skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For those who don't know what "EME" means:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encrypted_Media_Extensions
This is one of those situations where, since you're responding to a question, the "This." format of answer makes your comment unclear. Just FYI - it sounds like you're listing the things he should be apologizing for (although that's not the case given context, obviously).
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Yes, and not because he directed all his efforts to bending cutlery. His efforts were directed at creating the illusion of bending cutlery and marketing himself (and mostly the latter). Quite a difference.
I personally frown upon the ads inserted into the news stream, and I found them even more intrusive when they try to "blend" with native posts. But of course it's their right to insert them there. But what I don't like even more is that all those big players seems to not want to introduce paid no-ads accounts - maybe they wouldn't like to extra responsibility of having the paying customers.
Hi Jason -- That point is not quite what I read from your initial post, but regardless I tend to agree with most of your advice. I just really disagree with your assessment of loren. (So apologies if my reaction seemed overly-negative).

It sounds to me like loren did have a few project ideas lined-up, and the drive to work on them. While personally I'd want a better guarantee of future revenue before quitting a job, I can't fault someone for following their passions like that. He may someday become wiser and more experienced, but my hope is that he'll be able to look back without regret on his decision to quit.
The curl code was probably for querying the latest exchange rates from Mt Gox. It's important he made sure those queries went out through TOR because otherwise they could be used to trace the Silk Road server.
He also doesn't have to share stake in a company with a detached investor who literally got paid to get the equity.

If you think about it it's kind of insulting to his time where his only payback for being on the show is payback from deals he makes.

Where as Finnmax gets paid to produce the show, then takes a cut of every company, and likely does little to help the company advance. This would be extra telling for multi-million dollar valuations where the sharks end up getting single digit shares themselves and are expected to bring many contacts and continue to work with and mentor the investors.
I try to stick to the pure technology sorts of stories, but the particular technologies that appeal to the HN crowd aren't that interesting to me, either. Eh, whaddya gonna do.
I wish a browser vendor would step up and say no to this. As in "we won't support a DRM future in the browser". Firefox, Chrome?
As long as by one-way-hash you actually mean "key derivation function" and not actually hash, otherwise one leaked password means I get your master password, and hence all of your passwords, as long as your master password has an impossibly huge amount of entropy. (It probably doesn't.)

Seriously, use cryptographically random passwords.
Samsung has been sanctioned for intentional destruction of evidence, found guilty of being part of a price fixing cartel, and repeatedly guilty of other price fixing crimes, as well as of bribing officials. They have also been discovered to be astroturfing forums, and falsifying benchmarks.

Whilst you're right that the judge has yet to rule, in light of their past behavior, I find your willingness to construct a scenario in which they are innocent, despite it being in contradiction of the evidence we do currently have, to be bizarrely generous.
Websiteuptime.com -- down... The irony.
And not a single banker is in jail.
I believe Facebook's ARPU is about $10/year.

So even $1 or $2/month would make a big big difference.

I guess the logic is Metcalfe's law means keep the barrier to entry low.
Ok, I just clicked on the link and what I saw there just didn't make any sense to me :-) Still doesn't now, but after reading the comments, I returned to the site and studied it more carefully. Maybe the link should point to chapter 0, not chapter 5, to have any idea about what this is about ... After reading chapter 0 now, I can understand the goal of urbit, and I think it is a great one! But note that you can work on exactly the same goal without leaving PL theory and theorem proving entirely behind you. Check out http://proofpeer.net to see how this might be possible.
I agree, I would happily pay an annual fee for ad-free use of Facebook.
loren concluded his post with this:

> I'm going to build whatever keeps me up at night. I have a long list, but there's one project that I'm particularly passionate about. It might turn into a startup. It might not. Who knows.

So, sounds like it was exactly what he said in his post.
Feel free to not do business in France then .
Don't really see the need when this exact functionality down to the last detail has been a part of iOS Safari since iPhone OS 1.0.
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It's not ironic in the slightest. He's correct - the HN crowd is definitely afraid of slaving away for hours working on our own or other people's ideas that are simply not useful to the world around us. We're the guys who can dedicate our lives to the right cause and actually change human civilization in some small way (eg. searching Google for recipes, booking your holiday with some taps on a screen, paying your bills without going to the post office). However, if we're not watching where we're going, we end up spending 6 years (of 15 hour days) making a cat simulator that even cat lovers ignore after two minutes.

