skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is no sense in which DRM is "copyright-compliant" and a lack of DRM is not "copyright-compliant", and there is no sense in which copyright requires anyone to help industry create or deploy DRM.
France wants to make it illegal for Amazon to offer free shipping
Thanks for your contribution, I'm glad you love it! I can't wait to get user management type stuff on there so I never have to open the browser version again.
It is now a user-double-agent.
Check out their website, sure looks like they're shutting down. http://cueup.com
If this were a post worthy of the front page of Hacker News, it wouldn't read like this:

"Unfortunately this kind of thinking and mentality seems to accurately embody much of the general ignorance and blatant stupidity of the next generation of software developers."

It's trash if it has to make its point by going to such great and obvious lengths to insult the topic audience, rather than just explaining why without relying on said insult as an introduction.
Ish. I don't suppose it would be done but it seems it could be done.
Adobe To Announce Source Code, Customer Data Breach
I wasn't saying the predictions never change; I was saying that they will only change as long as there is knowledge about the outcome that has not yet been priced into the market. The market "not changing" does not mean it does not have a market price: it just means that the market price is constant (and that therefore there is no trading happening, except for the occasional new player entering and quickly losing money by playing a non-optimal strategy). You are saying the same thing, just in different words.

the predictions do tend to get better, even if you have unskilled participants

This statement as it stands is way too strong, which is why I originally objected. The correct statement is: "predictions will tend to get better as long as it is possible for the average skill level of the market participants to increase". You're right that participants don't have to start out being skilled; but the average skill level of the participants does have to be able to change for the market's predictions to change.

In the coin flip prediction market, that can't happen (or at least it can't happen for very long), because the optimal strategy for betting on coin flips is so obvious. In the Betfair card games, there is some scope for increasing participant skill, but there can't be very much if the games are fair; people will fairly quickly figure out the optimal strategy for any given game, and soon after that the market will stop trading if the players are rational. (You appear to agree with this, since you say it's "disappointing" that Betfair's games continue to have money traded on them.)

Of course these are simple examples; what about real-world prediction markets? What about, for example, betting on sports games? My sense is that a similar effect occurs there: the average skill level of the long-term market participants is relatively unchanged over time, and therefore the accuracy of the predictions that can be extracted from the order book is relatively constant over time. The reason money is still made in these markets is that there is a basically inexhaustible supply of new players who think they know more than they actually do, and who therefore quickly end up losing their money to the long-term players--much the same thing that happens in casinos.
What makes you think DRM has worked up to now? Which content is unavailable for pirating because of DRM?

As far as I can tell DRM has only ever punished, and still only punishes, legitimate users.
Quote: "So I created a manuscript that claimed something extraordinary - that I’d discovered a bacteria that uses arsenic in its DNA instead of phosphorous [sic]."

This tongue-in-cheek piece would be more plausible if the author could spell "phosphorus".
Meta64.com - A new Social Engine for the Web
Meta64 is the ultimate Facebook and Google+ destroyer, created to be the Open Source Engine that can power the social web and the semantic web, having superior yet simpler technology to the aforementioned empires.

Currently being started up on Kickstarter.com, the code will go open source soon, and hopefully cause the eminent demise of Facebook in particular. It's already the world's "best ever" news aggregator (merely as an experimental feature), with the news feed located here:
http://meta64.com/?link=meta_news&timeline=yes

In the future, the technology will become the backbone of the Semantic Web, and commoditize all web assets and servers, making the "Mega Destinations" like Facebook and Twitter, become a thing of the past, and totally irrelevant.
MQTT vs CoAP, which protocol is best for Internet of Things devices?
I don't get it. If they want a plugin, they should build a plugin. Why would any sane person (1) create redundant infrastructure for DRM plugins (2) get all the same security problems and more just because some hipsters at Netflix get a hardon when they can't use HTML5 video tags and have to embed a plugin? We certainly shouldn't offload Netflixs woes with content producers onto every browser maker in existence.

What a bizarre discussion. Should have been laughed out from the first proposal.
http://rapgenius.com/rapstats?q=a,%20the,%20my,%20in,%20of,%...

nigga gets up near 'be' and 'is' but it's well short of 'a' and 'the'

Incidentally: http://rapgenius.com/rapstats?q=nigger,%20nigga
> The myth of burn out

> Burn out is just a rationalization for giving up early

I wonder what this guy thinks about the "myth of depression". Is it just rationalization for laziness?
> If I were king, I would revoke the right to practice law for at least 5 years for the attorneys involved

That's reasonable, I guess, I mean the law firm representing Samsung did screw up, I can understand punishing them.

> a $1 Billion or 50% of that yearly earnings fine for Samsung

Those pants...why are you putting them on your head?

> Samsung has to pay for what their legal team did, right or wrong. After all they hired and trust them with everything.

