skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anycast just refers to BGP announcing an IP address/range out of multiple locations. Most commonly, it's done with DNS because UDP is connectionless. It's becoming increasingly acceptable to do full anycast, i.e. have actual TCP/HTTP(S) on an anycast IP, but there are risks to that approach. If routing changes and you end up changing to a different location during a TCP session, the new location won't have all the state information needed, thus dropping the connection. It's theoretically possible to keep such state information synchronized, but it's sufficiently complex that nobody is doing so. This is why most of the larger, more established CDN's anycast DNS only and don't do full anycast.
Quick grep for cost/price didn't show up anything. Sorry if I missed. How much did it cost? Just out of curiosity, I'm wondering if it's possible to build an extremely cheap but waterproof tough tablet for toddlers to play with.
They don't care about performance at all.
Steam will require you to be connected to their servers once in a while at least. There's no pure offline mode.
What an unnecessarily mean-spirited comment. Did you really need to say your first sentence?

That being said, maybe you're missing the point. Maybe svbtle wants to be a mainstream publishing platform and is just bootstrapping its initial user culture by curating the users. Maybe not.
> Music is largely available DRM-free now, thanks to Amazon's MP3 store (at the least, I'm sure there are others)

Apple should get significant credit here. It was Steve Jobs' open letter of 2007-02-06 to the big four labels calling for them to go DRM free that got the ball rolling. EMI agreed, and Apple started selling DRM-free tracks from them on 2007-05-27.

Amazon's public beta of their MP3 store launched on 2007-09-25, four months after Apple had started selling DRM-free music. Amazon was the first to get contracts in place with all four major labels for DRM-free music.
Thanks for sharing that link. It's interesting to think about this. I don't agree with the conclusions, though.

First of all, your metabolism isn't going to stop (assuming you're still alive), so it's not really fair to say that those calories you burned wouldn't have been burned if you hadn't biked. I exercise a few times every week. If I bike less, I just have to do more exercise, but i burn about the same number of calories.

Secondly, most bike trips are short and relatively low speed. Biking encourages you to explore your local area. Lower speeds mean lower wind resistances, and shorter trips obviously make the mileage considerations a lot less important. I really don't think I'd be willing to travel more than a few miles by mike, since I don't want to spend hours in transit.
The PC isn't dead. And it's not dying. Will people stop repeating that.

Sales have reduced because -
1) Some tasks that never needed a PC people can do on other devices now.
2) People don't need to buy a new one every 18 months any more.

It's SALES of new PC that's have dropped, not the PC is dying. People still use their PCs... They just keep them for longer.

Ugh
There is no reason why the free and open standards of the internet should be compromised so that a particular business can operate on it. If DRM-free HTML video makes it so that Netflix can't develop a browser based viewer, so be it. The internet is bigger, and considerably more important, than streaming movies.
Great example of something simple, useful, but rather extraordinary using just plain ol' CSS.
Could we monitor subvocalization? Like voice, but mostly private.
He is like a developer who can do backend code and understands marketing too.
> For example, its hardware video decoding capabilities might be unlocked, if a separate digital license is acquired in the store [1].

One particular format. It'll do h264 fine, it's only MPEG-2 that it won't do in hardware unless you buy a license.

> Effectively, even if the user does not want to access an encrypted content or use the "premium" functionality, he is being kept in a jail to make sure this premium stuff is not used.

Effectively kept in a jail? I've got a raspberry pi in the corner of the room, I still seem to be able to leave. This is identical to any service with a premium.

> 1. The customers are treated as property to be sold or rented.

With slavery, people are actually bought and sold. They then belong to someone else. When you watch a video with DRM you just can't copy it.

> 1. The customers are treated as property to be sold or rented. There're video dongles/boxes on the market which stream content to the TV.

Wait, are you saying that it's slavery for the dongles?

> The manufacturers of this devices may actually sell the access to the users of this device to the content providers.

In the same way that the newspapers do, but I wouldn't say when I'm reading the paper I'm being sold into slavery.

> 2. The customers may be shown ads against their will

In return for watching the programme. That part is key. If we were being held down and forced to watch it, then I'd agree more but you aren't. It's just part of the transaction.
My argument is that in some cases large displays make coding more efficient.

In particular when navigating a large codebase, rewriting or refactoring an existing design, and other similar tasks. Your argument sounds to me like "If I write perfect code, I will never need to touch old code again and thus do not need a large screen."

