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An add for "The Last One", a system that claims to write your programs for you in a bug-free fashion by asking you questions in plain English. "Coming soon..."

I wonder at the context behind this. The idea that computers could even remotely be capable of this seems crazy now, let alone in the '80s. But maybe it wasn't as high level as I'm thinking....
> the atrociously excessive use of pesticides that GMO seeds promote

I would appreciate if you could provide a link or a reference for that claim?
But OpenFlow (or SDN more broadly) doesn't really help with the service discovery layer does it?
Yeah, that should have been a warning sign.

The thing that really set off my spidey senses was folks on the list saying "if you have a better idea than EME + CDM, please propose it", then all proposals being shot down.

The whole thing looks rather suspicious to me, hence my attempt to back it up a level of abstraction to the actual requirements.
when disk space (on this scale especially) is a so cheap, it seems foolish not to save it.

This is the critical part for me. I delete the crap because it makes searching harder, but I currently spend $0.01/month backing up every email I've ever exchanged with my loved ones. Maybe I'll never need them, but at $1.20/decade, why would I not stash them? (It is, of course, all automated)
The one thing the web has going for it is anyone can really make a webpage and essentially do whatever they like within the parameters of html, css, jscript etc. That's a pretty wide open nert (pun intended).

I can definitely see semi walled gardens going up as communities and user services. The benefits can be a greater more controlled user experience.

But even that said, web technologies are evolving and the web as a mobile option is still a bit in its infancy (aka you can still get a lot of web pages that look terrible)
I think that's a different company - it's not even in Texas.
If you don't frequently consume those media, then you should be doubly angry that the W3C might harm the Open Web to support it.
I've found that often when I feel groggy during the day. Taking time out to do 5 to 10 minutes of deep twisting back stretches will revive me almost as well as a power nap.
There are versions that are public and I doubt the "secret" studio requirements are much different: http://www.microsoft.com/playready/licensing/compliance/ http://www.aacsla.com/license/AACS_Adopter_Agrmt_090605.pdf (see Exhibit E on p. 90)

In reality these requirements are not set in stone; they are a business negotiation. The first version of iTMS did not meet the record labels' DRM "requirements", but Jobs convinced them that he'd make them enough money to make up for any piracy that iTMS allowed. Likewise Windows XP did not meet Blu-ray's "bag of hurt" robustness requirements but they made an exception because no one was running Vista and Hollywood presumably cared more about their movies being playable on computers than about the piracy that XP would allow. Of course, this doesn't help free software people who aren't willing to negotiate and would be starting from a very weak position even if they were.
Not just a little, holy crap there is a lot! The crime scene file is ~13500 lines of reports.
Also remember it isn't the W3C as an entity that is really the problem — it's convincing a majority of member organizations of the W3C that is the problem. The W3C is just an industrial consortium, and will do what the industry wants. If that's DRM, that's DRM.

What happened with patents and what needs to happen now is to convince the majority of members who have no entrenched opinion that they should be against this work happening at the W3C (which by no means guarantees the work will stop — it may well just move to another venue, quite possibly closed, and still de-facto become part of the Web Platform), and that they should oppose this at the AC level, who ultimately control the direction of the W3C. (The AC, essentially, has one representative from each and every member organization.)
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> My problem is I have no idea what to do about the w3c.

If the W3C disappeared tomorrow, the world would be fine. (Similarly, the weather channel is not an essential service, planes can still attain flight without the TSA, and there is still life outside of the panopticon's walls...)

The W3C served a useful role a few decades ago when it focused on codifying historical standards that resulted from the early exponential growth but, like many others who took the minutes in important situations, they now seem to think they are "leaders." But documenting historical growth doesn't mean you are suddenly a source of good ideas; leading isn't something you say you will do, it's something others say you did.

I propose that everyone simply ignore the W3C whenever it's useful.

If only ignoring the TSA, the NSA, and corporate managers were as easy.
Hover, Gandi and Namecheap are the suggestions you're likely to get here. They're all fine.
That makes sense. Psychopaths burn everybody close to them, so their relationships have a pretty short shelf-life anyway.
Unlike the whole software security industry, which does.
Why do you say that Free Software people aren't willing to negotiate? We are very willing to; it's just that every suggestion we've made has been shot down. I think it's very clear who is unwilling to negotiate here.

It's true, though, that there's one point on which we aren't willing to negotiate: any W3C-endorsed standard must be implementable by anyone who chooses, without paying royalties or licensing patents.

EME falls foul of this requirement, because the CDMs with which it is intended to operate themselves fall foul.
God is perfectly just. Steal, get stolen from. Fuck with somebody get punished. Suffer, get rewarded.

God says...
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enough_said it's_my_world exorbitant

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I have God on my side. I have complete confidence in justice.

