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Location: Morristown, NJ, happy to relocate along the Eastern seaboard.

Remote: No

Willing to relocate: Happy to relocate along the Eastern seaboard.

Technologies: C#, Java, Angular, Python (and Flask), SQL, iOS development

Résumé/CV: https://bit.ly/2I8wyFB

Email: djbeadle at googlemail.com

Website: https://danielbeadle.net

Full stack web developer unafraid of hardware problems seeks role on a highly motivated team.
And if you bought something from them, they're permitted to come in and take it away from you whenever they want.
Violet is the bit of the visible spectrum just shy of ultraviolet (by definition, really).
Simple: You'd have to install a plugin or a separate special app to watch video, like the bad old days of RealPlayer.
I am in academia, I just don't care to play the game.

An academia that cares about journal over quality of work isn't really one I want to be a part of, so either way I'll be happy with the outcome.
Has it happened because of scientific or political reasons?
The headlining feature seems to be that it has a dark and a light theme. This isn’t very encouraging for the rest of the product. I’m sure there’s a lot of good stuff here, but themes aren’t important enough to be the first feature mentioned.
> what do you really need 6 cores for

People kept saying the same thing about wanting 32GB memory in a laptop. Look what happened.

szggzs27's workflow could be vastly different than yours, and in no way invalidates either, but assuming that there's no need for a 6 core in a laptop is profoundly judgmental and ignorant.
Menu In Pictures: Crowdsourced food/drink establishments menus
C++ package manager Conan 1.14 is out
It's not passive.
This is just the age old discussion of whether it's better to capitulate in small ways so you can steer a group away from bad behavior/decisions later or to make a stand on principle to draw attention to the current bad decisions.

As much as some people like to say one is better than the other, I think the answer is always "it depends". Unfortunately, it depends not only on the relative power and momentum behind the current problem when deciding, but also on unknowns such as what will happen in the future.

It's hard for me to find too much fault in them deciding that they would rather stay somewhat relevant to the process than become obviously irrelevant (if that was indeed the thought process), as there's still a lot they can affect in the future. Armchair quarterbacking about what they should have done isn't too useful in my eyes.
I can understand why Google don't want to support a large number of small services but you'd think they could spin them off rather than closing them - maybe retain 60% ownership and option the rest to a team of enthusiasts?

They'd have less annoyed customers and maybe make money out of it.
The author addresses that directly:

> Now, none of the content my account posts is owned by me. This is a contested topic — some people seem to think this can lead to some issues. However, if you credit where the content comes from it’s usually not a problem. I’ve never had any issues re-sharing content. In fact, I’ve only had people thank me for sharing their photos. Worst case, someone reports your post and it gets taken down by Instagram. As long as you give credit where credit is due, you should be good.

I’m not a social media lawyer or “ethicist,” so I don’t know how accurate the claim is. For all I know it may be legal as far as copyright law is concerned.
It seems a little backwards that I need to join the beta in order to see the sneak preview. Shouldn't I get to see what it looks before I decide whether I want to join the beta?

Also, I'd be a little hesitant to use this without knowing what pricing will be like down the road. If it turns out to be too expensive for me, I would have wasted time integrating this.
Yep! It's gotten worse and worse to browse as a map over the years. The earliest AJAXy versions were probably the best for that. I think they intend Earth for that purpose (they moved the great geo photo feature from Maps to there, for instance) but it's really heavy for that purpose, and the interface is clunkier.

It seems like another victim of Google's optimizing their products for one common use case and neglecting others. See also: search.
I'm trying to do so too, but it's hard.
But it's hard to find alternatives for some sites...
The problem is that there is no combined shortcut for both.

Let's say I'm focused on my terminal, and I want to focus on the Firefox window that's besides me. The shortcut is Alt-tab Alt-~, but after doing the first key:

1. All Firefox windows in the current workspace go to the top of my screen

2. If there were no Firefox windows in the current workspace, OSX helpfully moves to the next one.

3. Even after that happens, I need to cycle among all Firefox windows. There's no way to Alt-tab repeatedly between pairs of windows of different applications.
> If the platforms all made it so that you have to solder a new chip into your phone before you can play DRM content, there would be a lot less DRM.

