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Look, I've read the entire proposal, and it's obviously DRM for HTML5 video. It has specific error codes for standard DRM restrictions like "A hardware configuration change caused a content protection error" and "There is no available output device with the required characteristics for the content protection system" (no HDCP, no playback) and "The Key System could not be installed or updated".

It's designed to support a license server, an (unspecified, naturally) mechanism for the CDM to decrypt keys from the license server and store them internally, a (CDM-specific, i.e. unspecified) mechanism for the CDM to attest that it's deleted keys, and all the other parts of DRM.

The BBC have demanded that HTML5 EME be robust enough DRM that accessing content through unauthorised software is a criminal offense here in the UK, and the W3C spent some time on that too (though it's not mentioned in the standard itself).

It's basically a way of allowing DRM-based sites to claim to be 100% standards-based. It doesn't even provide much interoperability benefit over every DRM provider writing their own DRM API for HTML5 video; sites still need a bunch of DRM-scheme-specific glue code between the web server and license server, and the same with CDM and browser vendors on the client end. They don't even standardize the codecs and containers used - there's a couple of optional, non-normative container encryption schemes, but DRM schemes don't have to support either, so sites may (and probably will) have to encode and store multiple copies of each video to support different DRM schemes. It's less fucking standardised and interorperable than satellite pay TV!
Fair enough, I agree that these laws are a mess and you'll never get the final answer unless a disputed application of the Act is determined by the High Court.

But these laws have been active and in common use for over 10 years without a single public challenge. I also know that the ACC's interpretation of their own powers has been used to prevent suspects disclosing certain matters even to their own lawyers.

The fact that no high-profile judicial decisions have placed limits on what the ACC does indicates to me that the law is fairly settled in this area.

I just wanted to point out that the original statement "Australia does not have any equivalent to the US National Security Letter, so we cannot be forced to do something without being allowed to disclose it." does not seem well-founded.
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I wish the article did not so freely mix The Web and The Internet. Laymen may not understand the difference, but surely Mozilla employees do.
"Stripped of the fiddliness" - have you ever tried to debug CSS?! :P
Right, but being a "tech business" wouldn't have prevented the root cause of that, which was laying off their experienced workers and offshoring to a cheap location. Tech businesses make that kind of blunder all the time.
Just wondering what a crash of that magnitude would do to a city like Bangalore.

Big IT shops will shut down most of their operation. Several hundreds of thousands of people will lose jobs. They in turn will default on their loans. For those who don't know the real estate scenario in Bangalore, these days even mediocre 2BHK flats sell for >65 lacs. People who are in neck deep in debt, will default. Big real estate projects(which are a common place in Bangalore today) and even small time real estate builders will crash and burn. The lenders to those builders will in turn crash and burn.

A lot of bad blood will be eliminated and won't be able to come back for years.

But I think it will ultimately do good for IT community as a whole. The current scenario is full of super idiots powered by dirtiest form of politics climbing the corporate hierarchies and building their real estate wealth with that money and position.

I for one am praying for this crash to happen.
Fascinating true(?) story about how lactose intolerance changed the course of history, as recorded in the ancient sagas[1]:

When the Vikings established their colony in Vinland, they wished to establish peaceable relations with the Native Americans. They invited the local chiefs to a party at their longhouse, in which they served an amazing new drink -- milk -- which the Americans had never seen before. The following morning, suffering from intense abdominal pains, the natives accused the vikings of trying to poison them, and promptly laid siege to the colony until the Vikings packed up and buggered off.

But for this incident, it's entirely possible that the Vikings might have established a durable colony in the Americas, leading to contact between the old and new world 500 years earlier.

1: http://www.ancientworlds.net/aw/Places/District/1009811
You could also just create a second, completely separate setup in Europe running on a new domain. People who don't care about their @fastmail.fm domain or those use their own domain can move to the European setup.
> They conclude that the product must suck and that nobody wants it, because Mark Zuckerberg did exactly the same thing to launch Facebook at Harvard and look at how that worked out for him

Maybe I'm just sleepy, but I'm starting to get tired of condescending advice from newly-born entrepreneurs.
AFAIK, the only benefit I see from switching to Hockeyapp is that the tester doesn't have to register into Testflight in order to download the app. Now, I have to roll a beta test phase for our app and will try Hockeyapp. I'll leave my impressions here later.
> [..] we'll keep using Google if their search results are the best.