So he's got the right assessment - we're deadly afraid of slaving away at pointless work. If you follow the posts on HN, you'll see it's a constant reinforcement of people trying to determine if they're doing something worthwhile - how to test the waters, which ideas are working well, how to efficiently accomplish tasks. He's completely off the wall in believing this is a bad thing though. I pity that he believes spending an extra two hours each day digging his own grave deeper is in any way a good thing. His message is simply incorrect - work itself has no meaning. Only outcomes have meaning.
Sure, that'll be the reaction in some quarters, and in breezy superficial mainstream reports. But that's always the reaction in those places: no change here.

But there will also be curiosity that leads people to other more sophisticated takes on Silk Road and DPR's philosophy. Here's an interesting one:

http://www.siliconvalleywatcher.com/mt/archives/2013/10/silk...

Silk Road was safer and cheaper than the very-violent legacy prohibited-drugs businesses. (Other smuggling cartels with $1.2B in sales likely have a lot more blood on their hands than two fake assassinations.) So here's another potential takeaway worthy of discussion:

• maybe psychoactive drugs ought to be a mail-order business, as a harm-reduction policy. USPS/Fedex/UPS can check proof-of-age on delivery, and people in addiction-recovery could be put (by election or court-order) on no-delivery lists

• if an online drug vendor is being blackmailed by a hacker/disgruntled-employee threatening the release of customer information, that vendor should be able to go to the cops and have the blackmailer arrested under the CFAA. Same for an embezzling employee. No extralegal "street justice" required.

• the taxes on such commerce could be spent to help addicts far more than today, and have some left over for spending on other social benefits
THESE PEOPLE APPLIED TO GO TO MARS
If that was the point you were trying to make, it didn't come across to me at all. I interpreted the point to be, "If you want to quit because things are boring you need to stop whining and keep doing it."
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I think "as a service" just means that your business can pay someone else to provide a service that you would otherwise do in house. Also, "as a service" means SAAS if it is software, PAAS if it is a platform, etc.
peer-review scientific analysis has been an issue for some time if you ask me. As the guy points out, all you have to do is find a few people already receptive to your idea. I'm not really sure why "peer-review" is so lofty a concept anyway.
More details from Brian Krebs' blog post - http://krebsonsecurity.com/2013/10/adobe-to-announce-source-...

"KrebsOnSecurity first became aware of the source code leak roughly one week ago...with fellow researcher Alex Holden...discovered a massive 40 GB source code trove stashed on a server used by the same cyber criminals believed to have hacked into major data aggregators earlier this year, including LexisNexis, Dun & Bradstreet and Kroll."

"The hacking team’s server contained huge repositories of uncompiled and compiled code that appeared to be source code for ColdFusion and Adobe Acrobat."
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Hey Jennifer,

Well done on your journey, very impressive! It's an inspiration for many of us.

You replied about the use of "girl" (and I agree, "person" would be best here), but why not reply to petea's original comment where he criticizes you? Every time your blog makes it to front page on HN, I notice you're active in the comment thread but you don't reply to the criticism. Why not? It would quickly put an end to these type of comments. I think ignoring the criticism does more harm than the truth about whether or not you received help from others or you started the challenge with some basic knowledge.
I was once freelancing reporting in a convention about "Y Generation"[1] and the best presentation I attended as themed on how much bullshit is said about this generation.

The grand finale of this presentation was a quote just like this, saying something in the lines of "this generation is lazy, and arrogant, and think life is easy".

Everything people say about Millenials, except this was taken from a 60's newspaper, focused on the baby-boomers. Moreover, it clearly was a reinforcing piece, not a proposing one, and there were other smaller excerpts to confirm this was the standard thinking at the time.

[1] Funny thing, I take "Generation Y" as the way people who doesn't really care about generational studies talk about Millenials. I can't stop thinking they heard "Generation X", called this way at their time because they were unknown, and extrapolated the meaning without further thinking.

EDIT: too many "about"s.
Out of curiosity, why do you feel them 'intrusive'?

Don't you think they are better since you can completely ignore them by scrolling down rather than taking you hostage to watch 30 second video or interstitial?
Wouldn't this count as a voting ring?
The Passion Trap
You spent 10 minutes reading that comment before you understood it?!?
But you can do that with any DRM - the unencrypted stream will always be in memory at some point.
I hadn't even thought of that. Yeah, I'd buy that. Twitter, too.
The title of this article should read "Instagram is now a business". Seems like adding non-seamless adds for this platform is not the best way to utilize the product they have. In my opinion, they should be driving more seamless integration with their apps that do generate revenue and use this as a property to prop those up. That's really why they bought this thing, to keep mobile pictures in Facebook's realm. They should drive more integration towards that goal. They certainly did not buy it because they thought it would generate revenue and profit eventually to provide a good return on the invested capital, so why try to utilize it like that?
Thank you for being candid, and really trying to make a difference by posting and writing something meaningful.
the hell? What were they thinking when they decided this would be a good idea ??
I think you missed my point entirely.

