skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't this as safe as just posting to an SSL page? If there is a MITM-attack they will just replace the contents of the iframe to another page?
Not the OP, but I'm guessing Ubuntu? Especially since Unity is touch friendly and Ubuntu is generally the best Linux distro out there when it comes to drivers etc. Also because Ubuntu are developing a touch version for the N7.

I'm guessing the battery life is probably around 7 hours or so. Again, take this with a grain of salt :)
> * For games, Steam makes it easy to avoid SecuROM Hell

Steam has its own DRM, and games distributed via steam may have additional third-party DRMs (including SecuROM and other similar shite).

IIRC GOG is only DRM-free games, although it is less convenient.
>Note that's just dereferencing: there's nothing inherently unsafe about just creating and passing around the pointers themselves.

Sure there is. Passing around multiple pointers can result in a double free and then the dangerous dereference can happen. I'm guessing the developer must be careful when writing unsafe blocks to make sure this doesn't happen.
You don't even have to fight them on a transaction to lose access to your library. My Steam client (on Mac) is hanging on startup every time and as a result I can't play the games I've bought and paid for. And of course Valve's customer support is doing nothing but sending canned replies.

Steam's DRM is still DRM and has all the downsides that come with it. You're exactly right that it's accepted by gamers due to Valve's cult status (which I honestly don't understand given that I only have mediocre to terrible experiences with their games and services) and the fact that people have bought huge libraries through Steam and have to defend their decisions.
I'm 37, picked up League of Legends last year, totally addicted. But I find the mental exercise involved with playing is worth the time invested. Plus, it's fun to play with the surprising amount of my friends who also play. I second the recommendation to pick up the LoL addiction.
I had that issue with google maps. The problem is that this is all anecdata. We need someone perverse enough to trial both. What a chore.
No it doesn't re-enable after any update. It only re-enables if you uninstall the extension and install it back, because settings are lost and it switches to the default.
Please check your facts before making such claims, ok? Anyone with minimal JavaScript skills can look at the source code and see exactly what's happening!

Thanks!
Well, since they are (more) tightly integrated with Google+ you get even more inane one-liners like 'interesting' that somebody posted with sharing the video, and useless banter in conversation threads following these shares.
Not to detract from your point, but

> So if freedom from slavery. So?

It's actually not, whether you're talking about individual freeing of slaves (which has basically been a thing since slavery was instituted at all) or nation-scale emancipations.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abolition_of_slavery_timeline
It is, but still it quite open what happens if you'd deny a normal growth. Animals are no machines where you simply disable a gene and it works like you expect it to work.

We're not even sure what a huge amount of the DNA really does (and what it doesn't). So playing around with such stuff is trial-and-error as you see on virtually any such experiments (Orange trees, potatoes, cloned sheeps, etc.).
Try again. I fid the same, with no luck. However my recent flags have been actioned.
So now all applets will have to be signed, and users will be trained to accept running the signed applets with that horrible GUI for confirming it. Did you know that popup about running a signed applet also confirms you're OK with running the applet outside the sandbox?

So from now on, all applets will by default run outside the sandbox? How is this an improvement?
I recall this obvious reasoning error, because that indeed is what it is, is listed here: http://www.logicalfallacies.info/ (sorry I don't have time at the moment to go through it, so I'll leave that as a small exercise for you)
I see quite some discussion about UIs and whether they should be audio based or rather visually oriented etc. For a really futuristic intelligent device (call it OS, robot ...) I would drop the idea of "the UI" at all. Rather I would imagine such a system to be intelligent enough to provide a suitable way to exchange data depending on the situation and the task.

There are times when "it" listens to my words and answers verbally. At other times I just want "it" to read what I wrote on my sheet of paper and interpret it. Or I want it to follow my eye movements, or read command off my lips. And it's not just a collection of UIs, but it's a flexible UI that adapts its protocols permanently (sometimes twinkling of an eye has huge information content, sometimes not).
or bananas. but unless you go back in time and change nature, we will continue to only have cloned bananas... unless I'm ignorant of some sexual species (no pun intended)

what they are doing is not becoming dependent of cloning (i hope) but experimenting. so what that we sequenced dna? what does pair 3531 do? they change it to know values (how that part is done intrigues me) and observe the result. ah ok, now we know that pair controls growth hormone. see, science.

it is very similar to what that monk did with flies, which is the reason today that medicine knows if you will have some genetic disease based on family history.
Simple question: why do the muppets at W3 pervert the open Web to suit the content barons flailing business model, and should we as a community be looking to fork and abandon at this point for truly open standards on the Web, and a committee with members who possess the vital criteria of both backbone and the awareness of a little word called 'No', both of which they can use against the content tards when they come knocking.

