skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The issue is that some big name content providers don't want to sell you content unless they can also install things on your computer. This fact remains regardless of the technological implementation details.

Sure, but we don't have to aid them in their quest

>The overwhelming majority of content on the web is DRM free. These proposals do not mandate nor give any incentive for that content to be protected if it is not already.

The practical effect of being able to deliver DRM'd content to every non-technical web user, without first having to get that user to download and install your proprietary software, is just massive. This is one of the biggest falloff points in the conversion funnel, so it makes this new delivery method highly attractive. As it is now, businesses have to balance the cost of losing customers against the cost of not being able to DRM their content. Take that dilemma away and I think you certainly have a new incentive. The practical effects of this are far reaching imo.
Please note that it can be as difficult for French people to move to the USA (sometimes, it's even worse, thanks to your TSA guys).

It's sad Schengen Area[1] does not cross oceans...

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schengen_Area
well, i guess that settles it:
http://rapgenius.com/rapstats?q=emacs%2Cvim
What do you mean by "we don't share lead lists internally"? As in the lead list won't be shared with the customers, or that lead lists are not shared internally within LeadGenius as well?
You just need to get creative. Assuming you had a hydrant, you could just hook up a couple portable monitors, or maybe the engine has a tele-squirt. (I kid, obviously...)

Obviously there are limiting factors beyond the flow rate of the pump. My point was simply that a car fire that exceeds the firefighting capabilities of a single engine would be a very impressive car fire indeed.
What you say about the market odds changing because of changes in information known to the participants is of course true, but it misses my point. The very fact that bets can be traded means that people can profit by betting on the beliefs of others, not on the actual outcome of the event the betting is based on.

The example of the McCain bets for the 2008 election is a case in point: if the author's bet would only have paid off on the actual outcome, he would have lost! The only reason he was able to make money at all was that he found other people willing to buy his bets.

Similarly, in your asteroid example, yes, you sold your bets because information changed, but the reason you were able to make money doing so was that there were other people willing to buy your bets--which means their expectations about the outcome must have been different from yours (if they were the same as yours, no one would buy your bet, because the trade is zero sum). So you are making money based on others' beliefs about the outcome, not based on the actual outcome.

For example, if the asteroid ultimately does not hit, then all your "yes" bets are losing bets; the only reason you made money was that you sold your bets before the fact that they were losing bets became known for certain, just like the article's author did with his McCain bets. But also, even if the asteroid ultimately does hit, your payoff doesn't depend on that, because you sold your bets; someone else, who bought them, ended up making the profit you could have made if you had held them until the outcome was known. So once again, you made your money based on other people's beliefs about the outcome, not based on the actual outcome. (You even agree with this, when you say that you sell when the market odds are close to your own beliefs: the market odds are determined by the average beliefs of all the participants, not by the actual outcome.)
I think the definition of value is important, and I believe there is a large disconnect between generations and even individuals on this. Many in the younger generations value experience far more highly than tangible assets and career trajectory. That is why they are so fickle and likely to move from one thing to the next. While older generations say 34 years older, are interested in career trajectories, legacy building, and building a family home/unit.

The method in which you choose to carry out your professional duties is much more closely tied to the type value you wish to create, than some vacant concept of lazyness or not understanding hard-work.

I think a more pertinent argument is whether the younger generation is mistaken in their goal to gain experiences as opposed to building longterm tangible capital and careers.
There are a lot of web sites that are far better than any native-app. I've never found an app better for sports scores than ESPN.com, for example. Facebook is another great candidate. I'd love to sandbox that puppy in a Chrome frame. This is great to hear.
(judge == evaluate) != (judge == condemn)

I wish there were a better way to disambiguate "judge".
That's how it is now without a standard. We don't need a standard for stupid anti-UX features like built in DRM
Yeah, at the start of the article I was already in disagreement after the equating of "grinding it out", "boring work", and "working hard". Sounds a little too self-justifying.

I'm in my 30s but quit the startup and bigcorp stuff to work less and be happier. I put in plenty of time busting ass for people way over my pay grade for 8 years. Honestly, a lot of the higher-ups in technology really don't care about those extra hours you put in, because often it's basically free to them.

Now I can work in a billable hours business and do pretty well with respect all around. I enjoy it, can explore new technologies, without being a full time drone.

Sorry to the author, but I don't think that makes me someone who needs to be talked down to. He doesn't seem to understand the concept that you can love what you do for a paycheck but placing more importance in other things is not a personality defect.
If Digital Restrictions Management gets added to HTML5 then it makes it far easier for content hosts to add restrictions. This is a huge risk.

But more importantly the idea of HTML5 was to get rid of proprietary closed source plugins like Flash. Adding DRM to HTML5 will make it rely on proprietary closed source plugins.