I mean, yes, but why would they do that?

> Wouldn't that create a huge market opportunity for new DRM-free studios, who would then out-compete the traditional ones by being available on all platforms instead of only on Insecure Expensive Proprietary Slow Cableco Platform Nobody Likes?

You're assuming that content is fungible. If I want to watch Game of Thrones, I want to watch Game of Thrones, not "Winter Dragon," and "Winter Dragon" being DRM-free won't incentivize me to watch it.

Furthermore, development of media content is expensive and requires a bunch of up-front capital / investment. So while there is a market opportunity, it isn't obvious that taking advantage of it without connections to the existing industry is a profitable strategy.
Or at least keep it in a Faraday pouch/bag.
The set of people who consistently make good life decisions rarely intersect with the set of people who are wanted by bounty hunters. (The vast majority of "bounty hunters" are bail bondsmen, or agents of bail bondsmen, trying to recapture someone who skipped bail. Skipping bail is rarely a good life decision, nor are the set of decisions that typically lead one to get arrested in the first place.)
Meanwhile I bet everyone here and /r/gaming uses Steam without thinking about it where you can't even click and drag an .exe to your buddy on a long flight and you need to log into it every X days for it to let you play offline.

To be clear, I'm definitely happy to support gog.com and thankful that they exist and are successful.

But look how many HNers will bring up Kindles and buying books for them on Amazon where you can only "lend" a book from kindle to kindle (forget drag and drop) through their proprietary system.

Every day 90%+ of people are happy with systems that use DRM and don't even notice it exists. Most people just don't ever go off the rails.

It's one of the worse things about DRM: trying to position your product as DRM-free and people just go "wtf is that? it never bothered me before."
In my current job, I have (mostly) sane management, co-workers I like and get along with, and do work that helps people. I've been around enough to realize that it's pretty sweet to have that. I'd have to think hard before leaving that, even for more money. (It might depend on how badly I needed the money.)
I'm pretty sure YouTube doesn't support DRM at all. Premium originals (e.g. Mind Field) play in 4K for me on FreeBSD (for which no one has ever compiled Widevine or anything like that)
> In the Bay Area, that’s terrible comp.

Maybe if you work at google. But you have an extremely skewed view of job salaries, if you describe 150k as "terrible".

Yes, FAANGs pay a lot. But the vast majority of developers, even in san francisco, do not work at FAANGs. 150k, is just around the average salary, for a senior engineer, actually.
The situation would be the same, if his web browser was a fork of Firefox.
FWIW, we've had a lot of success with a super simple pull version of ansible. You can configure ansible to run against a local host instead of via ssh push, so we have a cron on all servers that pulls the latest configs from S3, runs ansible, and reports any failures to cloudwatch metrics. This is a good fit in particular for configuring stable host OSes that don't change all that often, for something like deploying application code where you want to be able to run it right away instead of in ~30 minutes the next time the cron runs. If we really needed to push out a critical patch or something, we could also parallel ssh to the necessary servers and trigger a run immediately.

I believe Ansible Tower is their enterprise tool to do a similar pull-based model. I haven't used it but I've used a Puppetmaster setup in the past, and I'm really not a fan of how much of walled garden, standalone solution these things all are. They introduce coordination that you might not really need and have their own protocols for dealing with it, they have their own patterns for bootstrapping new servers, authentication to servers, encrypting secrets, tracking which servers are up or down, etc. and a lot of that is redundant with other tools you might be using (e.g., secret management or monitoring) and other primitives that the cloud provider likely has built in (like IAM profiles to solve the bootstrapping problem).
I've started using Standard Notes. https://standardnotes.org/

They have purpose built plugins (which also work seamlessly between desktop and mobile) to allow for tags & markdown.

