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The article didn't begin by saying that libertarianism was created or allowed to exist to benefit rich white men. It does imply that libertarianism benefits rich white men (which is why rich white men would predominantly support it...), but the article doesn't make the claim that libertarianism was created for that purpose.

Perhaps you should try a critical analysis of what the article actually says instead of a cursory skimming of what you assume the article says, before you decide how much stock you can place in it?
For those interested, there is a patch from WHMCS http://blog.whmcs.com/?t=79427
I see no way how an open source system can implement any effective DRM standard while staying open source.

If a proper open source system has a component that enforces DRM, and is functional when I download it, then it includes those keys; but gives me an unconditional right to use and modify it. And I am physically able to modify it, un-implementing those restrictions.

If part of the system cannot be modified by me, then the whole is not open source, and any open source system such as Firefox shouldn't include that part or standard.
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What baffles me is the cognitive dissonance from some of these critics - that the libertarian stance on drugs is wrong, but also the drug war is wrong.
Libertarianism does disproportionately benefit the wealthy. Being white only matters when you happen to live in a country where wealthy people are disproportionately white, which as it turns out is exactly the situation we have in America. It really is not that much of a stretch.
No, the DRM is going to be built into the browser itself. Browser vendors could in theory implement it as a plugin but they don't seem to be planning to and the W3C doesn't specify any kind of plugin mechanism. IE11 at least integrates it into the browser executable.
except in the title, where they explicitly claim he was behind Silk Road.
congrats Daniel, Robby, and team!
am I right in thinking that this could also allow manufacturers to make it harder for hackers to jailbreak devices they own (negative) and make it easier to design operating systems that would resist malware (positive)?
Circumstantial evidence has sometimes been enough for "beyond a reasonable doubt" in many cases over the past hundred years. I guess we were doomed since before then?
Sometimes, "lining something up" can consume all of your time and effort, and cannot be done concurrently with what you are trying to escape.
You are still missing it. Doing whatever you passionate about from a long list is not the same thing as committing to meaningful work over the long haul. You have to be able to make it through what I believe Seth Godin calls "the dip."
Does it mean that Firefox could not both implement DRM and remain open source?

Excellent!
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This post takes the lead-in with the Felisa Wolfe-Simon "Arsenic DNA" paper. In recent times I remember this was one of the most Hyped-up papers something akin to the Cold fusion paper by Fleischmann and Pons.

The contrast in the public response to the two incidents is fascinating. While Cold-fusion became a career-ender for anybody associated with it and Fleischmann & Pons both suffered pretty much banishment, repeated experiments have shown that there is something funny going on with that particular mix of compounds (Heavy water, Palladium, Nickel etc) - excess heat.

With arsenic life however, follow-up experiments have proven that it was contamination that was a cause of the result. So there is NO ARSENIC based life. Yet the lead authors of pretty much a gigantic false claim -orchestrated shamelessly by NASA- seem to be doing pretty well, dodging the basic questions with that most famous catch-all - more work is needed (hence more money should be sent my way) to prove the (bogus) claims made.
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The problem is that by the time things start getting shabby you all too often find out that the manufacturer is no longer making it any more.
>but after reading his post I have cancelled my Pluralsight $49/mo subscription

Haha! :D ... Long live the free market!

That makes me wonder if he forgot about the whole 'hey, what I say is practically PR for my entire company' thing. Maybe he was 'working too hard' at writing his blog to see that it may not be the smartest thing to say?

Hmmm, maybe he should heed the advice of people like young, stupid, naive, lazy, little and incompetent me when I say to not work hard BUT rather work hard AT working smart. ;)
Yes, that is my point. That is why any DRM plugin will be closed-source and probably filled with landmines and obfuscation: its the only sliver of a chance they have to make getting the unencrypted data hard.
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'daemon' in the quote is correct, both in context and in spelling. Not sure why you felt the need to add "sic".
You must be very familiar with the 'Explore' tab...
> encrypted passwords

Somewhere, oclHashcat makes room temperature rise.
No word on whether or not they encrypted passwords? ...Sigh.
The grant supposedly comes from Microsoft Research Connections. They give grants all the time to projects (usually at universities), I've (as a MSR researcher) even been involved in a one before with KAIST concerning a JavaScript related topic. Interest alignment is quite flexible.
Exactly. So if Amazon was guilty of that, they could be charged under those laws.