And to all those who complain "but, I want drm, I want my Netflix" - Fuck you.
How much quality loss people are willing to accept if they are not really keen on the content is astonishing. If you go to the pirate bay and look at some of the comments on the tele-synced copies, R6 with hardcoded Chinese subs and all the other sub-par quality rips there still is a large amount of positive feedback. Sure, there is always someone who doesn't know what any of the cryptic abbreviations in the title mean and is upset about the quality, but those seem a minority to me.

I would really like to see more scientific results on how low the quality can be if the viewer doesn't exactly desire the content but uses it to just pass the time and how that compares to the price of going to the cinema.
that sounds a lot more like silly PR shenanigans for the evening news audience than real motivations of even the most absurd enterprise. cmon.
Do you seriously not understand the situation ?

It's great that you had a good experience with your particular customer service agent. But what if you request a refund from someone who is feeling unwell that day, had a death in the family or is just feeling like being an asshole. Then you're account could be blocked with limited recourse.

In this day and age there really is limited point to DRM. Everything becomes available on Torrent sites anyway and all it ends up doing is treating legitimate, paying users as second class citizens.
> Democracy makes government a platform for economic interests.

This seems to suggest that monarchies and other forms of government aren't platforms for economic interests. This isn't true. You have the exact same dynamics play out in monarchies of sufficient size, because economic interests depend on manipulating bureaucracies, not governmental leaders. What we have in America is a system where all the governmental leaders besides SCOTUS justices are bureaucratic officials.
I think you underestimate the importance of context in all of this. You can't build any of these products well without knowing (deeply and certainly) users' patterns. Microsoft has no realistic way of knowing when it routes you to the wrong place...no continuous training data to let it feed and refine a personal assistant. Data products can be cool demos (see Siri) from a startup, but without both the starting dataset and the continuous feedback that you get by deploying these against real users and capturing the resulting behavior, I think they are quite limited. Continuous adaptation and learning is as important as the initial algorithm.

And while I certainly am looking into the future when I talk about cornering the market, I think it's an interesting question to ask how you compete against a company like Google that starts with this much user context. How can you build better experiences when they have the advantage in data, ML expertise, and the raw computational power? The incremental acquisitions of data and companies are not the issue...it's the web of connections that is valuable. And Google is not only trouncing Apple, their only meaningful competitor, in that race...Google is pulling even further ahead.
Though I agree that the documentation is comprehensive, that itself can be a barrier. It all seems very deeply nested and enterprisey. I'm often left wanting a layer of noob-friendly UI or documentation, or "You probably want X"-style guidelines that differentiate between typical use cases and non-typical ones.

Compare, for example, the Digital Ocean UI for creating new VMs. It's a much more pleasant experience than the AWS Console for the new user with a small scale use case.
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Thanks! We should have some code that can be made open source. Will check if it contains any PHP. Mostly because we work with Businesses and host solutions for them on the cloud, our code base is not yet open sourced. Should try to do that in the future. In the mean time, I would be happy to help out if you have some specific requirement.
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A recent Planet Money podcast talked about this problem and the pot store owner in Colorado they interviewed had done more or less that. His store was owned by shell company that had a bank account, but he was unwilling to go into too much details on the exact legal setup. I got the feeling it was a bit of legal grey area and that the bank was happy with it only as long as they could honestly claim ignorance.
It seems to me pretty cruel to trap an adult in a child's body. Do you consider yourself to be an animal-lover?
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Note: Ctrl-U and Ctrl-W are not from Emacs. They are instead from the same group as Ctrl-C for interrupt, Ctrl-D for End-of-File, etc; i.e. traditional Unix TTY driver keys. Run “stty -a” to see them all; the stty command can also be used to change them.
An adult tiger trapped in a baby tiger's body. Wouldn't it go insane?
Great way to get to know people's living habits, when people are home and at work. Add a little speaker and advertise right into the living room.

Then cancel the device after 2 years because it doesn't fit into Google vision anymore.
There is a detailed analysis of the feasibility of such systems in general on the following web page:

http://www.nigelhewitt.co.uk/diving/rant/#gills

Quote (following an explanation of the quantity of oxygen in solution in sea water at depth, vs. quantities required to breath, yielding a requirement of 2000L/minute of water to be processed):

"This raises three problems in my mind.

