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>> or Hollywood makes content available on proprietary platforms that provide it.

> What's wrong with that scenario, exactly?

Nothing. It's the current scenario. It can bother users, but overall it bothers big media, because piracy is active and well on those proprietary platforms. That's the complaint we hear from them.

There's a large part of W3C that want change so that people with disabilities (such as poor vision) can enjoy big media products. Of course, that assumes that big media cares about implementing the ARIA stuff. I personally believe that their not caring in the past, on proprietary platforms, is an indication of what they'll do in the future, on the Web.
X^2 is the sum of three periodic functions
A lost battle I'm afraid. Acronym in common usage now means both pronounceable (NASA, SCUBA) and spelled-out (NSA, MPAA).

You gotta let these things go, sometimes.
Bitcoin anonymity upgrade Zerocoin to become an independent cryptocurrency
sdoering got most of it right. I also would add backups, it doesn't feel safe keeping all your pictures on cameras sd cards for weeks. Actually, for me it's mostly backups, that's why a dirty cheap rougged tablet would be nice (cheap because I don't do many of these trips).
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I once bought and downloaded SuperHexagon on Steam but didn't have the time to test it at home. Later on the train (I'm commuting for two hours a day) I wanted to test it. Sadly I wasn't allowed without a internet connection which was really annoying.
Overall I agree with you except your example of Steam.

Steam is DRM.

Gaming is going towards more online by adding value (just like SAAS can't be pirated like traditional software) always online games by nature such as Battlefield 4 can't be pirated as well.

That's possibly why also Simcity decided to go online but the added value wasn't enough and caused a backslash.
My suggestion is that you should try to post it in as much tech blogs as possible. I would also recommend you create a site and perhaps blog about your app so you can get traffic.

If you keep posting on HN people will get used to it and might simply ignore
http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=3195
>> When the people with money say "we want this", you don't argue. It doesn't matter if it's technically infeasible. It doesn't matter if it won't have the intended effect. When the people with money want something, YOU GIVE IT TO THEM.

Strange how the general public don't get DRM-free movies from hollywood...

Either way, my point was exactly about 'Hollywood', if you want to call them that, it's them that are delusional about their ability to protect content with DRM.

>> Money shapes reality in this world.

In this case it sems to propagate delusions.
In the same sense, a sci-fi story that observes too much the technology in the determent of the people is like a B series movie.
Oh noes ! They're going to start ... well, euhm ... a radio station ?
This is coming after Fedora 17 Beefy Miracle and Fedora 18 Spherical Cow.
Or as we in the graphics fields call it: mipmapping, geoclipmapping, megatexturing, virtual texturing or slippy maps.

There's a related capability called "interpolation" which could be linear, bicubic etc. Looks nice too, try it.
Looking at the screenshot in the article, it seems that the payment screen is embedded in a light-box, as opposed to a popup.

IMO this is not a good idea. You can't see the URL, so you can't verify that you're actually entering your credentials on *.paypal.com (without checking the page source, something an average user won't do). Opens it up to phishing attacks.

At least with the current flow (and for Facebook/Twitter/etc share dialogs) it opens in a popup with an address bar. Easy to verify you're on the correct site.
Those were my thoughts as well. I hope there will be the possibility to get the normal redirect as well, I don't really want to enter my PP details on some random site.
So, how would I be able to verify that what I'm seeing is actually PayPal's login form, and not some phishing page? I thought that's the reason for doing a full redirect. Or does this only work when you're already logged in on PayPal, and other than that you'd still be redirected?
I also support this.

Another great resource: https://github.com/WinRb/vagrant-windows
To think of a human body as human is really a wrong way to look at it. To know why, ask yourself this question-- are people who have no limbs, hands or can't see or hear human? Our hands, legs, skins well nearly every thing in our bodies are more or less non intelligent entities at best serving as sensor inputs and bio-mechanical parts which move things around, which give inputs and receive inputs from the brain.