If that is the true justification for the new law, it is at best "pre-crime" enforcement - protecting Amazon from themselves, from getting into a situation where them might risk committing predatory pricing and monopolistic practices.

More realistically, follow the money and apply basic public choice theory. It's not like the economic history of the world hasn't seen this pattern a few hundred times before.
How is that a cognitive dissonance? People often reason similar conclusions through different logical reasoning. In fact one of my jobs as an instructor at a military training command was to identify students who had achieved an "answer by accident" to ensure that they went and studied the actual principles behind the problem they had mistakenly hit on the right answer for.
So, what's a good list of webapps that work well from the homescreen? I know about things like Facebook and forecast.io, but I'd love to know about more. The less apps (that rely on a network connection to be useful) that I have to download and keep updated the better!

Edit: Oh, reading the doc more closely, it looks like webapps have to manually support this with a head tag. That's a bit unfortunate.
Many websites do but I wouldn't say most.

Bugcrowd maintains a list of websites that have bounty programs: https://bugcrowd.com/list-of-bug-bounty-programs/
Wait, so Adobe doesn't deserve to make decisions about how it wants to sell its products? I'm confused here - are you advocating that companies give up control over their own delivery mechanisms?

We can argue as to whether or not we like their products, value their products, or receive in return for payment value greater than or less than the price of their products, but it seems to odd to say they shouldn't be able to make a decision about how they choose to sell them?
> Hacker News types, myself included, will cringe at this truth, but most consumers don't give a shit about the Web. They care about the content the Web gives them. If the Web cannot give them the content they want, they'll get it elsewhere, probably from silo'd App Stores where things "just work."

I don't cringe at that, it's just the way it is. But I promise you no-install browser delivery of DRM'd content which "just works" is very valuable to those businesses. People grab the thing within arm's reach. Sure, if there isn't anything in arm's reach a decent amount of them will still walk across the room for what they want, but I think that's besides the point.
Yes we did.

Some of us are even older than C, and are thus aware that there used to be a time and age where C only mattered for UNIX developers.
Nor do the reporters and/or editorials that cite such peer-reviewed papers that agree with their opinions.

Wait, maybe they do understand but they also understand that the general public doesn't understand.
I think I get it now. Sort of like a sequent calculus without the logic backtracking. Instead of proving anything Hoon just defaults it to something. Or crashes. :)
Monetizing isn't bad. But advertising is unimaginative.

Ads is not an easy business. You have two sets of customers, i.e. users and marketers. Striking a balance between the needs of both of these sets is always a key. Also, you need to build necessary technology like ad servers, bidding tools, reporting & analytics etc. "Ads" are a product too. And building a great product takes time.

> But they had three years to think about monetization, and the BEST plan they came up with was advertising. Not freemium, or selling products, or any other business model.

Instagram is for-profit company and if their ARPU via advertising is significantly greater than other options then it's in their stockholders (currently FB and public markets) interest to go via advertising route. I'm sure they must have considered all the options internally. But reality is very few people are willing to pay for online products.
Manipulate? They're a business who is making big boy business decisions. If you don't like their products don't purchase them. They don't have a monopoly, they simply have good products.
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I guess it depends on what you mean by the libertarian stance on drugs. If you mean that we should establish an unregulated market for recreational drugs, then yes, it is reasonable to be opposed, just like it is reasonable to be opposed to the idea of an unregulated market on meat, automobiles, or anything else that might affect public safety.

