging it.

One of the most nauseating restrictions of all is that replication plants aren't even allowed to fabricate Blu-Ray video discs which don't have AACS. This means that if you want to get some Blu-Ray video disc fabricated which contains Creative Commons content and you disagree with DRM, for example, you're out of luck: AACS is mandatory. Archive Team had issues with this - as I recall, the best compromise they were able to find was to just put video files on a normal Blu-Ray data disc and get that fabbed. I suspect this is enforced using conditions in the patent licences Sony hands out to fabs or DRM in the software used by fabrication plants, or both.

You start to realise why this is the case when you research how the production process works. When you send a Blu-Ray video disc to a fab for mass production, you don't apply the encryption; the fab does, and you have no control over the process. Moreover, this process involves sending a request for encryption keys to AACS LA, who then issue newly-minted encryption keys for the disc. Yes, this means that all Blu-Ray video discs must be centrally approved by a single organisation in realtime, as an integral part of the AACS application process. Which explains why AACS is mandatory; it lets them catch attempts by commercial pirates to get discs replicated in mass.

So I don't think Blu-Ray can ever become a non-helldamned format. The fact that the specifications are all secret is just the icing on the cake (this is actually the case for DVD too, open source implementations all had to reverse engineer it). I always found it deeply ironic that by comparison, the AACS specification, which specifies a DRM scheme, a type of thing fundamentally dependent on security by obscurity, is freely available.
Worth noting for those who may not know, Pólya was himself an extremely prolific mathematician with many major contributions to mathematics.
> Under current rules, I'm pretty sure it is legal to try and destroy a company by destroying its reputation and maligning its financials and profit by shorting it while you kill it.

Yeah, it's legal, but that doesn't mean it's not malevolent.
"these statements implied that Muhammad had pedophilic tendencies"

Is it defamatory if it's true? Since Muhammad had sex with a girl that was clearly underage by the current laws.

Oh wait it's not about truth or free speech, it's just that some religion are more equal than others:
"religious feelings protected" & " aim of preserving religious peace "
I added an edit, do you still feel this comment is accurate after my edit? Ie, I'm not advocating physical machines. The cost + time ratios don't add up imo. Using AWS/etc is simply better, I believe.

I'm talking about not using dozens of SaaS options for small tooling, think CI, log agg, metrics, git, etc. Much of these are trivial to self host when your traffic is small and predictable. Thoughts?
Maybe I'm just an outlier.

My cars generally cost about 300-500 quid. If it breaks I buy another one. I can buy 5 or more of them for your quoted 3K.

Are they as safe as a Model S? No. Are they substantially more dangerous than other things I do in my life? Probably not.

Once things start to break you scrap it and get another one. Done.

I bought a Civic for 325 GBP, changed the tyres for ~150, and drove it around half of Europe, putting 10K miles on it before selling it because I moved in to a city for a while. I basically just treat cars as a 'subscription cost' model rather than any form of capital.

In the US you have the issue that a car might be a hard requirement to get to work. In that case I'd probably just buy two and drive them on alternate days so there's always a backup. You guys seem to have enough land for this to be viable. Still cheap as chips.
This article doesn’t really explain what the dark consensus is beyond just “screens bad”. There are certainly some things on modern computers that are little more than Skinner boxes, but those things aren’t what the parents in the article are talking about. What makes Fortnite and Youtube videos worse than Nerf guns and library books?
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No worries, happens to everyone. But I appreciate you confirming that.
Wikipedia and YouTube can be huge timesinks as well, but hardly see much commentary as regards to FB and Instagram.
A lot of European cities don't have anything or close to anything open at night. But it varies wildly by country.
Question, why was a Facebook click event (fbclid) query string included in the URL for this article? Did you find the article on Facebook and forget to remove the string, which results in anyone on this site that clicks on the string to be identified to Scientific American's site analytics as having come from a Facebook page, and thus mis-attributing traffic.
> consider going old school and rendering your HTML on the server; you might be delighted

