skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most of that stuff really isn't that hard. I learned a bunch of that stuff on my own, and I've been spending less than 10 hours a week on it. Surf HN and a few Reddit boards related to coding and Rails, and you'll pick up stuff like that. I first read that the secret_token.rb file does not belong in source control in some thread on here or r/programming.

Not that it would be that tough to figure out - the name kinda invites googling, where the first few results will tell you what you need to know.
A front page.

I think this is a valid resubmission. Also, he submitted it before and got burnt down. Apparently (if you see the set of comments here right now), people's moods are better today.
> 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.

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. If they didn't they simply wouldn't be able to access DRM protected content. From a UX perspective this seems no different from Netflix putting their content behind a login. Maybe I am being an idiot, if so please correct me, but this doesn't really seem like anything to worry about. The threats implied by EFF, that massive corporations will control content on the internet, seems only true for content published by those massive corporations (and thus are already happening now, with 3rd party DRM ie: Netflix's Silverlight player). It doesn't stop people from publishing non DRM protected content.

I would agree this doesn't belong in the spec on technical level, but it seems to be inclusive not exclusive.
I'm reluctant to reference a scene from a film because it seems too cliche. But it's analogically relevant so here it is (Matrix: Neo vs Morpheus):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j82GKTgVDkw (check the relevant quotes down below)

it's relevant because what we do on the Web is virtual. What we create for others to experience and use can seem magical. Every time someone creates a new product, a previously unthought-of experience, we're baffled, in awe. We're in shock even though we live a bit at the forefront of development (relatively). We feel empowered knowing that the Web is the one place we can potentially be Batman.

What she set herself to do is grandiose and beyond what she thought to be capable of doing. Yet she shook off the negative inner chatter and kept trucking along. So I think there's something positive to learn from this for all of us.

The work we do as product developers will always have a mundane or labor intensive component. This is where most of us take the "perseverance cap" off and start procrastinating. Not all the work is going to be fun and exciting. But the reward is awesome and packed with a healthy dose of endorphin.

Relevant quotes:

* Don't think you are; know you are!

* Come on! Stop trying to hit me and hit me!

* do you think that's air you're breathing now?

* Do you really think me being strong or faster has anything to do with my muscles in this place?
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They arrested Inigo, not DPR (also there's been 2 DPRs so far, it was planned that DPR changed once a year.)

Not sure how the case will go, but I think that you can't say beyond a reasonable doubt Ross is DPR (Because, well, he's not.)

I'm sure he'll get great lawyers that can get him out of this.
I was writing to highlight your seeming disagreement with the text you quoted:

the predictions tend to get better

You seemed to be saying that this was not the case, citing a coin flip. My counter argument is that a real-world prediction market for (effectively) a coin flip tends towards a 'perfect' prediction. It can then stay in this steady-state regardless of whether or not any fool continues to bet; you just have to glance at the order book of unmatched bets to discern the prediction.

So, the predictions do tend to get better, even if you have unskilled participants. Or are you saying "predictions only get better if people are good at predicting", which would be stating the bleeding obvious, right?

(Disappointingly, Betfair's exchange games still seem to have money traded on them, and they run these games every minute of the day.)
DRM people are not interested in how it'll work, in fact DRM often contributes to user of whatever it is implemented in suffering. They just want permission to insert their cluster fuck to keep getting rich.
No one owns Tesla stock for market value reasons.

I own it because I honestly don't know where else to put the money I allocate towards tech stock purchases. AAPL has no room for further growth until we colonize the outer planets, and other recent success stories like YHOO seem even less sustainable.

Picking stocks of reasonably promising companies with incompetent competitors seems like a good strategy, hence TSLA.
It'd be a great movie plot. But yeah, still impossibly far-fetched. Besides that, the authorities have at that point gone way past entrapment.
They want to propose an API which would allow proprietary closed source binary blobs to display videos. In other words: They are pushing "yet another Flash" into HTML5.
You could try LICEcap: http://www.cockos.com/licecap/, which is free for Windows and can produce an animated GIF. I haven't tried it for anything as long as 20 minutes, though.
>How can it be DRM if the algorithms/formats/protocols are open? Or aren't they open?