On the other hand, if you mean that people should not be imprisoned for possessing, selling, or producing drugs, then you are not talking about an idea that libertarians have a monopoly on. I am opposed to the drug war, but I think that recreational drugs should be taxed and that their production and sale should be regulated. That is not cognitive dissonance, that is just a different idea about how to approach and implement drug legalization.
"Our investigation currently indicates that the attackers accessed Adobe customer IDs and encrypted passwords on our systems."
This line really hits home the key failing I've had with email from startups (especially pre-launch confirmation emails):

"The single biggest problem I see in emails that web products send is that they maintain an undying focus on themselves and their product, rather than on their customers."

If I sign up for your beta, I want to know: "How are you going to make my life easier / better?"
so adobe was not aware of the internal breach until then?
Edit: They were.
If an open source system can run the CDM and is packaged in a proprietary widget; then I am allowed to take that open source system out of the widget, modify it to behave exactly as if it is still in the widget (so that it can still run the CDM) and redistribute the system to everyone.
A "Flash" without the (in)security footprint of an entire runtime duplicating Web standards, I think you mean.
Come to think of it, in theory the Raspberry Pi could support a DRM scheme that's entirely "open source" in the same way that their graphics drivers are already. Basically, the GPU is actually a fairly powerful processor running a binary blob that receives messages from the ARM CPU - if it did all the decryption the CPU-side code could be entirely open.
It was your own suggestion that spawned this thread.

You wrote:

"I may be totally naive here, but I'm not really sure why this matters. That there is a WC3 standard does not imply that browsers have to adhere to it."
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6491428

marcosdumay is responding to that by saying "It matters because ..."
True, and also relevant: We solve so many different problems that changing the difficulty is only a start. Changing the actual task is as, if not more, important.

Coming from a martial arts background, kata are about learning very specific motions -- more than one at a time -- by performing them repeatedly in sequence. This does not mean that kata are an end in and of themselves. They teach you what to do, not why to do it. They train your body to do something. The why comes later, when you have the how as a basis; this is a fairly fundamental difference between learning a physical skill and a mental one, where the latter can be mastered without at least some of the conditioning necessary for the former.

Doing the same thing in code will train you to solve a single problem, whether in one way or in more than one way, and the difference really doesn't matter. It's trivially different from training you to solve problems, which is what good programmers do as a matter of course.

Effective ways of improving skill x are not necessarily applicable to learning skill y. I believe this is one instance of x and y being so far removed from one another as to be totally unrelated, and the application of training methods for x just don't matter at all for y; one man's garbage is another man's treasure, and this to me epitomizes that.
http://devbootcamp.com/

They are doing well and supposedly 95% graduates get job immediately after graduating. Their classes are booked until apr 2014. They basically make students go through what she did, but in an office.
This quote from the Krebs post is both laughable and horribly saddening. Even Adobe can't manage to keep Adobe software installs up to date

>Arkin said the company has not yet determined whether the servers that were breached were running ColdFusion, but acknowledged that the attackers appear to have gotten their foot in the door through “some type of out-of-date” software.
Hey, Mike. Whatcha up to these days? (Also: guess who I'm visiting at the moment.)
Good. Let it die. If anything, this will encourage people to move off of that horrid platform and onto something different. There's no excuse to be using Acrobat anymore; there are dozens of better solutions for PDF doctoring and creation.

And for those who are using Reader, well, they were in for it.
That's Tesla's PR spin. You'd probably be in pretty bad shape from the heat if you were trapped in that car. The guy taking the video remarked he could feel it just by driving by.

A key question here is how easy it is to start a fire from a relatively minor and common incident such as hitting road debris. Sure, it's possible in gas cars, and gas fires burn quickly.

But if it's a lot more common in cars with giant vulnerability zones along their entire undersides where shrapnel can start fires through physical damage without even an ignition source...

All I'm saying is this is definitely something we need to monitor closely, not just dismiss offhandedly or spin with clever PR like "the fire didn't enter the cabin (but still could have killed you)".
How bad is your Facebook news feed?

