skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My reading is that ESE is intended to work in much the same way -- the main work is done by the Content Decryption Module, which is more plugin-like. And indeed, the way existing DRM-using systems work in the browser is with the embed tag.

The spec says "The Content Decryption Module (CDM) is a generic term for a part of or add-on to the user agent that provides functionality for one or more Key Systems."
1. Time. Not much free time.
2. Risk. I have to support a family.
Selfish Memes: Facebook as a Model for Evolution
Not quite sure if this is illegal though.

I switched from the helpdesk at my first job to being a senior sysadmin working with the highest paid people on site for my gig. My company wanted to give me ~2% raises a year from the helpdesk wage to what was the average for my new position, vs. bumping me up to the avg salary for the new position when I switched teams.

So I would have worked side by site with my peers for ~10 years to catch up to what I should have been paid walking in the door. Since they wouldn't pay me what I should have been worth I quit.
What Google Really Gets Out of Buying Nest for $3.2 Billion
This article should be titled "the slice tool is dead."

The slice tool represents the direct transformation of raster image to website. We all know that this isn't possible anymore because of mobile, retina, etc.

But Photoshop and image editors still provide tremendous value to the web development process for mockups, image assets, colors, etc.

What this article is trying to say is that the process of turning a design into a website has become much more difficult. A PSD is no longer a final deliverable but the beginning of a conversation.

Now design needs to be functional. Instead of taking the static image you get from a PSD, you need to ask "What does this look like on mobile? What about huge resolutions? What if we don't have that content?"

The article suggests that this process will be improved by designing in the browser thanks to CSS3.

The truth is that the browser has just barely hit the minimum requirements to be able to make design decisions. Have you seen the Chrome color picker? It's alright for choosing a border color but final design work can not be done entirely in the browser just yet.
With inventors from 41 countries, more than 31 percent of the patents came from overseas.

This is a bit confusing to me. Is IBM acquiring patents through buyouts/purchases or are these inventors IBM employees? Seems like the former would be more likely.
I swear all VC's must have these email responses in Macros already. Everyone who passes on investing, even with great but not insane traction, replies to you in the exact same way. Word-by-word. The masters reply with enough wiggle room to come back if you do become hot eventually.
What Salaries Do Startup Founders Pay Themselves?
Now that you mention it, I have that with my current laptop too! It has made me long for the days of plastic covers, something I did not think possible :).
I don't think that's realistic. Either the AIs care about us and then take us with them, or at the very least optimize our world and help us build our own utopia, or they don't care about us and then why bother leaving us behind? Consume the entire earth in a swarm of nanobots to build a giant computer.

I don't think there's any scenario where the AI just cleanly leaves the Earth be, rather than optimizing it towards whatever it's own values are (good or bad.)
> So the Web either gets DRM, or Hollywood makes content available on proprietary platforms that provide it.

DRM in the Web will be a proprietary platform! The EME proposal is a proposal to make the former open Web depend on proprietary platforms. The actual DRM is not specified (how could it be?) and it only proposes an API the browser should provide for the proprietary binary blob DRM.

This is a really horrible step and an attack on the open Web! I'd much rather have Netflix and Hollywood use a completely proprietary DRM platform for their streaming services than them ruining the Web.
Grain finishing was done before the discovery of antibiotics.
>> The general public doesn't have an issue with DRM, they happily purchase the content as-is today.

Do they?

>> They may grumble when they have to purchase a movie for the second or third time.

So not happily then. And not what they actually want.

>> but they continue to do so

Because the choice is that or piracy, and many choose piracy. 'Not participating in popular culture' is a choice, but it's never going to be a big one.

>> You are attempting to apply your viewpoint on the general public, which clearly does not agree with you.

The general public are dolts, but even you have admitted they grumble and don't get what they want.

>> They want DRM that prevents casual copying so that Uncle Bob doesn't give a copy of the latest movie to his entire family which is not an attempt at monetary gain.

