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I think you're stretching the definition of DRM a bit. In my comment, I was referring to the set of technologies used to make it harder to copy a legally purchased file.

Wikipedia's definition is quite good, but is a little too long to repost here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_rights_management

In any event, we're talking about technical solutions to licensing problems.

I haven't read any reports of Google or Amazon's cloud music players adding DRM to files after they've been uploaded. Has anyone heard differently? I thought the whole reason they were legally in the clear is because they're basically file lockers with playback functionality.

The "Digital Audio Recording Devices and Media" amendment to the AHRA may be an example of the Recording Industry's lobbying efforts being rewarded more than we'd like, but DRM it is not.

As for your warning letter from the RIAA: did they have reason to believe you wouldn't be paying your publishing royalties? I imagine your record label probably works with the Harry Fox Agency all the time. Was there something that was unusual about your case?
If you say "no", it's hard to come back and say "yes" if the company turns out to be hot.
Agree - this is an entertaining book. If you commute, the audio version is worth getting.

If you're looking for more detailed techniques, Harry Lorayne's books might be better.
Why should the browser be required to deal with this? They used javascript to build up a giant page, why don't they use the same facilities to cull the parts of the page that have already scrolled off the top of the screen?

Everyone wants rich apps in the browser, but no one wants to pay the price of it.
Why shut down if you have paying customers? Just let it run. Servers are dirt cheap, there's no way they are losing money at their prices.
Variance of sum equals sum of variances is not sufficient for pairwise uncorrelated for more than 2 random variables. Simplest counterargument is any Cov(A,B)=-Cov(B,C)!=0 for three variables.

Closest results I can think of to the "iff" they're getting at:

If sum var=var sum for all linear transformations of the individual variables (i.e. X_i -> a_i*X_i), that's sufficient for pairwise uncorrelated;

If sum var=var sum for all transformations of the variables for which variances exist (i.e. X_i -> f_i(X_i)), that should be sufficient for independence (but I don't think that's an easy proof and maybe I'm missing technical conditions).
It is possible. Hit the "backward" button at the top.
Yes, some books written today will be considered classics in 100 years but I'd bet none will be of the kind Gates read during his vacations.
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So let me get this straight... If you say that women are attractive then the only possible reason you could be doing that is because you're secretly insulting their intelligence?

Insecure much? Why is this nonsense on HN.
I'm not sure what I said that was so terrible. I think Leah is great and I really hate hear news like this. I also agree that the service was good. My sole point is that companies that use this service also get hurt by this shutdown. When it happens several times as it unfortunately has in her case, you start to worry about new ventures disappearing too.

It is in no way a shot at Leah or her work. It's just a recognition of history.
this link says that's only in specific cases: http://www.travelinsurancereview.net/2010/04/20/internationa...

interestingly, if you have a DUI conviction, you cannot enter Canada.
This is golden:

"The aggressive use of a small number of abstractions is, I think, the direct result of a very small number of people who interact closely during the implementation."
Why avoid increment (“++”) and decrement (“--”) operators in JavaScript?
They're hosted with rackspace afaik. So they probably are losing money.
I think the parent made a very obvious point. Correctional facilities (i.e. prisons) are much more expensive than decent public education up front; and this primarily applies to troubled students.
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Ken's mind just works in a different way to most people. You explain your problem to him and he'll respond with some question or statement that turns your entire perspective inside out.
While I do agree with what your saying about WHQL licensed machines, it doesn't mean the problem goes away, it just means the problem is less likely to happen, your still at the whim of all the other weird and wonderful behaviour that can cause XP to crash.

The kernel pissing over your memory without it knowing any better is not the be all and end all of data loss problems in XP.

I've seen many "brand" name machines crash in many weird and wonderful ways, so the argument simply does not stand up when you extrapolate it across dozens of different configurations.

It doesn't make sense to me to base an opinion on a couple of brand name machines, instead of the actual reality, which is that XP as a piece of software (hardware aside) is just not that great and you should never trust your data with it.

Cheers for the clarification on the 9x vs XP though - that explains why XP was never as bad as 9x with data loss.
This is what I love HN for. Thanks.
Samsung have made it very clear that there is a 'firewall' between the component and product sides of the business.

One side does not affect the other.
Hence the very purpose of the second amendment: At the time, the point was to use force against our government. Nowadays, I think general protection from harassment, as well as the right to privately assemble and to dissent, are just as important tools against dangerous government.
I think the kids who get straight A's and get accepted to Princeton before doing Thiel's thing will be fine. What I'm worried about are the kids who hear Thiel talk about startups in lieu of college and spend high school hacking instead of taking AP classes and keeping up their grades. Colleges and graduate schools are very unforgiving about stuff like that.
That's an interesting question, but I fear this fact is more telling about our era. In other times any great person would have read and read again Plato, Aristotle and the like. I don't think it is very likely that those classics which have been considered useful for so many people during such a long period are magically not useful anymore. Maybe it's just because what we consider important people are not that important.