God claimed Deep Water Horizon.
>>it would be a hell of a megaproject, and for what?

Imagine some one using an oil lamp in the pre-electricity era saying this. Would it even make any sense at all to replace a perfectly working oil lamp/candle with a light bulb at the expense of century worth mining of copper, putting down massive infrastructure, setting up dams for just glowing this small time bulb?

The widespread use of electricity or trains or airplanes or dams or any major paradigm changing invention in human history requires mega engineering projects for a very simple reason. You have to deliver at scale.

If one can go totally without fossil fuels chasing such projects makes all the sense in the world.
Do you have an example of a non-trivial project that was written in PHP that is not spaghetti code that doesn't use OOP as it's foundation for organization?

I want to believe that it's possible. When you start introducing even the most basic complexities of a web app (authentication, access control, database connections, reusable CRUD functionality - all the things that make up a non-trivial application) I find it really hard to stay organized in a procedural style.

I'm not being snarky; I'd love to see a good example of this.
Can't we just fork the w3? Start using Firefox and forget about these people. Oh I'm sorry your browser is a little slower, but at least it's not Google made.
AFAIK ChromeOS supports Widevine EME and Chrome does not. Why is it enabled on one platform and not the other? Make of that what you will.
Ask HN: What are some good certifications for a junior developer?
Are there any skill-building programs or certifications out there that you could recommend to a developer at the very beginning of his (post-bootcamp) career? Something that could ideally be done in addition to a part-time or full-time job?Thank you
I don't get this. Maybe you can win big if you start with an inefficient system but a run of the mill Linux box has been able to saturate gigabit links without breaking a sweat for a decade if not more.

Things like file descriptor limits or numbers of connections are more of a pain in modern times, not necessarily a context-switch caused problem.
and if you search on 'ubuntu 20'?
I have no complaints with Namecheap.
Yes but it wasn't dead until they killed it.
Oops, that'll teach me, I do t live in the US and it didn't event register. Damn.
Sip, Xscope, Alfred 2, Sketch,
Remember that ignoring copyright 'protection' methods is in fact every bit as illegal as ignoring the TSA and the NSA (at least, in most countries).

This stuff matters.
Free software people aren't willing to negotiate about the right to read and modify code but non-modifiable code is the only way that DRM can work.
"noise-emitting diode" is one of those jokes that is so simple and so brilliant you wish you'd thought of it first
I would more say Storify successfully captured that idea and function in their brand name. It could be possible for AMAs. I am working on something bigger that could easily fit this structure into it. I don't feel very far along yet, still needing to build the permanent team, though perhaps we should chat. I eventually want to foster an environment where people can focus on projects like this within the company.
This is a comment that often comes up when the sample size doesn't seem very big, but keep in mind that the required sample sizes to draw statistically significant conclusions can be surprisingly small especially when the effect size is large.

According to Figure 14 it seems to be the case, with the difference between the two group means being large enough to be significant at p < 0.002 (according to their numbers). A good threshold is usually considered to be < 0.05, so this is a pretty strong result. (The p-value is the probability this difference is simply a statistical fluke and not actually meaningful.)

Here [1] is a discussion on how to pick a good sample size for an experiment. As you can see in the table to the right, if the effect is strong a sample size of just a few dozens can be perfectly acceptable!

Here the biggest threat to the validity of these results is not the sample size, but whether one can generalize the case of the pilots in-flight (a very specific task performed by a very specific type of individuals). As trentmb says it's not clear whether pilots are very representative of the general population in this situation, although it also looks like there have been multiple studies done on the subject [2] which seem to confirm the benefits of napping as well. For what it's worth it definitely corroborates by own experience as well so I'm actually quite curious to see where Napwell will go.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sample_size_determination#Requi...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_nap#Benefits
I agree. I think if we promoted Creative Commons and generally made people more aware of how copyright law can be used to promote creativity, fair use and empower indy content creators that we'd become more sympathetic to the case made by Hollywood and the music industry, and maybe eventually get out of this rut of seeing it as a weapon for big media.

I wouldn't oppose any standard that made it mandatory for copyright and license information to be encoded in to image, video and audio content. Nor would I oppose a requirement for browser vendors to expose that information accessibly (on demand) to users.

I'd also like to see online registries that worked like TinEye or Midomi and let me quickly identify content with an emphasis on copyright and license discovery.
Check out IPC::Run for Perl. [0] Perl was already pretty nice with it's backticks but IPC::Run takes it another step further and allows you to do all sorts of redirection/piping/etc with the single 'run' subroutine. If you want an 'expect' sort of use, you can do that too.

