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I'm also disturbed that this police officer (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Balcerzak) could even continue doing his job and be elected as a public official after handing back a victim to his would-be murderer. And still asking for appeal and getting his job back after his termination.
This would be fantastic for new college graduates and interns. I've always wondered why Google didn't provide dorms, considering the number of interns they hire. For a fresh college grad who's looking to save some money, code and live with like-minded people (for the most part) -- should be a lot of fun.
It will be really interesting to see how Jennifer manages the transition from learning to working in the industry. Hopefully she will update us on that part of the journey.

Good luck!
I'm sure FBI didn't have as much fun.

Anyway, as he decided to give the SSL key, pulling this kind of prank seems bit childish. On the other hand, he must have been under a heavy pressure, so can't blame the guy for not thinking 100% straight.

Sad, that people are sidetracked to talking about the font size instead of warrantless wiretapping.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubberhose
He did. It was a project called rubberhose.
It doesn't say she understands it, could just be a copy paste from a tutorial right?
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I knew a guy who paid for porn. The way he explained it boiled down to curation.

Those youtube-for-porn sites are pretty random, and places like usenet and bittorrent are even less organized, and require a bit of, er, delayed gratification. By paying a site to exercise editorial control he got exactly what he wanted with zero hassle or delay.
Spent days collecting them. They should be! :)
If any of your would like to read more about "underrated" serial killers after this harrowing story, Albert Fish comes to mind. Even just the wikipedia article is about as scary a horror tale as they come. Many friends have been unable to finish reading:
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Fish
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By storing them in a large vault with armed security at the entrance, never letting them see the light of day.

Oh, they can't monetize it then? That's the price for security.
It says no, but my Chrome just updated... Are you taking into account timezones?
Realistically, DRM does fuck all to protect content; The Pirate Bay is proof of that (most content there comes from DRM'd sources). All it does is control paying users.
How much VC$$$ was injected into this startup?
It seems like most tech companies trying hard to ignore serious housing problem in Bay Area

I think this is very good move
Interns don't have access to litebulb, I think.
You can always fork your own clean Firefox and promote it
You'll be cold emailing potential leads? In Europe that would not be legal, you'd have to get email permission through opt-in before sending a mail, except in very particular circumstances. I would think it's the same in the US?
> Lil Wayne wasn't being hyperbolic -- money really is over bitches:

But Biggie apparently was wrong http://rapgenius.com/rapstats?q=money%2Cproblems
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I didn't mean it's mathematically unrealistic, but politically unrealistic to actually determine that function. Since the function decides all, it will become the focus of continual, intense debate by people attempting to adjust it to the advantage of their favored policies.
Why conceal the donate link behind a link shortener? And on yet another creepy surveillance related story. I can't be the only one that sees the irony here.

TinyURL allows previewing of links by adding 'preview' as a subdomain, like so: http://preview.tinyurl.com/m65n4ko

Now we can see where your link really takes us, to a PayPal donate page: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-
xclick&hosted_button_id=7BCR4A5W9PNN4

This way, you can still have your (unnecessary) click tracking while still giving the reader choice. I think you used a link shortener only to track clicks, since there is no 140 character limit here on HN. Ask yourself if this practice is really necessary.
yep that's the one!! we had an anime channel (animax) on our cable briefly. So saw the first episode of this show back then. (Got introduced to ranma 1/2 and inuyasha as well!)
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But the point is that, with git, I don't have to do that! :D

(though we actually use Bazaar where I work, but it's distributed all the same)
Sure, I have no issue with that. I just wanted to clarify that USB sound cards are sometimes very much sub-par in terms of audio quality and one should be very careful about their choice there.
It might blow up in Firefox's face, a long time from now.

For now, there isn't even any standard for how the decryption algorithms should be implemented as plugins, so it's hard to see how Mozilla could implement it in the first place, let alone be pressured into implementing it.

Also, H.264 was already dominant on the web when the video tag was introduced, it was far better than Theora, it's slightly better than V8, and as you mention, it has hardware acceleration - all strong reasons for people to use it regardless of their opinion on patents. EME's support is mostly limited to a small number of companies that want to use it and doesn't seem inevitable at all. The situations are very different.
Well some kinds of education will. Keep in mind that tutoring or face-to-face job training is a kind of education as well. I don't think the price of that will decrease and become as abundant as air. As high paying jobs become more difficult to get, it might get so expensive that only the wealthy can afford it.
It just so happened I clicked on this link just a moment after clicking restart link on Chrome to let it update and it still said no?!
It's bad enough that governments are starting to restrict the Internet all over the world [1], almost in unison, why should the last bastions of freedom on the Internet fall so easily, too?

