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Ask HN: Copycatting web-content ventures, myth or reality?
In the last couple of years, claims of copycatting or blatantly piracing web written content and Amazon books or e-books have been numerous. Is that real or just vocal protest from small numbers? A lot of websites distributing pirated content have been taken down, recently, so where do we stand right now with web content startups or lifestyle ventures? Thanks.
Yeah, this is normal.
One bus can't fit more people than it physically can.

The high load can be alleviated by the use of more MX server DNS records (and the MX servers of course, across the different locations), LBs, smarter thresholds.
Of course nothing is a panacea.

Either way you will hit the AWS's limits or will get a huge bill. And then, even if you set up the budget limits, it still won't make the service more available once you reach the limits.
> What I do know is that the Iraq war absolutely ended the suffering of people under Saddam Hussein's dictatorship, and the Afghanistan war somewhat ended the suffering of people under Taliban rule (the Taliban unfortunately still exists but is definitely not as strong as it used to be). What I don't know, and I don't think anyone can really know, is if the loss of those governments and introduction of our armed forces led to a general improvement on quality of life of Iraqi and Afghani citizens.

The war isn't even over yet. Normal countries don't have missiles falling out of the sky onto the highway murdering a visiting foreign general, or routine car bombings with hundreds of casualties. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mass_car_bombings

The most systematic attempt at assessing the impact of the war was the famous Lancet study, which estimated the "excess death" from all causes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lancet_surveys_of_Iraq_War_cas...

> published on 11 October 2006, estimated 654,965 excess deaths related to the war, or 2.5% of the population, through the end of June 2006

So, if we round that to the five years since 9/11, or about 1800 days, that's 360 casualties a day, or one 9/11 roughly every week.

You can't argue quality of life improvements for the dead.

Iraq is a slightly larger country. Quite likely you'd see a million dead in the first decade of the occupation, on which the US would spend enough for another moon programme or universal healthcare for all its citizens.
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No, western people do not care about Iran and China, providing they are not actively making their lives worse. And vice versa.

I think the attitude you are expecting people to have is insulting both ways. You are denying the Iranians and Chinese have any agency...Do you really think they or their Goverments spend all their time just reacting?

Ps. If you say to someone in the west "What do you think of those re-education camps?" they will reply "Sounds like a university". Sadly, they are not completely wrong.
Given it's running Android underneath, does Android Auto work with it when connected to a compatible car head unit? Having no Android Auto nav and phone integration is one reason I wouldn't pick a device like this.
That seems unlikely. If there were truly so many games nobody cared about then the underlying studios would go bust and stop applying DRM to anything, then fall out of the stats. Also these schemes aren't free so obviously the game companies cared enough to apply it.

For cases where these schemes have cracks days after release, it has historically meant the game was in the hands of crack teams quite a way before the release, usually due to corrupted insiders somewhere in the supply chain. DRM/anti piracy schemes are much more than the software you see on your computer, and the good ones have traitor tracing functionality so corrupted insiders can be found and fixed.

BTW 75 day lifetime for a DRM is about perfectly optimal. It looks like Denuvo have really hit it out of the ballpark if these stats are accurate.

Game/movie sales are very spiky. People wait for cracks but not very long. Most sales are within the first few days. A DRM that lasts even a week can be easily profitable for the firm using it as many will break down and buy the game rather than keep waiting. After a few months sales are reduced to a trickle and nobody cares if it gets hacked at that point.

The thing that most people miss about DRM is that not only is it very temporally dependent but being too strong is just as bad as being too weak. Due to the sales curve if your game DRM takes two years to crack despite huge attention from adversaries, then that implies you engaged in massive overkill. That almost certainly (in the PC space) means you wasted time that could have been spent on the game, or did things that hurt compatibility or would reduce sales in other ways.

The exception is when you have one DRM scheme for everything, like in games consoles. Then of course the cost of a break is much higher and the ROI of unbroken DRM is much higher. But the same principles still apply. For instance, cartridges were historically harder to clone than DVDs, and commodity DVD drives were less secure than the rest of the consoles, but the winning consoles used commodity storage tech anyway and accepted the reduction in security. It's all about ROI.
How many innocent people must die for the USA to end 'tyranny' in the Middle East? In Iraq alone it's over a million, then we can look at Yemen, Syria, Libya, Palestine, Lebanon before we even begin with Iran. And what then? Iran isn't like any of those countries the US has already pillaged, it has a 500k member armed forces, all highly trained. State of the art military systems, they have direct backing from Russia and China, they are perfectly placed to attack the Israel, Saudi, Qatar and the UAE where the US is vulnerable, the US has enraged the member's of the Iranian special forces by taking out their leader, so now you have a lot of very angry spec ops guys who will avenge this action.