Side note, Paul Graham is likely to be more interested in philosophy and "real books" than in those ego building books you find in airports.
I bet he doesn't even listen to classical music either. What a pleb.
Sounds like the writer is ok if Samsung won the trial.
Bad article from a bad writer.
You can see some real interesting cases of genetic algorithms being used to evolve neural networks on Evolino:
http://www.idsia.ch/~juergen/evolino.html
There are ways to tell which books are classics, but sadly you need to wait for a few centuries: if some people still feel the need to read a book after some centuries, it is an indicator that this book is a classic.
You might have time to drift down off that horse you're on and give the guy a break. So what if he's judging someone? He made a valid comment about the fact that this person supposedly consistently lets users of their startups down.
If they open sourced it, they'd likely feel obligated to support it.

So it would kinda defeat the point of shutting grove down maybe...
Your first sentence was the thing you said that was so terrible.
Read all the issues listed in the post - it's not just about removing stuff, there are a whole bunch of obstacles to pages trying to take control of scrolling in general or even modifying the DOM without causing stuttering.
The flip side of this is that you can also achieve many of the same objectives (i.e. things that impact happiness) on a smaller budget by paying attention to the relevant research on what really makes us happy. The value of happiness research is where it shows us how bad we are at predicting our own preferences. Incorrect predictions are expensive.
> People in third-world countries don't care about the average U.S. site, and if they did, they would find someone with a computer that probably is 5-7 years old, possibly older, therefore they wouldn't be using that resolution.

The most popular websites in the developing world are Facebook and Google. American culture is huge in Africa. Africans visit websites with information about American movies, celebrities, and rap music. However, less than 5% of Africans own a computer and of these, few can afford an Internet connection. Over 90% of Africans rely entirely on prepaid mobile phones to access the Internet. They do not use computers. I estimate that a billion or more people are using these devises to browse the Internet.
There are apparently ~120 million people employed in the US and under 8 million of them are both unionised and in the public sector. So they are doing pretty well if they are causing so much trouble, considering there really isn't all that many of them.

One of the groups with the highest union membership in the public sector in the US, is the fire department. So if the argument about union members is right, then presumably the fire departments are full of some of the laziest low quality workers around, and you should be able to map union membership by the length of time that the cities are just left to burn.
Following contentless links in HN.
The substance of social proof is that it shows that a lot of people have faith in your product and trust you enough to pay you to use it. It's not just a gimmick, it's a concrete psychological trigger.
Lawyers talk about malum in se (bad, in itself) and malum prohibitum (bad, because we have prohibited it). I think these are useful concepts, even if we choose not to use the terms.

Mala in se I (tautologically, perhaps?) don't support. For mala prohibita, it really depends on context.
My suggestion is to look at everything through the lens of "how can I make this better?"...from that angle, suddenly the world starts looking like one, massive, un-tapped opportunity. When you hit on something you're passionate about do a deep-dive on the market and you'll find people who will want it (it's just about refining in what form and at what price). The reason you'll need to be passionate is that sometimes people don't know what they want until they see it - it takes passion to drive demand :)
You're right, there's no way that could work for >2 variables.
Internet Relay Chat is THE archetype of chat protocols. It has been around since the early days of the internets. Hence the protocols and software are mature albeit with some flaws or restrictions that are hard to come by.

Google Talk is using XMPP, an XML based presence and chat protocol that has also been there for quite a while. It is widely used throughout the net apart from Google Talk.

So both protocols serve their purpose well. IRC is a little more focussed on group chats. While one to one conversations are simple, a presence service is not what IRC was made for. XMPP is strong on presence and one to one chats, with less focus on group chats.
"Success is the ability to move from one failure to another without loss of enthusiasm" - Winston Churchill.

If she keeps at it, she will do a successful product, too.
I'm pretty happy up on this horse. Acting like that to people is not OK. Calling it out as a dick move is the way to combat it.

You say "supposedly" but you just assumed it was "valid". So without evidence or context, you took him at face value and now assume bad things about the person in question. That's why it's a dick move.
Surely most of the value of using github is the web UI?
Or even just in allowing people to live in the community, and earn a wage (even if it's a subsidised one) rather than needing to be institutionalised or have round the clock care (the original context was yummyfajitas' use of the word 'retard').