There is an important distinction between a citizen and a non-citizen.

That the US President orders the assassination of a US citizen -- I've got a problem with that. I'm honestly surprised it's a controversial position.
My take on what is negative about the HN subculture -

Basically, startups probably don't work out. But if you bet on a lot of them, and do it well, you will make money from the few that do.

To found a startup is to make a bet that isn't favorable to you. You would do better to shoot for a lifestyle business. You are spending 1-5 years on a lottery ticket, when you could be buying an annuity with it instead.

The VC/incubator crowd, inciting young people who don't know how much 5 years out of your 20s is worth, to spend it making a bad bet that the VC ultimately wins.

(Your 20s set the tone for your future career, your first paycheck sets the subsequent ones, and they are the best time to find a good life partner.)

Once a startup gets funding, and pays the founders 100k a year, they are on the good side of the bet. There is an invisible mass of unfunded quit and bootstrap attempts out there, or people at minor incubators eating noodles and living for 3 years in a shared one room flat. Those are the guys that lost the bet.

Anyway, that's just my view as an outside observer. Maybe it is wildly wrong.
I wish the lyrics distinguish between the word la and the abbreviation L.A.

Then I can accurately compare New York vs. L.A. mentions, 'cause no rapper says Los Angeles.
Why is the 5S being tested in a case?
Zynga doesn't particularly seem to care about that kind of thing and they're doing pretty ok...
It's about time. I hate to be one to advocate piracy, but this massive leak of source was something that we needed desperately.

It's illicit, but it will help free software and reverse engineering in a huge way. Adobe doesn't deserve to manipulate its users with CC like it's doing right now.
I was a bit confused why it had to be under 15 minutes as I didn't know there was a limit, apparently you can increase it. https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/71673?hl=en
I think the OP was referring to "shutting down" in the sense of stopping development on their consumer-facing app. The article likely meant that they weren't "shutting down" in the sense that the employees will still be working together in more-or-less the same organizational structure as pre-acquisition.
I find it incredibly presumptuous, people's circumstances are different, not every young person who quits his job is a spoiled brat who doesn't know hard work.

I might be biased, because I quit my stable but unfulfilling corporate job a few weeks ago; but after reading his post I have cancelled my Pluralsight $49/mo subscription. Maybe a pointless little rebellion, but I feel like the same message he directed at Loren could be directed at me :)
Mozilla (makers of Firefox) campaigned strongly against this in the W3C. But they haven't promised never to support DRM in their browser, and they are not likely to as it would marginalize their browser. What is more likely to happen is that they won't be able to pay the licensing fees for the DRM software and therefore won't include it, and then their browser will become marginalized. ("Firefox: the browser that can't view YouTube or Netflix.")
http://www.plosone.org/

PLOS ONE is this. It is well respected already. The initial invited reviews are mainly a junk filter to establish baseline methodological quality and NOT to evaluate significance.

From their "About us" page:

"Unlike many journals which attempt to use the peer review process to determine whether or not an article reaches the level of 'importance' required by a given journal, PLOS ONE uses peer review to determine whether a paper is technically sound and worthy of inclusion in the published scientific record. Once the work is published in PLOS ONE, the broader community is then able to discuss and evaluate the significance of the article (through the number of citations it attracts; the downloads it achieves; the media and blog coverage it receives; and the post-publication Notes, Comments and Ratings that it receives on PLOS ONE etc)."
Great! I've been looking for an easy and affordable Arduino+BLE setup and this seems to fit the bill.
Sadly, vim matches a lot of Portuguese lyrics:
http://rapgenius.com/search?q=vim
Absolutely none of this is evidence of his guilt, it's all just very loose circumstantial suggestion. If this is all it takes to convince people of someone's guilt in a huge criminal case, we're all doomed.
+1 on the burnout piece.

It's a complicated thing. I'd liken it to depression. Lots and lots of people constantly fret about being "depressed". Over time it became easy to dismiss depression as a legitimate illness. Apparently every time you feel sad you're depressed, the whole thing just loses its meaning.

It wasn't until I met someone who suffered from true clinical depression did I understand exactly the seriousness of it. The difference between someone feeling down and someone suffering from depression is stark. Hell it's pretty scary.

The same thing is true of "burning out". I've met several developers who have talked about burnout and cited it as a reason they just had to quit their job and backpack around Europe. Fair enough, you were clearly just tired of working and wanted to do something that's a bit more fun.

