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I may have been tainted by the first thread I saw here making reference to this guy. Someone basically directly, flat out said you'd have to be crazy to write your own compiler and OS. I am searching on Google and using HN search and I can't find that thread. It was a few months back.

But in my searches I did find people making fun of the guy very directly, albeit a long time ago and in some cases downvoted:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4466947
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4467278

And the more recent discussions, even in this thread... I do feel they have a bit of a subtext.
The whole point of Google Glass is that it lets you be "present" and keeps you looking up, instead of making you look down at your own hands every time you want to use it.
Spotify pays out 97 percent of its total revenue to the record companies. If the record companies are taking an enormous percentage of that and not paying the artists, it's perfectly sustainable once you remove the parasite siphoning off all the money.

http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/24/pandora-and...
> That being said, Chuck Norris is a hell of a nice guy and I wish him the best, even if he isn't a bad-ass.

You must be joking.

http://www.wnd.com/author/cnorris/
Losethos's behavior is schizophrenic. That the behavior might be an artificial construct of a non-schizophrenic human is possible but unlikely. Such elaborate and prolific trolling kept up over the course of more than a decade is rare if not unheard of.

The idea that supposed prophets were often schizophrenic is hardly a novel notion to academia.

I'm unclear on your motive here. Do you want everyone to think he and anyone else acting similarly is a troll simply to be dismissed? Are you arguing for simply demonizing the mentally ill rather than offering any understanding, because there's a chance they might be trolls? And if they are trolls, might that not be a symptom of a different sort of mental illness?

I assume you're trying to accomplish some sort of goal you think worthwhile, but I'm at a loss to understand what it might actually be.
Nobody is forcing you to use Ember Data. There's quite a few alternatives out there and you can even use $.ajax.

This is a very unfair comparison between a complete stable release of Angular and an alpha of Ember Data that even tells you it's extremely unstable and not production ready.
> I think DRM is fine as long as I can access my media anytime & anywhere on all my devices.

I think DRM is never OK. Not only because of privacy and ethical issues, but because if you can't fully control the content and the service which issues DRM closes down you would simply lose everything you paid for. It should be a deal breaker. Then pirating that content will be the only option to get it back. This Xkcd applies to video pretty much the same way as to audio for which it was made: http://xkcd.com/488
Yeah supply of shitty music is huge but that's the way it works with everything.
And why is that value on ebooks so much greater than on paper then ? Why would the author be paid 15$ on an ebook and only 1$ on paper for the same customer price ? Is the author creating more value on paper than on a digital format? Certainly not.
The technology and business model side of the equation could be solved, if the licensing problems were resolved. Too bad all the streaming services are still hamstrung by licensing issues from truly providing a service wherever you are. Netflix is still unavailable in most parts of the World, including many Asian countries where piracy is the most prevalent.
Its hard to say if we'll ever get DRM free streaming. Unlike the music industry, the tv/film industry isn't being crippled by piracy - in fact the tv/film industry only seems to be getting bigger.

Simply put, there is no motivation for DRM streaming and DRM still remains a way for studios to keep control on who and when is licensing their content. Talking to some media execs, I was surprised to learn the reason most DRM is implemented is because for some content deal, the contract stated (which was written 6-8 years ago), said the player must have DRM. Now that the content landscape is getting even more fierce (with networks like CBS cancelling service to TimeWarner) no one wants to risk renegotiating anything.

Now what motivation does Netflix have to remove their DRM? They want you on their platform, so they can collect your data. The next Netflix that even has a chance of running it legal will probably incorporate ads into their monthly pay product like Hulu does, which isn't at all surprising considering a huge chunk of revenue for these guys comes from advertising.

I'm not hopeful about DRM-free streaming. The tv/film industry is much different from the music industry. From a consumer POV, the biggest difference is streaming wins over downloading. There is less of a demand for DRM free content because people simply aren't looking to copy their mp3s to their iPod/Zune/MP3 Player of choice. The Film industry has a much tighter control on how the content is delivered.
The work that Jeff Dean and colleagues at Google are doing is pretty mind blowing [1]. Sometimes, I feel that you need Google's scale of problems to be forced to push technology that way.

The joke at my company is that everytime Google publishes about one of their technology on a paper, they already have a next-gen version of it running internally.

[1]: http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2013/08/learning-meani...
Your contrast with television is astute.

