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Adblock Plus taken over by German Webspam Mafia
Since DRM is all about making it inconvenient/difficult to delay the inevitable, yes.

They are not going to do anything that will only help a very fraction of their subscribers but would streamline, let alone automate, the ripping process.
I was about to post that exact same thing. "Information that is no corporate Japan". You can definitely say that again.
I think it has nothing to do with being paid - it's not like you pay for the plugin itself. Plus, they wouldn't want you to think about having to pay for it anyway.

I think in this case it's just a meaningless word introduced to make it sound better than the "proprietary plugins" like Silverlight and Flash. I think their alternatives were naming it like "Awesome Viewing Experience Extension" or "Netflix True HD Vision Extension", or something like that.

In each case they wouldn't mean what they normally mean, and would be used in a misleading way just to give you a "good feeling" about having DRM on the web.
https://github.com/pubnub/genetic-car-2/commit/dfbcd85712a93...

Seems like an afterthought. I couldn't find any license on the original either.
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Where did he mention Flash? HTML5 video is the alternative being discussed here, and it's far less resource intensive and buggy (depending on the video format), from my experience at least.
Performance art from the Williamsburg Bridge:

http://gothamist.com/2011/11/19/video_see_the_williamsburg_b...

If you enjoy these sorts of stories, you'll love watching Man on Wire -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_on_Wire
How to find co-founders / collaborators: based on 2 years of my mistakes
Any plans on using the collective attractiveness of YC to help push that 20% stake down?

I think he just did.
"Memories of Stasi color Germans’ view of U.S. surveillance programs"

Might as well have written: "Memories of segregation and lynching color African American's view of modern day bigots".

I mean the "color" part tries to make it as something strange (or even bad, some kind of "distortion") is happening, when it's the most natural thing in the world: actual historical experience with the issue, makes German's more informed on what it can result to and more sensitive to how bad it is.

I'm always amazed to what BS spin columnists put on their stories. And not always innocently.
"And while I realize their personas are a joke, to me, they represent everything I dislike about music" and pop culture in general. The decline of authenticity is depressing.
okay i think i got it.
focus the goal.
break it into milestones and break the milestones into small steps but only plan the next 1 2 steps

thank you !
Through the wonders of Google Scholar, I give you: http://homepage.psy.utexas.edu/homepage/faculty/pennebaker/r...

It is written for a psychology journal, but the Annual reviews series is typically not loaded down with any more than the usual academic journal.
> Serialize the array and encrypt it with AES using a key that you keep in the server. When you receive a POST, decrypt the token and check if the information it contains matches the client's details. If it matches, you know that it was you who generated that token.

No. You want to use a MAC for this, not encryption. Encryption does not guarantee authenticity, MACs do. It is very possible to predictably alter the contents of encrypted text; many of the early Matasano cryptopals challenges revolve around doing precisely this.
>>Also: If the Boston bombings was the final straw, then WHY ON EARTH wasn't 9/11 the final straw? Several orders of magnitude worse of a cock-up than Boston!

They've been supposedly honing their intelligence skills since then. By now they should be way better at this considering all the additional budget they are getting and by the simple fact that they should have a lot more experience at this.
No they didn't; vrtually none of their objectives have been met, except that of getting the US to remove its military forces from Saudi Arabian soil.

I get your point, but it's a purely rhetorical one that has little to do with actual history. Al Qaeda had real objectives of their own, rather than simply existing to make us fearful.
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>If you have enough application servers for session sharing to be a problem, you probably already have enough complexity to worry about

You definitely have lots of complexity. Which is why adding more is bad. There is no point where things are so complex that making it more complex is cool.

> If you don't want to add another daemon to your stack, just reuse whatever you were using before, whether it's Memcached, MongoDB, or plain old MySQL.

Sure, just make things slower and more likely to fail for no reason.

>Gain nothing? Why?

Because you can just store the session in an encrypted cookie. There is no need for it to be on any server at all.
Voyager 1 Discovers Bizarre and Baffling Region at Edge of Solar System
I accidentally the entire heap: debugging Haskell programs with space leaks
Nature can be arousing. People are aroused by mannequins, photocopiers cars, other things without emotion. I don't think empathy is at all necessary.
Not sure which was the more dangerous part, potential encounter with a water craft, or potential encounter with pathogens or PCBs.

FWIW, http://www.health.ny.gov/environmental/outdoors/hudson_river...
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Obviously they cannot make arrests, for example, but can they gather information?

In the USA, it would seem that the public laws say that the FBI can't just gather information. They are supposed to have reasonable cause, as determined by some Court. The laws and traditions demand a little oversight of information gathering, and that the information so gathered is related to a crime.

This is related to the public laws and traditions about suppression of speech, particularly political speech. Speaking freely isn't supposed to be "reasonable cause", and speaking freely isn't supposed to make you an object of surveillance. Doing otherwise "chills" free speech.