People just need good enough search, not the best.
Isn't ITO among the most expensive materials in these displays? Seems like a good optimisation, if not revolutionary. Presumably it will help drive down the cost of flexible displays.
Hire without an interview? How would you know if they can write legibly on a whiteboard? What if they don't look like you? What if they don't already have a job working somewhere else? How will you know if they have the same hobbies as you? What if they can't solve riddles? What if they can't guess the right clothes to wear?
German `man' is actually gender-neutral. Or do you talk about `Germanic'-English `man'?
Apples to oranges, sorry. Creating an alternative is not the same as taking on the original.

Sure, you can write a better SalesForce at home, but making it displace the real thing is exactly the same effort as making a TV station adopt your new newscast format.
I would've missed it myself, if I didn't see the video. I never knew Samsung's YOUM display used graphene. It just thought they finally got around to making flexible OLED displays, since everyone was saying early on that one of the qualities of OLED is that it can be made flexible.

I don't know if it's a cost cutting thing for them, though, at least not in the short term, with small batches of them. It might be why the initial flexible displays will only be 720p, instead of 1080p, which I think one of the rumors is saying (on the LG side).

Either way, it will definitely be used as a marketing tool. I'm not sure if some other form factor other than flat will be appealing to consumers (unless it could be expanded into a tablet somehow?), but I think the biggest benefit to consumers initially will be that it's virtually unbreakable. It shouldn't shatter like all the other touchscreen displays do.
Hire the guy as a manager (or headhunter), and hire the guy who actually did the coding as a programmer.
But if you do not take care the "more important things" will have to be refactored or even rewritten allo over because you build them on a poorly performing base.

Finding the bottlenecks should always be a priority. Fixing them can be done at a later point.
This is partly a problem of societal shift that has happened during the past decades. Some of the programs, like the retirement fund here in Germany were conceived with some measure of sustainable calculation.

After the war (WWII) there were few old people and life expectancy was generally much lower than now. So the social programs created back then (mostly talking about retirement funds) did make some economic sense, as most people did not reach that age. More people were paying than draining the fund. Now with time the number of old people became greater with prolonged peacetime and medical advances and the social programs left the funds empty and the shifted the burden on state budget.

Sadly there is no easy and morally acceptable solution for this, so we are just staying on track towards the inevitable wall.
There are higher level languages like Modula-2 and Ada that offer type safety and once upon a time, had compilers with comparable performance to C, back when C was UNIX only.

Of course, 30 years of industry investment into C compiler backends changed this relation.

Unfortunately, thanks to Sun and Microsoft VM über alles attitude in the past decade, young developers tend to equate higher level languages with VMs and think C and C++ are the only languages with proper native code compilers.
The legal situation in Norway is... in flux at the moment. The Snowden revelations might stop information sharing from coming in, but Norway is looking like leapfrogging Australia pretty much with data retention (along with much of Europe):

http://theforeigner.no/pages/news/updated-parliament-passes-...

Norway isn't some magical safe haven from legal data requests. We receive law enforcement requests through the Norwegian system for mail.opera.com users (which, despite running on the same infrastructure, is operated under Norwegian law, not Australian - isn't life complex)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecommunications_data_retenti... tells a few interesting stories.

Australian law may indeed change, and we'll be compelled to update our policies to match. So far, we've avoided it.

http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/government-...
This scenario you describe will probably happen, but most likely not in the next few years... Our debt-to-GDP ratio simply isn't high enough yet.

However, when it does happen it will happen very suddenly and will be completely unexpected (when the US fails to find enough buyers in a round of debt sales) so the timing is hard to predict.
I was confused at first too, but I think the idea is to throw off who Facebook, or anyone looking through Facebook's data, thinks you are. Quoting:

I hate Facebook's privacy policy (or lack of thereof)

If you only add real friends, there's too much signal and not enough noise to cover it up. This is in line with using tor and using fake locations that change frequently.
Because Facebook gets really confused about it. Their "list of people you may know" is quite off, they can't recommend any bar or club in my hometown because I never even listed it as my location. Even the "meet singles in your areas" ads are off. This way, I can stay in touch with my friends and not be a marketing tool for Facebook.