People who complain that digital technology leaves us isolated have it completely backward. Digital technology is slowly giving us back some of the interconnectedness that we lost to television, cars, and suburbs.
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If you're implying that US economy and society is hopelessly sick, it is not. If anything, we have wastly more support programs for needy than in 19th century, and vastly more opportunities for mobility and career change.
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There can be advantages to have a limited free plan. I offer limited free plans for 2 main reasons:

* users can make sure they like the service before paying for it. This avoids costly refunds

* users can integrate our API and doing tests without having to pay for it. It makes for a better experience, as they don't feel they are paying for missing documentation or limited libraries.

If you make the free plan useful as a trial, this can be a win-win. With my service, I see people using the free plan as a trial only: after a few days they pay for it, or they stop using the service.

I also use my free users for posting Tweets and other social sharing.
But using it during times of inactivity, to me is harmless.

Maybe. Another theory might be that our brains need more downtime than we are giving them. Or maybe we are filling our brains with so much useless knowledge that it is stopping us from remembering important things. Or maybe that time of staring out the window would've made me think of the next great thing.

That's what I worry about anyway when I whip my smartphone out all day.
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Next time, don't do something automate-able. You're a human, remember? Do things that only humans can do.
Thanks for the details. I find these environments fascinating, although I'm sure they're best observed from a great distance in both space and time.

One more question, if I may: once you got used to it, what was the productivity like? I imagine these sorts of things as taking days or weeks to make the simplest of changes, but maybe the horror I imagine becomes routine after a year or two of experience.
I don't understand. I spent over 5 minutes on that site. I read everything on the page, and I still have no idea what it's supposed to do. It generates a page for me? I have to put in my email address to do that? Why?

Oh well.
I'm sorry, but this latest spree of articles is nonsense. There is nothing wrong with a randomly constructed password or passphrase, and each of these articles conveniently forget to mention that the tools are only this effective when the service provider doesn't do password authentication properly (e.g. by using bcrypt or scrypt with a high work factor rather than MD5 or SHA-1 to store the password 'fingerprints.')
I noticed a family in an airport a while ago --- the parents and the two children were all engrossed into their own mobile phones. I felt very sad and have since then trying to reduce my mobile phone consumption

You would have seen my family doing this a couple of weeks ago (well, except we have one kid). We were stuck there for 12hrs, and we were playing a game together, on our respective phones.

I get the sentiment, though, and I feel the same way about photography, which is why I don't often take pictures when we're doing family activities--I don't want to stop having fun with my family long enough to take them.
Heh, this is pretty entertaining, I'll have to try the scores on IMSLP:

http://imslp.org/wiki/Musikalisches_Opfer,_BWV_1079_%28Bach,...

(also it's doable on a 37 key MIDI controller so very accessible
> Also, those costs are partially marketing costs -- having the book printed and out on the shelf in a bookstore is a form of marketing. While they may not have the printing and inventory costs of physical books, ebooks definitely have marketing costs and, because of the low barriers to entry in the market compared to the market for physical books, arguably have more competing noise that their marketing is trying to be heard over. There's a cost of dealing with it, and the sales price of the books has to pay for it for selling the books to be a profitable business.

Meh, poor justification. A physical book is not really a form of marketing, there are tons of books sitting on bookshops shelves without ever being touched or opened by anyone. Only when you do an actual marketing campaign you get a prominent display with large amounts of your book in visible areas.

Ebooks have marketing costs but you can target the potential customer much more accurately online than in the shop. Plus, there are tons of mechanisms to get your book reviewed and rated by peers, to have a full site to explain the contents in way more details than you could ever expect in an actual store. Ebook advertising is probably not cheap, but it still is nowhere near justifying the large margin they create on the selling price.

It's a market ripe for disruption.
There's only one kind of socialism - one that is based on forcibly taking the resources from producers and redistributing them by political whim. Everything else is a window dressing.

>>> Not to mention that there isn't any system which survives your counterargument.

If you can't distinguish good from harm or follow casual links - maybe. Fortunately, many people can.
Hence he has to overanalyze the headline.
I can't express how startled I was when one lone teacher (thanks, Professor Nutt!) taught me how simple an assembler was to write, that the inner workings of a CPU can be understood by mortals, and bootstrapping a monitor and language interpreter atop bare metal is a thing you can do.
"His diet and personal hygiene left much to be desired."

Does it means these poor people that happen to be our ancestors had a faint body odor surrounding them? Can we stop with this crasiness? We are animals, animals have "body odor", and it have been considered a good thing for a long time.

Every time I hear about personal hygiene I remember this American girl who was learning Chinese with me in a university in south China. She was there on the behalf a sort of NGO and her goal was to "teach Chinese personal hygiene". She was talking about "spreading the use of perfume and deodorant" and such things.

So now we have no more colonization, but we still have missionaries, and hygiene missionaries. And they still do harm.