Then I met one (and thus far only one) person who truly burned out. That person became, much like someone suffering from depression, a shell of their former self. They became not just unresponsive but completely unable to respond. It was terrifying. They came to work and attempted to function, but they simply couldn't. The company simply rode them to the point that their brain seemed to turn off.

When you see it, you know it. That guy wasn't rationalizing anything. He had simply been pushed too hard for too long for his mind to keep up.

The company in question was from a VERY high-profile accelerator (not naming names!). The culture of pushing kids at maximum pace over long distances ended costing this company not only key employee but the bulk of their development team as well. After seeing it, no one wanted to be next.
Things are so ridiculous right now they may get in trouble for "illegal work".

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/09/30...
Damn, this author did a way better job than I did too.
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It removes the intimacy of your feed. Some people may follow brands, but others follow their friends and photographers whom they admire. Interjecting 'tailored content' will degrade the connection people have with the feed they subscribe to.
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Browser vendors don't have to implement any DRM scheme, but they will and sites will use them. What this means in practice is that there will be 100% standards compliant, pure HTML5 websites that can only legally be rendered in specific, proprietary browsers. The stated purpose of HTML5 EME is to make it a criminal offence under the DMCA anti-circumvention clause to develop an unauthorised browser or extension that displays the protected content.

If anything this is worse than proprietary plugins because those used documented APIs that any browser could support, whereas this is integrated into the web browser itself.
Does anyone know if this EME Plugins would be able to access browser data or what kind of data would be available to this plugins ?
"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."

And the businesses (Hollywood) with the content that Web users want have done that math and decided that DRM through plug-ins and native apps is an EXCELLENT system and they're happy to keep mandating it forever. If Plug-ins go away, as they're slowly but surely doing, then native apps will be the only place to get this content.

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."
What are the advantages over Rackspace, Amazon, Digital Ocean? Seems they are targeting science and big data apps.
Apple dropped GC in Objective-C, because they never managed to make it work properly.

By the time ARC was announced, there were still lots of corner cases in the ways code compiled with GC was interacting with code that wasn't compiled with GC enabled.

Plus, if you check Apple's developers documentation from those days, great care was required to make sure the GC could play nice with the C part of Objective-C.

So, in reality the ARC approach was taken, because it was the only way to have a working automated memory management, compatible with Objective-C code overall. Of course, being Apple, they sold it as a better solution for memory management and not as a result from their failure to implement a sound GC for Objective-C.
"I'm sorry" is commonly used both to express sympathy and to apologize.
But the reality is that at gigahertz speed you could run the TRE's I/O from userspace and have pretty accurate timing. Just latch your LEDs. =)
Very much, yes. To conclude otherwise is only possible through not actually reading what was originally written, or deliberately ignoring it.
I'm not sure what you mean with the Pullman. Could you elaborate on this?

It seemed like you were relating His Dark Materials to the content of the strikemag article, but are you just suggesting that we should read a good book?
Edit: sorry, I was wrong; the new look I saw is actually the web browser look (tested on Chrome/desktop), and it still looks the same on iOS.
half-naked selfies as ads seems like the most "natural" ad.

no seriously, will be interesting to track GoDaddy and other brands whose ad wheelhouse is the tried-and-true "sex sells"...

here's to hoping its more Vogue-style ad pages rather than the sleazy/spammy display ads that tend to overwhelm the internet, not super optimistic of the former considering their parents', FB (like Myspace before it), bottom feeder trajectory.
We can expect more 0-day exploits for Adobe Acrobat.
The worst part about this is that it's not even that hard to fix. If you wanted to - you could hire a VA for $5/hour to digitize it (and hire another to QA). Total cost probably less than $100.

So intrusive AND lazy :).
What bugs me about the Sokal affair is the implication that they didn't catch a bad review process but proved an entire discipline to be a sham (a discipline which they understood relatively little of to begin with).

So, when you get junk accepted in a humanities journal, its because the field is about bullshitting anyway - when you get junk into a science journal it's a hitch with the review process?
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It's a good question, but I suspect maybe they just thought the risk of this particular alleged attempted hitman-hirer successfully hiring an actual hitman was low. That is, if you have to hire this done, you probably shouldn't. Most who are satisfied with the services of hitmen they've employed, have already killed multiple people themselves, or they're at least plugged into one or more criminal enterprises that utilize violence regularly.

I don't have any particular knowledge of any of the above.
Chrome might be difficult because Google has already implemented it in ChromeOS and is a coauthor of the EME specification.
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How exactly is requiring approval from Apple for your app based on their wishes of what your website should do or not do be considered freedom?