I can only conclude that the FBI has become a "rogue" agency, like the CIA has, and is full of people who have no respect for US law and tradition.
"Many civilised countries explicitely forbid this"

Like who?
All of this would end if enough people wanted it to stop.
The trick is to get people to understand and care.
I'm not optimistic about this but we can't let it stop us.
Easier to gin up outrage, I suppose. Most people here seem to have completely missed the past tense or the subheading 'Secret program launched by Bush continued 'until 2011'', or else chosen to ignore it because they want to vent rather than discuss it.
If John Boehner Isn't Bluffing, He Probably Just Killed Immigration Reform
I can't believe nobody has pointed this out: The iPad mini does not have a Retina display. The iOS 7 home screen labels look gross on it. Apple is not making the competition obsolete, but its own devices (intentionally or not).
Interesting slides. I wonder what the performance implications of using Pipes would have been.
I love the password dots. People really don't seem to understand that just because you see dots doesn't mean that the field is secure. They really only protect you from people staring over your shoulder, it seems.
I think the latter point of his argument still stands. Presumably you're able to justify the cost of testing for and dealing with IE8 problems because enough of your revenue and conversions come from IE8-bound users. If that's not the case, why would you still support IE8?
Apparently 'pork' is one of their keywords. I wonder why.
Remember that microkernels aren't just trying to achieve modularity - they also take a stab at robustness by failure recovery. This is IMO doomed to fail - you are much better off trying to achieve robustness by correctness. Monolithic kernels focus more on correctness and therefore progress much faster.
> But since he didn't do it the day he took office

Well... why didn't he?
I wondered how people could miss Sergey's point. Looking down at your phone breaks eye contact, and puts you in a subservient (bowing) position.
Thanks for the great work!

Do you plan to release the tool one day? It will be a great asset to other operating systems developers as well.
But this guy was a colonel in the Stasi.

If a similar interview with someone who did participate in lynchings were conducted, I don't think your second title would be all that far off. But racial bigotry isn't the hot issue right now. I think it's helpful to draw parallels to the past - and a title like that might help encourage people to actually read.
You're welcome to step in and explain, but I think it's pretty obvious why local vulnerabilities in non-setuid binaries aren't exactly "critical."
Cap'n Proto beta release 0.1 is ready for Real Work
Installed it right away and... I love this app! Looks well polished. Easy bang search with a list of available sites right there nicely grouped. A lot of news sources (HN included) and you can suggest more or add/remove any. Region bubble is supported, but disabled by default. Save recent is also disabled. Such care for user privacy is so surprising in mobile apps, it makes me giddy :)
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instead of the "nuclear option" of reset proposed by the author, i would go with normalize...

http://necolas.github.io/normalize.css/

also, an issue that never fails to rear it's ugly head in IE8 and below - trailing commas in javascript. JSLint/Hint will help avoid this
But it surely already is an automated process?

The only reason for it not to be ought to be that netflix doesn't have any content of interest or of too low quality.
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HelloNSA - Generate a sentence to catch their attention
Your comment reminds me of Google search, which is also quite simple in front (the UI/usage) and very complex under the hood.
Yeah, I wasn't happy with my choice of word, but couldn't think of anything else. I guess the key point is that if you pour 100% of your effort directly into development of the product then there's a good chance you'll fail.
You're correct. Large corporations take ages to upgrade.
Rebuilding a simplified Firefox logo
But even so, the DRM system was not available cross-platform. Something like Moonlight could process the data but could not play back encrypted video using the Microsoft DRM system.

Each platform will offer a different DRM implementation, but there would be only one HTML5 player and would use the same API on all systems.

I assume that they will continue to use Silverlight on Windows prior to IE11.
The US is in need for a full operating system upgrade. Like going from Mac OS 9 to OS X. Not a .1 upgrade. Obama delivered a Microsoft-style upgrade. You were promised 'hope' and 'change'. What you got is a worse version of Microsoft Windows with lots of spyware and a built-in 'security' system.
Scalable shared library loading
A lot of people will point and laugh at HURD, calling it a really sad project or whatever. Why? Considering the small number of developers, it has come along spectacularly. Over time, HURD has been improving at a decently consistent rate. I remember a time when it was nearly impossible to get it running even on QEMU. God damn people, sure it's missing features; but those features don't inhibit it running. I, for one, am glad that they decided to get it stable before they get it fast.

I will always wait for the day I can say my computer runs GNU. Nothing else, just GNU.
Don't be obtuse. Of course it's remarkable, the only other reason you ever hear of 3000+ people being killed in the space of a few hours is when there's some large natural disaster like an earthquake.