They're not. IIRC, the only open parts are the hooks the actual DRM plugin (but we're not calling it a plugin!) will utilize.
I'm curious how with the whole open source community how this will be at all enforceable... there's nothing stopping me releasing a browser that says "To hell with DRM, I'm just not going to enforce any of it"... and because it's open source and out there in the wild, there's not a whole hell of a lot anyone can do to shut it down...
DRM is not in the browser. The browser just acts as a gateway to allow the website to talk to a DRM component in the OS (or potentially in hardware).
Depends, you can try and find companies in different business sectors and fill in gaps for each (with permission of course). The company pays with their list (and a fee to you?) which another could use. As long as it doesn't affect their competitive advantage, it could be a freeish way to grow the list. Not every scenario but there could be a niche, especially if you were the middle man and masked where the data was from and where it was going.
A friend of mine is "working" on that. I can put you in touch if you want to encourage him.
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Here is a real case of this happening: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair
The browser doesn't enforce the DRM, a binary blob in the OS does.
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What are you, the metaphor compiler? Do I need a fucking permit to write colorfully?
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The problem is MPAA & friends will already see this as an "entitlement" and say those other browsers are "facilitating piracy", while the major ones from Google, Microsoft and Apple aren't. Something like that will sound very good to government and authorities.

I really think allowing this to happen in the first place is just like opening the Pandora box. You give these guys an inch, they never stop demanding for more censorship.
I've had some success on the who's hiring thread by 1) showing off what I've done on a personal website, dribble, github, whatever. And 2) taking 5 minutes to poke around the employer's site and explain how your skills/interests/personal experiences are at all relevant.
Isn't this what http://betsofbitco.in does?
Except replace neighbor with corporation worth millions if not a billion and millions of users, unlocked door with door wide open, and vacation with home 24/7.

Also if a nice bottle of wine costs $100 from a neighbor making a median of 100K a year scale it up to a company with the profits of Yahoo and do the math on a tshirt.

What's it worth to Yahoo if someone finds an exploit that can expose all users? A friendly smile and handshake? Or another snarky reply on the internet.
Cooool. Oddly, Keller was the person who sprang to mind for me too.

If you do this, definitely blog it and let me know - hughhancock on Twitter - I'd love to read about how it goes.
The DRM isn't actually implemented by the browser its more of a plugin architecture (Encrypted Media Extensions) which commercial closed source DRM plugin can fill.
Nor are there articles asking why men aren't nurses, waitresses or receptionists.
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Wow! Great link. Thanks for posting this.

More than just a counterpoint, it has even more insight & useful suggestions than the OP.

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Yahoo doesn't have a right, but a researcher is acting immoral if he/she sells the vulnerability to someone else that may exploit it.
arc.js uses WebSockets to converse with the Arc daemon.

And great suggestion; it could certainly be made clearer. Thank you.
I imagine the client-side stuff won't really matter. I think in the end there will be a DRM API that will not trust the client. "Does this user have a valid key or username/pass to access this content" won't be answered on the client-side, but on the server-side.

Probably with a client-side file (or binary?) that gets delivered to the browser from the server and accessed locally in a sandboxed environment. This handles keys, auth, etc natively with the browser. This might be seamless to the end user.

Probably easily crackable like, say SteamWorks, but good enough to keep low-hanging fruit safe and copyright holders happy as we begin to retire flash entirely. Joe User won't be able to 'right-click and saveas' but he'll be able to view HTML5 video.

I think TBL is stuck between a rock and a hard place, just like Gabe Newell was with Steam. Users hate DRM, but he can't sell games without it. Some crowd-happy DRM scheme that's unobtrusive might be the only winning move here.
Financially, Fnac (online or not) is really ill and may die soon. It could have been a successful competitor but it rested on its laurels. In any way, it is worse than Amazon. If a store deserved its fate its Fnac online. It is still sad.
Isn't this good news for video distributors who haven't converted over to HTML5 (native video support) because of lack of support for DRM?
An automatic castrator is an excellent safety device for your steer pen.