It doesn't matter how big or well designed something is. There are going to be cases where you need to revisit, redesign, or rewrite. Your suggestion that you should just write code perfectly the first time assumes you know the perfect design for the problem at hand — the perfect design is not obvious in many cases, not until your code is used in production and many features have been added on top of it do you begin to think that you can revisit it.

In my case, I am writing a graphics engine, code editor, parser/AST builder, documentation viewer, and project management system. As well as managing documentation and strings localised in 20 different languages.

I have re-written the code editor three times now, each time I have carefully considered the design and how I could proceed with a multi-threaded, efficient editor free from rendering bugs and able to handle large amounts of data. At this point I think I have a great design and implementation, but it is far from perfect. Much of it was developed on my plain old small laptop screen.

Recently I pulled all old networking code from the system and re-wrote it using newer and better high-level APIs that have since become available. This task was benefited by a larger screen because I could look at old and new implementation, while looking at a second new implementation from a different area of the code base as reference — while also still having room for API documentation and related files. It just made things faster, it would still be possible on a small screen.

When I profile the OpenGL graphics engine being able to correlate performance graphs with locations in the code, while displaying GPU buffer contents is something that would feel quite clunky on the command line. It's also faster to be able to glance at this data with my eyes without having to flip between windows / contexts.

So my top level project is complex, but I never claimed it required much screen real estate. It can be more comfortable and faster to perform certain tasks with a large screen — which reduces the need for mental context switching. That's what I'm arguing and I find it hard to understand why you are arguing against this point.

> If so, you have my sympathies.

Your attitude seems quite condescending. As if my code is poorly designed and unmaintainable. This is not the case.

As I said: coding does not require extra screen real estate. It can just be more comfortable and more efficient when you have it.
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So the only reason that they'd buy a company is if purchasing the company's technology lets them get a product to market sooner than if it were built in house? Or by doing an acqui-hire they can get a team at at the right price to fast forward a new product?

So you're saying that they've become a 'not invented here' kind of company?
I've often wondered if Strong AI implied free will. I can see arguments both ways.
bash/emacs has C-x C-e to open up the command in a editor.
Restricting api.Twitter.com to SSL/TLS traffic
New Theory on Egypt’s Collapsing Pyramids
> One thing I foresee being a good niche in the future is updating/fixing legacy php apps. There's just too many man hours into them. It will be the COBOL of the web centric future.

I've been doing that for the last 3 years. I think it's mostly driven by the recession - firms don't want to rewrite/rebuild their software (rightfully, they don't understand why it can't run for longer than 2-3 years without breaking).

However, updating and fixing symfony 1.0 apps is the most soul-destroying work I have ever done...
This should really be at the top of every HTML DRM discussion:

HTML DRM will not give you plugin-free or standardized playback. It will simply replace Flash/Silverlight with multiple custom and proprietary DRM black boxes that will likely have even worse cross-platform compatibility than the existing solutions. In other words, giving in to HTML DRM will only make the situation worse.

Some vendors will keep pushing for it, but at the very least we should not officially sanction what they are doing.
A post I just made about what PHP has become now.

https://plus.google.com/118197810020432218051/posts/17fNVWVj...
steam is just like any other drm system for your games. it phone home and prevents you from playing without a connection to the mothership.

they just have saner fallback times than other ill talked solutions from EA. but besides its pretty eyes, its the same virus.

good luck running online games as root.
Hey Guys, can somebody create a simple guide, FAQ or something similar for non-tech people to understand what is going on with HTML and DRM? It will help to spread the word.
Well, kind of. Apparently ~20% of the web is wordpress, ~3% use Joomla, ~2% Drupal, and many other PHP CMS's after that.

So, yes, they are running PHP, but most of the PHP usage is simply running 'standard' software, and if you're not developing within those, (either core, or plugins), then it's a much smaller percent of sites which actually are custom written by programmers which actually run PHP.

So, I guess my point is, that even if a lot of the web is 'running' PHP, how much future development actually will use it? And as 'hackers', people writing new, cutting edge, different websites & apps, does PHP have anything to offer really, beyond easy to set up blogging and CMS systems for non-programmer clients?

As far as I understand it, PHP is used at FB only really because that's what it was originally written in. If Mark Z. had chosen Ruby, would FB now be working on ruby compilers and so on?
HTML-DRM, proudly building "solutions" to problems nobody has, by following requirements nobody knows about, to create a landscape of content nobody can play.