Human bodies are the very same, which is what enables development of medical science as a general discipline. So is the human brain. Yet! The data in our brains which your gather by experience seems to vastly alter the individual nature of individual humans. All this combined together you can likely download the 'data' + 'meta files' in your brain someday.

>>If we transfer our minds into the "cloud" then are we still human?

Yes, Why would you doubt that. Lets do a simple experiment. Say you sleep today night. Without your knowledge some one just removes your brain and implants an exact electronic replica of it which resembles your brain as is. Your brain is simply receiving signals from your body. So will you notice any change when you wake up? Lets continue the experiment further, say the next day that electronic brain was removed and just connected to a simulator which will simulate your body as your know it and the world around you. When you get up the next day in the morning(in the simulator) will you know if you are even in a simulator?

The whole point is you need to learn this concept that you are not your body, and your neural computer + software just lives within a biological body. Someday that meta information and data can just be taken out and everything else that acts as an input to it can be simulated.

>>Are we even alive?

Define alive? Alive is only your biological body able to continue to support your neural self further. Death is the opposite.

>>Are they cared for by robots that we control within the cloud?

Within the cloud, your meta information + your currently gathered information through life experience stays intact. Your new software brain(imagine it like a VM) can be fed inputs that simulate whatever world you want. Want heaven? Hell? Well whatever your want they can simulate it for you.

You can see this even now, Most of us lucid dream. This is just an extension of that.

>>And if our body dies, then what?

The concept of a biological body doesn't exist anymore. You will have better hardware to run on.

>>And those "humans" inside the AI would no longer be human.

Why wouldn't they be?
No system/platform is 100% secure, and Java is no exception

It is all relative
I guess the question was, why would you make this assumption in the first place.
I know that this isn't Reddit, but I can't resist: nick relevant!

(sorry, had to get that out of my system - am aware (AFAIK) that the black death was never treated with penicillin, given the dates involved)
Healthier Habits for a Happier Web
s/"value system"/"utility function"/, there you go.

(Mind you, they don't have to be explicit - we tend to interpret patterns in action and call them "goals"/"values"; cf. [0] for interesting take on the topic)

Defining "intelligence" as a very strong optimization process helps with tendencies to anthropomorphize.

[0] - http://lesswrong.com/lw/6ha/the_blueminimizing_robot/
Because discussions are deadly dull when everyone agrees.
Browsing this in the evening I found myself immensely thankful upon switching to this tab, finding how easy on the eyes the theme was. My eyes were no longer burning from the screen's brightness and the contrast of green-on-black was brilliant. :)
Fedora naming convention was always a bit strange.

we went from Sulfur, Cambridge, Leonidas and Constantine (examples)

to Beefy Miracle, Spherical Cow... and... Heisenbug..

the previous names seem stronger to me for some reason.
So we're going to stop publishing to the web and squeeze all of our content into 140 char tweets? Right.
Very nice Artificial General Intelligence list
But ... cats already work like that.
All the schema changes are applied to all site databases at the same time. They need to be backwards compatible so, for example, if you need to rename a column - a worst case scenario - it's a multiple steps process: add a new column, add code which works with both columns, back fill the new column, change code so it works with the new column only, remove the old column.
Breathing In vs. Spacing Out
Nokia alumni’s pCloudy makes real Android devices accessible on the browser
Not all of them. Here are the rules: http://tasvideos.org/MovieRules.html
Inspired by Distraction: Mind Wandering Facilitates Creative Incubation
Show HN: Continuous speech recognition for Node.js
(1) 1.5h used to be good enough for a laptop, not that long ago.

(2) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_High-Definition_Link

(3) http://www.amazon.com/Logitech-Tablet-Mouse-Android-910-0026...

(6) No, it doesn't. I'm running ssh, git-annex and other Linux applications on my Nexus 7.

I won't disagree about the privacy problems and poor processing power, but I doubt those are real impediments for mobile devices to become the standard, even if it means I'll keep my desktop.

