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> DRM by definition implies security and privacy risk

Source please
The Tumblr "dashboard" (feed) is pretty good. Also, collections and news on Are.na.
Rebecca J. Rosen’s suggestion that men take a pledge to appear only on panels that include at least one female speaker again reinforced the idea that women are underrepresented in this area. In fact, in pointing out that it’s unlikely no women are qualified for these panels, and yet there are still no women appearing on them, Rebecca is reinforcing the idea that this is an unfair and unexplainable issue for women to fight against

The idea that no women on a conference panel implies the conference organizers believe no women are even "qualified" (whatever that means) to be on the panel and, ipso facto, sexism must be at play is on its face so stupid and devoid of meaning that it reads like a paragraph from a contrived newspaper used as a prop in a bad movie.
Ok, now make it totally decentralized and peer-to-peer, with a cryptocurrency like Bitcoin used to automatically pay peers that replicate your data on an ongoing basis.

There are lots of hard problems to be solved in such a system (mostly dealing with the lack of trust), but I think it would be totally badass.
The W3C must ultimately do what it thinks is in the web's best interest. Not the interest of big media companies, or the interest of those against DRM. If they implement a system by which DRM can be reasonably added to the spec to bring those users and companies into the fold, I don't think I'd have much to call them out on, even though I don't like DRM. That bone is to be picked with the media companies themselves.
The Programmer Skill People Rarely Ask About In Interviews
We're in the middle of a pivot to chase the tech savvy crowd.

Thanks for your advice. It's a good way to frame the value proposition
From what I understand, It's converts mailto links to a contact form.
I fail to see how you can argue that DRM doesn't make things worse.

My observation is that iTunes wouldn't have happened had they refused to implement DRM, not that DRM has merit.

Nobody wants DRM except those who hold power over content. In order to subvert them, we need to outmaneuver them, not refuse to play. In this light, iTunes is an excellent example of a DRM success story: fewer people with power over music content care to insist on music DRM.

Providers of content in other domains (e.g. books) will stop insisting on DRM when we demonstrate to them that systems without it are fundamentally more profitable in their domain than systems with it. I think this is doable, but not if we refuse to demonstrate it. They'll simply force people to switch platforms.
In theory, yeah.

It's never occured to me to wonder about how you file a DMCA notice against facebook though, or if that's something that happens and how effective it is for the filer.

Is this something that one can do on facebook? Facebook appears to say yes: http://www.facebook.com/help/190268144407210/

But it would be interesting to hear from someone with personal experience, on either end of a DMCA takedown notice on facebook.
California top 2 public salaries are sports coaches (back in 2011), that's before pension

http://www.sacbee.com/statepay/

Add up the loans and loan interest to build out sports facilities, hundreds of "athletic directors", bunch of underlings they direct on a daily basis, staff and maintenance hired to run the sports facilities, sports scholarships handed out to gifted students, multiply by number of universities and it starts to add up.
Kelsey Mayfield and Scott Porter wedding photos
Well maybe it's a new trend for the better then.
> I went back to Postgres - and spent hours doing configuration of users, tables, schema, and security, not writing code for my application. I deleted Postgres from my system. Why do SQL databases have massive layers of configuration and security on them - seems a relic of the past - why not let the application take care of all that.

"SQL databases" don't. Standalone multiuser, nondedicated database servers (many of which happen to be SQL-based RDBMSs) do, because they are designed to support direct user access (through general purpose client applications) and multiple applications -- both of which need to authenticate against the database -- from the same database server. So the application can't reasonably handle security and configuration. There are SQL databases that have less security and configuration, because they are embedded databases rather than database servers (SQLite is a particularly well-known example.)
Consumers will have to install an extra plugin to get the same experience as native apps. This is better than having DRM built into html5 which will make unreasonable demands from the browser and the OS. With DRM in html5, it might be possible that Linux based systems may not be able to support html5. If you can have completely open source code, go ahead and add DRM support to html5.
This is the flip side to the Cooper Union story [1] that's gracing the front page right now—a reckless strategy that is only lauded because it paid off in this one high-profile instance.

I'm not sure where the line between reckless gamble and calculated risk is, but this feels like it's over the line. Yes, the company would have likely folded either way had the founder not gambled and won, but this strategy together with the "never give up on a particular business" cockroach mentality feels akin to winning a lottery and subsequently advising people that lottery tickets are a viable way to prepare for retirement.

Also, I'm quite sure that the founder would have found himself in a lot of personal trouble for gambling company funds on a blackjack table had he lost.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5599385
Possible, I'll buy that. Maybe YouTube will one day kill off the major networks and studios, and production will get cheap, just like startups have gotten a lot cheaper to run with EC2.