Generally we don't actually use these functions unless we're normalizing foreign data. Then, we do. Because anyone on the Internets can send a bull into your steer pen...
That can't be right, xbox didn't come out until 2001. Might be matching something else?
Then again, it has been reported that Apple bought them.
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I personally wouldn't buy a very expensive android phone for the sole reason that in a year or two, the OS and overall look'n'feel will become "retro", old, and obsolete.
It's like owning the gold version of the 1998 Sony Ericsson phone for la creme de la creme persons.(http://www.shop.mj.com.ua/pic/Mobile%20Sony%20Ericsson%20t65...)
You wouldn't want to show it off today, would you?

I'd rather buy an expensive set of jewelry or a set of silverware as they come with a "timeless" look.

It's just my opinion.
Debate?
v4 is available on their web store now.
You might consider looking at our earlier virtual assistant product, Premier (https://premier.mobileworks.com), which has a few small-scale options available.
Funny how some of the largest sites on the internet can base their entire business model on stolen pictorial content - completely with stripping off the identifying information of the original artists - and nobody at the W3C bats an eye.

But the moment the MPAA muscles their way into the debate, suddenly we're all about DRM.

If you want DRM, you use a plug-in or a separate application. There's no reason that an app like Netflix or whatever can't use pure-HTML for everything but the video-stream and use a plug-in based object for the stream.

Keep HTML free.
If you want to talk about honesty and integrity in publishing, you shouldn't give your blog post a blatantly misleading linkbait title.
Similar to finding nudes of your neighbor laying in their driveway. Sure, you could let them know and hope for a reward, or you could put it up for auction, which is totally not exploitative. /s
Take for example a DRM protected video. That video is being send to the framebuffer of my video card. If I use an open source OS and open source Browser, what on earth is stopping me from capturing that video output?
A modern fire engine pumps around 1250-2000gpm.

However it also only has around 750-1000 gallons of water onboard. So you'd better hope that there's a hydrant nearby.

Also, hand lines are only 150-250gpm. A deck gun is pretty useless for a car fire (a - can't be aimed at below 0deg, and b - you'd have approximately 30 seconds of usable time to get any deluge on the car and extinguish it, which is not particularly realistic if it's at all involved).
What happened to the concept of the User Agent being a representative of the user, not the content provider?
Basically, I'd say, ordinary human beings are much better at memorizing words and symbols than most smart people think - and much worse at understanding highly abstract concepts.

Think of the number of things you need to memorize to be an auto mechanic. Yet there are a large, large number of people who are capable of becoming auto mechanics, but not capable of becoming Haskell programmers.
Thank you for your client. I also use it every day and have even contributed to it. I also never use the browser version on my phone anymore.
So at some point in the transaction you have to click "Allow" and install this component, similar to how a java applet works now?
The width of each window isn't the same for Scala compared the others. It'd have been nice to see them all the same width with text wraparound.
Great question. LeadGenius is a product from MobileWorks, which was built as a "fair trade" virtual staffing platform -- a direct alternative to Mechanical Turk. Our technical specialty is finding and managing teams of talented people from around the world.
Certainly awesome. Note that this implementation is toroidal. My take on J[1] (code-golfed) based in the same algorithm:

l=:[:+/(3 4=/[:+/(,/,"0/~i:1)|.])*.1,:]

De-golfed:

life =: [: +/ (3 4 =/ [: +/ (,/ ,"0/~ i:1) |. ]) *. 1 ,: ]

[1] http://www.jsoftware.com
>> As an [active participant] of a country with which Congress had declared war [it is ok to kill a target]

Ok, so your problem is just that alQ is a non-country organization (after the Taliban fell, at least).

There is no party to make a formal declaration of war against, and police is not applicable, so the US population should stop complaining and accept terror attacks...

Right, I got your position.

I think you are arguing dishonestly and know your position is impractical.

The point with doing this "terror" thing is to influence a more or less democratic country by scaring the voters. If a group succeeds with that the politicians will do anything to stop the terror, because they won't get reelected otherwise.

Now, point is -- there will be damn good support of most everything, law book out the window etc, because if the terrorists aren't stopped the voters go apeshit again at the next big attack. (You will get maybe even torture and assassinations of terrorists in neutral counties.)