(EDIT: Of course, the "death" of the PC is a silly idea. But I can see it become a professional tool with a small hobbyist market, instead of the consumer market we have now.)
TEDX Presentation : How the NSA Betrayed the Worlds Trust
I went university, learned and used C for years, then Java in final years, then .NET on first job

Over a decade later I almost exclusively use PHP, and it has put plenty of bread and wine on the table :) over the years.

It just gets the job done!
They didn't have to: a neural interface could be filmed exactly like speech, just without lips moving.
Indeed, i'm glad i'm not the only one thinking this is a bad thing.. Without the URL bar, there is no direct way to be sure the form isn't fake.. before you know it, many many PayPal accounts will be comprimised..
Oh, I'm sorry, thought the comment was also meant against laptops (them being mobile too and with the ending talking about having "high-performance desktop computing" at home).
Why is W3C involved in this?

Not only does this create a lack of openness and transparency in the core of the web, but "big content" creators get to pass on the costs of DRM that nobody else benefits from, including to people who are not consuming their content.

Meanwhile, browser vendors will become uncompetitive - since nobody else can compete against a closed standard - and they become even more motivated to work against openness to maintain their existing oligarchy.

Could not be worse for the web.
Security, battery life and touch-friendliness aren't necessarily the most renown features of a DRM binary blob.

Communicating with the blob in an open-source project will be particularly fun.
The Layman's Guide to IC Reverse Engineering
Which apps exactly, aside from shopping and maybe encyclopaedias, have migrated to the web ?

Desktop publishing ? Nope

IDEs ? Nope

CAD ? Nope

3D modeling ? Nope

Mathematical tools ? Nope

So which ones ?
Let me guess, you’re a privileged white rich male unwilling to acknowledge your privilege who can’t imagine a less privileged person would ever stand up to them?

I didn’t give you the etymology, I gave you the encyclopedic definition. Which mentions etymology, true. But you are even trying to perform politics and change the balance of power by ridiculing the (imagined) me right now, which is what I pointed out.

Also, seriously, you’re trying to complain about privilege and political power while scorning the workers. That’s ridiculous.
This post has a good explanation and some advises:

http://danieltenner.com/post/32895447025/0017-how-to-nap-htm...
Hammersley (Wired UK): How might companies learn to adapt in the 21st century?
Atheer Labs wants to make its augmented reality glasses a reality on Indiegogo
Sadly, both Steam and Netflix still include DRM, it's just a bit less annoying.
Video Background Loops — Video Backgrounds
wasnt smalltalk once a mainstream language? in ancient times, late 80s?
For a long time exciting science has been coming from China. Why is that a problem? It's not a competition :) it's all good for the world.
That's a false dilemma. Mac OS X has dynamic library support and there isn't a vast sea of viruses and exploits coming from the Mac App Store.
Please read Culture series by Iain M. Banks. AIs tending to thousands people physical and emotional needs as their hobby using only as much of their brain power for this as you use absentminenly tapping the side of hamstercage. Plus space travel. People do things there. They are not necessary for the "economy" but necessary for those people and others involved.
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The survival rate is different because of the way they blastocysts have to be implanted. We have no reason to presuppose that cloned animals will present more risk to eat than bred animals.
GoG is actually quite convenient, it has a much better website and a good downloader.

The only downside is the much smaller library than Steam.
I recall DreamCast failing primarily because of piracy -- everyone burned games to CD-Rs instead of buying them.
Rephrasing what others have said, don't post the same thing repeatedly, and be careful about overt advertising or promotion.

Start a blog. Post about your progress, the work you do, the problems you have, and how you've overcome them. Make sure you say something new, and then post a link to that.
> Then you can press escape [..]

Don't forget Ctrl-[ instead of Esc. I find that more quick, especially with Ctrl in place of CapsLk. :)
I think what's novel here is the data structure, not the type of visualization.