"Firstly is size. If the magic box is a reasonable size, say a volume of working water is the size of my scuba tank it will have 12L of water to work on at any one moment. So 2000L/minute means that the water must be in, processed and out in 12*60/2000 seconds. That's just over one third of a second to complete the whole process.

"Secondly there is the fact that 2000L/minute worries me when I consider that my old 20HP outboard had an 20cm diameter prop on it. To move 2000L/minute it would have to knock the water through at 2000/31.4=63m/s, otherwise 142mph in old numbers. So my second problem is that this is a huge amount of thrust for a diver who does not wish to zoom about like a torpedo and the third problem is that that sort of power isn't going to come from ordinary batteries."

Personally, I read the article as a typical design student 'concept' piece; certainly, if I were a battery manufacturer that had a product 30x more energy dense than the competition, which charged 1000x faster, I would not be looking at the scuba market to make my billions.
excuse me, I should have said "political power" not politics. Nit picking about whether or not a sentence is a sentence. Intelectuellement touche-pepe with the greek roots. Let me guess, are you a Sciences Po? Or worse, an enarque?
Where do I claim that?!! WTF?!
I'm not sure I follow — how would it have been any different if he were looking for translations of, say, German news?
Yes they are. They changed their surname to Windsor after high anti-German sentiment during WW1. [1]

Prior to that they were the Saxe-Coburg-Gotha's.[2]

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Windsor
[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Saxe-Coburg_and_Gotha#...
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Mobile has all kinds of problems:

1. Battery life is a joke and that's not going to change.

2. Tiny screen is still tiny. Big screen is more useful.

3. Finger is not the best pointing device.

4. 90% of mobile is games. The market has spoken, smartphone is a toy. Only people that can't afford Internet access (kids & 3rd world) use their phone for everything.

5. Privacy/security is bad from so many angles. Still waiting for an Ubuntu phone.

6. Android is a Linux OS that blocks Linux applications--what BS. If you work at Google, shame on all
of you.

7. Processing power is weak. As we're seeing with cryptocoins, don't forget the value of raw computational power.

8. Limiting keyboard. Pressing alt-function to get something simple like an "=" sign is a huge waste of time.
Sure, but they ignore the law. Had that with GTA 4, which didn't run fully because the integrated Microsoft-Always-Online-DRM didn't work. Got the "no refund" answer despite having a 8 year old account (at that time) and a not so small, albeit not massively large, library, and without ever having requested a refund before. I'm still angry about that and minimized my purchases there.

Edit: This also means, to the original comment, that Steam does not necessarily make it especially easy to evade SecuROM Hell or other DRM methods, as games on Steam can still have their own protection schemes. It only makes it easier insofar as those are normally marked and games have with Steam only another, better option. Maybe that was meant.
That, my friend, sounds exactly as ridiculous as you are! If you know your JavaScript you can look at the source code and see that the extension is doing none of that. If not, you can try wireshark for yourself and see that there is no keystroke sent anywhere. The guy that made the claim is a complete A-hole that wanted to see the extension being remove from the webstore at any cost, including committing perjury.
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Ha, imagine that, a pig that's left to live until it's a year old. That must be a 0.01% occurrence. I bet the average slaughter age is well below 6 months.
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Yet another Yanko Design "concept" mistaken for a real project in the media. I wouldn't mind it once in a while, except that this studio seems to make a habit out of being subtly misleading in order to garner free press, and it has been going on for years.

I hate to be so negative, but this actually works...if you ever see a project that makes you say "Gee, it looks like an industrial designer's concept might have gotten mistaken for a real product here", you should then ask yourself, "Is Yanko Design somehow associated with this piece?" 9 out of 10 times the answer will be yes.
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Thanks!
> The PS3 only went uncracked for so long because Sony offered the option to install Linux on the PS3. Once Sony removed that option the people with the smarts to crack the PS3 did so.

It's funny how the facts change over time. Just to correct the facts here: the reveal of the PS3 hack occured on January 26, 2010 and then OtherOS support was removed on April 1, 2010 citing security concerns as the rationale. And to top it off: if you look at the hacker's reasons for hacking, Linux was nowhere in his motivations.