And there's the other point - do you really want to live in such a dog-eat-dog society?
The vast majority of the time, if you build something that scratches your own itch, there will be others out there that will also find it useful. The challenge is to find a big enough itch.
I agree with your points. However, I think that this market is underserved and ripe for some form of profitable innovation.
I've been writing a web app with Go for the past weeks, and for what I can say is that yes, Go has less magic in it, and if you don't do it right, you'll get a lot of duplicated code. It's not designed from the ground up as a web language so it might not be as suitable to write web apps using Go as other languages, but it's a real pleasure to write in Go.
Interresting distinction. Raises the question why we are prohibiting things that are not malum in se.
I don't know what is your skillset so I can't really say where to look or what to do.

Generally: Pick a problem. The world is plagued with large problems from power to food, from access to information to clean water. Each problem is begging for a solution.
That only works if you learn from the failures. Hopefully the reasons grove.io failed are obvious enough.
We're using Campfire currently, and had used hipchat before that for a few months. Hipchat was fine on desktop, but holy shit their mobile apps are terrible. They were so bad that we had to move away because we're a fairly mobile group.

Honestly, the group business chat niche is just riddled with "incomplete" products in my opinion. Some are great in the browser but have no native web apps (Flowdock), some have shitty mobile apps with mediocre web versions (campfire and hipchat).

I hope someone with a good set of developers, cash in their pockets, and an eye on simplicity would come in and build a full suite of desktop and mobile apps on the back of a good chat system one day. It's absolutely not a solved problem at this point.
You overcome it by offering something valuable for users that they can't easily setup themselves.

Why can't traditional IRC services be used for this? I'll preemptively counter the end-user configuration side of this by saying it's increasingly easier in a managed workstation environment to deploy images with software required for that worker's tasks preconfigured. Even in a non-managed environment, an IT staff willing to build the packages and make the configuration edits can make accessible an installation candidate stored for access in an infrastructure library so users can save (after proper credentialing and auth checks have been satisfied), install and login.

Security, perhaps? That's always a valid concern to have, but if that's the case I would hope that an adequately planned and designed audit of any service not being managed internally gets the same look. Corollary: perhaps one should not be using anything not managed internally for sensitive matters to begin with; collaboration and non-secure communication where a failure of this system wont halt production or cause the company to incur significant loss however are par.

If I'm off base here, I'm willing to discuss it further. While I loved IT, I had to run for the door after getting burned on multiple opportunities to manage programs and create user friendly but secure policies. And by burned I mean hired to do exactly that, only to end up in hyper-glorified purchasing support roles. shudders
Many reasons. Mainly though I'd say IRC is extremely battle-worn. There are a ton of mechanisms for dealing with spam/abuse/idiot users.
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The three-year-old model (which I also have) has a native 1440x900 display, so abalone is right about that -- though you're right that RAM was upgradeable on the 2009 model.

But the bigger question is, why the crap is this polluting Hacker News? This horse isn't getting any deader. Yes, OP's complaints are legitimate, but so old at this point that the only reason to post this is Apple-bashing. It's tiresome, and it's decidedly not news. Let's talk about something interesting.
But every sentence afterwards put it in context.
Awesome project! I am super impressed. Great work.
To be honest, I expect that team to be hipchat. They've got cash now since their acquisition, and they're making steady improvements to their desktop app.

Personally, I wouldn't enter this market, regardless of how good my devs or how much money I had. There are at least 3 polished and loved products. The problems you describe will probably be fixed before another team could come in with a good solution.
Than kyou for the voice of reason. Yes as the inventor of the 216 patent it was pretty ahead of its time... while I understand the companies position in executing patent rights for other patents they own I do appreciate it when people check and find that I am not the inventor of record and also am no longer in the management or board of Uniloc. The personal attacks sure get tiresome.
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Can I ask a stupid question? What causes a message like this? How many people are involved in the team? Is this a 'startup' or just a few developers having fun? I just started http://pineapple.io and when I see messages like this it always makes me wonder. it's not the first time i've seen something like this.

It makes me nervours...
The incoherent statements you make are totally dissonant to my mind; here are short notes: Mac UI pre-OS-X failed to attract people too (though designed by a single entity). X-Windows enabled a wonderful proliferation and diversification of desktop alternatives nowhere to be in Mac or Windows world. X-Windows and Unix philosophy is not to be confused. HTTP's win is a punch in the face for Microsoft and Apple, rather than X-Windows, X-Windows is rather an inspiration, especially Xterm over SSH. Your connection between linux desktop's lack of mass adoption and X-Windows is a far to stretch; Linux desktop is working for hackers already.