Their 'longevity' statement was quite appealing to me also: https://standardnotes.org/longevity
The article covers how he sources content in great detail.
I believe in the US as well if you're organizing a protest on public property you need a permit in some areas.
>> but it isn't evidence of any malitious intent on their part.

I don't care. Whether a company acts deliberately evil, or is only negligent, is a legal distinction. What matters is what happens to me, the user. If they deliberately do bad things or negligently allow others to do bad things through them, the net results is bad things coming my way from that company. My defensive action is the same: avoid.
There is no such package 'chromium-widevine' in the Arch Linux repository.

sudo pacman -S chromium-widevine

error: target not found: chromium-widevine
It says in the first sentence or two they found a flaw with their own methodology.
Exhaustion has too narrow scope anyway, you can safely assume that patent rights are not exhausted for the purpose of open source. But in addition to rights you have obligations per the contract, and if the contract grants rights to the consumer, those rights are guaranteed.
What kind of hardware did you use?

You need to do some research when buying hardware that is compatible with Linux -- this is why everyone in this thread recommends Lenovo X1. It's more expensive than other laptops, but it is really compatible Linux hardware.

Also it takes some time to get driver support into Linux kernel, so for average hardware that doesn't specifically supports Linux, I'd expect about 6 months to a year after hardware release; also for a jump in video quality -- it takes Xorg some time to get proper video support, though I saw Lenovo Yoga machines working with 4K just fine a few years ago.
(Disclaimer Lenovo Yoga is not as well supported in linux as Lenovo X1 carbon)

Nvidia is notoriously hostile to linux, which made it a no-go for me and I'm sticking to either AMD or Intel for my video cards, where everything works flawlessly.

I believe the point the parent is making that Apple hardware is now bad enough that having Linux on well supported hardware, would require less fiddling and would provide better user experience.
Of course they don't care, why would they be given a chance to? The anti-features, inconveniences and limitations are not advertised and are downplayed whenever anyone mentions them.
> "Has it happened because of scientific or political reasons?"

It's literally in the first sentence:

"The authors of a study that claimed to find a link between typical male brain anatomy and autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have retracted it and replaced it with a dramatically changed version after finding an error in their methodology."
I don't think he realized he was doing anything wrong.
We're in the weeds and I've lost you. You said "The CIE 1931 curve showing a bump in red inside the blue is misleading I think. It does not represent how the cones react"

Which I took to be a complaint that XYZ doesn't represent cone response well.

And I responded that that's silly, because (1) XYZ wasn't designed to represent cone responses and (2) the bump is there deliberately to produce a more mathemetically orthogonal basis.

If you go back to all those books you've read over that decade you spent building your expertise, I'm sure you'll find the same info.
It wasn't a fad; it was a moral commitment. I certainly agree that some people are vegan for health reasons, but health was part of why I stopped being vegan: it was harming my health. Not for any of the reasons that anti-vegans trot out, mind you, it was that I was mostly consuming vegan junk food.

My comment was focused on this moral aspect because that's the part of veganism that I was a part of and are familiar with, but I don't think that all vegans are vegans for moral reasons, nor do I think that nobody should be vegan.

> dismiss the very real need of people (and companies) to be able to retain control of their own devices

I'm not dismissing that at all, in fact, I am arguing that it doesn't actually enable you to retain control. The AGPL is an acknowledgement that the GPL does not go far enough in doing that today, and its failure to gain traction demonstrates that it's not a tactic that works for this purpose. We need new strategies and tactics.
Did Metastream ask for a license to redistribute the binary?

We don't know anything about the conversation with Widevine other than that they wrote, "I'm sorry but we're not supporting an open source solution like this". They clearly are supporting an open source solution like Firefox. So what is the difference, and can Metastream be less "like this" and more like Firefox?
For a notebook I would ask the user to change a filepath variable in one of the top cells.

But I'm also a stupid data scientist.