I also think the capability of taking slices of the data (just Saturday, just evening) pretty slick from a UI standpoint.
I don't think that's what he meant. Nobody is naive enough to predict that the web is going away completely. But as more and more people who previously consume content from the web migrate to mobile, the web as we know it will slowly get marginalized.
Oh, I agree, but pre-sale, the majority will want an official Kitten Forever (tm) cat. Then later pay for the Just Sit Still FFS upgrade.
I haven't currently moved on to learning PHP yet, I've been using Python quite regularly for the past few years and a lot of Java Script. PHP could possibly be the next language for me to learn.
Wouldn't it have been far cheaper to just build their own Nest (and license any patents)?
More relevant is: what if only the wealthy own all the AI and robots? They already own all the trees, but they don't own the people necessary to harvest them and make stuff out of it. With strong AI, they will also own all labout, all production capacity, and all ability to maintain it; they won't need anyone else anymore. Middle and working class people will have become obsolete.

Unless we change our economy to have a more equal distribution of wealth before we get there.
The problem is you can only really trust for that exact point in time.

I trust you from now until forever is a horrible model. Look at problems we've got with Certificate Authorities now to see a good example.

Plus think what kind of a target someone like valve becomes when all you have to do is get no their system for 1 second to charge all accounts £15.

If you want something like that I say leave it to services to add their own wallet. If you trust them with a couple hundred the steam wallet it's the same thing.
PiWeekly - http://piweekly.net is worth adding to your list

There is no email version, but This Week in Rust (published at http://cmr.github.io/) is excellent.

It rather depends on your interests. PostgreSQL Weekly News is excellent http://lwn.net/Articles/578551/ as is Tor Weekly News http://lwn.net/Articles/578549/
Nice try, Pinkman. You are not fooling anyone.
Whatsup.status.io
We published a service for checking the current status of an API: http://whatsup.status.io

4 distributed nodes are monitoring the service availability of each API by inspecting the endpoint's HTTP response and/or performing synthetic transactions, latter being the goal for all checks.

We are already using this for another project and thought others may be able to benefit from it. Does anyone else find this tool useful? How should it be improved?
None of that matters.

Go read "The Innovator's Dilemma".
>> Perhaps they'll choose to offer a binary for other open source OSs, it will just be a major version behind, 6 months late and kind of buggy.

And only supported on 32 bit intel machines!
Building an app / company inspired by an old university project
In my final year of university I had to do a group project with three other students. This group was allocated by the tutors and we were supposed to meet up prior to the first workshop to discuss project ideas and then pitch them to the rest of the class. Due to life commitments we didn't have this meeting and one of the members failed to turn up. I was able to quickly come up with an idea that I had thought about before and wing it with the other two (they listened to what I said and then just pitched in).
I'm unsure of PHP's future - if it'll be tied to Facebook

I don't think it'll be tied to Facebook at all. What the PHP community has is a huge ecosystem of programmers (good ones and bad ones), frameworks, libraries, etc. That bodes well for PHP's future.
They used to ban users altogether, I think they've changed their policy. They also used to ban users if someone gifted them a game and the transaction buying the game was charged back.
Let's suppose that AIs figured out that dark matter creates a network that can compute and how to upload themselves to that network.
What is the worst Final Fantasy spin-off of all time?
Dear Designers, please make Delightful Checkout Process, like Vsco website
I guess no more than a human brain and mind does.
No, but it is ok to have a blog, generate content that is newsworthy about your app, your company, or you other than the same old same old just worded differently, and then post links to that. It says a lot about you that you asked, so I think you'll be fine. Good luck with your app.
> Not only that, but according to the sick and twisted thinking of TeMPOral, Bin Laden is a "political enemy". Sure, Bin Laden is just a politician with legitimate differences.

True he wasn't even that, during the hunt for him, he was merely a publicity face for US propaganda purposes, the symbol of an enemy to capture and "bring to justice", locked away in a safe house somewhere distant.