So how many Iranians must die for your version of 'tyranny' to be met? What figure would you be satisfied with, and what kind of tyranny are you ok with? Because it seems you've got major double standards when it comes to Saudi, Israel, UAE and Qatar, let alone all the extra-judicial and illegal acts carried out by the USA themselves in the name of rooting out 'tyranny'.
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This overly specific intersection of requirements is how you target a single product in legislation.
This thread is not about Ukraine, but, if we must ...

The protests in Kiev and other cities were violent and out of control. Ukraine was 6 months away from an election which they could have normally voted out their president, but, the people overthrew the government instead. Since then, the country has been so much worse off economically and socially. People have barely any money to pay their gas bills or buy luxury food items such as almonds. The GDP is currently one of the lowest of any countries in the world.

Other regions in the country such as the Donbass also never wanted to overthrow their president, which is why they began their separatist movement which led to its current civil war.

Crimea got a lucky break that it had the history that it does, and that all the Russian speaking population was there, and that there was Russian military presence there to enforce peace.

Maybe pre-sociology shows 38% pre Ukrainian protests in 2012, but, a lot changed in 2 years during that complete anarchy in most Ukrainian cities such as Kiev, Odessa, and the atempted Anarchy in Donetsk. The people of Crimea very simply just want stability and peace, like most people do.

> 97 percent vote for integration of the region into the Russian Federation with an 89 percent voter turnout.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Crimean_status_referendum
> A US-Iran war would almost certainly result in a democratic Iran

Where does that certainty come from? It's not like the US is known for finishing wars recently.
online multi-player games tend not to get cracked, because then you'd just get banned

I think that's another way of saying they're too hard to crack properly, i.e. the servers can always detect cracked copies of the game because the modifications aren't perfectly disguised.
What's impressive is that they brought this experience to cross platform mobile. Reminds me of Guy Steele's quote about Java bringing the mainstream halfway to lisp but people could only complain.
> Search for a refrigerator or a pair of shoes and they will follow you around the web as machine learning systems “re-target” you while you move from place to place, even after you’ve bought the fridge or the shoes

> ...

> This is what makes machine learning so toxic.

I'm saddened to learn about our toxic contributions to society and can't wait to hear about alternative mind-reading approaches for fridge recommendation in the next article.

Words like 'conservative' and 'toxic' are misleading because they imply that there are better alternatives that are not being chosen. Far better are the terms by commenters here, 'descriptive' and so on. That the article is not written for machine learning practitioners makes it even more misleading.
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You're myopically selecting a single incident out of a multitude of hostilities and invasions such as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Georgian_War which by the way included a prototype 'field test' of the disinformation strategy that was later wielded against US and EU with terrifying effectiveness.

I'm sure if one tries hard enough, they can find some kind of justifications for a lot of Russia's actions, but the bigger picture remains unchanged: Russia is a giant dick and most of its neighbours are afraid of it. Hence NATO.
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Upgrading services can be a pain, but starting with a monolith is not a requirement. Architecture can happen before any code is written, and it can illustrate a need for SOA (or not). Difficulty in changing your services as your product matures or as requirements change will be hit at the beginning, but there is not hard stop to that either. Vague statements like the above leave us in the monolith culture indefinitely. It does, however, speak to the need to understand/form patterns for service upgrades.
The CNN article has more details and it makes it clear that the effect depends on general relativity. With special relativity, it's clear that you can't travel back in time.

Without a veeeeeeeery strong gravitational field the universe is approximated so well by special relativity, that makes time travel to the past impossible. Nearby a rotating charged black hole, I have doubts, so ask an specialist.

But a device with just a bunch of lasers and no strong gravitational field will not make this happen.
> Oracle java still have it: you must download strong crypto package separatly

Not true since java 8u161, and similarly for 7 and 6. And not true for every java > 8.

https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jce...

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/8u161-relnotes...
There is some issue with voting. I tried to vote for Arc'teryx but as I vote / unvote it pushes the count down. If I refresh the page and then vote/unvote, it'll continue to go more negative. I assume there must be an issue with the unvoting code in regards to vote summation.

