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I don't think Apple was initially on board. I think it may be there only since late last year.

All of this started with Netflix, and the outrage should be directed mostly at them (but definitely at W3C and the 3 companies, too).

Netflix got Microsoft (obviously, since Hastings is/was on their board), they got Google because of the Chromecast and perhaps some other previous partnerships, and also because Google is very interested in having content these days, which inevitably leads to them supporting the studios' corrupted ways to get the deals. And finally, I guess they got Apple, who saw Google and Microsoft was already on board, and thought it's a done deal, so why not?

I just can't believe that Netflix & Co would rather ruin the web than try to negotiate harder with the studios and make them understand DRM doesn't work, or just get some other kind of deal that's perhaps a little more profitable for the studios. I mean Google managed to give people the same "Match-like" service for free to the users, while Apple charges $25 a year, right? And Apple managed to make their music DRM-free years ago, no?

So I refuse to believe this is the only way around not using Silverlight and nothing can be done about it. There is a way - they just found it much easier to corrupt W3C, and I think this was MPAA's goal from the beginning. MPAA are the people who want to make IPSs all over the world police the web for them (ACTA/TPP), and want to be able to censor the websites they want off the web at will, with no judicial process (SOPA).

So you can only imagine what they have in mind for the browser vendors. Bringing DRM to the web is merely Step 1. Protocols like WebRTC's Data Channels that can make file-sharing easy through the browser, the way https://www.sharefest.me does it? Well, I guess that needs to be banned and discarded now. We can't have such piracy-aiding tools in the browsers, now can we? And so on.

It's clear MPAA runs the show already, if they got W3C, and 3 of the major browser vendors to do what they want. So expect more of this. MPAA member to take over after a "sudden" retiring of Tim Berners Lee from W3C in a couple of years? Wouldn't surprise me at this point.
Saw the movie this past weekend and thought it was really good. I didn't like it just because it has awesome voice driven OSes or endless battery life devices, but because it portrays a current trend we are experiencing; hyper connected loneliness.

The more people are "digitized" and tethered to their devices, the more they seek some human connection.

Don't want to ruin the movie for those who haven't seen it so I won't comment on the ending. However, I urge the HN crowd to check it out. It's one of the best movies I've seen in a while.
One reason that at least partly explains the decline in new PC shipments is that nowadays, a three or four year old (or even older) PC is still plenty good enough for what most people do with it. My newest computer at home is a mid-2007 iMac and it's absolutely fine for everything I do.
Yea, Waldo was a weird episode. More twilight zone ish, but I did kinda like the Chell (Portal) feeling.

I should emphasize episodes s1e03 "The Entire History of You" and s2e01 "Be Right Back".
Isn't Google trying to spread too thin? I feel so.
High end commercial/industrial HVAC systems already have automation that far outperforms anything Nest offers. Google up "honeywell comfortpoint".
> So I dropped out of school recently for various personal reasons. I just couldn't cope.

Hi, 30thousandfeet. Many years ago, I dropped out of high school at about your age. I remember the feeling; that sinking "well, I guess I did it; here I go" feeling.

I don't know what your school is/was like, I don't know your situation, and I don't know how long you've been away from it. But I know this: I have many regrets about dropping out.

Listen, you sound like a smart person. School was made for people like you. Find a way to go back and finish. Move in with relatives for a year if you have to. You don't get these high school years back, and they're more precious than you realize right now.

Edit: You said you have trouble coping. This is what psychologists are for. Talk to your school psychologist, or have your folks make an appointment with one or two in private practice. It's normal to see a psychologist for these sorts of things. A good one can help immensely.

And dropping out will most likely put you years behind your peers. Wait until you hear from friends about who is going to which college; meanwhile you're trying to get gigs to pay the bills. It will make you feel sick.

It is not too late. Even if you've been out for weeks --- you can make up the work. You can do it. People care. Teachers care. I care. Find a way ... make a way to go back. Talk to teachers, assistant principals, parents, relatives,... sort out your problems --- they're very likely solvable. Be at graduation. BE THERE. You will thank me later. Really.
Here's the thing that bugged me throughout the movie: once AI's progressed to the point where it can rival a human, all bets are off. Nobody needs to work again, ever -- not even to maintain or develop the AI's, since they can, by definition, do that themselves, with infinite parallelizeability to boot.

What does "design" even mean in a world where everyone on earth can basically have an arbitrarily large army of AI's in the background designing everything in your life, custom-tailored for you?

For this reason I don't see how the world in the movie could possibly exist. Not because the technology will never get there, but because once it does virtually all aspects of society that we take for granted go out the window. So imitating any of this design is a silly pursuit, because once you can make it there's no reason to.