Yes, they hired a law firm. They have to pay the law firm the amount that the two parties agreed on. Now, the law firm screwed up. However, unless you have evidence of wrongdoing on Samsung's part, this is just foaming at the mouth crazy talk. If anything, Samsung was also wronged by their law firm by being put in this position.
I submitted a refund request and it was never honored. Just as the work I submitted to my virtual assistant was accepted but never completed.

I considered it a $50 experiment to see if this would work or not, but not receiving the refund when I asked for it leaves me inclined to warn others about the claims being made.
I agree with your point, insomuch as encouraging more people regardless of gender/orientation/race to take up STEM careers is good for the world.
This could have really huge and ugly long term consequences for search engines.

OTOH, with a little help from the OS to guard the path through to the HDMI spigot (which is probably already in place) I may be able to see all my Amazon Instant Prime content via my browser in HD. :-)

There's an upside to the downside. Some things will be closed by this and some things will be opened. The impact on the non-pirating media consumer will mostly be positive.

The impact on the cable companies and other parasitic channels through which content must now pass will, to our benefit, be negative since content producers will need them for nothing to maximize the returns on their investment. Many hands that dip into the revenue stream between the producer and the consumer to merely protect the stream can be easily eliminated. The same is true of all the various music channels from the labels through iTunes to Spotify.

I like this because artists and producers will be able to negotiate with us directly which will lower the cost and the motivation to pirate. I'm all for artists and producers making money on their work, but not all the various middle men this can remove from the picture.

I'm very concerned, however, about the possibly negative effect on things other than media content like the general flow of news and information. Any item of information can now easily carry a price for internet access independent of the channels through which it moves.

Verdict: mixed bag.
How you came to the conclusions that led you to write your comment absolutely baffles me.

EDIT: Okay, you edited your bizarre comment to something that can be replied to. You understand the concept of an outside council, right? The outside council works for a client but they are beholden to the law and restrictions of the court, with their entire firm lying in the balance. If you think Samsung just whispered kindly do them and they broke the law and professional credibility (again, if it was them), you don't understand law firms.
Must be my monkey-brain trying to explore the unfamiliar by finding similarities to what I already know.

I may of course simply be looking through a bottle (and constrained by backwards-tracking logicians).

All of this is starting to smell of an Incompleteness Theorem of Programming Languages.
If 3 weeks is normal at the company you're applying for then you might be able to get 4
Just because you haven't seen it or heard it doesn't mean it doesn't happen. You can't derail a discussion of facts with one statistical data point.
Look! The prison's so big you can't even see the walls! How nice.
Very true, but he does go on to state:

> If we had, instead, a system where the review process was transparent and persisted for the useful life of a work

That is a very interesting idea. (Reviews are currently confidential and usually anonymous -- only the author and editor sees the reviews, and only the editor knows who wrote them.)

Not only would this reduce blatantly petty reviews, it would also give some recognition to the work that goes into reviewing a paper. It's currently an important but very thankless job. It's considered polite to acknowledge reviewers at the end of the paper (even if they remain anonymous), but it's often not done.
Silk Road owner charged in second assassination plot
Thank you so much for your reader AND especially for open sourcing your code (which I just found out from your comment).
I use yours everyday and have occasionally found issues. Now with the code available, expect some pull requests :)
Thunderbird 24.0 was released in September: http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/24.0/releasenotes/

I don't know if it is just in "maintenance mode", but it seems still alive.
The W3C though is an organization you can buy. Their process is not reasonable and we should not recognise their authority. Especially after this.
Lets ask the experts:
http://www.drugs-forum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=194494

1. Dosage are 30x smaller
2. Users can tell the difference

I have no doubt in my mind that meth ruins lives.
That's not exactly what pkulak is referring to. I think they mean simply using facebook.com in browser on mobile is a better experience compared to the native app. I agree with that, especially with the "give us access to everything" permissions the Facebook android app has.
This is really cool but I was kinda disappointed by that video. It was really well made but it would've benefited from at least one single-angle shot of the guy dunking a basketball. The whole video feels like it's avoiding that shot with artsy cuts.
Does writing yet another article about those darn kids these days count as hard, boring work or easy, enjoyable work?
Why are you spamming the comments with multiple silly questions?
Coin Introduces Arduino-BLE Developer Kit
again, one data point isn't statistics.
So, DPR was identified because Ross made really amateur level mistakes for a man in his position:

1. Was using the same pseudonym in several places.

2. Was advertising the Silk Road. He asked people what do they think about it: "Let me know what you guys think." [1, page 25] - this just suggests that he is connected with it.

3. Used his name (then changed to the same pseudonym he was using in other places) to ask a question about how to connect to Tor using Curl in PHP. He just could ask how to connect to a SOCKS5 server using Curl in PHP whatsoever avoiding mentioning the Tor.