One idea I'd wish more sites would consider.
tcc only supports x86, and is 4-5 times bigger (lines of code) than the plan9 compiler.
It is far from a sure bet that a 15-year-old $3K Ford is the fiscally responsible choice. It's kind of the reverse of the problem of people spending too much on cars -- someone getting focused on the absurdly low price and not factoring in what it will actually end up costing them over time.
Gosh I hope not, I can't imagine needing to do this!
Its the number for all 5 NDAs combined, so fitting exactly with your numbers.
Apple and Google didn't take over major OSS hub (some say, the OSS hub of today). This companies contribute a lot themselves, and have a long history of doing so.
And yes, MongoDB ticked me too.
I like way Microsoft is going, I just don't want to get hurt if suddenly their board/CEO decide to pursue opposite direction: won't even be first time for the company.
The new Gmail takes so long to load and organize itself. I really do like the speed of classic html. It'd be nice if more web services had such "low bandwith" modes.
Well great now I'm also a Narcissist today too :|
These stories come out all the time in history. First books, then radio, then tv, then video games, now screens. Surely there are some translational or longitudal analyses to see what effect these “distractions” have on “success”.
My TCO for my 2003 Toyota Sequoia has been $70 a month. I paid $8,000 for it 3 years ago and have paid $500 in maintenance (standard scheduled maintenance plus $60 in repairs). I pay $23 dollars a month for liability insurance. Depreciation has been approximately $1,200 (at worst). I'm not so sure I'd own anything but a larger (safety) Toyota (reliability) that old, but just wanted to provide some anecdata.
My prior car was new and I later decided that the added expense of a new car did not justify it. My plan was to get a few-years old "A to B" used car (like a Corolla or something) when it started needing work.

But I did change my mind and get a Model 3.

* Autopilot is quite nice. I'd compare the experience to driving a car with cruise control as compared to one that doesn't have it. It's not the end of the world, but if you have a car with cruise control, it's tough to imagine intentionally buying your next one without it barring financial difficulties.

* Not having to fill up at gas stations is nice. There's a little more planning involved for trips, but for normal day-to-day, it's waking up every day to a full tank.

* Upcoming software updates. The initial Model 3s didn't have summon or the dashcam feature, both of which have been added over the air, and more of which will be added sooner.

* I think the auto industry in general has become stagnant and "safe" in terms of innovation, and I want to support a disruptive entity that will force the others to re-think the ways they're doing business.

* It's got an API, which already has third party tools for an Apple Watch app, detailed analytics, etc.

* They're taking a risk with the interior of the car, with the lack of gauge cluster and spartan design. To me this looks like what happened when the software industry switched from "as many UI buttons and features as possible" in the '90s to the simplified, "overall user experience" focus we see in modern software. And I want to support that.

* There's some "feel-good" factor to damaging the environment less, and supporting the market that will allow for society to join in.

I agree with you in that I can't imagine spending $63k on a non-Tesla. The differences between a basic used car and a new Mercedes or something just don't justify it. But I do feel differently about the Tesla.
> You are spending a couple hours a day in your car

Most people don't have 1 hour commutes.
There is no doubt that there were players in the markets that were doing their best to actively destroy Tesla for personal profit reasons.

But then there were a lot of people - even Tesla fans - who knew the numbers and still worried.
Do you mean .Net in general or .Net core?

In my industry, Microsoft stacks are extremely common. The talent pool for C# in this area is tremendous, which has absolutely gained the company much synergy in the form of OS and MSSQL licensing. So the development of .Net in my opinion has made the company much more sticky.

I can't help but believe they're making a mistake (even though I want it!) in pushing .Net to open source.
1. A lot of new cars are leased (30% of new car volume)

2. A lot of new cars are purchased with auto loans (44% of Americans are paying an auto loan)

3. The average new car loan amount is going up by a lot (reocrd high of $31,000 now)

4. A lot of people are defaulting (5.8% are > 60 days late, higher than the financial crisis years)

PDF warning https://static.ed.edmunds-media.com/unversioned/img/industry...

Consumers Skip More High-Rate Auto Payments Than During Crisis

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-14/consumers...

So to answer your question seriously, people take out auto loans and lease expensive cars because they like buying expensive things, even if they can't really afford it.
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I was asking samstave. It's complicated... Of course kink in general is not abusive. But often when otherwise private things are exposed publicly, abuse or alleged abuse is the reason for the exposure. It's a general thing, but it's also related to the specific case where some presumably non-workplace relationship details came out and there was apparent (not proven) arguable abuse of financial privilege which shows that, if true, this is not necessarily a wonderful person that I would want as a leader in my company. And the information coming out is not great for the abuser. In this specific case we can say the alleged abuser, if that helps.
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It does not work unless Github is open to the internet. For example, Github Enterprise behind a VPN will not be able to use Azure Devops. Crazy but true.
> hyperbolic VW statements about "delivering a car as good as any Tesla at half the cost" this morning.

This while launching yet another compact SUV, based on the Polo platform w/o 4wd and the the base model using a three-cylinder one liter engne. Give me a break VW.
You are partially right. But when I grew up there simply weren't that many things to tempt children as there are now. Even if I had wanted to have some there was no fast food around, there were no smart phones, no Facebook, no cable TV. We had to find ways to occupy ourselves be it reading or playing some games.