Then they have failed, because cousin bill, Bob's kid, has that figured out on them innernets.

>> That way they only have to spend money going after serious piracy efforts that exist for the purpose of making money.

Serious piracy efforts like usenet, torrents, IRC etc? Nobody makes much money there. There are for profit piracy-streaming services that advertise I guess. Never seem to have much legal trouble.

>> Your statement assumes that Hollywood is being run by stupid people and that's a serious mistake to make in this type of debate.

It is. Powerful, litigious stupid people with a lot of vested, anti-consumer interests.
Tangentially related: I made a pseudo-terminal web interface to Project Euler called CodeBot[1]. You can view problems, submit solutions, and do much more (some *nix commands work) in your browser. Its even open-source[2] on GitHub

[1]: http://codebot.sdslabs.co.in/

[2]: http://github.com/sdslabs/codebot
I agree that something is wrong with CSS. When you have to resort to hacks when making columns and vertically centering things... you know something is wrong.
> I believe the two judges (Rogers and Tatel) that struck down the FCC's regulations were Clinton nominees. The one who dissented in part was a Reagan nominee (Silberman).

Note that Silberman's dissent was because Silberman thought the whole Open Internet Order should have been struck down (including the disclosure requirements), while Rogers and Tatel only thought that that the requirements they characterize as "common carrier" requirements (non-discrimination and non-blocking) should be struck down.

So this wasn't "Clinton appointees vote against FCC, Reagan appointee backs FCC".
wow, fantastic work. If you provided embed codes for original compositions I'd definitely be using this quite a bit.
Having made the choice between Clojure and Scala many times, always in favor of Scala, here are the 3 main reasons I keep going back to Scala (even though I don't particularly like it):

1. I like type systems. I want strong typing, I'd prefer stronger typing in Scala (ie purity constraints as type information etc). I don't want optional typing (if I need dynamic interop, I can make a case for opt-out typing, but I've never needed).

2. Performance. I spend a lot of time dealing with performance issues, specifically latency & throughput. I often have to back off of idiomatic Scala to achieve these goals (especially when it comes to GC pressure). Scala makes that easy & painless. Clojure doesn't.

3. Style (purely subjective). I don't like LISP style languages. My very first experience in programming is in Scheme, so it's not that, I just don't like how they look. It's fine for other folks to like them, different strokes and all that, but I don't like it.

There are a ton of things I don't like about Scala, but for me and my projects, right now, if I'm targeting the JVM it is the best choice and Clojure isn't even second.
I'm not sure what this captcha achieves. The purpose of a captcha is to try to avoid automated postings, but an algorithm would be able to revert this text back to a number much faster and more accurately than a person.
@1m18s you see a syringe of fluid - so it's something similar. Maybe two laser-cut capacitive films with non-conductive fluid pumped through to make static 'buttons'. Probably a better MVP than what I suggested earlier :).

Thanks for the link.
If this outrages you, wait 'til you hear about all the jobs corporations ship overseas just to pay a fraction of and write it off.

You mean there are a-holes in the business world?
Urban Airship’s pricing page has no pricing
2000 and beyond: self-replicating robots terraform the cosmos.

(page 49)

OK.
I think the first point is an issue common in print designers designing for the web. A real web designer designs knowing the limitations of the web, and with the understanding that text flows. Whenever a comp has regions with height constraints (something I believe should be avoided on the web), 9 out of 10 times it will fall apart in practice because a client will dump a bunch of text in a box and cause the other areas to create gaps.
This looks like a great set of tools - but the font is killing me!
Improve client side development with TypeScript and AngularJS
Neither is HTML+CSS.