I get 1 suggested post for every page of statuses. (So if I scroll to the bottom to load new posts, I get 1 more suggested post)

These are all somewhat relevant ads to me. One is for a dentist in my area, one is for a keychain cell phone charger, one is for instagram, and one is a company looking for IT jobs (which makes sense, since I'm a developer).

There's the regular ads on the side, but those have been there for years and remain as relevant as the posts in my newsfeed. I've even clicked one of those ads and bought something.

I'm just curious, because my experience with facebook ads is actually quite good. Maybe this is because my profile is somewhat more open than many so they can mine more data from it and I don't go around "liking" things that I don't actually want to get updates from.
I suggest you research the definition of the word "may", and consider the quoted phrase in the context of the sentence you extracted it from.
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Our aim is to make any advertisements you see feel as natural to Instagram as the photos and videos many of you already enjoy from your favorite brands.

Their stated goal should be despised and pariahed, and yet they are proud. This is the problem with Google, Facebook, and now Instagram. There is absolutely no separation of content from ads, and they do exactly as much as law will permit.

I've been deeply disappointed in all of the spam coming out of Google these days - they flood inboxes with spam from Google Play and other services, and it's a travesty for the brand. It's a little funny to watch the GMail team fighting the spam hydra, within Google itself.
Shouldn't we compare the abilities of people vs. computers? Computers can store a lot in their memory, but it's pretty hard to make them prove theorems, whereas humans are pretty bad at memorizing anything and pretty good at abstraction.

...and since a programming language should be primarily designed for humans (or, as I actually see it, a programming language should be an interface between the human mind and the computer) and at the same time be executable by computers, choosing more memorization and less abstract concepts seems like a bad idea ...most smart people's minds find juggling abstract concepts easier and more enjoyable than memorizing rules (and when working memory is not enough to hold all the abstract concepts we're juggling, we use anything from pen and paper to other more advanced devices - just ask any mathematician), and those that don't are also those that "just don't get (or like) software", so they shouldn't be programming anyway.
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Be warned, we still think press plays a major role as a distribution channel, compared to these sites that will only bring you beta users, in the hundreds. :)
For some reason the FB adds, on my feed, are very sexually suggestive. Somehow, seeing cleavage next to pics of family... seems very creepy to me. I really hate it.
It's DRM legitimised as a concept in a supposedly open standard. it's a slippery slope.

with video DRM having a foot inside, who dares to venture a guess at what the next victim will be? DRMed js? DRMed html?
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I just bought it, because I like where you are going with the design.

However, I would echo the need for comment support.

Check out how http://hn.premii.com/ does comments, I find that quite readable compared to news:yc.

The ability to log in and reply to comments would round out the use case that I used to use other apps for.
A browser can save the data after it's been rendered.
A DRM plugin can't tell the difference between an "approved" browser that doesn't do that versus a modified browser that just pretends to be an approved browser.
Looks nice, but if it's only Mac compatible it's not going to take off any time soon. Get the Win/Linux versions out ASAP.
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Start using LastPass and generate random unique passwords for everything you do online. They are now as good as encrypted even if the vendor stores them in plaintext.
What if the more easily procured drugs create more addicts, reducing tax revenue so that the net tax benefit is negative? Then you've got less money to help more addicts.
The revenue for an ad-free version of the app would never equal the revenue generated from the ads.
It is an understandable comment. Maybe we'll rethink it. Bad taste is a social construct, but you live in the society you live in...

On the other hand, the identity dialogue defaults unwary bros to %lady, which certainly ought to cause a little wailing and gnashing of teeth.
Sorry, fair point. My point that you quoted was that anyone could roll a browser that did not include the DRM standard (or any standard for that matter). And many do already. I don't think this implies that the W3C is dead.
The CDM may render directly to the underlying platform; it doesn't have to pass decrypted content back to the browser for rendering.

Seriously though, everyone should go just read the spec. Or at the least, take a looksee at this: https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/html-media/raw-file/tip/encrypted-med...
Why is this article HN worthy? It is just some person who still hasn't realized that it doesn't matter how hard you work, if what you work at isn't worth working at.