I see the corruption of W3C (because that's what it is) by corporations almost as bad as the corruption of NIST and the security standards by the NSA.

And for what exactly? The apparent "convenience" of not having a 3rd party plugin, but instead a "native" plugin in the operating system, that will only work on certain operating systems and browsers? HTML and DRM are incompatible in principle, and will be incompatible in practice, too. It won't give you any convenience, and will potentially make things worse in many other ways.

And all of this because we're starting to buy into the idea that the content companies are right and piracy is hurting their sales? I guess repeating a lie long enough, does make it true in the end - even though it probably isn't [2].

So once again, why are you letting our Internet freedom slip away without even a fight?

[1] - http://www.freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-net/freedom-net-2...

[2] - http://torrentfreak.com/piracy-isnt-hurting-the-entertainmen...
Well yes, personally I wouldn't install Rails or PHP on my servers just to run a database tool.
Isn't that just the process of finding the best mate based on genetic info? that is so not designing your child :/ So basically if it is worded as you say it is, then if a company figures out the actual designing part, they can't be sued by these guys. Because the selection they patent is between different donors... they cant do anything with a pre-selected donor.
A simple character flip in a single letter would make the key unusable. ocr is fairly good, but it's not uncommon that you get a handful of errors. That's usually fine if the result is meant for humans, but here, 99.9% correct is not enough, you need 100% correctness.
Well... I paid money for "John dies at the end", the reasonably good book by the author of the article... ironic, right?

Edit: The Kindle version.
Apple was smart and basically repurposed the OSX API for ios. But they always had a good API. The original windows API is water trash. .Net is nice.

The only thing MS needs to do is go modern instead of legacy for their new phones, but is that going to happen?
Could you just once expand on why you think it's still broken for those of us who have not tried Mavericks and hope this will finally fix the clusterfucked combination of fullscreen and multiple displays of Lion and Mountain Lion?
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From experience I can say that contrarian leaders in large & established companies walk the fine line between pushing for change versus self-preservation. There is an enormous amount of pressure/politics/resistance they face from the "old guard".

If they are too blunt and direct in suggesting change, their established rivals paint them out as someone who "does not understand or value the organization's history", or "does not get the culture" etc.

The CEO often prefers to sit on the fence, without putting his/her entire weight behind the contrarian. Because s/he does not (or cannot) risk antagonizing the majority of the old guard. In the absence of a CEO's or board's full support, the contrarians start getting stymied in their plans as time goes on. Their words become less sharper, their plans less disruptive and their canvas much less "blue sky". Till comes a time when they prefer to just leave rather than tilt at windmills.
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I certainly think this is very neat but the bottom line is that a user would have to be able to install arc the first time they want to use an app built on it. No matter how trivial you make that process it still sits on the other-side of the 'all you need is a browser' argument. For a lot of folk the distinction is not important but for others its quite different. For example I work medical imaging where we deploy in tightly controlled hospital environments where I can guarantee a browser will be installed (increasingly not just IE). Getting anything else widely rolled out is simply beyond our $$ power and thus we wouldn't target a technology like arc (sadly as I can think of a couple of places it would help). It sucks but you really don't want to give potential customers any excuse to not bother trying the product.
Well they did get fame!! And Macromedia used to have a Product by that name :P Cold Fusion!
I didn't mention sexism or imply gender prejudice, because I don't believe that's what happened here.

I ran this by a female developer for sanity checking, and I like what she came back with: "Transgendered people don't make up 50% of the population. Women do. Female software developers make up 18% of the industry, so if you're not getting 18% women interested in working for/with you, you have a communication problem."

For the record, I have no idea how many of the people on their roster identify as transgendered, and neither do you.
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I run a few (very) small porn sites - throwaway account for obvious reasons, though I'm a regular contributor on my main account. The sites I run are single-girl sites owned and operated by a single model - I'm the technical and business side.

People are still very willing to pay for original, quality content that would not otherwise be produced. The value proposition is that you're not paying for porn that has been produced, you're paying for porn that has yet to be produced by making it lucrative for the models, photo/videographers, editors, technical folks on the back end, etc to stay in the market.

Without that sort of sponsorship, I couldn't stay in business, and the women that own the sites I operate wouldn't be in it either - they'd be stripping or working minimum wage retail - and there'd be less porn in the world, and some people are still willing to pay for that.