Edit: just to make sure I get my message across the way I want to: I do this because I'm somewhat uncomfortable with the idea, but more importantly because:

a) I hate targeted advertising. If I make a purchase decision, I want to make sure I make it based on actual information, not clever advertising. Avoiding clever advertising is a good way for me not to bump into it.

b) I really think this is wrong. I am a programmer myself, and I think platforms like Facebook are definitely not the way technology should be used. Of course, not all of my friends share the same principles, and I don't want that to be an obstacle; I found this to be a reasonable middle ground.
Silk Road wasn't hosted in the US, in the documents it says they got the server image from another country.
What we also know from that is that it doesn't really matter where your servers are physically located.
Yes, we could. It's certainly an idea that's on our radar.
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Your HR department knows to do this? I call shenanigans.
Ruby is uniquely awful on the deployment side, I have to say.
It's a whiteboard too.
Yup, you nailed it. I also don't "check Facebook" too often for that to be annoying, and my list of friends isn't all that huge. It's less than 50 people, including the people I don't know.

I only stay in touch with people I want to stay in touch with. There are no ex-colleagues-from-that-job-i-left-four-years-ago-whom-i-met-at-that-concert-an-year-ago-but-can't-quite-remember-their-name. Close friends with whom I really do have links to share and things to chat about.
Even if that post was written entirely by lawyers, that still wouldn't make it legally binding.
This article makes me wish HN had a downvote button for submissions - its some upbeat crap with an example that is debatable. It caries neither novelty nor intellectual investment.

SAGE has been used.
If you don't believe the Twitter stock is (going to be) worth anything why would you buy the stock?

Of course a valuation is for the people who are optimistic about the future of the company, because that is who you are going to sell the stock to.

A twenty fold increase in revenue is not at all unheard of, and as far as I know a standard estimate in the sector.
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> Google basically gives most of its share of app sales to carriers (70% developers/25% carriers/5% Google) and also an undisclosed share of all mobile ad revenue.

Any source for that claim?
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Interesting, didn't know about the temp file. It doesn't really make updates atomic, but it certainly reduces the chances of ending up with a partially updated file.
Hi beginagain, check out:

http://teamtreehouse.com

http://codeschool.com

(those are perhaps some solid references for good paced learning).
Encrypted HDD won't help against cold boot attack.
I'm curious about people like you who feel this way. I understand you don't miss it or see value in Facebook but can you understand that other people see value in Facebook and that it enriches their social life?
Thanks for your point - I have just remembered that I have recovered someone's FTP password for them from a TCPIP stream and it was fun but not difficult!

However, of notable attacks I have witnessed recently, the plain text file of Filezilla was the attack vector. Get that and away you go!
The thought that someone would take the location I list on the Internet seriously didn't even cross my mind

Firstly, Facebook is supposed to provide information about you. There's little point to providing information that is patently false. Why even waste the keystrokes? If you don't want a piece of information known, just omit it. Thus, people generally expect the information you provided is true.

Secondly, I think we were all a lot more fanciful when we were kids.
I would imagine its to fuzz up Facebook's social mapping.
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One reason biological materials are so amazing (much stronger, etc, like spider silk) is they are essentially made one atom at a time.

If we can do the same thing, but using inorganics we can create some amazing materials. Steel for example is made of a myriad of various crystals and alloys arranged as grains. Tons of work goes into the exact processing needed to encourage one type or another of grain. If we could exactly control where each atom of the iron, carbon, and other elements go we would create a material much much stronger than anything we can do today.
I think the whiteboard experience is very loosely correlated to programming ability and hope that the simple loop fiasco was an exaggeration. Many good programmers have a great deal of social anxiety, and being put under the microscope is not how they work. A better test of their prowess would be to hire them as a contractor if they can talk shop and have some live projects/open source code out there that isn't obviously copied. Short of that you could always stick them in a room for half a day, with an internet connection for their own laptop, ask them to solve a problem, then have them explain their rationale, stepping you through the code when they are done. Either of these would be a much better measure of how the candidate would perform for you if hired.
It wouldn't be hard to run every submitted link through http://www.coralcdn.org/, then if the site goes down add a comment to the thread linking to their .nyud.net address (eg http://google.com.nyud.net/ )
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It'll likely throw off the marketers, at least for a while, but I hope you are aware that if anyone at a 3 letter agency, or even anyone at facebook, cared about you - that it will take them exactly 3 seconds to drop the noise.
People buy government debt in part because there's not anywhere safer to put the money. Banks fail, money under the mattresses can be stolen or destroyed, etc. Also, to a certain extent I think our current economic setup relies on the Government going into debt in order to support private-sector spending.
I was wrong to be offended. It was a knee-jerk reaction.

The phrase is a common American form of wording. "Not your mother's romance"; "Not your father's oldsmobile"; and so on.

So in this example my mother does have a bitcoin wallet but this new wallet is a bobby-dazzler.

I need to pause before posting.
I won't design for 30 000 notes when I expect only 300 max. Much too expensive. I'll solve that problem when the first reasonable use case appears.