But I'm still going to go see Iron Man 3 and Star Trek Into Darkness and I'm not holding my breath that a non-DRM version will be cooked up outside the blockbuster system anytime soon. :)
You mentioned that you have already started edging towards taking legal action. If you are not payed on time, report them. They were friends and colleagues, but this act of distrust tells you all that you need to know. In my opinion, you have been patient for too long. This is one of the biggest downsides to freelancing and/or contract work.

Best of luck to you!
It's not their money to throw away (even to the noblest of causes), it's shareholders' money and should be used to further shareholders' interests.

It would be absolutely unethical and wrong of them to donate more than the normal amount to charitable causes. Now, should those +$100M executives pay more to charity? I think absolutely yes. But Apple the company (or Google, or Microsoft, or any other company) is there to serve it's shareholders not the whole human race.
Cool.

Just a heads-up: It's spelled "plug-in".
Richard Hipp, the author sqlite, came up with the Unql specification which was meant to be a standardised way to query JSON data http://www.unqlspec.org/display/UnQL/Home

You would imagine the logical next step would have been for him to implement Unql into a SQlite-like JSON application, but that did not seem to happen.
Skyline Tree - A BST for skyline algorithm
How practical is sqlite for anything more than single user applications?
Yeah,insurance cost will become a decisive factor in the end. We dont need to ban drivers on the road.
Venture Capitalists Want To Make Bitcoin The 'Next Big Thing'
Interesting idea. Combined with a faked to/from address, you can potentially make it appear as if it was an outgoing email sent by you.
A McDonald's burger - 14 years on
It went away because people don't talk about new games after they are released for a couple of weeks. They whine and then most of them move on and look at other upcoming games.
intrusion teams that are willing to talk up their hijinks to the press are almost always going down. 30 years worth of busts have left an undeniable pattern - if you mock the investigators, get in the papers more than once, and you're in a cooperative country you're not long for the business.

Skip most of those aspects, and don't steal millions, and you'll probably never have the resources dedicated to you. lulzsec conducted themselves defensively enough for anyone doing data theft and PII to be unlikely to get caught if they weren't making it public. If there is one thing feds do it's form grudges.
I remember someone experienced saying somewhere:

"Take your estimate, and multiply it with 8"

So, if you estimate two weeks, multiply that with 8, the estimate becomes two months.

I've actually used this estimate many times, in big and small projects, and it seems to work. At least better than myself underestimating the amount of work and just trying to impress the producer of the project.

Also, some people just want to believe it can be done in those two weeks. Hahaha!
This is a near drop in replacement for "regexp" that uses PCRE: https://github.com/glenn-brown/golang-pkg-pcre
Bayern vs Barcelona highlights 4-0 in Champions League
>A DRM free HTML5 spec is not
going to force Hollywood to
allow you to play Games of
Thrones on your open source
Linux browser.

A DRM laden HTML5 spec will mean "my open source Linux browser" will not be able to support the entire HTML5 spec. This is far more unacceptable to me.
Samsung Galaxy S 4 Is a Good, but Not a Great, Step Up
If you want to make this one app and then go back to Ruby (or what you normally do) afterwards, you could probably wing it with a variety of specific online tutorials, GitHub, StackOverflow, and of course 'Google'.

If you want to become a talented iOS Developer, callmeed posted everything you'll need to start your journey.
That was a valuable story to read. While there is plenty written about establishing product market fit before chasing the press, it's definitely worth wresting the "launch" out of our playbook. There are quite a few misguided habits subtly embedded in that ritual.

There are quite a few startup 1-liners out there today and it's worth mentioning one from Marc Andreessen: Be so good they can't ignore you. Applied to the OP, let the press find you when once you have something interesting.
...And then you've loaded them up with a bunch of areas where they've taken technical responsibility until they're overwhelmed with maintenance. So you can't possibly put them in a management or leadership position, they're too valuable in what they're already doing!

Doubling their responsibilities isn't going to get them on the conference call with investors. It isn't going to get them in charge of a team, in most cases. Instead, in most cases, an experienced lead will be hired. Or the team will be sold/aquihired, and he'll end up a junior engineer in BigCo anyway.

So, why take a chance on a startup making below market rates, especially if it's not a clear winner?

Now, I operationalize "Startup" as an organization in search of a repeatable business model, as Steve Blank suggests. If instead, the great but junior developer is looking at a profitable, growing company, it may make sense to join at below market rates. That way, product/market fit has already been established and your work can directly be correlated to things that increase profitability.

But those are two different games.
I have found that Meteor provides a very simple/fast way to deploy/use mongodb if you want to build something quickly. (I just did so myself this past weekend.)
Also, nshipster.com
Decoding Forms Authentication Cookies With Mono
Yeah I agree.