The main thing is that it's about the interaction - people can chat directly with the models, there are forums, requests are often fulfilled with no additional hassle, that sort of thing.
This article basicly says that money printing is good and we should do more of it. If one increase the amount of money with 10% then your money and your wage has decreased by 10%. Those who get access to the new money first would be able to buy things for the old price before everyone is aware of the increase in money supply. In practice this is the big banks and their best customers (hedge funds).
I would rather say there is no problem with demand, it is just the prices who are to high. Espesially with housing, gas and other fixed costs. Lower the prices and the demand will increase.
The same way it makes it to every other stock. People buy them, looking for returns.
I'm only pointing out that this _may_ mean that the archives were compromised regardless of the fact he heroically shut down the whole thing.
Every single post on the first page of this guy's Tumblr is angry at someone or something. Who is this guy, and why are his opinions on management relevant?
Byte-ranges aren't idempotent like complete documents and key/value pairs are. You would need a vector-clock reference as well as the byte-range to let the server resolve ambiguity in your byte-range.
This is actually a very clever move. HTC is suffering and needs a bit of an infustion. They already make WP devices and get decent reviews from those devices, and the reviews of the HTC One make it out to be an incredible device.

If HTC sees more benefit from making WP phones than Android, and WP gets more shelf-space as a result, they could continue growing their marketshare.

What has HTC got to loose?
Some of this is questionable. For example, he claims that "by the 1980s... saving became passe" but that doesn't make sense. If anything, saving was useless in the 1970s and earlier, when inflation was out of control at more than 15%. It's kind of weird to be in favor of soft money and deficit spending, as he clearly is, and then get upset about mounting debt.

There are a lot of reasons why a London home that was 300,00k in the 1970s is now worth three times that. More people are living in London now than then, and due to London's "green belt" policies and height and zoning restrictions, there just hasn't been a great supply of new houses.

Tom doesn't even mention things like the oil shock, the impact of technology and automation, or demographics. It's kind of hard to get a reasonable picture of the economy without considering these things!

I agree with the basic point that we should have more Keynesian spending, but the history felt like a distraction. Calling the 70s a "golden age" is just... what is this, I don't even. Yeah, with the Vietnam war, OPEC, Silent Spring, and the threat of nuclear war, it was a real picnic...
More transparecy into credit scoring algorithms would be nice.
Probably the first one, if the content ever became available.

But don't forget that implementing something like this will have negative consequences as well. By dodging these consequences Mozilla could - at leas in theory - gain an upper hand.
After being informed of the news and reading about it, i realized that this was something that needed doing (your mileage, of course, may vary), and that supporters might be vulnerable to scams. I quickly found that there was already a "freedpr" website out there asking for Bitcoin donations with no information whatsoever identifying the operator, so I said to myself: "Gotta do it."

Incidentally, the Bradley Manning work I did was hundreds of hours without me taking a dime. I resigned my membership of the Support Network steering committee about a year after getting the thing booted up, confident that the rest of the members had things well in hand.
I think a basic income is a reasonable way of handling this sort of issue. Getting people to accept it is another matter altogether.
It's not a prediction market. It's just a badly-designed betting site.
Realistically, DRM keeps the majority of users from pirating content(otherwise I'll venture to guess that BigBadCo would have found via their research it was a losing proposition).

The internet dorks who frequent HN and Reddit who know how to easily circumvent said DRM are the minority.
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Any effect on homebrew?
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It's kind of weird to be in favor of soft money and deficit spending, as he clearly is, and then get upset about mounting debt

You seem to think that one must incur debt when deficit spending. Patently ridiculous. ;)
Please don't be disingenuous. We both know that using #defines, you can get a type which is exactly 64 bits on any modern architecture. The fact that long long and long int are a builtin types and int64_t is implemented in terms of them, rather than the other way around, is just an implementation detail.
I agree but we are talking about cofounders.Maybe I missed a new message from yesterday.
What's ridiculous about everybody bending over backwards for the Netflix usecase is that Hollywood isn't letting Netflix have the content anyway because they want to control and destroy yet another medium. Hollywood is a corrupting evil in our technical, legal and political systems and should be shunned, not accommodated, as much as possible.
Just because the FBI did not get the specific information they wanted as quickly as they would have liked should not entitle them to gather information on people not included in the original warrant... people who the FBI had no probably cause and no justification for grabbing their data.

I just don't understand how that makes sense. "You wouldn't give us Snowden's info so now we get everyone's info!" Why can't the FBI or the court further compel Lavabit to give up just the information they were authorized to get?
Simple: Don't. You see it time and time again. People will always find a way to circumvent DRM. DRM does nothing but add time/money.

Providing content is easier to access than to pirate and of a reasonable price the majority of people (bar kids that don't have a credit card) will just cough up and pay.