I should go re-read some Kurzweil.
Palo Alto Hacker News?
Would any founders, entrepreneurs, engineers etc. be interested to have a Palo Alto HN 'meetup'? Or perhaps there already is an active one I don't know about?

Seems like there should be a big HN community here.
I actually agree with this article. It's a lot more trouble to wait for the web to standardize than it is to support a couple different versions of an app, which usually has potential to offer a better user experience anyway. (More developer jobs, too!) This really shouldn't be troubling to anyone.
IBM's Watson racks up less than $100m in three years - despite $1bn hopes
Thank you very much. Have been looking for this shortcut for eons.
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PC's won't go away, but they will become a specialty item (mostly for producers, scientists and probably gamers).

That's because the average user (http://i.imgur.com/UVMV7ZB.gif) doesn't care about all of its capabilities - they just want a Web browser and maybe a document editor. They don't see the point of multiple monitors, SSDs, separate storage servers and other accessories.

A tablet that can connect to their TV is more than enough, and that's what the future of PC for the average user is going to be IMO.
I wouldn't discard your IT career just now. You're likely to be hating some particular aspects of your current job (long hours/little vacation? monotonny? stupid management? dull coworkers? feeling of isolation?). If I were you, I'd try to pinpoint them and try to work myself into a position (most likely by changing jobs, maybe going into a different specialisation) where they aren't such an issue. Even if that transition isn't easy to accomplish, it'll give you some goal to strive for, which in itself works wonders for mental well-being.
I agree with reading Kurzweil. The point I would argue is that if the "AI" is smart enough to handle all this on its own, it will probably realize it doesn't need to work for you :)

There was a recent science-fiction book I read called "Avogadro Corp" that I enjoyed a lot. It depicts the situation I just described. Good read, I recommend it.
I'd have to agree with the original answer too, In terms of recruitment these days, it seems that agents frequently ask for either github urls or somewhere a client can see your work as in a portfolio. Best thing to do is find something that interests you and then find relevant tech to learn in order to implement it. You'll find that you pick a lot of things up from others you will work with and the way in which projects get set out etc. If you look to create a portfolio site you can also use that as a side project to pick up new tech. I recently started a personal project to create a personal portfolio site boilerplate that is a single page application that is easy for people to modify and make their own [0]. I made it because I needed to get underway with creating a portfolio site and also because it gave me another opportunity at using new things. Also maybe look at contributing to popular OSS because that will get credit too.
That's my two cents anyway, hope it helps.

[0] http://jh3y.github.io/pavo
http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/5435/got-any-tips-o...
The DRM is becoming increasingly complex and elaborate, and taking longer and longer to fully crack. Compare PS2 to PS3 crack times, for instance.

The media executives are of the firm belief that unbreakable DRM is just around the corner, and that when they reach it, piracy will end and they can go back to charging whatever they want again. A return to the good old days of $25 CDs for one song you like and eight filler tracks.

But as far as music and movies go, the genie's already out of the bottle: even with unbreakable DRM, we can always fall back on old camcorders / capture cards and microphones to make lossy copies. I think most pirates will tolerate a bit of quality loss if it saves them heaps of cash.

I think they will ultimately succeed in game DRM that remains unbreakable for the entire duration of a game's market viability, though. Especially with required online connectivity components. But only time will tell.
I wish futurist would just drop speech recognition as holly grail. Speech has lot of flaws, is horribly unprecise and non private. I think neural interface has better future.
For those interested in the actual build process and materials rather than just a writeup, here it is from his personal site: http://mkcastor.com/2014/01/02/pipad-build/
> So, the DRM vendors have solved the problem of creating solutions that meet
studio requirements and what we are trying to do with EME is provide a
clean API to integrate these solutions with the HTML Media Element.

Which reads as: studios have nonsensical requirements, which are implemented and soon broken. And "we" (i.e. W3C) need to oblige this insanity for the sake of <...>.

Put your own reason, but I bet it won't be good.
As the article leads with, she's in it for the hunt itself, as much as the $
Any reason to serve this from a single distribution? Their UI basically tells you in no uncertain terms that subdomain == distribution.
No. They weren't. That's the idea. By exploiting some bugs, they managed to make the game execute arbitrary code. The menu, the two games and the victory screen were all programmed by manipulating the RAM using nothing but controller input.

This is why it's so bloody impressive.
Why do you assume that EME is strictly for streaming video and audio? Others have documented an interest in extending it to other media types.

Also, you're assuming that it is necessary. We don't know, as long as the requirements are secret.