For a startup landing page layout, Bootstrap is more than enough. (see examples at http://www.blacktie.co )

If you want interactivity via AJAX/Angular, you'll need to include some sort of JavaScript of course, but that's outside the scope of the layout question.
How can something or someone be half-dead? Life is a binary thing, you are either YES (1) alive or NO (0) dead. I fail to comprehend how any respectable (tech) journalist would call something "half-dead". It implies there is a state between being alive and death when this is clearly not the case.
Teal squares on right: CPUs

Teal rectangles on right (in between squares): L2

Orange mass on left: GPU

Blueish rectangle on bottom: DDR interface (?) Possibly L3, I forget if these actually have L3.
What if both users are behind a firewall which does not allow them to receive incoming connections?
What the client sees is CSS, and that's the important part.
Among other things, this has lots of applications for molecular dynamics (computational chemistry simulations) [1]. Before you had to transfer data over to the GPU, which if you're dealing with small data sets and only computationally limited is no big deal. But when you get bigger data sets that becomes a problem. Integrating the GPU and the CPU means they both have access to the same memory, which makes parallelization a lot easier. If, as someone else here said, AMD is partnering with Oracle to abstract the HSA architecture with something more high-level like java [2], then you don't need to go learn CUDA or Mantle or whatever GPU language gets cooked up just for using that hardware.

I'm personally hoping that not only will we get to see more effective medicines in less time, maybe some chemistry research professors will get to go home sooner to spend time with their kids.

[1] http://www.ks.uiuc.edu/Research/gpu/

[2] http://semiaccurate.com/2013/11/11/amd-charts-path-java-gpu/
They need to take a lesson from the OCaml or Haxe devs. Both have blazing fast compilers that create efficient code for every platform known to man... And both are very feature-rich languages.
Not sure what is going on here. A person on a H-1B visa, should be paid atleast 60k in the US. In California, it is somewhat higher.

Either this guy is coming on B-1 visa, or something is wrong here.
I'd echo various freenode channels, though I know of no single channel. Oddly enough, reddit does have a channel.
> had the one CS PhD in our midst not jumped up and explained the chinese remainder theorem to us, we wouldn't have had a chance.

I never had a PhD near by to get help from, but many problems involved doing research online about a theorem, sequence or some sort of mathematical concept.
Heh, here's the one for Everpix: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5505956

Top comment: "Clearly you guys have a business model and a product you're selling. If I can't even rely on you guys being in business long-term, what can I do? But you guys have built an amazing product! Keep up the good work!"
Creating a Persona for your Blog
We finally decided to start taking our blog seriously and treat it like a real product, so first created a target persona. This post describes the process we used, the types of information we wrote down for our persona, and includes a template that you can use. I hope you find it helpful!
Holes? Do you mean the grid of dots? Those are the flip-chip equivalent of wire pads.
From my perspective a lot of it has to do with 'training' 'education' and employers. I've worked with several high end agencies and even if some of the designers know some HTML/CSS they have no idea how what they do in PS affects the next stage of the project.

Many employers have no idea about the technical debt of PSD->HTML. Its just the way they've been doing things for years. They hire a designer that can make things look pretty in PS and thats it, their job is done. Its up to the next chump to figure out how to make it work 'Thats what they get paid to do'.

Print designers had to know about processes and techniques because re-printing things is VERY EXPENSIVE. There is a hard cost involved that just doesn't exist on the web. If we make a typo or mistake in something, often we can correct that in a matter of seconds.

A lot of these print designers ended up being used for the web in agencies because they were senior designers, they knew about 'design' and had a lot of experience.
Well, TSLA is up nearly 10% today, so take that as you will.
What's your point? We shouldn't fight against bad things because worse things also exist?
That's quite funny. Deus Ex, perhaps? Congratulations of turning a glitch into something positive.
That’s a great one. Better than what I used to say, which wasn’t even an analogy - that it’d be no different than a graphic designer supplying a hand-drawn/inked/painted sheet of paper, unscanned, for comping.
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> Are you saying the US system has more government involvement than a socialist system where the government pays for most health care?

I'm not.

> Are you saying the participation of private business (insurance and providers) is irrelevant to the equation?