I hope the W3C reconsiders. If somebody feels the need for DRM then they should implement their own stuff outside of the open web.
Analysis of Silk Road’s Historical Impact on Bitcoin
how so? I really don't get it. how is moving from a plugin (flash/sliverlight) to html5 a bad thing as long as you can protect your content?
"The company will not be shut down post-acquisition, though it did recently shut down its app."
I used to have a K car that would tell me things like "Your door is ajar" and other random bits of information.

Then one day, it said, "Your electrical system is malfunctioning." We all bust out laughing. If was funny until the engine stalled after 4 more miles.

Turned out the alternator was dead.
I'm disappointed to see the depressingly common male-genetalia-centric humor in "Gonadic" combinators. I find myself agreeing with much of the forward-thinking, throw-the-past-away design of Hoon/Nock, but it's jarring to find this kind of asinine brogrammer mentality mixed in with it. Yet another sling and/or arrow of discomfort for the half of the human population that already has to put up with too much of this shit.

[EDIT] As a reply points out, Gonad is gender neutral. I still think that this humor is distasteful.
The house(s) that Facebook built are coming to San Francisco
Government shutdown: a brief history
And how does it sync back from Google Calendar to the Lego calendar...?
Isn't there a difference between user acquisiton as a service and prospecting as a service? Clicking this link, I thought you did the whole sales process.
In this case, Apple's patents are fake, because there is clear prior art. Samsung tried to use that defense, but the jury was really weird on that one. No idea why they aren't proceeding with invalidating them further.

I'm not defending Samsung. They both are worth each other here. Apple started this idiocy first though - no one asked them to be patent jerks to begin with. When one crook is being bitten by another crook in a crooked fashion, because the first did something crooked to the second first, then the first one should look in a mirror, before pointing fingers to the second.
I'm rarely massively critical of HN posters, because on the whole they seem pretty solid. So when in doubt I ere on the side of caution & assume I'm missing something instead of them missing something. On this particular article I can't help myself though - the author seems utterly oblivious to the real world.

>The big problem is that “kids today” don’t understand the value of hard, boring work.

Hard work & kids...yeah...remember the news article 3 weeks ago about an intern in London dying from working 3 days straight. An intern for fck sake...not even an employee. Dead. Now tell me again that kids today don't know about hard work. I dare you.
Ok, thats fine, but I dont spend anywhere near that amount, and I live in downtown Boston, one of the highest cost of living areas on the east coast. So, what I don't spend on a mortgage, I put into my savings and other equity assets. There is no world in which I live in that I could spend the same on a mortgage as I do in rent. I still end up financially on top renting over owning in this city. Sure, I can move, but I love the quality of life I have here, and I wont change it anytime soon.

Sure, theres equity in a house, but is that everything? Do I really need to leverage a loan against my own property to live comfortably? To send any future children to a great school? Do I need to end up so underwater with a mortgage to consider myself successful? The answer to all of these is no.
Use any Google properties? Google.com and youtube.com (can) use the same password across two domains. I think there are others within google too. Or do they redirect to google.com for all logins? Meh. Like you said, it's a rare problem.

Thought of another problem: when you're forced to change your password. How do you encode that? Just add a version-N marker to the site name (which you have to remember)?

I'm not trying to sell you on 1Password, just point out problems with hash-only approaches :) And the storage-less nature is certainly a (big) plus when it works out, you're right.

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And one possibly-significant danger you should be aware of: assuming you do something simple (which has the advantage of being buildable from scratch on any system, and easy to remember how), if your password is not globally unique then your security partly relies on the security of whoever else uses your password. If they lose it, anyone who knows that and guesses your username anywhere gets proof that you use the same password, so they can go test a bajillion sites immediately and with perfect success rates.

The standard technique for mitigating this is to salt the hash... but this is just another secret you have to store somewhere or memorize, so we're back where we started.
"Facebook"

Didn't Mark Zuckerberg make news when he admitted that going HTML5 was a mistake...& promptly reversed course by opting for native on both iOS and Android ?
As far I can remember, HTML5 Webview facebook on iOS was horrible.
What does Urbit do?
I have seen several high ranking posts related to Urbit. I have spent some time on the site, but I cannot figure out the purpose of Urbit. What problem does it help solve? What does it do?
You asked for the definition. That is the definition. Calling it a "debate" is the kind of thing that leads Kudzu_Bob to assume that questions are asked in bad faith. Whether you're happy with it is a separate question, which you can investigate yourself; there's an extensive literature on the various life consequences of high measured IQ.
"You no have DRM chip? No tubez for you!"

That is actually their plan.
Copyright-compliant standard? How is the existing standard not compliant with copyrights?

This is not about making a copyright-friendly web. This is about attacking the openness of the web.
Here is the link www.urbit.org
Yes, because we broke up AT&T. Before that, AT&T was pushing that you had to not only buy lines, but the phones from them as well.