I wish you all good luck with over-engineering your software!
Would you like me to buy you a new microwave? I will if you promise to keep Social Fixer the way it is.
I doubt that an unexpected reboot and chassis intrusion (to install a compromized bootloader, for example) will go unnoticed by FastMail staff.
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They should just shut down all their data centers and crawl the whole web from a single box located in someone's basement.

After all, the bot doesn't get impatient.
In order to value the company he MUST assume something. If you ever buy or sell a stock then you, too, are implicitly valuing future revenues, but perhaps you do so blindly. Do not ridicule the author for being explicit and transparent with his assumptions.
Is this talk available on the web in any form?
I used to use [Furl](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furl). I would periodically download their zip archive of my urls, until it became 2GB.
I now use [Zotero](http://www.zotero.org/) which takes a snapshot of the url I am on and puts all files into a folder.
I realize that this is proactive work: taking snapshot when I find an interesting page, rather than later.
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>when the US fails to find enough buyers in a round of debt sales

Doesn't the US itself already buy up the largest part of their own debt?
Trust me, no bank in the world right now is trying to trade in all their dollars for British pounds.

Also, if you factor in the high cost of living, which is a side effect of the UK system, being a poor person in the UK is a pretty shitty situation to be in, certainly not something to smugly celebrate.
As far as I can tell, they haven't sued you either. In fact, I don't think you've even received a letter from their lawyers. All that's happened is that someone at FB had threatened you.

Personally, I think they're full of it. I'd at least wait until you get an actual letter from their lawyers before making any decisions.
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I had :(
And then prepare to be getting accused of elitism, being selfish, not caring about users, crippling their system, etc. For a good example, see how people treat Lennart (author of systemd).
There's a solution for this. Its called DANE. See http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-dane-smtp

We're currently investigating it.
I became lactose intolerant at the age of 30 with all the described accompanying 'issues'. It took 6 months to work it out though as it was so sudden and I'd consumed milk frequently up until then. Curiously, though, both of my daughters are lactose intolerant, so it seems something weird gene-wise was going on there..
Be careful, the UK's total external debt has exceeded 10 trillion[0]. We have huge financial sector debt here and are worse exposed to financial shock from the banking system than almost all countries globally.

Agreed that getting out of the USD hegemony is inevitable. As to whether it will be an orderly transition, I'd say that is far from assured, especially in the UK.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_external_d...
If you want to just send timtams, that would be fine too. We seem to have run out of them in the office...
I'll join you in the prayer too. But be very aware of the fact that once the investors and companies are off, even the bright ones around will have a tough time. IT(sic) would take a lot of time to stabilize in India.
Because governments can always fund debt with new debt, the inevitable default can be postponed indefinitely. The main risk is that interest payments get out of control, which is what made Greece go bankrupt. Or, of course, that a country refuses to take on new debt to fund old debt, like the House is now threatening to do.

Of course threatening to default is also likely to make interest payments spiral out of control. But if the country pays its debts in a timely manner and keeps total interest under control, it can keep this up forever.
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One could always delete debt against debt. All those debts are connected. Germany owes France, France owes The Netherlands, The Netherlands owes Germany and this a thousand times over worldwide.
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What was painful about it? Chef provides Debian packages. I added their repository, then apt-get install chef, and it was done. I use chef-solo, and every time it just worked. What sorts of problems did you experience?
Most reveal.js based presentations you can press "esc" and get a slide overview, although that's of limited use. Slides in general are simply not as useful as a reasonable web page if they don't have the presentation along with them in audio or video. It's a peculiar part of HN culture to link to just slides, I don't know of any other group that does it.

A far better introduction to sci-kit learn is the project's examples page, http://scikit-learn.org/stable/auto_examples/index.html, which you can use to get example code and data to generate each type of graph. The documentation on the rest of the site is also of very high quality.
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> being a poor person in the UK is a pretty shitty situation to be in, certainly not something to smugly celebrate.

Being poor in the UK does suck. A home is not guaranteed. But I think I'd rather be poor in the UK than in many other countries. There is a possibility of housing (for a subset of the people who need housing); there is free health care for all who want it, including free medication for some of the people who need it (and low cost medication for the rest).
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Last resort: Bring a sleeping pill and sleep through the flight.
well, honestly and with a guilty tone I write a lot of code, work on projects and do stuff, close to good at github.
But, when put to test on my ability with time limits and sneak peeks, I do tend to forget why I'm writing that loop for.
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