Now, if you can't work out how the largest terrorist attack in history might have change the stance of the world's largest military superpower, with a knock-on effect on everyone else, then you're not trying. When I saw the events of 9-11 happening on TV I immediately knew it was going to result in years of war, just like the collapse of the Soviet Union obviously led to a de-escalation of military posture.

probably more people get killed by fridges falling on them than by a terrorist attack

Not at the same time, and crucially, not at someone else's pleasure. I'm not American either but the notion that people wouldn't or shouldn't react to something like this is just asinine. Frankly, I'm surprised it didn't lead to greater change in the US than it actually has.
Could I? How long would it take? Would I really get the same results or just similar results? If it doesn't work, how can I find out where the bug is (the paper, my interpretation, my implementation)?

Compare this to physics: if you drop this ball from that height under these circumstances, it will take that long. Everybody (with the right equipment) can reproduce this result quite easily. Not so in this case, which ironically could be even more reproducible than any physics experiment if it wasn't closed source.
MINIX seems to be working pretty well these days.
As far as tech policy goes it is hard to find a job with more mainstream visibility than "law professor at Harvard with a focus on tech policy."
I actually like it, even though it seems to have fewer bells and whistles than Feedly, but I think it's even a bit faster, which is surprising, since most of the others readers I've tried have been slower than feedly.
The US government, however, wants to control you.

[Citation needed]
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Does anyone have a recommendation for a better tool than LastPass? I use LastPass every day, and it's awful.

It looks like meldium is headed in the right direction but the last time I tried it, it was still too early.
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Just launched my first product - Earbuds you can wear on your wrist
What do you guys think?
To be fair, he mentioned Youtube, which even in Chrome uses Flash by default.
I don't know much about these grants, but DAPRA and NSF sound pretty public to me (read: the public pays for something only a handful of people get access to). Correct me if I'm wrong, though.
The German 'Verfassungsgericht' has said in 2010 that it is unconstitutional.
An Open Letter to Paula Deen
This is likely because Google had such a large userbase that they were able to update more people's feeds at the same time than a lot of other places like newsblur and feedly can right now.

I also imagine it's because google was requesting the feeds more often than others, or leveraging the feedburner system to know when they were updated and other such things.
Just wanted to suggest the same.

Anotherwish of mine would be to not set a font size. It's all a bit too small for me. Sure, I can set a user-style, but it's easier if the site behaves right by itself.

One other thing: In the list of entries, the missing footer below an article is a bit irritating right now. Maybe it is just new, but I think it might be helpful to add a margin-bottom to .story-content.

Good work though, it is indeed fast.
A million readers just staightened their backs and puffed their chests.
We love meldium. Its very stable for us and works as expected.
In Germany, the data retention law was ruled unconstitutional by the German Constitutional Court on March 2, 2010. Data retention was allowed in general by the court, but only with significant restrictions. The German government failed to pass a new law which fulfills both the EU data retention directive and the court's restrictions. The EU Commission therefore is currently sueing Germany to implement the EU data retention directive. If the EU Commission prevails, Germany will have to pay 315.036,54 Euro per day as a penalty fee until a proper law is enacted.
I learned a lot from your talk. Thanks again!
I don't know but I use it every day. It is how Eurosport delivers its streaming channel to Windows. There is an Android and iOS version. The Android one doesn't allow the 3 hours rewing feature that Silverlight does and drops frames rather than buffering.

http://player.eurosport.com/
> ...a massive database that links everything in entire world in one nice package.

Are you on facebook? Were you ever on facebook?
While HN isn't responsible for the content of the articles it linked to, the community here sure took the opportunity to write, and upvote, some awful things.

I wish there was a sort of pinned story feature to offer a community retraction that stays on the front page for a substantial amount of time. Sort of a group apology for promoting comments like "I disagree. To me, this is the story of a single a-hole." and "Fuck you Sean Parker."
Why did you say "there are some American cities...and San Francisco is listed at number 3" and not mention:

1st most photographed city: New York
Landmark: Empire State Building.

Updated:

Found the source[1], the golden gate bridge did not make their list of top 7 in san francisco. Which could be due to the methodology but it is important to note that there is a problem of selection bias in the article, which may artificially inflate SF's prominence. Its worth pointing out that for NYC landmarks the apple store was ranked higher than liberty island (AKA statue of liberty). Francophiles can rest easy, the Eifel Tower crushed the competition.

[1] https://www.cs.cornell.edu/~dph/papers/photomap-www09.pdf
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Reports about Voyager at the edge of our solar system always remind me about the Truman Show, when Truman hits the set's walls...
I don't think they're doing anything unethical by not releasing their source code, but the state of the art sure could progress a hell of a lot faster if releasing code were the norm. Just look at all the papers that have built on KLEE since it was open-sourced.
Regardless of what the US does, it's not, in my opinion, something to cheer or be excited about when another country acts aggressively towards the US (to a citizen, anyway; feel however you want about it if you're not a citizen).

