skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Some PS4 viral team made them all "U TOOK R DISCS" and they hiveminded."

I'm not sure how delusional you have to be to believe that the reason your customers hate your DRM is because your competitors had a "viral team" that persuaded them to be.
There's zero evidence to suggest copy protection reduces prices for legal users.
I hope you're kidding too. However, the cynic in me suspects that most of the signatories to the petition might already have been identified by the likes of PRISM as potential subversives and put on a secret watch list. This petition is probably just a confirmation of the majority of the names on that list.
Wow. Putin and Obama. Shoulder to shoulder ... just ... wow ... bestest of buddies in this new world order of ours.
Oops, I shouldn't have sent that
I feel the same way - lighter, unencumbered. I left Facebook almost a year ago and haven't been back. My main reason was privacy concerns, but I also felt empty after checking it many times a day. It was a great decision, and more people in my social circle have left since.
Fair enough.

>Why step into the footsteps of the dinosaurs?

I'd think adding E2EE to email would be like what pagerank did to the search engine. Why build from the ground up when you can build on the shoulders of the giants?
Your last point is kind of what I had in mind with my question. Not to try to compete with UofM but to gather data to predict their results and use it for your own trades. You could hold the results private and play the market to beat even the high-frequency guys. You could even do a shoddy job of collecting the data to keep costs down but maintain, say, a 90% confidence in your prediction of UofM's numbers, that's enough to beat the market 9 out of 10 times.
Just like I don't put all my API eggs in one big corporation's basket like the so-called "ecosystem" platform of Apple, Microsoft, et al.

I don't put all of my search eggs in the google basket.

I think that google search was great for about a decade. In the past couple of years, I am starting to have serious doubts about Google's search results. No I don't want the result tailored to me, or whatever IP address that I am searching from. And, I suspect there are lots of sites that are relevant that are not showing up. I also suspect that someone can do search better than Google.

There are other dominant and not so dominant search engines, please use them ...

https://duckduckgo.com/
http://www.yandex.com/
http://www.baidu.com/
http://www.bing.com/
http://gigablast.com/
> Yes, just like not all startups are successful for VCs.

A dangerous analogy, because the sole criterion of success for a startup is to be financially successful, whereas there are lots of research ideas that cannot be translated into a profitable business, yet are still worthwhile to pursue. Think fundamental results in maths and physics.

I am all for universities to have sources of revenue other than taxpayer money. But I fear that making those the only sources of revenue (you did defend that in your original post) will instill a climate where researchers are prevented from pursuing research topics that cannot possibly bring in any money for their universities.

And this is not just about "knowledge for knowledge's sake", either. Think about, say, quantum mechanics or complex analysis. Would anyone have paid for the early research in these areas with the expectation of financial returns? And yet, here they are today at the basis of a number of highly profitable industries.
See that thing up there in the distance ... where we used to be ... that's the moral high ground.
I find it funny that the Linux platform dropdown doesn't offer the VMWare VM...
Halo: CE (i.e, Halo 1) didn't support online play, as it was released before Xbox Live was available.

Halo 2 was released in 2004 (on the Xbox!), and the online play servers were just shut down earlier this year. Given that the platform it was released on has nearly been superseded twice by now (first by the Xbox 360, and soon by the Xbox One), I think they've given it a fair run.

As far as I'm aware, all of the other Halo games are still playable online.
Supreme Court Invalidates Patents on Human Genes
Yes, Microsoft maintains tons of legacy support for user's running old software on newer platforms - but that's essentially support for their own legacy platforms. They don't go out and provide tools for say, pre-OSX Mac users to get the latest Microsoft Office. Chrome Frame is essentially software that runs on top of Microsoft's legacy, deprecated browser and allows it to have modern functionality.

As the post points out, Google Chrome does have features similar to what you describe to allow backwards-compatibility with legacy sites that need an old browser. That's not this.
It does well because the probability of you buying a windmill multiplied by profit per sale is still more valuable than something non targeted like tampons (some of the advertisers get the numbers wrong but not the ones at scale.)

Interestingly, from the CPMs I've seen re-targeted/re-marketed ads perform on par or below contextually targeted ads. No one even comes close to Google for contextually targeted ad inventory (unless you are operating in a narrow niche and you are selling inventory directly, but lots of time and money to even match them.)
"The whole point of the DRM switch from disc based to cloud based is to kill disc swapping ... bringing discs to friends house, trade-ins"

Makes me sad that execs actually sat round a table listed those as objectives.
"IBM manufactures lots of hardware"

I bet MS makes and sells more hardware. XBox alone must outnumber all IBM hardware sales. (ThinkPad hasn't been IBM for several years now).
I just ordered The Puzzle Palace, Body of Secrets, and The Shadow Factory by Bamford. The first two arrived at my office earlier this week and are waiting for me when I get home from this road trip. I can't wait to dig into them this weekend.