I really like the concept as I've had some great experiences with both Arc'teryx and Darn Tough Socks.
There's no 5% chance of becoming billionaire, but of building a business that survives beyond 2 years, probably with lots of hard work, investment and learnings from past failures.
Well put. Concise.

I will quibble though on the "now we can slow down and optimize them" part.

What's happening in practice is that those startups who "lucked" into successes playing the risky-but-many game of mobile & internet technology... those startups now focus on defending their "moats" and optimising their revenue streams.
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They use it for flight check-ins, entering the park, giving you a fine instantly for jaywalking, buying a soda from a vending machine, any many more use cases. I assume they are ahead.
Your last sentence hits it right on the head. Also want-to-be superpowers are dicks which leads to issues, often for them.

It seems like there should be a better system globally but right now it's like a struggle of ant hills and maybe this is how the human race got to the level it is at. Through struggle and selection.

Iran has been treated badly by the west no doubt. But their hands are not clean either. Was not this commander killed in Iraq organizing pro Iranian militias? From the point of view of the US can they allow Iran to become the dominant power in this oil rich world crossroads region? They can't and they won't. It's really that simple. "Right" only marginally enters into this equation. I guess I'd feel much more badly had the commander been killed in Iran organizing soup kitchens for the poor. But he was poking a bees nest and the results were as expected.
Only for the record, there is a "modern" material, called "glass block" since the '50's or '60's, the one in your photos seem like it (and there is no "prism" like the kind described in the main article) that can be used also for walls.

Example:

https://www.sevesglassblock.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/T...

(go to page 54 of the .pdf)
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"the deployment diagram[1] sure looks complicated to me"

It's just very detailed.

It also includes all the CI/CD services/roles they used.

28 boxes alone are permissions related.

The stuff that runs in the end (like a server would) are 3 Lambda functions and an S3 bucket.
Games publishers have all the data you're talking about and much more. They've all mostly experimented with either no DRM on game releases or very trivial DRM, and have models that can predict quite accurately these days what investment into a protection will yield what sort of return.

I'm always shocked by the frequent assumption made by people in the software world that game/movie studios don't know what they're doing financially, despite decades of experience and being the world's biggest entertainment businesses. Of course they know.
A Guile Vim would be an amusing development in the 'editor war'. Or some other embedded scheme.
> Why on earth would we expect AI descision making to display a lack of prejudice when human decision making is suffused with it.

Particularly when we consider what we mean by prejudice, which is presumably something like Making a decision on grounds which we deem it important to ignore. This is a very complex concept. It's a function of society, and changes with society. It's not something with a rigorous definition.

Obvious example: reasonable modern people know it's indefensible to make an engineering hiring decision on the grounds of ethnicity, regardless of whether there are any correlations associated with ethnicity. This is even enshrined in law in many countries.

To make a decision on the grounds of someone's qualifications and job experience, however, does not count as prejudice.

We should expect a machine learning system to act as a correlation-seeker (that is after all what it is designed to do), without a nuanced understanding of what prejudice means.

We've seen this issue crop up in the context of an AI having a say in parole decisions. [0] also relevant discussion at [1]

[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/bernardmarr/2019/01/29/3-steps-...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13156153
The network layer can already be used for tracking in multiple ways, including HTTPS sessions, ETags, and cached files with identifiers. When browsers partition the network layer they need to partition connection state as well, which includes QUIC/HTTP3 state. Safari already does this, and it looks to me like Chrome and Firefox are doing it too: https://www.jefftk.com/p/shared-cache-is-going-away

(Disclosure: I work on ads at Google, speaking only for myself)
I still fail to understand why 4 years in, people seem to be confused about the idea that definitions of words involve over the years and that the computer industry has both been coining and adopting phrases.

But a quick Google search is all that it would take to “understand it”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serverless_computing
> the USA is the greatest country in the world

> and democracy is the way to go

Democracy = USA? Hmmm, didn't know that.
Windows has simplewall [0] as alternative in case anyone is looking

[0] - https://www.henrypp.org/product/simplewall
I enabled it to read what it said, and there wasn't anything all that pro Russia in there...

The main point was that the United States has invaded a lot of countries since 1949, and currently occupies a lot of those territories.
No it’s not just managed hosting. Managed hosting still means there is a server to maintain, patch, and that it is always running.
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Very hard to prove, even in a civil case. Best to have things in written or some other form of legal recorded medium
We are humans, living in a human society, with human values and purposes, and the associated processes and conflicts, at every point of social scale. Furthermore, we are a process, with a past and an unguessable future, at every point of social scale.