4. Was not using Tor in public WiFi network at cafe.

5. Was giving interviews, long interviews. FBI could correlate his style of writing with what he writes under his own identity.

6. The most grave mistake: he posted his personal Gmail account using his pseudonym (which he was using to advertise the Silk Road) in the Forum asking for a "IT pro in the Bitcoin community" [1, page 26].

[1] - http://cryptome.org/2013/10/fbi-silk-road.pdf
Great concept! Would be nice if it's an open standard. Instead of having to download and install your App, people can implement and choose from different implementations. This makes several things possible:

1. Different virtualization/container engine: Different platforms have different good stuff. I would use LXC/docker for Linux since it's super lightweight, and disposable. Even NaCl should be an option.

2. Standardizing would also help defining how resources should be allocated/re-used on local machines.

3. People who make web apps gets to use a single standard instead of tracking different technologies. (Think about Java Applet vs Flash vs Silverlight) Any site should be able to access it through a port on localhost. It's THE port, using THE protocol. And that's it; it should work on all hosts that have the service installed.

4. It brings a chance to have it accepted by major browsers makes as a core service, which makes it easier for wide adoption.
I am going to be naive here but could someone explain to me how it is possible to legally dox a person this way when there still isn't a court sentence that demonstrate that this guy is indeed DPR?
"> It's a place where the next Tim Berners-Lee or Mozilla, if they were building a new browser from scratch, couldn't just look up the details of all the "Web" technologies. They'd have to negotiate and sign compliance agreements with a raft of DRM providers just to be fully standards-compliant and interoperable."

What the hell are they even talking about here? Since when has ANY browser been "Fully, 100% W3C Compliant"?? Answer: None. Ever. Seriously.

There are rafts of non-compliant features, both legacy and newly introduced, in every single one of the most popular modern web browsers. (Even Opera!!) Certainly, with the last decade of popular support pushing Browser Vendors towards W3C compliance, the web has been more standards-based than ever before.

But this is just a silly argument. I agree with the political aim of the EFF here. But let's not just invent things or misrepresent things. It makes them lose credibility in my eyes.
"There need be no real danger of it ever becoming a drudge, for any processes that are quite mechanical may be turned over to the machine itself."

--Alan Turing
> it would also give some recognition to the work that goes into reviewing a paper

I think you're spot on with this comment. That's exactly what we're building at publons.com. Check it out.
With respect to the formalisms bit: I didn't expect him to understand deeply about those kinds of formalisms. I don't expect most beginning programmers to care, even. But the conflation of the ideas was apparent in his (faulty) intuition of them, and it impeded comprehension. In order to use a string, you must, at some level, have some sort of understanding that it is data. How your understanding manifests itself is different.

The copy/paste/fiddle process can work when you have some sort of understanding what to copy, paste, fiddle, and search for. Developing that understanding so quickly also leads me to doubt.
He wrote an interesting manifesto on freedom, https://www.facebook.com/notes/ross-ulbricht/thoughts-on-fre... unfortunately soon he will find himself locked in a cage.
you've cherry picked one point out of the entire article, the one that matches your incoming perception.
...the term "gonad" is gender-neutral. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_gonad
It's time to monetize!
The idea is that the browser is going to ask some lower-level DRM system to decode everything, only displaying it to the user. In theory this is supposed to go all the way down to the TPM, so that you cannot subvert it with a debugger or rootkit. In practice, there will probably be bugs that lead to video streams being captured anyway, and the whole thing will only serve to further divide people and make free software harder to use.
This just completely removed the need for the GitHub native app, as the responsiveness of the mobile site is way better than the native app anyways.
How much revenue did Buffer generate in September, 2013?
Wow. This isn't just adapting DRM, they're literally saying that they can change the HTML5 standard at a whim and we'll only have access to the CC0 licensed spec.

Time to fork HTML5.
> If you have more time, read His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman.

I read them couple of times when I was a teenager, but I can't make the connection here.
>If the clueless middle-management wastes 90% of your effort, there's more benefit to humanity when you move

Yes, thank you for this statement. I don't think many people yet realize how much more detrimental to society so much bureaucratic bullshit in everything we do(are) is over a few hackers getting fed up with that same bureaucratic bullshit and moving on.

In fact, put that way it really does not seem logical to get mad at a few young programmers choices to change course. Maybe it's societies framework you should be getting mad at.
This is the 13th serious accident of a tesla, but I believe it's the first battery fire.
Why rainbow colors aren’t the best option for data visualizations
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US amongst countries with declining Internet freedom
How  to Hack Dressing Well
I use katas to learn new languages [1], but I never do a kata twice. Picking a problem and solving it with a new language is pretty interesting, especially when you try it with very different paradigms.