(Because yes, abuse of perfumes and deodorant IS harmful in many respects)

So, to come back OT, it is ok to wonder if middle-age peasants had more free time, and if their life was pleasant (I guess it was not), but please let our own crasiness out of the discussion.

We are the anti body age, anti-body hair, anti-body odor, shaved-porn-age (which is anti-sex), etc. We have our crasiness too. It is very optimistic to believe we are less crasy than the Middle-Age. And God knows Middle-Age was crasy...
I'm sorry, but for some reason I can't believe you.

The program currently pays per family, tops, R$ 306. Minimum wage is more than double. I don't see why mentally and physically capable people would refuse the opportunity of doubling their income.
>Now what motivation does Netflix have to remove their DRM? They want you on their platform, so they can collect your data.

If they don't even hide their intentions in abusing DRM to violate their users' privacy, it should only strengthen the reasons to avoid Netfilx like services. I'm hopeful for DRM free digital video. It will take one distributor to break this sick trend. Netflix isn't the one with guts to do it.
Hi looks cool but might be too technical for most people.

Perhaps you can keep it much simpler and have a link to technical details at the bottom. Many people probably don't know what "Encrypt client side" or Expires in x actually means. To that end you might want a really simple 3 step explanation of how to use it.

Or maybe you could have an "Advanced" mode with these options.
The Oxford English Dictionary needs to know about this word.
"The government pays AT&T to place its employees in drug-fighting units around the country. Those employees sit alongside Drug Enforcement Administration agents and local detectives and supply them with the phone data from as far back as 1987."

"Unlike the N.S.A. data, the Hemisphere data includes information on the locations of callers."

"Some four billion call records are added to the database every day"

No wonder phone number portability got pushed through.
Odd that for those who hold a certain worldview, people are always responsible for their own failure or success, yet never responsible for the impact their actions have on others.
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How does the code handle the jump from SE(2) to SE(3) in a clean fashion? Pretty much any integrator you cook up will keep your configuration in SE(2), but a discrete integrator of the Newton-Euler equations takes a bit more care.
Unless we're talking about Win8-BIOS-TPM stuff(which I don't clearly understand just yet), I don't think proper(non-remote-controllable) DRM is a privacy concern. I'm not sure how it's an ethical concern either. But, I do think that if the DRM servers and/or media streaming servers are going offline and making the content disappear forever they should allow it to just be downloaded without DRM for free - since turning off the servers implies they're done making money off it(?).
How many people died of starvation caused by the inability to acquire sufficient calories (i.e. excluding anorexics) last year in the USA? How many people are living on the streets who simply can't find anywhere to spend the night (as opposed to simply too mentally ill to look)?

Being first-world poor is certainly miserable and can have deadly consequences but this type of bs exaggeration just hurts the point you seem to be trying to make.
The USA poverty line is some 20x world median income.

If you're making more than twenty times what the top of half the people on the planet are, you're not poor. That other people in your vicinity make more than you does not make you poor.
Well steam sales have ran out steam it seems from anecdotal evidence. While the first few were a godsend and a very good piracy "amnesty" - currently I have more than 100 games in my backlog, so on the last two I bought only one-two games. And all around me people say the same. The only games I consistently buy are the humble bundles mostly to support the idea.
I've worked for an ISP in NetOps Security and Infrastructure, in this position I assisted in on-the-ground project management of a new high power density addition to an existing co-location date centre, along with being responsible for the day to day running and maintenance scheduling, deployed and managed 55 security cameras across three states including some underlying network.

I've worked in a call centre doing Level 1 tech support for retail customers, Level 2 support (escalations), and Faults & Provisioning of DSL & Telephony services.

I am a welder by trade, I hold a Certificate III in Engineering & Heavy Fabrication, I can weld stainless steel, steel, and aluminium, from light gauge sheet metal to heavy wall pipe, structural steel, I've work on construction 60' fishing boats and 8' aluminium recreational fishing boats.

I have a Diploma in Western Herbal Medicine and a Certificate IV in Allied and Complimentary Healthcare, I've studied, in detail, around 220 herbal medicines (some of which has peer reviewed efficacy studies, others clinically proven, others are tradition), including growing and producing my own liquid extracts.

I currently work 22ish hours a week as a carer / personal attendant to two physically disabled guys. My skill set is unique and I'm highly employable.

Working full time is not all it's cracked up to be. I've done lots of it. I've had three six month 'travelling holidays', four years of part time or full time study with part time or full time work. I've had all sorts of mixes of work / study / holiday / travelling.

It'd be worth noting the context my life has happened in: I live in Australia, we have social security / unemployment benefits (yes, there are "benefits" to being unemployed), and free healthcare.