What it crosses to me is the boundary between loyalty to one's leaders and loyalty to one's country. Obama is going after Snowden, and I can either support or not support that action, that's my right as a citizen. But when another country takes action against my country, that suddenly becomes an act of agression directed at me, and every other citizen of the US.

That's not "nice", or "classy" at all.
User Agent strings are an archaic form of identity. In the case of Microsoft, much of the web tries to put IE off in its own corner due to its history of incompatibilities. The general answer has been to detect "MS" or "MSIE" and throw it a less capable site, or even worse, simply refuse to serve a functional site.

If Microsoft want's IE11 to be taken seriously, I think they've played their cards properly, as this should bypass existing IE filters. It somewhat feels like "deception" (Microsoft trying to fool the Web), but in their defense, the IE filters out there are not discerning enough -- somebody couldn't get their site to work in IE8, so they blocked ALL IE. There's no way Microsoft can combat this other than this tactic.

Now, if IE11 fails to deliver, I think they will only make the situation worse, as people will start building Trident filters.
Everyone is busy, all the time.
Well, the authors stated that they will publish the bugs.

Further, publishing a program like this has the potential of finally having software that is not easily exploitable (eg. by requiring every Debian software to pass that program).

Now that it is closed source, only a selected set of people will be able to benefit from it.
Most of the kernels that try very hard to achieve correctness (in the embedded / real-time space that would be used in military or aerospace applications) are microkernels. Microkernels have a smaller number of primitives that are more orthogonal, so they are easier to implement correctly and audit them, and you get some amount of preemptibility for free.

Also, as far as I know, the only kernel that has been proven correct with a mechanically verifiable proof is an L4 variant.
That's a typical smear tactic. Raise a hypothetical as a certainty that is impossible to disprove, but makes the person look terrible.

The proof lies with the people making the extraordinary claims. Reporters could have easily waited to get all of the facts and if that means waiting to their are back from their honeymoon, so be it. Why give a pass to incompetent reporters?
World’s first Tizen tablet?
If an extension to XvMC or the proprietary ATI/Nvidea equivalent supported a protected path for media content, which could theoretically bypass the kernel by sending ciphertext directly to the renderer, then Widevine or another DRM system could be supported on GNU/Linux.
> would you talk to a lot of the startups in the current batch about collectively sticking to a lower percentage like 15%

I'm not a lawyer or even a particularly skilled investor, but that smells like an SEC violation. Even if it wasn't, I think it'd be something akin to price fixing.

Would someone who knows more care to chime in? Am I wrong?
germans generally like order very, very much. :)
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"I’ve written before on the Harvard Business School professor Amy Cuddy and power poses—I’ve even tried them out, at some cost to my dignity but gain to my dry-cleaning pickup skills."

So dignity is just for the masculine? It's not masculine to pick up dry cleaning? Is this what the tech community needs? More gender stratification? This is a disgusting article that makes nobody look good.
We too are a remote team at ninjaas.com.

I admire startups which open-source their - workflows, tools, processes and philosophies. They must be having really-really-big heart! :)

In our case, we are currently just Ramen Profitable. All our team members are remote, in the same time-zone.

Many small startups don't care much to invest in bringing Greater workflows, Processes and tools.

I keep telling to my co-founder - the hardest part in company building is setting up Processes, tools and workflows -- the Nurturing phase. It takes lots of gut, time and patience to explore and fix workflows, tools.

From my experience so far -

+ Any remote work sits on top of love for the work. I must love the job. Job satisfaction.

+ There must be a sense of ownership, reward and instant gratification. All other things like responsibility, Trust, faith comes on top of that.

+ Remote teams need highest levels of Communication clarity, Protocols and aligning with the Product vision. Communication tools are important. We use Google+ Private communities.

So, what if you are an idea-Stage/early-stage?
If its an Idea and still not a concrete product? Then remote teams can't collaborate easily and brainstorm. We've found it very hard.

Also for Remote teams - Everyone should be doing support, sales, marketing, pitching, writing cool articles and almost full-stack work. Overall a Generalist attitude. This brings more clarity, responsibility and leadership overtime.

Finally as you said - The biggest wins aren't usually found in any blog posts or comments like mine, but in what you discover on your own, over time.

So keep exploring and don't stop! :)
This story always disturbed me about the Stasi: http://theresagameinthat.blogspot.de/2011/06/stasi-scent-lib...
We need to re-write the damn kernel
I'm sure it's a matter of being able to meet in person without the need for pricey flights, having the ability to come in with some sort of frequency.
I use sendgrid.com to send e-mail from my ec2 instances.
Compare it to physics indeed:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_hadron_collider
I see. Thanks for the response. Also, thanks for choosing Debian and not some other closed source software.