What do you propose as the long-solved solution?
That seems much easier to argue that it’s unethical. At least in this post, the followers (and thus the benefit to the restaurant in exchange for a free meal) are supposedly real.
SEEKING WORK.

LOCATION: India

REMOTE POSSIBLE: Yes. Prefer remote.

Profile: https://www.codementor.io/vasudevram
Python posts: https://jugad2.blogspot.com/search/label/python (many)

Created xtopdf, Python PDF creation toolkit. Freelance developer, consultant and trainer. Worked with startups and large firms, US/IN/NL/CL, products and services.

Skills: Python, C, SQL and database design, Unix & Linux, shell, awk, sed & friends, back end web dev, REST, XML-RPC, XML APIs, PDF generation & text extraction, command-line utility dev (wrote popular IBM dW article on creating utilities, in C on Linux), Flask, MongoDB, SQLAlchemy, software design, testing. Did some Ruby, Rails and Java earlier too.

Was team leader of successful Windows C database middleware product; lots of Unix C work.

Overview of xtopdf: http://slides.com/vasudevram/xtopdf

xtopdf creates business reports & simple PDF ebooks. Supports 20+ input formats. Works with CLI, desktop and Web UIs, on Linux, macOS and Windows.

Interested in, and have done technical content creation and article writing for clients, too. Recent published article: Exploring the /proc file system with Python scripts and Linux commands:

http://www.linux-magazine.com/Issues/2018/217/Exploring-proc
> Meanwhile, consider Reader. A product with only a couple million users, mostly pointy-headed techie types, that doesn’t drive business to any money-making effort,

And this is exactly the problem about Google! They only care about direct metrics: Product A generates only x million $ per year -> it must be canceled.

But what those direct metrics do not show is the long term trust which is destroyed by such short-term behavior.

Google has proved again and again that they are not a reliable company and because of this I will never ever spend any money on any of their products (apart from a cheap android phone every 3 years).

Why should I pay for Google Drive? Why should I pay for Youtube Red (or whatever its called nowadays)? Why should I buy a Chromebook? If I start rely on them they will be canceled after a year.

They might have saved a few million dollar by axing Google Reader but they lost _me_ as a customer forever.
Mac and PC, Netflix would make their applications available outside the App stores. Apple would have to shut down its Apple TV operation.

Then Apple and Google would get deluged with complaints from their customers and Jailbreaks would once again become popular.
It seems to me that the smarter someone attempts to appear the less smart they truly are. True intelligence appears as clarity.
Comparison of SaaS vs. Custom Solution of E Learning Platform
Blogs have done this for years via a "pingback".

There could be some confusion between "taking" and "sharing"...

He never claims to own the photo.

He credits the original content creator. Additionally, content creators love when their content is shared, because "Someone with an audience of 20k people just shared one of my photos?! #exposure!"
It requires a license to actually use. And it looks like they verify your binary's signature in the licensed version.
There is no Mac version of OneNote. There is only a Mac version of a thin client for OneNote on OneDrive.
Historically one of the controversies/confusions regarding the FSF’s ideology is that it ignores the distinction between developers and users. In the ur-hacker world RMS wanted to preserve, the users are developers. That’s why the right to make a derivative work is paramount (a freedom no non-developer can take advantage of), and why libre software is strongly skewed toward developer tools rather than viable “end-user” software applications.

Traditionally the FSF advocate will say something here about end users hiring developers to modify software for them, but in reality that’s economically ridiculous.
I almost never want to move to an arbitrary window. Most of the time I have 2 or 3 windows which I cycle between.