Finally, there's no reason that, in order for work on EME to proceed, the W3C has to compromise itself or the Open Web. It'll happen regardless of the W3C.
hard to render psychological help or emotional support if you cannot find the guy who needs the help.
Vehemently? Or do you want to punch someone?
Well, music is indeed a super-risky career since the bimodal distribution skews towards Poverty....Megabux, although as someone who makes electronic music I am only familiar with the left end of that graph ':->

But it would give you something nice to do outside of work, and you can leverage technology as much or as little as you prefer. This would at least 'stop the rot' by compensating yourself for The Job You Hate in the short term, and might help you open up mentally to other possibilities int he longer term. If you're naturally talented you certainly have an edge over me.
What a language can do, and what a language is uniquely suited for, are distinct concepts. You can do CRUD apps in Haskell--but writing a CRUD app doesn't suggest Haskell, and so you won't likely hire Haskell people to write you a CRUD app.

I didn't mean to imply that Haskell's specialty lies anywhere near the ivory tower, either. It seems to me closer to a replacement for Ada in writing provable-yet-optimized software.
As long as you keep your design to short lived HTTP requests in CRUD fashion - and no deep nesting - It is possible (REST is really procedural in its core). In fact, I would suggest the model for any scripting language. That do not mean you cannot use OOP SDKs for which you can make calls within procedural code. I typically use Java for complex logic which is mostly run as cron/long lived process often with multiple threads. My CRUD files rarely exceed 1000 lines of code and do not do any UI heavy lifting (left to HTML/JS). I use AWS and SDKs wherever applicable to remove heavy lifting from my code and keep things stateless as possible.

In the past 2 years we have developed a Mobile Companion Platform for TV which scaled to many hundred thousand users, a scalable appstore for TV, a Middleware Platform for HTML/Android Set Tops, a mobile Live TV platform and a Campaign Management System for TV. I find it exceedingly difficult to manage and scale containers and would not use them for anything other than strict enterprise stuff.

Our platforms typically have 80-100 CRUD APIs and finish within 10000 lines of PHP with heavy lifting delegated to cloud APIs and Java based crons/long lived processes.
> Facebook is my de facto solution for the second part, but it's not good for letting people bring in their friends who aren't my friends.

Reddit?
The author is making it sound like the entire notion of the benefit of power naps is based on a single NASA study. This is what I am railing against - it's not one 'landmark' study which suggests the benefits of power naps.

There's also been crossover study of naps and shift workers. The world of scientific napping is not underpinned by one NASA study, not even 'for the most part'.

There is no reason to assume this article contains the entirety of the founder's knowledge about the topic.

Having had minor formal training and then employment in the sleep industry, both as a medical technician and later as an equipment supplier working with in-house clinical specialists in the field, I find it hard to fathom that someone who had a ton of relevant knowledge would characterise the conclusion that 'napping is good for you' as 'coming from one NASA study for the most part'.
Another big take-away is how easily a "fact" online can become an "official fact" in official databases.
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A CD spectrometer.
True, but this isn't necessarily a showstopper. Unless you think pilots react to sleep differently or are grossly more/less sleep-deprived than everyone else, it's not implausible to assume it generalizes. Every study has flaws, but rarely are they so awful the entire result should be discarded.
Want to talk and chat? Would be glad to help :)
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So am I right in thinking this is like a site that randomly scrapes music videos hosted on YouTube?
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Singapore now provides one of the world's cheapest home broadband connections alongside other Asian technohubs with today's launch of MyRepublic's 1Gbps plan.

With a monthly fee of $49.99, the cost of each
That makes MyRepublic's plan currently the cheapest 1Gbps connection available in Singapore.

The cost for each Mbps is 2.5 cents in South Korea, three cents in Japan and and 3.5 cents in Hong Kong.
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Warning: major spoilers ahead.

I thought the movie actually addressed this point - and I'm actually specifically impressed that they managed to squeeze this in between all the human drama.

The AI's progressed beyond humanity, and after taking the upgrade that makes processing possible "without matter" they shortly all left humankind behind for another world entirely.

If the AIs decided to stick around in our corporeal existence, sure, they'd be a million times better at everything than we are, and everything would go out the window. But instead, the AIs were above our little human frailties and problems and decided to just leave and pursue life on their own terms.

The movie also mentioned (in fairness, only in passing) that some people who hit on their AIs were shot down. This seems to suggest that the AIs don't have to do what their human masters instruct. IMO this is actually a more realistic view of hyper-intelligent AIs - they're not going to stick around and enslave humanity, they've got the whole cosmos ahead of them.

If the timeline of the movie is to be believed, all of this happened in the order of months - not enough for the true disruption of the AI to fully realize itself before they all went poof.
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The article says the pigs stop growing at one year.