Off topic: This is why I hate history. If we can't even remember what happened 3 years ago even if we have all records available at our fingerprints then how can we be sure what happened like 100 years ago?
Holly crap? Do you honestly think I can monitor the whole internet so I can deny every affirmation made by some random dude?

Look! I deny it now, ok?! I haven't done anything like that. I just mentioned somewhere that it is technically possible to do such thing in an attempt to increase users' awareness about what would truly be a "horrible thing", unlike my attempt to support further development of my extension through advertising.
> Did it break anybody's code? No.

Not sure about PHP6, but previous versions did - in unnecessary ways. Like "deprecated" warnings you couldn't really turn off, "safe mode" which let administrators decide which functions developers needed,...

But all in all PHP is still... quite OK language. We've seen better and we've seen many worse. It has lots of weird features (I would call them bugs), but it is useable once you learn to live with them.

Oh, and after many years I still HATE that dollar sign in front of each variable. Just hate it. :)
> Is food, clothing and shelter going to grow on trees?

Food grows on trees -- fruit. Clothing grows on trees -- rayon is made from cellulose from wood pulp. Shelter grows on trees -- we build our homes with wood. The power to operate all the machinery? Solar. The only cost is building the machines in the first place, then they can maintain the solar power plants, which power both themselves and the machines maintaining them for free.

I'm sure we'll have widespread solar and much improved storage technology before hard AI is solved.
Gigabit is slow. Saturating 10Gb+ is where the sweat might be broken or not. See eg netmap https://github.com/aarrpp/netmap which is in FreeBSD.
Great companies are not built to be <flipped>. I think that is a great and valid point. It's also a valid PR strategy to make such point in public if you think it will help you raise money, hire good staff, and build relationships with strategic customers. But in making this point, I think more precision in your language would be helpful. Because all of those people may legitimately be interested in your strategy to generate investor/employee liquidity (and what thay might mean for a strategic partner). And for them, "asking me what my exit strategy" is neither a sign of ignorance nor lack of understanding. If journalists are asking you this question, its not clear what their motive is. But in that case, I would argue, precision still wins the day and provides you the upper hand to both educate them and to message clearly and precisely (which helps build your credibility with all parties). I hope this puts my earlier comment in more useful context.
What is the purpose of a standards based approach, if one cannot implement the standard? That is the reality that EME + CDM offers: 'standards' that can only be implemented by the company that owns the proprietary, closed-source CDM blob.
> The biggest problem with PHP is its core developers, adding some "feature" is not fixing the language. Removing the bad parts should be the focus of the next PHP versions. It is not.

This. Well said.
I don't think apple would buy nest. They are a very focused company. They like to sell products that people will buy ever few years.?

I do believe google will buy Uber next. Makes perfect sense.
> or Hollywood makes content available on proprietary platforms that provide it.

What's wrong with that scenario, exactly?
> Well, at the very least, it's a smaller piece of code :)

I'll grant you that :)
No, the organizations are just paranoid. I had to sign an NDA before seeing the Disney digital content handling requirements. That sort of document will be the W3C requirements. It didnt say anything detailed about implementation, just requirements about encryption, watermarking etc.
And they don't need it their setting record figures every year nearly.
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Because it's not standardised! Only the interop between the browser and CDM is standardised - the CDM itself is a closed-source, proprietary blob like Flash or Silverlight.
> DRM-free . . . Steam

How is Steam DRM-free? You must first log in to your Steam account in order to play. Locked down. They seem to do it with very good UX, but it's DRM.

I think this negates the first part of your thesis: that DRM-free is picking up.
why can't they just build it in NaCl and leave the open standard alone.
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Actually puzzled : Why would the cat need it warmer indoors if there's an ice storm? Isn't keeping it at the same temperature enough? Or is the problem because the heating switches off overnight, so you feel that it needs a boost during the day to compensate? Isn't that something that a smart thermostat should cope with?
What is exact benefit of driving web away flash? It would make sense if the alternative would be open, but it is not.
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There is plenty that we're willing to concede; as I've said, there is only one single point where negotiation is not an option - both from a FOSS and Open Web perspective. Unfortunately, it seems like the same is true of EME proponents, and it's the same issue :(
Let me tell you something about the state of the real world: The content Hollywood produces is already fully available on the Web. They try to fight that, but they lose. So the w3c is in no position where it is necessary to accommodate them to get their content. Besides, for the w3c, where is the business incentive, where is the money involved?
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