I also ordered copies of The CIA and American Democracy: Third Edition by Professor Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones and Spycraft: The Secret History of the CIA's Spytechs, from Communism to Al-Qaeda by Robert Wallace. I think this pile of stuff is going to keep me busy for the next couple of weeks at least.
Or have weeks of free time to root out issues with zero documentation except for random forum posts.
I get that you don't think "hacker" implies developer. But you said: "Can you imagine how much we could improve the quality of life of everyday people if everyone in Silicon Valley focused on economic, environmental and social issues for a couple months?"

Those "Silicon Valley people"... what are they going to do? Do you really think "Silicon Valley people" are going with a crash course in genetic engineering are going to make a difference? What are these people going to bring to the table, besides being clever (like people in every other field) and being inexperienced?

If you think there are not enough biomed people volunteering to work with non-profits to find super-crops, then fine, that is a legitimate complaint. Don't focus on importing Silicon Valley people to fill that gap though, focus on telling the biomed people to get their act together and start volunteering.

There is nothing unique about the Silicon Valley brand of clever. Really what you are complaining about is that a bunch of clever people have acquired skill sets that are not particularly useful for solving most remaining social problems. Go convince students to switch majors if you really want to correct that.
> application and request context, context locals, local proxies

Those are just different names for the same thing. Maybe the docs are a bit too in-your-face with the contexts but I rather expose people to it early to avoid issues down the line.

Django for instance does not have equivalents for application and request contexts and the end result is that people often write thread unsafe code and you can only have one application per Python interpreter. Flask does not have those restrictions. You can have as many Flask applications living side by side. And that is possible because of the contexts.
Enough to put electrical tape over a blinking VCR/DVD display and pop popcorn in the microwave without burning more than half the kernels... :-)

Honestly, I would say enough to write a simple joined SQL query, do some conditionals on a spreadsheet and/or mailmerge.

Most folk will never use more than that knowledge. There are many many people including kids that rarely touch a computer. Hard to believe but it's true, talked with some teenagers last year bout computers, many said "yeah, I don't like em, I only use them when I have to do schoolwork on em."
I really doubt Snowden's interpretation of the slide had much to do with the article revealing Prism. The article content is seemingly based only on the 41-slide presentation itself, not the claims of its source.
So tl;dr Xbox One = MSFT Steam Console?
The NSA/CIA never (rarely?) call. Everything is (almost?) always routed through the FBI. If someone contacts you claiming to be from the CIA or NSA, and you are not employed by the DoD, they are very likely to be frauds.

From there, you can get the supposed agent's field office, look it up on fbi.gov and call them back.

http://www.fbi.gov/contact-us/field

Be advised that each field office has satellite offices within their jurisdictions. Satellite office addresses and phone numbers are published on fbi.gov also.
That's exactly the point I'm making. The prices on XboxOne won't come down because "the retailers would revolt."
Or the effort spent to resell is valued more than the resale value of the game (whether it is true or not) or it's because COD has a higher resale value.

Although I'd guess that people's gaming budget isn't as simple as X number of games @ $Y max each and so-called blockbuster titles could easily start charging more without losing too much of their fan bases.
There used to be a lot of stores selling used PC games in the late 90s / early 2000s.

What killed it (I think) was that people would sell a used boxed PC game and then download the pirate version but re-use the legitimate CD key for multiplayer.

So you would buy a used game and try to play it online but get "Your CD key is already in use" messages half the time.
I got burned by this a few times.

This is also one of the reasons that stores stopped accepting returns of PC games. People would buy a game , copy down the CD key and then return it for refund claiming that it didn't work.
What would happen if people just stopped the war on terror completely?
And they are always there in your im client

http://ddg.gg
Supreme Court’s Myriad decision is deeply confused over cDNA
Letting the server pick means you're serving the user agent, rather than the device capabilities. Letting the client pick means perceptual performance degradation, as the client has to synchronously download and run Javascript before it can figure out what to request from the server (that is, the render/layout thread can't be chewing on the CSS while your Javascript is doing its thing). Given how well text compresses and the cost of a HTTP connection, I'm not sure that separating things out is going to get you much of a win.

The comparison to GWT is hilarious, since GWT is a massive mess of dependency hell that ends up requiring an insane amount of support code for any particular small feature.
It doesn't discredit Snowden that he didn't clear up the confusion that results from folks not wanting to believe what it literally says in the authentic deck. He says he was an IT guy, but not the one who personally installed every undersea fiber tap or interception device.

Snowden's undoing may be trying to have the baby half way. People are really pissed off about this and are going to be looking for someone to blame. I wonder if he's going to end up looking even worse than Assange in the end by assuming personal responsibility for the effectiveness of the selective editing and redaction.