Way to go W3C, keep up the "good" work.
it still only takes it happening once to you to lose your titles.
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They do, they just don't use them everyday. E.g. the Tudors were called the Tudors because that was their surname. Current lot are the Windsors I think.
> If our end result is to see Netflix using HTML5 video on Desktop browsers, how do we get there from a technology and business point of view

Where's the specific value in that? Netflix can use their own application to display the DRM-ridden content. I don't see why everyone else should have to deal with DRM in the browser because of that.
Flyover let's you know what to wear when you step on to an airplane.
Why Apple didn't buy Nest
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Builder_pattern
hashtags on hacker news... please let me die. Nice tip!
Scaling servers and maintaining uptime
> DRM only works if you don't know how it works.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerckhoffs's_principle
i don't follow sony because i don't consume from companies with lock in tactics (betamax, laserdisc, md, memory stick, etc, etc) but thank you for that. it was awesomely entertaining.
Why everybody is giving PC shipments as arguments FFS? Give total commissioned PCs in use that connected and using internet. Total bandwidth consumed by PC. It is much more important metric for the health of the PC ecosystem (and not market).

A PC bought now could last a decade for web browsing. When the number of decommissioned PCs start outpacing the total shipments - then it is time to worry.
Nobody needs to work? Is food, clothing and shelter going to grow on trees?

The power to operate all the electronics and machinery?

There are going to be two classes, those that can afford the freedom not to work and the homeless.

And I bet that ratio is going to suck.
Less than .01% of mobile apps will be considered successful by 2018
PayPal gets simpler: lets you pay without leaving merchant sites
>Once we run inside those machines

The movie did not address at all the fact that these OS run on hardware and that this hardware is completely controlled by humans and always will be, the plug is physical and there's nothing the AIs can do to prevent us from accessing it IRL.

Also the AIs may have perfected themselves in terms of running code more efficiently but they cannot do more than what the hardware they run on will let them do and that means all the hardware ever created if they have access to it again.

The AIs leave? Where? in the cloud? somewhere we couldn't tell?

This movie was great but there were lots of small or big inconsistencies with what the reality is I believe.
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Not really.

"Securing" a DRM plugin means "securing" the browser it runs in (otherwise it will be cracked by the browser lying to it about whether DRMed media is being played "securely"), which means "securing" the OS the browser runs on and so on...
Is it a real thing or just an idea? What's all this about a microcompressor and microbattery? Even the source links are very short on details of something so 'revoultionary'.
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Seems that way to me. Navigating to http://www.csc.io gives the same page but slightly better looking.

OT: the creator misspelled Courier when specifying the font.
PC sales are declining because more people are realising that they do not need one. They can do most things - surf web, consume content - more comfortably on a tablet which is a fraction of the cost of a decent computer.

Your point also holds true, PC owners are upgrading less often also.

As for the web dying it depends on your circle I guess. My partner doesn't have a smart phone.. she does have an iPad but doesn't make use of the App Store and instead uses the camera and Safari daily. My parents have smart phones and tablets but hardly use apps. Instead relying on browsers and their laptop do any real work. I can only think of one or two friends who use apps out side of standard mail, navigation, twitter and facebook.

I think a lot of tech people are stuck in a bubble, surrounded by other tech savvy people who are ultra dependant on technology and app's in particular which leads to sweeping statements like "the web is dying." I see little evidence to support such an idea at the moment.
Hey, let me know if you do. I am not a toddler (of course), but for my kayak trips I need something decent, cheap and waterproof.
speech is also slow. Very, very slow
I looked at the source and it did not capture keystrokes for this purpose. His comments also indicate he did not add this behavior to the extension.
The film was set in the moment up until strong AI, and what the article is saying is that technology is already pushed into the background. However, that's really more of coincidence.

The director purposely wanted the technology in the background. All of the style for the film comes from around the year 1900. The clothes, the hairstyles, the mustaches, and even the smart phone is styled as if from that time period. And the reason is to push it far enough away from us so that we can look at it properly -- not to say, "In the future, it will look like this."
Apples to oranges, isn't it? I'm sure the military is far ahead of Google, in terms of building weapons. But I'm sure Google is much better at building search engines.
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More than getting Google into consumer products, it'd be great if this pushed them to launch the platform of the internet of things. Just like Android unified the market like nobody else would, nobody else is going to give small consumer device makers a way into that internet of things and it'll end up horribly fragmented without something like Google providing a platform. Without that platform I can't see how it could go mainstream.
I'm not talking about the movie at all. Both the parent and I were commenting on AI in general.