I'm not.

> If the US is less socialist than the "socialized medicine" systems, and socialism leads to increased costs and reduced quality, then that should be reflected in the numbers

Yes, I get what you're saying, just like I got it before.

The US healthcare system is fucked in its own special ways which are different from the way Finland's system is fucked. Both systems involve heavy government involvement though, which is something you should consider.

Again, the point here is government involvement, because the more of that there is in something, the worse it will be for the general populace. This is why you don't want "universal healthcare". It's guaranteed to turn to shit sooner or later, and in the economic conditions the Western world finds itself in, it's bound to be sooner.

I'm not saying the US system is an example of "socialism", for whatever value of socialism we might want to use here. But it's most certainly not an example of little-to-no government involvement either. Your healthcare system's costs are outrageously high because of the way it's structured (through government involvement). It just happens to be a way to reach higher costs than what other countries have "achieved", but that doesn't mean I'm wrong about anything I've said.
Besides salary difference, getting fired for raising concerns like these are sufficient grounds for a lawsuit.
Building an iPhone App in 3 Days
That's a ridiculous statement. I recently took a job that pays 15% less than I was making, which was already much lower than I should be making, because it was either that or have my family get evicted from our home when we can't afford to pay rent. Just because someone is getting screwed doesn't mean they can avoid it.

I'll definitely be looking for something better, but until I find it I don't really have any good options. I'm sure someone trying to leave India is in a similar situation.
only 1/3rd of IBM's employees are in the US... they have more employees in India than in the US

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9169678/IBM_stops_dis...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_India
I would say no, a NPE becomes a patent troll when rather than publicizing and trying to license the technology they developed to companies that might find it useful they wait for their developments to be independently invented or unknowingly copied and then sue the infringer. Or they patent a technology used by another group but which hasn't already been patented, and then sue the inventor (which has happened to groups I've been a part of twice).

In general it's hard to come up with useful inventions without a concrete problem, so often good NPEs are in communication with their potential customers even before they start work.
The work flow might be dead but... psd.js lives on!

http://git.zx2c4.com/psd.js/about/

git clone git://git.zx2c4.com/psd.js

This is a neat project from `meltingice`.
Living Abroad - You Can Do It
The big news for Tesla today was that they announced 6900 cars delivered in Q4 of last year. They had guided for slightly under 6000 cars delivered, so this is a big surprise and the reason for today's stock spike.

TeslaMotors also tweeted that revenue is expected to exceed guidance by 20% in Q4 2013.

Update: Tesla just released a press release:
http://www.teslamotors.com/about/press/releases/tesla-revenu...
What is Heterogeneous System Architecture (HSA)?
What would work just as well for the author would be simply listening to audiobooks.

He says "For me falling asleep takes a cooling down period where my mind slowly disengages. That’s why watching old TV shows is so effective; it gives me something to focus on without letting me really engage."

You can get the same effect by listening to an audiobook, without having to worry about the glow of a screen at all. I use a cheap dollar-store speaker tucked under my pillow, where the muffled drone of the book is still distinct and listenable, but just soporific enough to lull me to sleep. The only thing to remember is to set a timer so it turns off, rather then continuing on for hours and potentially waking you up again.
The important part for elorant (and me) is that CSS is awful to work with. And everyone in this thread is proving it by pointing out that you should use some kind of translation layer instead of actually touching it.
This is shoddy journalism. Error-ridden and a terribly misleading title.
Can we PLEASE stop posting sponsored ads from wired.com?
Counting cases per judge is a legitimate method of weighing workload only if the cases are drawn from a similar universe. Among the geographical circuits other than the DC Circuit, this may be reasonable, given that their appellate jurisdiction is similar in subject matter. But given that the DC Circuit handles comparatively few of the kinds of cases that the other circuits handle (having only a single subordinate district court from which to handle regular appeals of the type other circuit courts handle), but has a special role handling appeals of federal regulatory decisions, you aren't comparing like cases to like cases when you compare case numbers between the DC Circuit and the other circuits. You'd run into the same kind of issue comparing the Federal Circuit to other circuits.