Again: Most any president, in any democratic country, will do anything -- in order to stop terror groups from scaring the voters.

This reaction on terror is probably built into the democratic system. You don't have to like it, of course.

(No, arguing for a stiff upper lip among the population doesn't help with committed terror groups. If the population doesn't react, the terror groups up their attacks to get the reaction they aim for. )

But I think you knew all that and just looked for a reason to condemn.

Edit: Rewrote for clarity, so I have something to copy/paste next time.
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If it's just going to end-up plug-ins, I don't understand why DRM is being treated specifically at all instead of tweaks to the existing general-purpose plug-in architecture. If you want DRM, deal with Microsoft Silverlight or Adobe Flash or roll your own.
We should watch closely what his career does next.
Uh, the Nietzsche quote has a slightly different connotation when you give it a wider context:

When seeking work for the sake of the pay, almost all men are alike at present in civilized countries. To all of them work is a means, and not itself the end; on which account they are not very select in the choice of the work, provided it yields an abundant profit. But there are rarer men who would rather die than work without enjoyment in their work: the fastidious people, difficult to satisfy, whose object is not served by an abundant profit, unless the work itself be the reward of all rewards.
Although it doesn't change the substance, http://hnhiring.me/ changes the view to make it much easier to search and sort through the jobs.

Changing the substance of a job board is, at least in my mind, non-trivial. Hiring and finding work have always been difficult problems and the Internet is just taking a new stab at it with things like LinkedIN (horrible) indeed.com(OK not a terrible job search engine), Monster (spam) and others.
The very same iPhone 4 has been sold for 28 months, up until two weeks ago.

I'm sure there are dozens of millions of users that can't make a phone call because of the antenna problem. I wonder why they don't complain.
Please consider that the comment in question is a verbatim copy/paste from the previous time it was brought it up. If you want to consider spamming the same comment over multiple threads as valid discussion, by all means, have at it.

However, everything they brought up was already addressed 70 days ago. To be honest, petea raises a valid concern, and I certainly don't want to be party to shills or other types of fraudulent or deceptive activities, but considering that petea didn't even put forth the effort to further refine or follow-up on their original argument (especially given 70 additional data points [sites] with which to draw evidence from), then that signals to me that they have motivations beyond what meets the eye.
The ugly reality is that because of the actual mistakes the PL world (or even "academia" at large) makes, anything smelling of that world often is dismissed without a second glance. Even when it has genuine merit.

Tikhonj is right about this kind of "anti-intellectualism." But pro-intellectualism is a bias as well.
It's actually mostly Netflix wanting this. They don't want to rely on SilverLight forever.
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Quantum computing explained: D-Wave on NASA's system
it's the great fracture in French society, we see how toxic American life is, we don't want to go there, but we are lured there by the short term economic forces and Hollywood culture. Because on the short term economies of scale reduce the price, but on the long term they destroy standards of living, the fabric of the society (through individualism) and the economic resilience (economic inefficiencies are also local buffers against mishaps, think of local stocks, semi-finished products standing on a shelf).
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I have an UDOO[1] Quad ($135) coming in very soon which is similar to the TRE - basically an SAM3X8E (Due) Arduino (w/ compatible headers) on a single board but combined w/ a much beefier i.MX6.

I have a Beaglebone Black and a Wandboard Quad sitting on my desk right now and I'm sure I'll end up grabbing the new Arduinos when they come out, although Spring 2014 is pretty far away and I suspect the UDOO will end up doing everything I want soon.

[1] http://www.udoo.org/
The JIT doesn't always use FastISel. Last time I checked, you had to enable it manually, or set optimization to -O0.
Are you guys using Splunk for the data crunching and graph builds?
And terrible news for all users.
I think that many people are drastically underestimating the effect this may have on the open web. The response "oh, well we'll just build a browser that will avoid the DRM" isn't going to work quite as well as one might hope. It's not such a stretch of the imagination that content providers will detect such browsers and refuse to supply any content at all. This would be similar to what many sites do now for users of IE6-8, where a message is displayed prompting them to upgrade. Except in this case a message would be displayed telling you to download an effectively locked-down browser. Ugh.