It's hard for parents to fight off all these temptations.
You're baffled by people spending money on things that make them happy? Not everyone buys a car just for transporting them from point A to point B.
"this company never gained anything from developing and pushing .NET"

I would have to disagree. .NET has become the backbone of the MSFT developer experience and has gone far beyond being just an alternative to java. It's heavily used in Azure, SQL Server, Web Applications, Desktop, Mobile etc.
It'd look slightly different in 1983 but the functionality would all be there. const->#define and maybe you'd need to change the function signatures to K&R style, but that's it.
In past generations parents spent much less time with kids than now. Kids were mostly roaming streets. Now society frowns upon letting kids be outside nonsupervised, hence the substitution - screens indoors.

Edit: Today parents spent twice as much time with kids as 50 years ago. https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2017/11/27/parents-...
Well, a couple of weeks back, I bought a car. I would have bought if 35K Model 3, if one was available. Why? Because I didn't want to burn gas when there might be other options available; because I wanted to do my part in keeping an electric vehicle company alive; because I wanted to be less of an asshole to the future generations that have to live with the consequences of things we do now.

Yes, I know most of electricity is still generated from fossil fuel sources. But baby steps.

Btw, I ended buying a Honda Insight.
Ideas to secure an API?
Dear Hackernews – Our startup has an API that uses our proprietary database to assist in retail commerce.

The API is ready to go, and we have OEM customer interest, but we are reluctant to leave a sandbox open for developers. The caution comes from the fact one needs access to our proprietary information just to test how our API works in a live retail transaction. We are using API keys, but I'm wondering if I need a more thorough security model.

We are in a baby industry that’s growing very quickly with a lot of potential OEM customers, and we’re concerned about getting hooked up with a player who could just crawl our database, ignore any signed agreements and take our proprietary data. We have a developer agreement that should protect us, and our database needs constant work to be up-to-date, but we are way to small to seriously pursue any remedies if anyone wants to screw with us.

My developer instinct is to put the API out there to find consumers, but our distribution must balance with this proprietary database issue.

Does anyone with a similar experience care to share their solution to this API-first startup issue? Bizdev and tech ideas invited…
Harry Singh's Caribbean. If you like spicy, and like Indian food (Trinidad food is basically Indian food), it's a must-try. He's the Picasso of chili peppers. Do not order "as hot as you can make it", because you'll just annoy him and he might have to call an ambulance. I recommend getting the roti with whatever filling you like - he makes all his roti by hand, refusing to use a machine, because it makes a real difference. Jerk chicken and curried vegetables are standouts, but it's all amazing. If in doubt about heat levels, order milder than you expect and ask for hot sauce. He makes his own from Trinidad scorpion peppers...
Not really. musl optimizes for performance and codesize, whilst glibc optimizes for the random user who needs to read error message in farsi and logs on via an external LDAP service, and needs LD and MALLOC hooks to debug weird edge cases.

glibc unicode tables are huge, musl are tiny.

glibc uses assembler optimizations for everything, whilst musl uses compiler auto-vectorization, which mostly beats handwritten assembly, esp. with constant arguments.
This is a factor for me. I’ve never owned a car and if I can help it, want to avoid ever buying an ICE or partially-ICE vehicle. There’s a tiny used EV market, but it’s mostly filled with early entrant models that make serious compromises, making buying from it somewhat impractical.

So I’m now considering buying a model 3 in the next 1-2 years. If I can’t make it work financially, I’ll just make do without a car until that changes.
lol - though I completely disagree with the premise of social media is the new smoking.

I would also assume by the time millenials are grampas nobody is gonna be looking at screens but through some AR glasses/lenses
Please link to this good, reliable, well-maintained car for $3k or under, because (without a family/buddy deal) it does not exist.
Not even Czech people can read the future. All I hope for is that he will lead well. The important thing here is the change in the leading coalition.

Prague is also divided into smaller parts, that have their own leadership, and that is also important for individual citizens. In the part where I live, I was quite happy with how it changed in the last 4 years. There were things that were built, that improved my life, and there were public and priate projects started that will improve it even further. Even on the whole city level, the public transport got significantly cheaper 3 years ago.
>I spent 3 months watching used listings and wound up with a very low mileage 2006 Rav4 (for ~$10k) and it has been wonderful.

People think used Toyotas are made of gold. You could almost have a different Tahoe (in equivalent condition) for each day of the week at that price point.
I just watched the body cam footage. There is no effort on the part of the police to be judicious. I think the phrasing "blew them away as soon as they opened the door" is a fairly accurate description of what happened.
Yeah, writing about using Elixir at The Outline is cool and all, but let's not forget this place wiped out most of its staff, including developers.
> It's a connectionless SOCKS5 proxy.

On your local workstation, it exposes itself as a SOCKS5 proxy. But to communicate with the shadowsocks server, it uses a proprietary protocol which is not SOCKS5 and does have a key exchange process. Either way, these details don't affect its ability to be detected.