The way to fight piracy isn't to lock down something. Security through obscurity isn't security at all. Sure I won't be able to right click > save, but what stops someone from using a screen recorder?
They got perfectly subverted. I hope they revoke it, can somebody open a petition? I'll sign it!!!
So, when I see this things I always wonder: can they extract DNA from it?
The logic happens server-side but the user's timezone is posted to /content (so I'm guessing yes).
I get what you say, e.g. the NSA is not a practical problem as long as there isn't a McCarthy and economic depression scenario. Then you would literally risk a 1984 scenario.

Point is, your distinction re "real" war definition with countries is not working.

(The Taliban, for instance, is more or less a real guerrilla army with state backing. Almost all larger terror groups get unofficial state support from somewhere.)

Countries can be seen (and typically behave) as unusually big clans that do clan warfare. That the states wrote specific legal protections for themselves, compared to smaller clans, doesn't make them fundamentally different.
This is fundamentally opposed to personal computing. The goal of this DRM plugin is to stop your computer from doing what you tell it to do, in favor of doing what a corporation tells it to do. If this is given to them in the W3C spec, they will demand more in the future, until a PC is nothing more than a cable box that only allows the user to do what has been explicitly outlined as acceptable.
Yes, it's true but you need discipline also. Hit me up. I'll be happy to give you some tips about all these.
> Encrypted Media Extensions (EME) form the basis for a whole bunch of silliness, from proposals to prevent us viewing JavaScript source, to not being able to view text because of a font specification.

That's what you're backing. It may sound odd, but I imagine a large number of folks on HN disagree with you.
> Isn't this the same with all software?

That's exactly the point, the case is NOT so with HTML and JavaScript. A webapp I write in HTML and JavaScript is OS agnostic!
> If part of the system cannot be modified by me, then the whole is not open source

So would you say that firefox is open source now? If they implement this as a plugin, what makes it technically different from using Flash?
> Clearly, in that entire ecosystem nobody saw why you would ever have more than 1-2 displays.

http://awesome.naquadah.org/images/6mon.medium.png but it may not be the kind of wm you're looking for. also http://blog.linuxacademy.com/linux/ubuntu-and-multiple-monit... etc. Linux graphics drivers are a nightmare in general, saying that nobody cares is a bit unfair, especially when crazy setups are pretty common.
There were major problems early in the DP cycle, but they resolved themselves as of DP4. However, you do need to have the standalone command-line tools installed to populate /usr/include: it's empty otherwise, and Xcode doesn't provide a CLT package anymore (edit: not entirely accurate, see comments below).

Once /usr/include is populated, you shouldn't have much of a problem with most Homebrew packages.
See my response to wereHamster [1]; in short, you're right, which is why RFC 2616 specifies entity tags and the If-Match request header.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6494134
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> An especially interesting thing about machine learning algorithms is that even understanding the algorithm itself will often tell you nothing about its biases

A related problem is that many (most?) machine learning algorithms cannot tell you WHY they make the decisions or classifications that they do. Suppose you are a bank, using a neural net to decide on credit applications, and the net turns down an applicant. You are required by law to tell them why they were denied credit.

How do you do that for a neural net?

I can think of one way: try tweaking their application until it passes, and then derive an explanation from that. For instance, if you find that they would pass if they made $20k/year more income, you tell them they were rejected because their income was too low. I have no idea if that would be sufficient to satisfy the legal requirements, though.
+1, switched to Chrome with regret, because of Ff's bloating UI in 3-3.6 and its accompanying slowness.

-1 to the logic of switching "if they implement drm": If your drmized content isn't available in FF, you'll have all incentives to come back. Unfortunately.
There is a rigorous definition of REST; it's called RFC 2616. [1] That probably most people who implement it don't pay as much attention to it as they should doesn't make it any less existent.

[1] http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616.html
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Implement it, but don't implement it properly. Always tell the server (or whatever does the checks) that DRM is available, and that the user is authorized to play the content. Or add a button or setting to unlock any content.

And even if they implement DRM, I could probably just grab the source and comment out a few ifs, and would be fine (assuming its not just a wrapper for Windows' DRM).
Now imagine prediction markets with the twist proposed by Jim Bell: everybody bets on a day a person will die. If that day passes or the person dies before, you lose the money to those who predicted the right day.

Now who can know for sure when somebody dies? Exactly.

Frankly I'm amazed something like this hasn't taken off on the deep web yet. Tor + Bitcoin should do it.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_market
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Bell
Maybe I missed the point here, but firstly, browsers are free to choose to implement some parts of the W3C recommandations right ? and secondly, if the browser you use is implementing the DRM constraint, it's just a browser level restriction right? That mean you can either use a plugin that will fetch the blocked content or use an other browser to do it ?

This is doomed before being born (or I missed something).
Didn't notice until it was too late but there was an earlier submitted story + previous discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6490082