The GL part is just an implementation detail.

As a comparison would be to say - what if it was actually quicker when implemented in the DOM or Canvas ?

Would it then make sense to call it TraceDOM or TraceCanvas ?

If the killer / primary feature of the product is speed then it should really be TraceFast / TraceSpeed / TraceMegaSuperQuick (ok, not great names but you get the idea).
I certainly agree that there's nothing wrong with prioritizing other things (like interesting work, for just one, there are others) over maximizing your money.

What's galling is when someone ELSE makes big bucks off your hard work, and you don't. Then you often feel taken advantage of. That isn't generally happening when you take a smaller salary to become a teacher or a touring musician or to travel the world more.

And when it DOES happen (say, to touring musicians, sure), the person it happens to generally feels exploited. Even if they had done the same thing for the same money _without_ someone else profiting big time off their work, they would have felt good about it.

But if you decide you don't mind someone else trying to make huge bucks off your hard work, without sharing them with you, because you enjoy the thing you're working hard on that much and it's all cool... I guess I've got no reason to say there's anything wrong with that, if that's your thing.

But in reality, it's the difference between working at a startup with equity on the same order of magnitude as the founders, but the startup doesn't end up succeeding (Oh well, it was worth a shot, and I still made enough to pay rent and live comfortably, and I found it rewarding) vs working at a startup that is VERY succesful and the founders are rich... but you wound up with much less money than you could have had working somewhere else, perhaps with just as interesting work. How likely are you to find the latter one rewarding, after it shakes out?
So, its this really caused by them borrowing $170m to play the stock market? What were they thinking?!

Also: What happened with the failed fundraising drive? I would have thought such an exclusive school would have had many well off graduates, who would be happy to help out their old school in its hour of need.
> Steam's DRM is why I've bought more games than I've pirated.

Steam's DRM has nothing to do with why individuals buy games on Steam. Steam offsets the net negative of DRM by bundling in a number of very attractive value-adds, like the ability to reinstall your games on any system without media, keeping all your games up to date for you, syncs settings and such (for Steamworks games) and provides an attractive platform for communicating between friends/arranging games and such. Not to mention that they have great sales. (For me, the first one is the killer feature. I hate playing the install + patch game.)

Now, they could easily provide all of those things without adding any DRM at all, but they don't, presumably because neither they nor their customers (which, make no mistake, are primarily the companies who distribute games through their platform) want it enough to cause it to come to pass.

I mean, I love Steam, it's incredibly handy and has singlehandedly transformed the way I consume games. But let's not pretend it's something it's not.
Why do you call those people hackers? Hackers build things, don't piss on other people's work.
> I didn't say anything about anybody sucking.

Yes, you did. Here's a list:

> Seriously, half the readers of HN could tell you

> Are you trying to be Webvan 2.0?

> Sorry, don't mean to sound harsh

> that just seems so weird to think that anybody would make that mistake in this day and age

You may not believe that's what you said, but that doesn't actually change that you said it.
Apple CEO Seeks to Blunt Growth Concerns by Returning Cash
ITMS kind of sucks, actually, and always has. The big issue is that the model of "device tethered to a single laptop" is confusing now that the device is wifi/4g enabled. But even in the iPod/iTunes days, iTunes was always kind of shakey.
Ask HN: Tech/Dev meetups in Thailand over the next couple of months?
I am visiting Thailand for the next couple of Months . Any interesting tech talks or dev meetups or hack nights happening in May/June?

I am trying to figure out a way to meet a few developers in the area, and get a sense of their interests.

My interests are in front end dev, data analysis, and data visualization.

I am a software engineer, currently working as a external contractor.

Thanks!
Tiger in bathroom in Salina
What if you are conditioned to believe and cheer replacing the facts you believed in with new ones that have no evidence against them and many clues for them?

Can reason an scientific method itself be an Idol? And if you do not cherish those things do you think it's better since you are truly not a believer in anything? Even the method that verifiebly gives humanity models of predictive utility that gave us almost all we enjoy today?
In Postgres for example there is just so much arcane configuration that needs to be done before you can start writing code. All that extra guff should be an add on option for "enterprise users". Why not just the database functionality on its own, stripped of all the complex surrounding bits? Have you ever experienced the pain of configuring pg_hba.conf? Or trying to work out the right user access control to your database entities and then keep it all ok when the database setup needs to be changed? Nightmare.
South Africa Close to Passing 'Secrecy' Bill
There's a large subset of the tech savvy crowd who like food experimentation, too.
The lack on women in tech is much like the lack of women in gaming. Guys have pissing matches and are crude to each other. When they do that with women to it is not acceptable workplace behvior. It isn't acceptable when it is just men either, but legal gets involved when you treat a woman with the same level of disrespect.