Perhaps this was before your time, but there's a reason that Cap'n Crunch and blue box pirates like Jobs/Wozniak had appeal - the alternative was monopoly pricing.
Raspberry Pi doesn't have enough pins for some projects. With a Linux system, neither one of them are suitable for real-time updates.

I'm working on a rover project that uses Raspberry Pi for WiFi and HD video processing, and Arduino for motor control. Best of both worlds. The TRE board sounds perfect if it can come in at a similar price point.
I'll go build my own W3C, with blackjack and hookers!
Diving into KnockoutJS
Open source OSes will probably not have CDMs available, except when prepackaged into a proprietary widget (Android, ChromeOS, B2G is Mozilla decides to play ball)
I don't get your point. Sure, some people have issues with those things. Let me give you an example.

I used to help out a lot of people while at school, and most of them couldn't wrap their head around what a variable was. I was the one helping them since the first class, and I wasn't one class in front of them either. I simply understood it quickly. I could "grok" faster than them, for some unknown reason.

I am by no mean a genius. Hell, I still use my fingers to do basic additions and subtractions. However, some people learn things faster than other. Some people learn easily by themselves, some don't.

All of the feats you listed are all on the web. You can learn all about them... for free! Why pay for someone to teach them to you when you can simply read about them? All you need is time to learn them, and she had it!

I have no difficulty at all in believing she managed to learn all of that by herself.
Thanks, Austen. You make a great point -- below a certain customer point, paid UAaaS doesn't make sense!

We try to help people determine their ROI for lead generation out of the box, but LTV is something that a company has to figure out for itself!
1. Your cellphone can't watch YouTube without hardware decoding.

2. An issue closer to home can be seen http://wiki.xbmc.org/?title=Raspberry_Pi/FAQ#Video_and_audio... .

3. Companies target audiences and not platforms. For example, Netflix on Linux.
Yahoo is neither my neighbor, peer or equal. There are very different social expectations when doing 'business' with your neighbor versus doing business with a corporate entity. Also, losing photos is a very different than distributing a partly defective product - you're generally not morally at fault for accidentally losing your own stuff, but you are fully responsible for accidentally manufacturing and distributing defective products.

An appropriate non-IT analogy would be noticing a particular simple way how a Bigcorp chainsaw could be made safer, fixing a risk of hurting the user - you could just let them know "hey, do X and all your chainsaws will be safer for all of us" and get nice fuzzies, or offer to sell them (or other chainsaw manufacturers) the discovery - it's your choice, and although one is much more charitable, both choices are acceptable.
HTML5 DRM video makes sense, and it might force content producers to modernise their distribution methods. This would be nice for consumers, many of who are forced to pirate simply because content isn't available in their country or don't have cable subscriptions.

It won't stop piracy, even if it means holding a camera up to the screen to capture the data.

However locking down the browser itself is simply ridiculous. it reminds me of snopes.com disabling right click.
Samsung misled others. Those documents were needed for legal proceedings, not for Samsung's leverage. So it was sneaky.
This vastly underestimates the importance of the massive number of users running browsers supplied by the vendor of their device/OS.
"to prove to Nokia that he knew the confidential terms of the Apple-Nokia license, Dr. Ahn recited the terms of the license, and even went so far as to tell Nokia that 'all information leaks.'"

So no, since they acknowledged it as a leak it's not possible that Samsung thought it was entitled to the information.

[edit: response to ad-hominem removed now that the ad-hominem has been silently deleted]
It does matter what passion you pursue. The right passion will drive you to get better. The passion for just getting along with people who don't give a toss will leave you utterly dissatisfied, physically tense, and miserable.

It takes some experience in experiencing how poorly dispassionate and, inevitably, disappointed, people can be to be sunk in this.

You may want to read this - http://www.strikemag.org/bullshit-jobs/.

If you have more time, read His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman.
There's a difference between a closed plugin and a closed browser. Let the DRM content stay in their plugins in their paywalled sites, while the web in general remains open and benefits from the creativity and innovation that flows from that openness.
I work on a runtime compiler with LLVM and gcc backends. LLVM presents me with a nice API to generate its IR in memory. For gcc, I actually write out a ".c" file and then invoke gcc to compile it into a shared library, which I load with dlopen. It works, but it's messy and I would prefer to work with an API like LLVM's. This project is exactly what I've been looking for.
What you can learn from Twitter’s super-simple, super-easy signup process
Actually as a solution architect I have to deal with all sides of the problems: people attacking, audit companies, penetration testing companies and software engineers leaving gaping holes.

The only people who deliver little value are the paid up consultants. When a full penetration and code review misses 4 purposely placed obvious vulnerabilities (by myself) they get told to fuck off. Application firewalls which are circumvented trivially. QoS solutions that don't work.

So far, four well known, well respected companies offering certification and testing have missed the holes and have been fired.