Nobody outside the US propaganda machine cared about him, and his capture didn't actually accomplish much except a short-lived rejoice for some.

It wasn't exactly a crippling blow to Al-Qaeda, or anything. The rest of the world shrugged, offering their diplomatically mandatory but meaningless "huh, well, good for you" congratulations, many emphasizing the symbolic nature of the killing, that it wasn't the end of Al-Qaeda or (even more meaningless) global terrorism in general. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactions_to_the_death_of_Osam... Looking back, I think Saddam Hussein's capture (and trial) had more of an impact.
Desktop publishing: do people still use dedicated apps for that anymore? AFAIK, people just use Word, which is steadily losing share to Google Docs.

IDEs? here's 13 of them: http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/cloud-ide-developers/

CAD? tinkercad, etc. This one is a classic Christofferson innovator's dilemna. Cloud CAD is the obvious way of doing 3D printing, which can & will move up to eat the big guys.

3D modelling? Clara.io, Lagoa

Mathematical Tools? Good question. A quick google found this, http://www.ms.uky.edu/~statweb/ which is 14 years old... I'm sure if I had a better idea of what to google for, I could find something better...
Doesn't really apply here. When sending an encrypted message, the adversary doesn't know the secret key. With DRM, the adversary is the receiver of the message. You (or your computer) already has the secret in Kerckhoff's sense. It's just a matter of finding out where the key or the unencrypted data is stored - in the worst case by hooking up hardware to the mainboard or the screen.

You could make DRM "Kerckhoff hard", but you'd have to use a completely trusted architecture with secure boot and signed applications - which is not conicidentially where all major players are moving. Even then, there are a couple of loopholes (bugs/jailbreaks, you could tamper with the hardware, or you could just record the signal during playback ("analoge gap"))
Surprised something like this hasn't happened sooner. That social networks like FB sell personal user data to advertisers is the industry's worst-kept secret.

At least now they're dropping any pretense that they give a rat's ass about privacy.
Access to the firehose != access to database. Bad reporting.
Being turned down sounds a lot friendlier than being shot down. (Note: I haven't seen the movie, and have no idea of its violence level, but it sounded a lot more peaceful than that comment made it sound.)
What if wealthy are owned by AIs that don't care much about wealth and concept of ownership by humans?
Facebook doesn't sell data to advertisers. Do you have a source for your claim?
You talk like this is a solved problem, dualism and monoism are as old as philosophy, both have valid and compelling arguments.

Fortunately the world isn't a binary state machine and neither of these arguments are the right (or wrong) answer
I have a Facebook account nowadays, mostly for private chats, reading friends' statuses and a few groups with classmates, but any posts I make are strictly set to public. I know I shouldn't expect them to be private on Facebook and this forces me to think a little about what I post. Pseudonymously, I don't use my real name on Facebook, but still.
Good. The last handful of release names were moronic, and the number of person-hours wasted debating the merits of the various names in IRC and on mailing lists was staggering.
From the mailing list: "[with EME] ... the publisher will have the possibility of deciding which platforms may access their content."

That was from one of the proponents of EME, touting this as a good thing. The response from another list regular was excellent:

"In non-web-terms this is the publishers deciding on what brands of TV you're allowed to play their content."

That's where EME will take the Open Web. We need to oppose it, strongly, urgently.
>I happen to write like I talk, it gets good and bad reviews. A more neutral style would be more appropriate if/when this gets pulled into Rust itself, thanks, that's a great point

I think the style's alright. I also like the tone of the tutorial on the Rust website, don't know if you were involved with that too.

>Thanks for the great feedback. :)

FWIW, I found the feedback to be a little too condescending for what is a volunter effort to help people understand a new language.
Less social sharing buttons on ecommerce product pages mean higher conversions
Not really... in the PSX there used to be TONNES of copied CDs and we all know how that went...