[0]: http://search.cpan.org/~toddr/IPC-Run-0.92/lib/IPC/Run.pm
again, what does that mean?
China has africa as a source of resources? of people?
Because so does the rest of the world, and the fact remains that africa's infrastructure is so poor, the continent so corrupt, the level of education so low (on a comparative basis) that it is going to take at least a generation, even with huge investment, to reach any point where Africa is a major contributor to GWP
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> they are ending the open inter-operable web. It sucks.

I don't know what web you have been browsing, but as far as I can see, HTML5 is just now starting to replace flash for online video and audio. I am much sooner ready to support EME over flash, if it helps that transition, despite the ridiculous ineffectiveness and inconvenience of DRM.
Sorry forgot some steps...You also have to rebind C-y to 'yankAndSelect:' (https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Cocoa/...)

For the most in depth info on the Cocoa Text System:
http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~jrus/site/cocoa-text.html
That is one of the points from a book I read recently. His tech advice other than digital archiving was questionable, but all in all, a good read:

http://www.amazon.com/Simple-Guide-Minimalist-Life/dp/144955...
That was the first thing that came to mind: companies don't have exits, investors do. However, I don't think it's uncommon for new entrepreneurs to focus too much on the exit as investor-founders. That was the lesson I took from this.
According to Singularity guys, some point of time in the future one could download his whole brain as-is as a file. Then if you are old enough, they could just kill your body. Upload your file to a super computer hosting many such files. Or a VM running on a super computer. Each file gets it own VM.

Inside that VM they can possibly simulate a paradise. Since its happening inside a computer. Resources are hardly a problem. They can retain the best parts about us. They kill all negative traits inside humans(disease, boredom, violence etc etc) and just let the VM run as long as it possibly can.

The point is Ray Kurzweil thinks, we would no longer need a biological body to stay alive.
This is all so ridiculous, rtmp for instance is as secure a DRM as its ever gonna get and that never stopped me from downloading a stream. Even things like HDMI/HDCP is broken beyond repair. And all of this should justify damaging the w3c reputation forever, what are they thinking?!

This whole concept of DRM is just idiotic, its enough if one guy breaks the DRM and releases it. Why should I even bother booting a propertary OS (windows) and buying a stream everytime I want to watch something if I can just download a release and watch it, and its not like they can do anything against that either.

Why should I bother and buy HDCP capable new hardware, bother with proprietary NSA-compliant US software I much rather buy the DVD, trash it and just download it in a open and free format (I don't even bother with ripping (and breaking CSS) anymore).
You can use I/O virtualization to allow direct hardware access in a safe fashion, assuming that your CPU and peripherals support it.
A lot of the code that I write looks like a crime-scene.
The internal source code of PHP was often a mess of macros everywhere

My understanding, from people here that seemed to know what they are talking about, is that generally macros are how these languages are implemented when done in C, for various reasons. So much so in fact, that you are really writing a DSL layered over C. I doubt Python, Ruby or Perl are any different (actually I know Perl relies heavily on macros in the source for its interpreter).

Edit: s/Rudy/Ruby/. duh.
I'm not sure what you're talking about. Mozilla is a W3C member organization.

Perhaps you're thinking of something like the WHATWG? (bad news for you on the Google front if it is)
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I guess, the "another backdoor" proposal will go very well in Europe, where most citizens are just static about americas view on privacy and respect for constitutional rights. Way to go, maybe the W3C will finally get Europe and the rest of the "free" world to create their own web!
Can you even name any other class of software that cannot work unless people are somehow forbidden to modify or even read the code? It sounds like this is a problem with DRM, not with the free software movement.
"An IPO is a means for a company to bring in cash, not the end of the game."

Nice sentiment, but I'm guessing your early investors—as they look to close out the funds that made up the bulk of your Series A or B—see things a bit differently.
As a PHP zealot, I'm also really interested in this. I drink the OOP Kool-Aid 100% when I code in PHP since it forces at least some level of structure, but I'd love to see a successful procedural approach.
Why should DRM be part of a standard? Aren't plug-ins sufficient?
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The programming world doesn't really work like that. There are a couple of places selling certifications, but they matter so little that it would be a waste of money to get one.

The best thing you can do is build stuff and show it off on a portfolio website or a github profile.
Fork the W3C? This is pretty much happened with HTML. The W3C membership voted against chartering a group to work on progressive improvements to HTML (v. XHTML2), initially in the form of Web Forms 2.0, and so the WHATWG was born.

The big problem is copyright on all the specs is owned by the W3C. Oh, you want to spec CSS? Well, then you have to do it from scratch. Yes, HTML is now at a point where it is better specified than ever, and more interoperable than ever, but it's been a long, hard journey there. Consider the spec has been worked on for over a decade now. Respecifying, from scratch, large parts of the web platform is an incredibly large undertaking, especially ensuring the spec defines something compatible with almost all web content when browsers frequently disagree in edge-cases with up-until-now unspecified behaviour.
I just realized you can use some of these Emacs commands in the Chrome browser address bar (not sure about others).
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Even leaving that issue[1] aside, if the W3C were to endorse EME, then for the first time in its history the Open Web would not be implementable by anyone who chose to do so. That is the real problem here, not incompatibility with any particular software license.