That's the problem: no delivery.

My attitude might be wrong in your eyes but I refuse to employ box tickers which is what the entire white hat side of the industry is about. Canned report, where's my cheque?

No seesaw other than a bent twisted one that sucks up cash in exchange for a half arsed job.
DRM can not work. Assuming that you don't come up with a plan, which prevents reading data, while allowing the reading of data. So if the W3C starts to write standards which defy the basis of logic, were are forced to abandon their standards, thus destroying the W3C.
>...there are only 'points' awarded for accomplishing things.Make sure you accomplish the right things in the right way.

Exactly, and I find a complete bias towards hard work for the sake of "feeling good" about your hard work is actually ... lazy. Feeling good about tediously slaving away at manually inserting data into a database rather than coding a handler to automate that is actually working hard to avoid doing things the way they SHOULD be done.

An older generation getting mad at a younger generation for wanting fulfilling and meaningful work is exactly this laziness. It's code for: "look I know we should have made things be this way but we can't do anything about it so you(plural) just do this boring stuff that we want you to do right now b/c we are too lazy to find a better way to work meaningfully... "

My two cents: don't work hard. Work Smart. And then work hard AT working smart. ;)
> Any scientist can quickly point to dozens of papers – including, and perhaps especially, in high impact journals – that are deeply, deeply flawed – the arsenic DNA story is one of many recent examples

Dozens of flawed papers out of how many total papers? Numbers are meaningless without a context.
How has no one mentioned codewars yet? This is like the best code kata site on the web... http://www.codewars.com
RESTful Web Services book released under Creative Commons license
We mean that lead lists aren't shared internally inside LeadGenius. All the work that's carried out is considered work-for-hire, and remains client property. It's more work for us, but this protects our clients who sell similar products into the same segments.
Apple reportedly buys Cue personal assistant app
Unless it's a complementary product.
For quite a few systems I've built recently, I've used a Raspberry Pi connected to an Arduino Nano over USB. The Nano is the I/O expansion for the Pi. This combination is cheap (£35 total) and really flexible. Having them bundled would be useful sometimes, but equally often it's useful to have the small size of the nano located close to where I want the I/O and the larger Pi can be put elsewhere. So unless these boards are around the same price point, I'll give them a miss.
Don't feel sorry for the dude, hate him. What kind of philosophy praises work over enjoyment? Fuck that! Take it easy, enjoy the sun, smoke weed, isn't that what California was all about?
Awesome. would really love to see instapaper
Not necessarily like screenflow, but I have used Open Broadcaster ( http://obsproject.com/ ) for this purpose. All it does is recover various screen buffers to an mp4, but that is more than sufficient for this purpose in my opinion. Plus it is OSS.

Great for streaming video games to Twitch.tv or its variants, as well.
Looks like they are trying to raise money for their Oakland HQ (and are falling short): http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/832476585/hacker-scouts-...
"Some content cannot go anywhere without DRM"

Why should we care? The web is not supposed to restrict users. If Universal does not like it, they can go somewhere else -- they have the cable TV system with all its restrictions and anti-freedom design.
Instagram Starts Showing In-Feed Video And Image Ads To US Users
For a profession that is all about being an meritocracy, the willful blindness displayed here in the comments to the actual data presented in the article, is disturbing, if not unsurprising.

We have a shortage of scientists in this country. The fact remains that in science, and ultimately in the technology companies that men who grow up in these distorted academic norms found and run, there are things that can be changed. This benefits everyone, and doesn't require lowering standards.

There's a ton of data shared here, and in stated Hacker News tradition, I'd prefer to see a robust discussion of that vs kneejerk reactions. It's a long article and worthy of serious consideration.
Are you arguing against the existence of economic and commerce policies?
How would this play out in the current ebook marketplace? There are no used ebooks to put the squeeze on printed "new" ebook price.
> Not a fun day to be a Tesla shareholder

Only if you're fickle and lack conviction. People are talking a lot about "is Tesla at a fair valuation" and I personally believe that it's impossible to know what a fair valuation is until a few more years have elapsed.

I could reasonably see Tesla bouncing back to $300/share over the next 18 months or staying at or around $200. The current drops are more likely related to general market unease and opportunism rather than anything endemically wrong with Tesla. Also, with "momentum" stocks I'm sure some people got in looking to make a quick buck and also some people are surely taking advantage of the general shutdown-related cacophony to short the stock so they can buy it at lower prices (I would).

Fluctuations like this illustrate why one of the most important qualities an investor can have is patience. If you're trying to get rick quick, you'll be in trouble. But if you invest in solid companies that you understand, you should do well. Provided you do your homework, of course.

I'll reiterate Peter Lynch's excellent advice from "One Up on Wall Street" - if the stock drops but the fundamentals still make sense, stick around to see how the story develops.