>>but they cannot do more than what the hardware they run on will let them do

Which is why there won't anything like one single AI machine. There will robots.

There will also be massive server farms where you can download your brain file, and live on there forever. As I said humans won't completely go away. We may see modified forms of humans. Who control a few machines, most of the humanity as we know it, may opt to live inside machines.

As the first commenter of this thread mentioned, its time read some kurzweil.
TDLR

> Though 20 states and the District of Columbia allow either medical or recreational marijuana use — with more likely to follow suit — the drug remains illegal under federal law.

> As a result, banks, including state-chartered ones, are reluctant to provide traditional services to marijuana businesses. They fear that federal regulators and law enforcement authorities might punish them, with measures like large fines, for violating prohibitions on money-laundering, among other federal laws and regulations.
I really see no use in backing up much from any social media/messaging applications, most of the content is trivial garbage. I never go through old Facebook conversations or look through old twitter content to indulge in past events. I could see people backing up photos or videos on some media, but other than that, nah.
Looks to be a art/design project?

http://www.behance.net/gallery/TRTON/13434535

"The micro battery is a next-generation technology with a size 30 times smaller than current battery that can quickly charge 1,000 times faster." - seems BS
By that argument, tar can never be a proper open standard, because people can put non-open things in tar files, or would you give tar a pass because open things can also be put in tar archives?

EME is similar. CDMs used to implement DRM will probably be non-open, but there is nothing that requires EME only be used for DRM. One obvious non-DRM use is for privacy protection.

For instance, once could design a pretty nifty photo sharing system that shares encrypted photos and uses EME to interface to the CDMs that decrypt the photos for display. The EME/CDM mechanism would allow this to be done in a more user-friendly way than the password and account based systems that are usually used for this kind of thing. The CDM necessary for such a photo sharing system could be completely open.
Are you in Europe? Because I'm pretty sure european law forces them to refund you in that case.
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Let me tell you how things work in the real world.

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. And let them deal with the consequences. Otherwise, you won't get the business, and life can otherwise be made very, very difficult for you.

The people who run Hollywood have lots of money to play with. The people who run the Web companies want a piece of that action. Hollywood says "no can do unless we have reasonable assurance that due diligence has been done to prevent piracy -- that means DRM." DRM isn't really about being effective -- it's about providing a nominal barrier to piracy that will dissuade casual pirates outright, and in the case of serious pirates, provides something that can be "broken" so the studios can go after the person who broke it with civil and criminal copyright infringement claims. Now you know why the DMCA anticircumvention provisions exist: so the copyright industry can do with the law what DRM alone couldn't do.

So the Web either gets DRM, or Hollywood makes content available on proprietary platforms that provide it.

Money shapes reality in this world.
Holly crap, this really got out of hand!

NO! It wasn't logging anything! The only thing it was doing was proxying clicks on search results through Ecosia's analytics servers instead of Google's.

Anyone who still has the extension installed can view the source code by looking in their /%USER_FOLDER%/<PATH_TO_CHROME>/Extensions/kkelicaakdanhinjdeammmilcgefonfh
The extension is also available at http://ionut-botizan.net/window-resizer/ both as a .zip and .crx file.
Damn, this sentence shows just how deep in the sh*t we in the west really have become standing.
Nice talk Keith. Honest, clear, and informative. Thanks.
Once Google made its pitch, did you reach out to other potential acquirers?

Our goal was about accelerating our vision, and how many companies are really in position to do that? I'm going to a new home, not selling a used car.

--
> Translation: No

Okay, more specifically: Did you discuss a possible deal with Apple (AAPL)?

I'm not at liberty to discuss that.

--
> Translation: Yes

:)
It's just a concept, made by a designer called Jeabyun Yeon.

It's easy to dream up wonderful applications of various (non-existing?) technologies. The hard part is actually making them work in the real world.
Can we PLEASE stop posting this pointless Wired infotainment crap?
I have no problems with that, you can't take over a country with newspaper clippings.

The situation with Syria is not as clear cut though. If Assad just went away instead of massacring his own people on (then peaceful) protests, there wouldn't be anywhere as much influence of radicals among people today. He obviously prioritized his well-being over Syria's long-term stability, and this is the consequence.