Personally, I don't feel like the weight of this story turns on the specifics of the interception hardware and the "directness" of the access. There's a slide deck that says "Dates when PRISM collection began for each provider" and "Collection of communications on fiber cables and infrastructure as data flows past". And that's just the four slides that The Guardian and WaPo didn't feel were too hot to handle.
The Oatmeal really understands 21st century marketing
More denialism from tptacek. For those who care about the actual source, the NSA slide in question says "Collection directly from the servers of".... Viewers can decide for themselves whether the NSA or tptacek has greater credibility when it comes to describing the capabilities of the NSA system.

http://media.hotair.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/prism-...
As someone that used to work in a game resell shop (not Gamestop), I can't sympathize with the Gamestop comments. Particularly the ones about buyback value. We paid our customers about 60% of what we were going to sell the game for. I've never understood how people can think that the game they spent $60 for is going to sell for anywhere near that after a year or two.

To use the example in here, a $5 buyback value game would sell for about $10 where I worked. I don't know about Gamestop's percentages, but I imagine it would sell for closer to $15 there.

Moving on to Steam, my library is clogged full of shit I'd love to sell back or give to someone else. I still, to this day, hate Steam. It's convenient, sure, but I still often shop at the alternative instant download providers and I'm not talking about Origin or Amazon.

Beyond that, and back to actual gripes about the XBone, the only thing that has my friends and I completely against it is the always on Kinect. I don't like the idea of having a device in my home that can be used to monitor everything I do or say at any time. If it's proven you can turn that functionality off, it takes away about half of the reason I give people to not buy it. Even then, I'm paranoid enough that I won't be getting one. That aside, I don't need a media center, so the XBone doesn't appeal to me. My console is for playing video games; I have a computer for Internet shit (e.g. Netflix).
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Terrorism is real, too. The problem is that terrorism, like child abuse and pornography, is used as an excuse to grant the government wide-ranging powers vastly disproportionate to the scale of the problem, and quickly misused for other purposes (eg: piracy).
I agree. But, I am glad I didn't get my way in trying to bring this into the hospitals my software is installed in. I tried for a year or so to get some acceptance. This would be really bad for me now. But, I bet it's bad for others so I am not happy about this at all.
A large part of SEO is just making it obvious what your page is about. This helps both the user and the search engine. A lot of it is just usability, but usability specifically for a user who is coming from a search engine.
Skeuomorphism’s Death Has Been Greatly Exaggerated
I don't think digital goods / things that are very cheap on the margin really subscribe to the same laws of supply and demand.

For example, most people would probably agree piracy drives the price of photoshop up for the people that actually pay for it. In the eyes of supply and demand though what should happen is more piracy == less demand for legal copies -> lower prices.
That proposal is for an ephemeral, per gTLD client key and an example of mutual authentication that aims to defeat _active_ attackers (MITM).

Perfect forward secrecy in TLS is a bit different in that the ephemeral diffie-hellman key exchange sets up a shared key that is protected from a _passive_ attacker that observes the TLS encrypted communication and later gets a copy of the server's public key.
If they have have acted properly, why should that stop them?

It's hard to lie effectively when you don't know how much of the truth is known.
With all the tracking by advertisers it makes one wonder if the Feds have approached them for access to those databases.
"The great thing about a constant, is you can break other things, and see how they tick! Hoot! Hoot!"

-Archimedes(the Owl)
I like DDG, but has it ever mentioned how this TRACKING data is used?

http://duckduckgo.com/l/?kh=-1&uddg=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dmv.org... (every time you click on a search result you actually click on a link like this,which redirects you to the actual page)

Is it just for pagerank?
That's ridiculous tabloid journalism. They attempt to claim that expired passports represent multiple identities and a flight risk, drag up unrelated dirt from Kim's past, slanderously characterise MegaUpload as "a repository for films, TV shows and books, where users could watch content without charge". At least they are honest with some further amusing tidbit about the gun: Davison said the gun found in an open safe in the "panic room" with Dotcom had never been used and only had a rubber bullet.
And yet the 24 hour checkin doesn't make sense in the case of digital downloads, the other app stores dont require it. If a digitally signed receipt for the game is on your system, who cares if the next time you validate against MS servers is in 24 hours or 24 years.
even better prefer to use Private Window in Firefox. Chrome is only good for it's debugger so I rather prefer Canary.
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I have a feeling it's a subtle reference to Guantanamo.
Because nobody, probably not even at the NSA, is confident that they actually know the full extent of what's going on.
These are exactly the concerns I had[1]...I don't understand why the Court is under the impression that cDNA is something magical and patent worthy. Its ubiquitous in Nature and is no different than any other DNA. The Court seems hung up on the fact that it's "exons only" based on my reading of the Majority opinion and that somehow makes it unique

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[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5874506
I've been using VMWare Workstation for about a decade now... I've tried a few other VM platforms, and they've all not been quite as usable imho... I will say their support of ESXi updates, and pretty much dropping VMWare Server has been pretty bad.
>"It's not worth my time to prove it, or risk my Job. I work in Studio A, 40th ave in Redmond, Wa. The thai place in the studio cafeteria has double punch wednesdays. Go ahead and call them and verify if you want."
I guess I don't understand how government works.