[1] https://github.com/bfontaine/Katas
EME CDMs are closed plugins for open browsers. It's literally the status quo except with a smaller breakage surface due to a more specialized purpose.
Pretty good job, until the key was leaked. [0][1]

[0] http://www.engadget.com/2010/09/14/hdcp-master-key-supposedl...
[1] Key: http://pastebin.com/kCA3dFDv
"the man federal prosecutors say is behind the infamous contraband market Silk Road" - note how they never claim he actually is DPR. They merely "report" that federal prosecutors say that.
It's not the U.S., but I was robbed twice in the last few months.

I lived at the most populous neighbourhood in my city, and so I reported the theft to the police station, they made me enumerate my belongings and gave me some papers stating what I had lost.

A few weeks later, I called to inquire if some advance had been made, and the lady told me "no, we haven't recovered anything"... but I hadn't given her my case number ! So they hadn't recovered anything for anyone.. in a 100.000 people neighbourhood...

At least in my country, if there's no violence or some important reason to go after the criminal, police won't pursue. They don't care much about material losses (they do have a decent track record aprehending murderers and such).
As someone that learned a lot using view source. this is just upsetting
If I had my way we wouldn't have copyright
at all. It seems idiotic to me for the same
reasons patents are.

Excellent news! So it's ok if I copy the images, CSS and HTML on your landing page for your employer for my competitor, then?

Edit: I'm obviously not serious.
Not like this in El Paso at all. Degrees are practically worth nothing.
Just like hnsearch.com
I'm not really one to talk about "kids these days" given that my longest job at one place was a little over 3 years. It's part of my personality. I get bored, what can I say. I'm looking for completion of my soul. It's out here I know it.. I saw it at the Porsche dealership I think.
I get it, we're getting a free service and they need to make money at some point -- but judging how horrible the Facebook news feed has become, my hopes aren't exactly high for this next move.

I suppose the one potential saving grace here is that it might encourage creative content from brands, as that will typically be the most rewarded. I'm quite impressed by what some brands have been able to accomplish with Vine.
The thing is most Firefox users don't even know what an extension is. If my parents' Firefox ships with support for DRMs, they won't care about it. Once it becomes widespread, there's simply no way to start "un-supporting it".
Terrible, terrible.
Apparently discovery simply isn't needed, as gibwell believes that he is certain of all of the facts (the judge isn't, but gibwell sure is. Get the nooses ready).

Samsung (meaning executives, not their legal team) may very well have thought that the information "leaked" to them, in a completely legal, matter of business fashion. Again, the outside party is apparently (crazy to wait for due process, but thus far this is the belief of the judge) the one who broached confidentiality requirements, such that Samsung executives may not have even known what they were getting.

The fact that an executive so brazenly gloated about this information makes it more likely this was not an intentional breach of the law. Maybe it was, but it would be a very stupid breach.
Introducing CSS Regions
Good ol' puritanical work ethic. I do my best to work smarter. One of the reasons I try to stay current with the latest technology is to see what benefits it would have on my work efficiency.
Wicked World Wide Web
Exactly. There are countless standards issued by the W3C that are completely ignored by Browser Vendors at large. Yet it's still the most relevant consortium on the matter.

Conversely, there are countless features introduced by Browser Vendors that do not exist in the W3C's specs. (And some of those are even eventually picked up by the W3c.)

I honestly don't think people understand how the Standards Body's work, and how their specs propagate into actual products that people use on a daily basis.

Many companies have cherry-picked what to implement and what not to. This is not new. If anything, it's the norm. Vendors will continue to do this as long as the W3C will exist, and can continue to do so in this case, without destroying the W3C or making it an invalid body.

This particular argument is totally bunk.
This is priceless.

And then:
It doesn’t matter how brilliant you started out or how much faster you exited the gates than everyone else, those who consistently get up every morning and direct their energies along a single path, no matter how boring it may be, will eventually pass you on each of the many roads you haphazardly travel.

That's not how life works. You can direct all your efforts to bending cutlery, but you're not going to make a good living out of it. You're just not. And some people have it easy. Sorry, life is unfair.

But then I read that:
Burn out is just a rationalization for giving up early.

The author may be a great programmer (I suspect him of being a robot), but he doesn't understand psychology. Not worth a read.
isnt this the equivalent of greying out the "view source" menu item or removing the developer menu item?

You can still get the entire page, it comes in over the wire. If they do this, I would assume we can just capture the raw data, and new apps that decode that raw data and give the same tools as the browser developer tools offer.

If not, hopefully there are browsers who refuse to implement, and hopefully it takes less time than it took Adobe to learn their lesson.
The word you're looking for is illegal.
It's an inspirational journey. Thanks for sharing! This is how I would tell my kids to learn programming.
Completely agree. I've been into computer science research for few years and not knowing who accepted the papers and which were the reviews always bugged me.

I've always advocated that the reviews behind an accepted paper SHOULD all be public and publicly distributed along with the paper.