> VPN is not made to be undetected

"VPN" is not just one technology. Many vendors of VPN software do claim that their software is made to be undetectable. One example is shadowsocks, but there are other vendors who also claim that.
I grew up similarly to you (though less army men, more Legos), but I do think we are looking at a difference of kind today with video games. You're right in that Fortnite would be different--but that's because Fortnite (or, worse, mobile games) are a dopamine flood. Intuitively it feels like the loot treadmill of an old MMO (I lost a lot of friends to WoW addiction back in The Day) but with a tighter loop that more easily can ensnare people, particularly kids. I absolutely can't prove it, and wouldn't judge somebody for letting a kid play them...but I would be a little uneasy if I had kids.
It was novel to you when you first saw it, which is what he's describing.
That's a fascinating turn-around though— I wonder if she considers what she's doing gaming? Basically, there are a lot of extremely high quality single-player narrative games out there, many of which provide a story/explore difficulty level where it's almost impossible to die. Would she still be prejudiced against those, or now that she understands the appeal in broad terms, would she consider upgrading to games that aren't a complete wasteland of F2P nonsense?

FWIW, many public libraries have a small collection of Xbone/PS4 games, so if you got the base hardware, there'd be an opportunity to sample a bunch of things quickly to try different styles and genres.
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Well as for Skype, there are a dozen alternatives out there (such as Wire). Much as I'd like to see an influx of users from Skype, very few people have it. The only group that's on there is colleagues and friends of colleagues, after the company did a pentest on Wire (see Wire's website for the reports).
The old new gmail was pretty excellent. I gave up completely on the new one and reverted to the basic html version. It took forever to load, and I continually ran into the "this operation hasn't completed yet" dialog when I'd delete some mails and then tried to navigate to some other site. Just very half-baked and sloppy, it should never have gotten out the door in the current state.
Or you're just a conspiracy theorist. Time will tell.
Legally dubious, morally ... make your own mind up?
>Technologists building these products and writers observing the tech revolution were naïve, he said.

>"We thought we could control it,” Mr. Anderson said. “And this is beyond our power to control. This is going straight to the pleasure centers of the developing brain. This is beyond our capacity as regular parents to understand."

A 6 year old's brain has no chance against a team of trained data scientists. We all know this.

This larger issue of screen time and tech addiction will only continue to grow. At some point maybe a decade or two it will be a smaller version of the concerns about the tobacco industry. But because it's the brain and not the lungs it will play out differently.

People approach mental and physical health differently. Similarly dopamine addiction and chemical dependence are also treated differently in people's minds. One is often viewed as a moral failing the other as more "uncontrollable".

As much as we want it to be true, technological advancement can never be separated from social/ethical impact. It's not "just a tool" and never will be.
I would like to make the controversial claim that homoiconicity counts against adoption; the single representation carries little structural information and the meaning of a symbol is highly dependent on its containing context. Whereas the ALGOL-derived languages use different types of bracket or other means to indicate visually what the semantics are.

Ironically modern Javascript often replicates the bracket pileup, just with "})" instead. Python does away with it by having "nonindented newline" as an invisible semantic character that closes any number of scopes.
Using 'enlightened whiteness' is mildly insulting both to people who happen to be white and those who are non-white who share the same beliefs and behaviour.
Maybe not most, but a lot of people do.
>When I encounter a 12-line ragged cascade of curly brackets, square brackets and parentheses, sprinkled with semicolons, I wonder how that can be considered OK.

It's considered OK because the extra syntax carries semantic weight, and the semicolons disambiguate intent for the interpreter (because while semicolons are optional in javascript, leaving them out can lead to errors.)

And as someone just beginning to play around with (Arc) Lisp, I still can appreciate both paradigms. Neither is objectively wrong.
They do make somewhat of a reference at the end of the article by mentioning the victim's mother who is suing the Police Department
Relatedly (I think), the snakes stop moving if you stare at it with that zoned-out, glazed-over, I'm-not-listening look. (At least for me.)
With only the functions you've defined, how do you calculate the second derivative?

If the `deriv` function instead returned a function instead of a number, you could apply the `deriv` function twice.
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With an AI, you don't know what it is that the AI doesn't know. A trivial example: Some "nondisclosure" agreements (NDAs) also include invention-assignment agreements [0] and/or non-competition covenants. I'll recognize such provisions if I see one in a putative NDA, but I don't know whether the AI will recognize it. Sure, the AI could provide a list of everything that it does know, but when I review the list, I won't necessarily notice that a missing item is missing.

[0] Stanford University got trapped by an invention-assignment agreement contained in an "NDA" that one of its researchers signed when he visited someone at Roche — see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_University_v._Roche_M....
Games evolved from products that are sold once to a service that continuously extracts value from the customer. It's only natural that they try to be as addictive as possible when additional playing time means additional revenue.
I strongly suspect the amount of money Facebook makes utilizing that data greatly outweighs the cost incurred by the "customers" they've lost as a result of poor data handling.