Of course, I'm not at all surprised to see a News Corp outlet overlook a critical distinction that is inconvenient for the propaganda interests of the Republican Party.
Being poor is expensive.
This seems a bit like saying that there is no such thing as debugging because applications still have bugs afterward. I agree with the overall thrust that the security through obscurity is unreliable, but it is something, and it has even been effective to a limited degree on many occasions. (For example, many video game companies have employed defeatable security-through-obscurity successfully, because they only need to hold off the crackers for a couple of weeks.)
His point is that Scala and the Scala community dont just use maps, they always want everything in types and that is why every library does it that way. Its bad practice just to use a map. In Clojure land its the other way around even if we put something in a type (deftype) we right interface to make it look like its not (defrecord).

Its not what is possible, but what is. And the fact is that all the Clojure web framework and library's use the same data structure even if the underlying implementation is different. See how ring uses much of the same thing as the pedestal service.
This seems to be in really poor taste. I don't think we should start a witch hunt here.

Please consider deleting your post.
At a bank where I work software developers don't code 30% of their time because of meetings and other stuff going on… just a reality check
Did you grow up with spies?
It's the coked-up jazz soundtrack that I found hard to handle :-)
And just so you don't think this is over soon when they shut down Dagger, they reopen in Wiesbaden-Erbenheim, about 30km north-west of their current location.
Tell that to people I work with, this is something I just did last week. I dislike doing it and I dont really agree with the camp that slices their page into images.
Yes, I edited for clarification.
What you are saying is just ridiculous. Adding DRM to HTML5 will destroy the open web and not preserve it.

First of all the DRM proposal does NOT talk about plugins. The DRM support won't be plugins. Microsoft already implements the spec in their latest IE and it doesn't work with plugins at all. They ship Microsoft's DRM technology as the one and only available DRM. Which is perfectly fine according to the spec.

So do you understand? This moves DRM into the browser and not into a plugin. The plugin thing was what we had with Flash and Silverlight. Those things were plugins which are not part of the browser (well except Google decided to make Flash part of Chrome).

There could be no law to force browser vendors to ship DRM. It would not be legally possible. It is silly to think so. And if it gets proposed we can fight it then. We don't have to bend over backwards now to take the DRM bullshit that vile companies like Google are proposing.

If content providers want DRM then they can develop their own crappy DRM plugins and applications. But they should under no circumstances be allowed to ruin the open web.
Source-based distro where you can use binary packages unless you need to build from source? Sounds good to me.
politics before ethics. sigh, it was always thus, it shall always be.
Did you know there's only three black people in Utah?
Gandi or Namecheap.

Namecheap is cheaper than Gandi when it comes to .com domains. However, Gandi's domains include IMAP/POP (1 GB) hosted in France, and they have more TLDs than Namecheap.
As a woman, I would definitely use Project Euler more often if they came out with a pink version that was smaller and more ergonomic to suit my soft, feminine hands.
As a designer, I love hearing what developers want. I always hope the process is going to be a two-way conversation. It helps me a great deal to hear what the developer wants. I also agree that if you're going to design for the web, in PS, you had better at least have a basic understanding of how HTML works and how a web page is put together.
I'm sorry that I completely ignored Apple. Although I am not sure I would consider someone buying an iMac (or any brand name prebuilt desktop system) to be an 'enthusiast.'
Then you need a TURN server to proxy the data.
I'm learning Scala (coursera, twitter) to write game servers that can handle lots of request simultaneously. What's another good language for this? So far, Scala seems rather powerful.
Snapchat's Bootstrap Story
> I don't think Apple was initially on board. I think it may be there only since late last year.

Didn't Apple already ship an implementation of that API in Maverick?