[1] which is pretty much the reason for the existence of the FOSS movement, so I'm sure you'll understand the inflexibility there :)
I read this, on paper, in 1981.

I was lost, but at least understood that I was trying to read something important. Something well beyond Fortran, Basic and Pascal.
This will end up not being even remotely accurate. In fact, the web will continue to expand, but at a slower rate. Homes and offices will continue to have the big screen web experience, and this will actually become cheaper and more awesome (simultaneously the traditional PC will decline in sales volume while not decimating the home web browsing experience; the author doesn't grasp the obvious).

Why? Simple: there's no way to properly distribute the truly vast array of unrelated information the web contains, via mobile apps. Nobody is going to want to download the thousands of mobile apps it would require to get comprehensive access to all that information at their finger tips. I'm not a huge fan of the mobile browsing experience, but I use Chrome constantly for stray information tasks on my S4.

How? Smart phones will be powerful enough to begin treating them like true home computers in the next five years. Some would argue they're already there. We're obviously going to replace the home PC + big screen with a smart phone + big screen, or equivalent. Android sticks and or a future more powerful Chromecast equivalent, five years from now, will be like plugging a desktop into your big screen. The same will be true for work monitors, eg. in a personal office. A $50 stick for your big TV in the living room, and maybe one for your work monitor, and optionally just use your smart phone. In this formulation, nothing changes in the home with regards to the web except the death of the PC as we know it today (powered by Windows), replaced by a better solution.
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I was 20. I faired no better.
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Then your employer could just refuse to allow you to remove the drive from their premises, since you'd have no way of proving that it doesn't contain the employer's data. Which may not be so bad, if you have another copy of the backup somewhere. The worst-case scenario would be that your primary backup drive fails on the day you get fired.
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> can a white girl join black girls who code?

From everything I've seen about their actual policies, including in this thread, yes.
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Silverlight has nothing to do with DRM. It's a web content runtime similar to flash. Sure, some codecs exposed through the runtime on a windows machine supported DRM. But silverlight itself has as much to do with DRM as http that was used to transport that content.
What are they thinking? The majority of the W3C membership want this work done, and the W3C is ultimately bound by its membership. Not working on this isn't an option — take the W3C out of the picture and it'll still be done, quite probably behind closed doors, which is even worse for the web; MS, Apple, and Google are all likely going to ship this whether the W3C specifies this or not; for better or for worse, it is likely to become part of the de-facto Web Platform.

And if you read the lists (as opposed to overly emotional hearsay calling them stupid), you'll realize their concern isn't so much piracy in and of itself (they recognize DRM can and will be broken — they aren't blind), but rather "casual piracy", as it were, ripping a disc having had it lent to you, for example. The aim is to make it sufficiently inconvenient to work-around that that doesn't happen, not that it avoids release on P2P networks and the like.
Agreed about the concept and brand synchronicity of Storify. Looking at it you can immediately get the sense of what it is without having to resort to something like "it's AirBnB for golfclubs!".
In order to "fork" the w3, you would have to make a new organization that would create a standard replacement, convince people to make browsers for it, convince server operators to support it, and convince people to create content with it. Granted, this is more simplified then it what would actually need to happen, so no, you cannot "just fork" the w3.
"Remember: if it's not on a drive that is in your physical possession, it's not really yours."

So, if we store our data in "the cloud", it's not really ours?
It's their primary product: RoundupReady seeds are seeds that have been genetically engineered to be resistant to the Roundup pesticide. This allows farmers to plant the RoundupReady seeds, spray Roundup indiscriminately everywhere, and be certain that everything is dead except the crop.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roundup_Ready_soybean
Soy monoculture in Argentina has destroyed soil quality, and gliphosate-resistant GMO seeds have motivated the large producers to spray indiscriminately to maximize returns.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-18997297

http://blogs.denverpost.com/captured/2013/10/21/photos-argen...
Ubuntu has the benefit of peculiar version numbers. But Debian doesn't. I've often searched for "Debian 6 foo" and received results where '6' is a page number or part of a date or someone's handle.
Netflix already works on Linux: Android devices.

What, you were talking about GNU/Linux? See, that is not going to happen. Instead, you'll see the Linux kernel, some GPLv2 userspace, and a hardware-enforced lockdown that renders the GPL useless. There will be jailbreaks but only a minority of people will even be aware of them, let alone care enough to actually make use of then.