X-Windows succeeded! It achieved abundance of choices for us hackers, and is hackable. In contrast, Mac OS8, Windows Vista, Windows Me failed; and if the companies behind them were able to introduce a newer model which seems more successful is to be found in elsewhere, not in their design promises or philosophy.
Baffled because you think that "the news" == keeping informed. The two have little to do with each other. If you want to learn something, turn off the idiot box and pick up a book.
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While I do not disagree, one point I would like to add regarding the notion of "breaking into a computer closet, etc.". Someone, a Harvard student, recently posted to HN a "love letter" to MIT. The letter went into detail about how liberal MIT is with its resources for students. And how that really has benefitted her studies. It seems MIT is somewhat unique, at least vis-a-vis other universities in the region, in their approach to making resources available to "almost anyone" (i.e. you do not need to be an MIT student) for academic purposes.

Is it possible that if he were to have tried this stunt at another institution he would not have so easily succeeded? Was he simply taking advantage of MIT's liberal policies with respect to computer resources? Or is MIT's "do whatever you need to do" environment irrelevant... as we ponder thoughts of "breaking and entering". Just a thought. Maybe it's irrelevant. What do you think?
As the inventor of the 216 patent it was pretty ahead of its time... millions of dollars in litigation investment proved that. While I understand the companies (Uniloc's) position in executing patent rights for other patents they own I do appreciate it when people check and find that I am not the inventor of record and also am no longer in the management or board of Uniloc. The personal attacks sure get tiresome.
I heard it in a movie - What would you do if you had 1 million dollars....not with the money, but with your time? Most people have a good, solid answer - it varies by person, but most people have something they'd rather be doing.

I'm still trying to figure out what I'd be doing with my time instead of working for a living. I think it would be working.
If you're already a Linux user then this is good, but it is definitely not enough to convince Windows gamers to switch.
I don't agree. You can't start with a statement like that and then backpeddle - your lede has the most impact and is what people remember.

He had a chance to edit his post to better reflect his position, but chose not to take it. I wish he had.

(And to complete this, lets not forget that Rayne is also a person who just made a mistake. It is the action which is bad, not the person).
Ideally, because contextually it makes sense. It might not be inherently evil to drive 180 miles per hour, but we might guess it to be statistically unsafe in residential neighborhoods, so we prohibit it.
Disturbing -- I hope not!

But revealing, sure. Gates is a genius, but he is not in the cultural vanguard. He hired Ballmer, for chrissake.
Just because there are at least three other services out there means you can't also enter the space and try to disrupt it still?
I was there too.. as the speaker! And the inventions I talked about got a big clap... where you not there? That is the other side of the story. Most people can see when someone is trying to make technological breakthroughs and they give them a bit of support. Its easy to sit around backbiting.
Other interpretations of this have lead to what is effectively the opposite of "stateless" design. Lift and a few other frameworks work by modeling the page session on the server and letting the browser just be a render target -- to the point where you could have click events handled server side. Yes, the latency stinks in many cases so it didn't work out quite as well and more logic started moving onto the client.. but that was X over WAN's failing as well, so we collectively re-learned that lesson.
Yes but not this patent. They will have to fight for a precedent like everyone else in the US legal system.
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I actually really like your idea of comparing the choice of DRM-encumbered vs DRM-free files to choices we make with respect to how our food is produced.

I think many Americans have a general idea that the food they eat is the product of a corporate farming system that can be pretty sketchy. We expect the government to get involved when the practices of food producers create a food safety issue, but otherwise we leave it up to consumers to choose. And some consumers do choose to buy grass-fed beef, free-range chickens, and organic produce, and pay extra for it.

There are probably some parallels to be drawn with respect to product labeling. (Should Amazon and iTunes be forced to warn consumers that the movie they're about to buy includes some type of DRM?)

More importantly, though, both of these situations require consumers to be educated in order to make informed decisions about which product to buy. If we as a culture want our farming system to be more humane to animals and better stewards of the earth, we need to teach our peers how to read food labels and understand what they mean. If we as a technical community want DRM to not be forced into the files we buy, we need to educate our peers on the drawbacks of DRM and persuade them to make it an issue.
The point of reading anything is to ingest a certain type of content. He chose the desired content and read it. The books he read were educational. Why should he ensure that a certain percentage of his books are "classics"? He could have gotten a lot (most? all?) of that information from various resources online, but the authors bundled it together into a book.

Maybe the books won't be classics in 100 years, but the information in them will either still be relevant then or will have shaped what society looks like by then.