Edited for coherence.
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Why, I'm sure there are some jobs in agriculture always available, and nobody cares how you smell when you're in the fields. There are probably other options too. But there's always 100% vacation options, many people are using it right now.
I think the problem with terse and clear is that, typically, it solves the problem elegantly only in the exact current context in which the code is written. Meaning, as the software progresses, that previous elegant, perfect, concise code is rendered invaluable. In such cases, due to the size of the codebase, it becomes easier/necessary to work around that previously elegant code in the form of if blocks etc... which inevitably leads to crap code.

At least, that is my experience in the world of web-based programming. Scripts and other single-purpose code implementations are another case entirely.
When Netflix (or any other DRMed code) runs on your machine, it runs as a black box for you. Why isn't that a privacy concern and why should it ever be trusted? It's unethical because it's an overreaching preemptive policing, but it's a long subject.

> do think that if the DRM servers and/or media streaming servers are going offline and making the content disappear forever they should allow it to just be downloaded without DRM for free

They may be "should" allow it, but they will never do at that point. They have more important problems to care about when they close down. So it's our obligation as responsible users to demand DRM free content from them right away, and avoid those who refuse to sell such.
So you've got some good evidence that Feudalism is worse than socialism.
There's a tremendous Louis CK bit about this trend:

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zd2sRC3K9Hs&desktop_uri=%2Fwatc...
Initially, you didn't give me a lot of context when you dismissed me as a pompous ass. You didn't give me any reason to think you had read and understood my original comment. My reading of it, without that context, was to assume you were OK with dismissing people based on their health problems. This especially bothered me because I have a family member with such problems. I've seen so many people be dismissive of this kind of thing seemingly because they have never experienced anything like it, and without a lot of context in your reply I put you in that bucket.

When I saw your reply to my reply I understood a bit better, and so please allow me to say right now: I am sorry. At the same time I did kind of feel that you went a little overboard in your reaction.
The track record of the largest nuclear operator in the world, the United States Navy, begs to disagree.
Given that part of her hobby is buying and selling real estate in one of the most expensive markets in the country I think she'd be fine.
http://xkcd.com/1227/

Your complaint is nothing new. People will always be able to romanticize the past.
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That's easy, because most people do not care to do that. Having owned a collection of DVDs it was "fun" to buy them when it was the thing to do but totally useless now. I care not to take the baggage of managing hundreds of titles with me just to have the knowledge that I own it. I do not wish to own such things unless I want to - which will be rare and should be on me to purchase that item outright from the provider.

This is about simplicity and ease-of-use only, not about ownership. If you insist on ownership there is nothing preventing you from buying the work directly.
For example, Spacey says there will be 146 pilots made this year at the cost of $US300-$US400 million. Only 56 of those will actually be made into a series. “That makes our House of Cards deal for two seasons really cost effective,” Spacey says in the speech.

Of course it seems cost effective when the show is a big hit. But had it been a flop, it would have seemed a colossal waste of money - something that could easily have been surmised with a much smaller investment. For Netflix's strategy to work, they'll need to be able to continue to pick winners at a much higher percentage than the traditional television network has been able to. To do so they'll need to have content producers that understand what it takes to tell a good story. I think the downside is that this high risk strategy is likely to make them more risk averse in the shows that they choose to produce. They'll be a lot less likely to invest in first time writers, actors and directors. And they'll probably shy away from any story that is at all experimental in nature.
First, the poor don't need access to higher education, they need access to better primary education. The technology training in most public schools is pathetic to non-existent.

Second, why would you doubt for a second that new jobs will be invented? Until AI improves there will always be a plethora of menial information technology jobs that would be the 21st century equivalent of assembling widgets.
Only someone living in the relative safety of a hygienic society would assume the point of that statement is smell.

Medieval peasants died from their lack of hygiene.
This "Protect the Program" stuff sounds like another "Parallel construction" debacle. They are not talking about hiding the program from the public, they are talking about getting the information elsewhere after you used Hemisphere.

Basically, this is a private backyard deal the DEA made with AT&T. Apparently our laws have deteriorated to the point where AT&T lawyers believe they can do this legally.
It seems to be a pattern in Python APIs to allow the caller to decide if a given function call should throw an exception when an error occurs. For example,

a = some_dict['nonexistent_key']

would raise a KeyError, while

a = some_dict.get('nonexistent_key', 'DEFAULT')

would return 'DEFAULT' instead.
You are not paying for the content in this model - only the ability to access the content through the provider. It's the same as all free and/or pay-for-web-services. You have no control but that is the sacrifice you make for having the ability to access it from the internet, and not your device.
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