It is patently an act of incredible destruction to increasingly, globally and inescapably “control” important domains of human lives, relationships and society with extremely superficial centralized mathematical models of what humanity is.

There will be unintended consequences. They will be horrifying, and we may not even grasp what we've lost.
I'd read it! As would others, so perhaps knowing you have an interested audience might motivate you further?
The geniuses at HBR never claimed in the article that it applies to chips. The article says that increase in chip performance lead to a prevalent strategy in business (mainly tech) to be the first.
This would also work with scripting languages
Yes, at work we've got a variety of standalone FLIR cameras (Taus, Bosons, Duos, the One and Leptons) - pretty much the entire camera core range. I work in ecology and occasionally for outreach or when working with non tech people, they're interested in seeing what thermal footage looks like. And for field work it's handy to have environmental measurements in case we want to correct for atmospheric conditions (rarely tbh).

The FLIR One comes in a USB C model, I've played with that on my Pixel. Works great although I think you have to use the sdk to get any kind of useful information out of the camera (eg if you want raw data).

My group specialises in drone imaging and often it's useful to have ground footage so you can compare simultaneously, for example during biodiversity surveys. The problem with the plug in solution is the risk of it getting lost in the field, and it's not rugged enough. We recently did some surveys on a lake, so an IP rated phone with everything integrated would be ideal.
No, and this is why we have a bunch of old school Net ops guys who pass one certification, call themselves “cloud consultants”, do a bunch of lift and shifts and leave clients paying more than just using a colo.
Better raw performance, low latency, etc
This is a terrible, TERRIBLE idea.
Especially for people who move a lot.
Phone numbers get reused. I am currently maintaining 4 SIM cards just to keep services relaying on them active. About 2 months ago I forgot to recharge one of those SIM cards and was locked out of one of my bank accounts.
This is a brilliant idea! I love that the site is so easy to use. I like that the backgrounds are shades of grey. I bought BDD387 because it's our branding color.
However, I am wondering where this thing can go. Whether its a one time use or useful for a couple of times... I mean, I bought a color. What next?
Edit: I found out about the "brand" mode. interesting idea...
Now someone just needs to create a serverless (aka client side or browser only) Gmail like interface you can host on S3.

And the shackles will be broken...
What Flutter has achieved is impressive, but I don't think it's reasonable to classify Dart as a good language in 2020 off the back of it -- the competition is just too good.

Dart feels like an older java in a time when java doesn't even feel like java (with the recent versions, along with other JVM options). For example, try and check out Dart's JSON serialization story[0], it's bad compared to Haskell, Rust and even Go. Dart was rewritten (Dart1 was a train wreck) and Dart2 still doesn't have the features that are expected. Who rewrites a language but doesn't add non-nullable types[1]??

The Dart team is full of smart people, and what they've created is certainly a feat of engineering, but the competition is just tough out there. I consider Typescript to be a better language to write (in this same space, since it's an option for Nativescript), and would consider Swift just barely better, and of course on android you have Kotlin (or Go) as a choice.

At this point I'm generally curious, what do Dart fanboys mark as the strengths of the language over others?

[0]: https://flutter.dev/docs/development/data-and-backend/json

[1]: https://github.com/dart-lang/sdk/issues/22
Which one? (There's hundreds)
>> Not only does socialised human intelligence require at least a decade of formal education, but it also spends a lot of time in a complex 3D environment which is literally hands-on.

Note that for most of our history, the majority of humans did not get anything like "formal" education as we mean it today (i.e. going to school). Although adults in hunter-gatherer societies do teach children many things (e.g. which mushorooms are edible ect.) this must be done after a child has learned language -and those kids don't go to school to learn their language, they picke it up as they grow up.
I've never done it and have never heard of it being done but you could replace the code a bit like a JIT compiler does it.
Nowhere in the article has the author claimed that. :/
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That's the reason for the doctor. They have the foundational knowledge to evaluate the information and the source.
Probably this means that there is no server you can SSH to nor need to maintain.
It could probably be called a serverhostage/server-lock-in computing, where someone else keeps the _shared_ server(s) away from you and runs other people's, potentially harmful, instructions as well :-)
It’s no more “misleading” than having a “bug” in your code. Does anyone with even an iota of computer experience think “Serverless” means that their software is being run by leprechrauns?

Nowhere else on HN is willfully not taking the time to learn about technology celebrated except when it comes to cloud concepts.