This is not mirrored in female dominated professions. There is a shortage of male teachers and nurses, but it isn't because the women are so disrespectful of the men.
Well, you can interpret things however you want. This whole thread has gotten beyond stupid, and I have nothing else to say here.
Memory Safe C/C++... Sounds like Go :)-
http://golang.org/

The future is now!
Yes. This is a robot answering with different options. Depending on the option choosen, it hangs up, or says "wrong number". No way to reach a human, or even to get on hold. I sent an e-mail and voice mail to the WHOIS contact as well.
I've never used CloudStation, but with respect to BitTorrent Sync, the DiskStation would be just another device that syncs the files. So the main benefit is that it acts as another backup / seeder for your private p2p network.
Yeah but with no tuition how do they even pay that?
And we've also discovered: more willing to pay for a recipe repository that allows export of data
Sorry for the slow load times. I put this site on a small linode and wasn't expecting this kind of surge. Trying to optimize apache right now.
To be fair, every semester we were given a bill for the total cost with tuition "discounted", so it usually looked something like:

Subtotal: $37,000
Amount Due: $1400 (student fee)

I thought they were just making passive hints until the new president came in and had to tell us all the bad news...
I must assume you are referring to the bibliography of Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People, although perhaps not, as the publishing dates of sources likely relevant to your query go back to at least the 1920s -- ex. Bogardus (1928, 1925). If you haven't accessed this bibliography I heartily recommend that you do, as cursory examination of the sources included therein reveals a multitude that would likely address both your first and second challenges.
why is the only way to contact you through Twitter?
Unable to open the site - DNS error.
Swype hits Play Store
Drop the gmail email address. You have your own domain; use it.

I know HN is hugging this site to death right now and the present load is atypical, so I won't comment on the performance because this isn't a real world issue. (Curious, why did you choose Apache/PHP when you appear to be a Ruby/Rails developer? It's been a while but Nginx/PHP-FPM was always a better bet for high loads.)

Your strongest call to action is the freebies thing, but that's incongruent with the purpose of the site: to get people into your sales funnel. Make your "hire me" your most prominent thing and drop the "open source freebies" thing completely. By all means list your open source projects, but they should feature as part of your portfolio. Nobody's going to your site to get something for free, and for reasons I can't articulate, it cheapens your proposition.

Make your contact information easier to find by putting it on every damn page in the header and footer, and if appropriate in the middle of your page too. Make it stand out too because if I want to contact you I don't want to be playing hide and go seek with your phone number.

If you're able to link to live versions of the apps you've created, do so and make those links so obvious your mother would find them. The (+) icon makes me feel like I'm going to add something to something, not open up a drop down menu. Just put them as a row of links under the description rather than hiding away these important links. Follow the mantra that your visitors are stupid and tired when designing, even if they're actually bright and caffeinated. Also make sure you don't open any external links in same window/tab.

Having said all of the above, it's a nicely designed site.

Going off topic, the screenshot on http://www.mycelial.com/ is blurry as hell. I don't know if this is intentional, but it bothers me quite a lot.
Their recruitment is quite annoying. I never sent in anything and they sent me emails saying thanks for applying and to fill in a slot on the calendar for when I could meet. Their approach to the process immediately turned me off.
This is all relatively minor, presentation-related stuff:

- Parts of your website are unreadable when I tile my browser (Firefox) so it takes up 1/3 of the horizontal screen space and 100% of the vertical screen space. The "Open Source Freebies" button is truncated and I can't scroll (not even autoscroll) to see the rest of it.

- You should make sure your text has proper grammar. For comments on the internet, nobody really gives a shit, but you're selling a product. You want people viewing your site to see you as a professional, and little things like typos or grammar errors chip away at that.

- The dedication to _why's guide, while nice, doesn't belong in the "Hire Me" section. Consider making a new section for it or something.

Will update this list with more things when I think of them.
I think it's very true and flattering.

Lol-cats among other things teach public why veterinary medicine is worth the fuss. It's because cats are so cute!
masturbation

berp

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False confessions will confuse the enemy.

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The modern version of the tell tale heart:

http://www.noob.us/humor/the-office-dwight-faces-nerd-tortur...
The site loads slow (maybe just for me).
Edit: just saw your response to others, ignore this.

I got 15 errors while validating the home page. You may want to make sure it is all valid HTML5.

Nice site, overall. Some pretty neat themes as well.
If the themes constitute your whole portfolio, it may make sense to rebrand "Open Source Freebies" as "Portfolio", depending on your situation (type of clients, past experience, etc).

Good luck!