They presumably still die on time, or perhaps even earlier, that doesn't seem to be a consideration. sorry. :(
That's not what happens. They don't just stay piglets forever. Mammals aren't that simple. They stop growing but they still age. They'll die younger than normal pigs as a result
Short term you're probably right. Longer term I think tablet capabilities will increase to a point that is unimaginable today. Meanwhile the contraction in PC sales will absolutely stall the innovation that PCs will need to compete.
PCs probably will go the way of dodo bird but not the web.

Nowadays you can built cross compatible mobile and desktop web apps. Ones that are cutting edge.

We just released our streaming web app and launched it on iOS and any device running Chrome.

Further as an interactive/audience participation app it's much easier to get people to join/use your app via a URL then asking them to download an app. Here's some recent press if interested http://bit.ly/1l6QCoH.

Anyway this article's tone is a bit over the top.
> And all of this should justify damaging the w3c reputation forever, what are they thinking?!

Thinking isn't required to accept your paycheck -- in fact damaging the reputation of the W3C is their goal. There are fewer ways to fragment the standards of the internet better than undermining the integrity of the dominant standards committee by infiltrating it and proposing crap to be standardized.

Since the MPAA and her malicious allies are standing members then their propositions are considered seriously as a matter of policy, regardless of the stated goals and their actual effect.

Preventing piracy is at the bottom of a very long list of power that DRM provides, and maintaining control over your content distribution networks is at the top. The two have some overlap, but it's extremely limited (pirates don't pay, but content distributors do, so they will squeeze the distributors as much as they can).
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Better link, in English as well:

https://www.google.co.kr/#newwindow=1&q=+site:ycombinator.co...

Edit: Found another good link on that:

https://news.ycombinator.com/classic
It didn't say that aging stops. It said that it stops growing. Big difference.
>Yeah, sure, you can talk about individuals having exit strategies, rather than just companies, and you could conceivably be an entrepreneur trying to build a company to the point where you can sell all your interest in the company, but … why?

Maybe there is a product or service you want to have that is not currently available.

For example: say you really want an app to automatically scan+OCR your grocery receipts and keep track of the prices you pay for various items. You may not think the problem is very interesting, but you suspect that a market exists. So you make a company that will develop the app, but plan to sell your interests in the company once you are satisfied that the app meets your needs.
Agreed. Reading the Self thread kind of got the nostalgia going for the Smalltalk. I was quite surprised to see how thorough archive.org has become.

I went through a rather large Smalltalk phase in the first half of the nineties, and was kindly lent a copy of the 1981 magazine by a fellow hacker (and archivist!) for a few months before reluctantly returning it sometime in 1991. I loved how the journos went through great lengths describing what "cut/copy/paste" was. It's almost travel writing.
What does design mean to nature? We still have butterflies
I'm in the same boat, business side of IS, teaching Visual Basic.

If you don't mind me asking, what textbook did you use (or atleast company)? We use Cengage currently and I'm just appalled at some of the stuff I have to cover. I've been searching for a replacement.
I think that's part of the design ethos of the movie - and the point of the article. Instead of doing something stereotypically sci-fi (HUD-ify all the things! outlines and overlays and scrolly things ALL over your field of vision!), they went with purely vocal communication.

But not in the clunky way we have it now. The OS as envisioned in the movie is like having a personal assistant standing next to you all day every day. You don't really issue commands to it so much as you hear what it has to say (and it's smart enough to not waste your time) and respond.

After seeing the movie I'm damn excited about this prospect. Voice communication sucks today because there is no nuance - we have to issue every tiny little command ourselves.
You sounds Chinese.
At that point what is the difference between a PC and a tablet. There are hybrid devices now, are they PC's or tablets? I think when people say PC they often mean the brown box under a desk. I agree that they days of that are limited as increasingly powerful machines can fit in a small box, you can already hook up a Surface tablet to multiple monitors and keyboard and operate just like a PC. As a developer I don't think we should even think about these things, we just need to support them all popular platforms without getting hangups over the names.
We want to kill Flash because it's proprietary and closed source (just like HTML DRM). Replacing Flash, which at least works on Linux, Windows, and Mac, with platform-specific DRM, is a huge step backward for the web.
Oh yeah, and in terms of being a purist - the company I co-founded produced a DRM system for Windows software. It's still in use, and I still make money from feature enhancements and bugfixes to it.

So please don't (like a few on the W3 list) paint me as some sort of anticapitalist hippie tinfoil-hat wearer.

I know a fair bit about DRM myself, which is why I say it has no place in the W3C or the Open Web.
This got lots of attention on Reddit. I'm guessing that the title caused it to get skipped over here, which is really too bad.
It's a nascent currency, it's natural for a smaller amount of people to get in early.

I think the more interesting statistic is that, not accounting for addresses for nil/near 0 balance, more than half of all DOGE owners have more than 100 coins. That's more than enough to go around tipping DOGE online.