If a significant portion of the electorate doesn't want something, how do they keep the government from implementing it? Because it's certainly not by voting. I'm dead serious. Why does a government do things that its people don't want it to do?
Google is also SSL. There was a post on here a day or two ago with the theory that PRISM is really about intercepting and cracking SSL certs
This was posted 7hours ago and was on the front page for ~4-5 of them.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5873442
I went with an adjustable sitting/standing GeekDesk and a economy adjustable mesh back/memory foam seat chair. The desk was worth the money, it goes up and down a few times a day, excellent when you need a high worktable; I feel healthier for getting it. The chair, is quite comfortable but I've never sat in an Aeron to know the difference I think I would have liked it to be full mesh.
If only someone solved the problem of bringing PGP to the masses. Maybe the need has to reach a critical mass.
FileHippo saves old versions
http://www.filehippo.com/es/download_google_chrome/history/
SSL for example.
Foursquare's new Time Machine visualization is absolutely amazing
For us, we have hospital chains that are interested in our service (http://populr.me), but they want to use IE to create their pages. While we plan on supporting newer versions of IE in the future, it just didn't make sense for us to spend time on it yet. Several users told us they were using Chrome Frame to get around this problem, but looks like now we need to step up efforts around our browser support.
Steam is applauded for the incredible sales and cheap access to games. Also the convenience.

I have a steam library worth several grand, but I only paid a few hundred for it. Is anyone really convinced you will see Steam style sales on Xbox 1?
So true. That's one of the most dangerous aspects of conducting this type of thing in the dark.
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Graphical modelling is an incredibly powerful tool, and it saddens me that UML is not valued more by hackers. I suspect one of the reasons it's not used, is that people simply don't need it most of the time. When I started in software I was apathetic about UML, in fact I thought the whole thing was a bit silly. I used the occasional class diagram to communicate an idea, but I could never see the point of modelling. Most of the time I know what needs coding and have a good intuition for how to implement it; but with experience, that has changed.

Only twice in my life have I had anything close to a religious epiphany: 1) the first time I tried psychedelics, and 2) the time I finally 'got' UML: I was faced with an enormously complex software project that was far beyond my level of experience and skill set, and I didn't have the faintest clue where to start... it was the sort of project that makes you feel slightly terrified and incompetent. After several false starts, I realised I needed to try a different approach, so out of desperation I dug up an old college textbook on systems analysis and tried to design the entire system on paper away from the computer. I started with a use case diagram, then numerous class diagrams, then sequence diagrams, then activity diagrams. In a matter of hours, I'd nailed the ENTIRE project, without straining my brain the slightest. I was ecstatic! It felt like I'd just acquired a superhuman power or a secret black art -- I'd transcended the capabilities of mere mortals, into the realm of gods! In that moment, I saw the essence of UML, and it was power! As nerdy as it sounds, it was certainly one of the most profound and memorable experience I've had -- taking something I knew moderately well (UML), and seeing an aspect of it that I could never have anticipated, and using it to solve a problem that was completely beyond me.

Saying all that, I should qualify that I'm not a UML fundamentalist, nor do I think everything should be modelled. People often criticise over-abstraction and "architecture astronauts", and rightfully so. There is an inherent danger to modelling, but if you're an experienced coder (and more importantly the person who's going to be implementing the designs, so as to stay grounded and realistic) then there's immense power in abstracting away the code and the limitations that come with "thinking in code". Under the right conditions, modelling enables you to see the essence of the problem and derive a well-structured solution. That, at least, is my opinion.

...and on the topic of Agile doing away with the need for modelling: the whole point of modelling is to enable fast iterations. It's amazing how fast ideas can develop with just a whiteboard and some thinking space. Why waste time coding?
Personally, I wouldn't mind a little more return to isolationism... pull out all our foreign troops (outside of embassy protection details), limiting our near-foreign presence to our naval operations (for the most part). I'd also like to see some of the stupidity behind the war on drugs stopped as well.
Wikipedia has Halo 2 multiplayer on the xbox being shut down in April of 2010 (while on the PC it lived until this year). That is not the sort of lifecycle I expect from a game that I enjoy (I still play Doom on occasion, and that was released two whole decades ago. Half-Life, from 1998, is still played online as well. Halo 2 was only from 2004, was massively successful, and is dead.)
It's a popular fantasy here that 'we' are what everyone should be but it's nothing more than that. The average person should be concerned with their diet, health and financial situations not what we do.
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