23 years ago, Windows allowed me to do this in 1 or 2 clicks without looking. Now it's either a lot of clicks and observation or making a mess of my workspace.
Your employment situation doesn't really change the fact that you could have been affected by previous articles. The tone of your article reminds me a bit of what stuff Miguel de Icaza used to write, for example.
Cool project, but I'm afraid it can't always be reliably used. Whenever I'm travelling and using VPN services, the audio challenge option isn't available; I think something about VPNs increase the risk profile perhaps. Of course if you happen to be blind and using a VPN you're just out of luck I guess.
When it comes to verifying the process, I do think issue trackers are going to have to be included in the version control software. Off the top of my head, I can only think of fossil that does that.
https://fossil-scm.org/index.html/doc/tip/www/index.wiki

Also, thank you for writing this. It is fascinating.
Yes. It's getting somewhat out of date though (e.g. current versions of Steam can't connect to the network)
> I have yet to see a project fail because of the programming language or code quality.

There was some kickstarter project a while back trying to make a game in golang and it failed because golang is not suited for that sort of stuff.
(Burning some karma...)

So he built an app that is a thin layer over someone else’s app, to play someone else’s content, and he’s upset he cannot get for free the nice things someone else paid for (in development time). My heart bleeds.
Creating multiple accounts, submitting several times a day, mysterious users who registered 5 minutes earlier praising the product, will just get you banned on HN permanently.
ΜPuppet: A Declarative Subset of the Puppet Configuration Language (2017)
Tenured professors can, at least?

They're not going to fix the problem alone, and if they want to switch universities later they'll probably take a career hit in impact factor. But that's still very different from the postdoc/adjunct/non-tenure-track case where people who buck the system don't get positions, and so no one can sustainably push back.
Hi,
I am from India. I am interested in applying for the role of FrontEnd Engineer(Remote). Does Kraken Exchange hire remote engineers from India ???
I'm pretty sure some method Netflix uses is broken anyway. People don't seem to have trouble uploading 4k rips to Usenet. (Though I haven't actually checked recently.)

We were sold DRM as "the evil legacy studios are evil and make us use DRM". Well, now that Netflix produces their own content and it's still DRM'd... I guess that isn't really the reasoning.
For me, FLOSS is mainly about the users, less about the projects themselves. I care more about the product, the piece of software that you can download, use and modify in any fashion you want.

Most users of any popular piece of libre software don't contribute back, whether it's bug reports or patches. Even if it's targeted at developers, most don't do it. There is certainly value in community practices that encourage productivity and make it easy for individuals to get into. But they are only means to an end, it's not the end itself. For me, users should be at the center, not the developers.
What is a DRM?
P.S. Here's an article about the va.gov rollout and how it improves user experience: https://www.federaltimes.com/it-networks/2019/02/14/how-a-qu...
100 watt-hour limit on batteries, you must ask for permission to fly with anything larger and if it isn't installed in a device / it's a spare it must be in checked baggage.

The 13" MBP has a 54Whr battery, the 15" an 83Whr battery.

https://www.casa.gov.au/standard-page/travelling-safely-batt...

https://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters_offices/as...

https://www.apple.com/au/macbook-pro/specs/
I have the same reaction to modal newsletter popups, or anything that blocks the content I want to see.
The Web Clipper mangles most web sites for me. These days, I try the "simplified HTML" mode, or just do a screenshot, because the default mode just ends up a jumbled mess like this: https://i.imgur.com/RsadnVx.jpg.
The W3C isn't to blame. No one is to blame, really.

We have DRM, we hate it but it's there, and it serves a purpose. If it is your intellectual property, you get to decide how it is used. And if you don't want to make copying too easy because you think that it will get you more money, that's your right.

The goal of the W3C is not to make to make a political statement about the rightness or wrongness of DRM. They are here to create standards that respond to use cases. And unfortunately, copyrighted content diffusion is one use case, and content owners want DRM.

And if you read the standard they came up with, it is not that bad. They managed to isolate the "evil DRM" part well enough without completely destroying its effectiveness. They also didn't require any proprietary component, though services can require them (that's what happened in the article).

Using WebAssembly (which is essentially optimized JS) for DRM is a terrible idea IMHO. DRM, to be effective, usually requires access to protected system components. It means that to make an effective enough DRM to be accepted by content providers (which is the entire point of the standard), we would need to give WebAssembly way to much power.
When did you leave macOS?
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