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I hear what you are saying, but there is also reason for drm. Or we will have flash forever.

I'll rather have a reasonably cross-platform plugin with possible open-source implementations than 100% closed plugins with no cross-platform support which cannot be implemented in open-source.

DRM on the open web is all bad. If you compromise on that because you want Netflix in your browser and not an app, that makes you an asshat, and part of the problem.

We need open standards, we need to defend them, and we definitely don't need people undermining them on factually incorrect basis.
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I just checked for numbers about this, and I found this interesting study... [1] The full study is here [2]

TL;DR: Around 15-20% of same-sex couples are rising children

[1] http://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/press/press-releases/a...

[2] http://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/Gat...
Exactly.

Someone decided that this individual needed to be made into an example and go to jail for some nominal amount of time. Period.

Go to trial, and they would find some statement made in hours of interrogation that wasn't 100% accurate, and convict her of lying to a Federal officer.
No, he doesn't:

“There’s nothing that would keep Apple out of the Android market as a secondary phone market. We could compete very well. People like the precious looks of stylings and manufacturing that we do in our product compared to the other Android offerings. We could play in two arenas at the same time.”

I get the desire for link bait and all, but really?
bayar brow
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> In order for commercial companies to be able to use html5, they need some form of drm. This is just enabling them to do business.

Is that the same kind of DRM that enabled businesses to use the printing press, radio broadcasts, TV sets, vinyl records, cassette tapes, audio CDs and MP3s?
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Comfortably numb.
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If by Alex you mean Alexey, then yes!
How practical are each of these, and to what extent do other means of transportation at least check the no-fly list (that it is only binding to commercial airports doesn't mean it only applies to them).
Most of the time its not a cultural fit.
Sometimes its because the company hired a senior dev and instead got a junior dev who has trouble following logic.

They're not expecting you to be 100% up to speed but they do expect you to make progress in understanding the code base.
Why should we care what some guy says when that same guy thinks that putting DRM in the an open standard makes sense?

Tim Berners-Lee needs to withdraw his statement, acknowledge his mistake and publicly apologize before his voice can carry any weight again.
I don't think this is so obvious. They write that the files are encrypted with my password and that only I have access to them.
Speaking of developer tools, Chrome isn't far from becoming a full-on live-editing solution: https://developers.google.com/chrome-developer-tools/docs/au...
Agreed, but you will also agree that you've gone well beyond the level of first approximation here, right?
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Why so.
Of course there are and of course people care. Most of the people focused on the Russian situation are Russians. The situation is regressing and it's acute.

BTW, this is the second red herring you've flung into the fray.
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bayar brow
Is it available only in U.S ?
So your argument (which I find interesting and worth keeping in mind) is that due to the existing societal construction, having equal rights for a specific minority would be deeply socially disruptive.

And not just disruptive, but disruptive in a bad way, so bad that it's better (according to some reasonable criteria) to continue with the status quo, at least for the time being. Hence, it's problematic to pressure those societies to change.

That seems pretty harsh. Minority rights issues very often involve major social disruptions, and social disruption is often "bad" in its immediate effects -- social violence, strife -- and often has long term effects -- difficult economic shifts and reorganisation as in your description.

But where do you draw the line? The same argument would apply -- and, I'm sure, was made -- referring to a society reliant on slave labor.
Wow this game got big fast without even being released yet. I just saw it the other day around the indie game dev community. They are really doing good with marketing. Also I find they did very well with the art style. It is simplistic but has style.
The BBC fights hard enough to win the rights to show this content, if they didn't the content owners would go to the other channels, Sky, ITV, Channel 4, 5 or even create their own distro like HBO.

People, the majority of people don't know what DRM is, they don't care, they just want to watch content.

One of the biggest problems in tech and forums like these is that everyone thinks they are so much more significant than they are, they don't realise they are such a tiny minority of the consumer spectrum.
So instituting a massive cultural shift in adoption of strong encryption technologies AND winning an arms race against the NSA's inevitable attempts to subvert them is simpler than pushing for political change that is supported by the majority of the population and has strong support in congress and industry?

Both approaches are useful and can be complementary, but if you have to put all your money on one horse, I think you're choosing the wrong one.
The problem is not building a plattform, the problem is marketing one ($$$). You can't make money on a plattform without users willing to pay.
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I second the idea to add your email to your profile. I have an email I'd like to send you.
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Ask HN: Would you use an anonymous location based chatting app?
http://pandrchat.com/

Before I spent too much more time on it, I'd just like some feedback.

Thanks!
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On conventional platforms, sure, but there's nothing in the standard stopping int being larger than size_t. It would make plenty of sense on segmented or small-pointer architectures, like x32 (word size 64 bit, pointer size 32 bit).
I know. Obviously a lot of people didn't get that (too busy grabbing their pitchforks) which is why this story has probably made it to the front page today.
If you are talking about AIR as a web browser, then it runs webkit, so actually it was the same speed as Chrome when they both used the same runtime.

Now it's outdated, so I imagine Chrome is faster.
I think there's a lot of circumstantial evidence that the transaction that caused the huge spike in Bitcoin Days Destroyed yesterday was caused by Karpeles bringing some old coins out of cold storage:

https://blockchain.info/charts/bitcoin-days-destroyed

My guess is that he was finally convinced to do so by the "early adopter" described at the bottom of this post:

http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1x9gue/my_protest_a...

I'd bet that this early adopter had some information or leverage that forced Karpeles's hand. This balance may be from an old Mt. Gox cold storage address, but it's equally possible that Karpeles is using some of his personal holdings to cover the amount owed for one big customer, or perhaps more.

Furthermore, I actually now believe that Mt. Gox is having technical problems with Bitcoin withdrawals. Their poorly-designed custom Bitcoin node is evidently having problems coping with the newly-mined inputs a lot of people were directing straight into their Mt. Gox account.

Before, I was thinking that people should just write off their Gox holdings, or prepare for a lawsuit if the holdings are big enough, but I now believe that there's a decent chance that people will be able to eventually withdraw their balance in Bitcoins (USD transfers still look impossible for most people).

Finally, a personal note to those with coins stuck at Gox:

Please, even if you are able to eventually recover your coins, and even if future trading opportunities on Mt. Gox are incredibly profitable, please, please don't do any further business at Gox. Gox has been harming the Bitcoin ecosystem since back in 2011, when their incompetence, greed, and contempt for customers first reared its ugly head. Since then, the same problems have repeated themselves, time after time. Please don't go back. Remember this pain.
Maybe. :-)

This analogy has quite a lot of problems which arguably can confuse more than explain.

First thing my physics professor said in uni was "forget everything you've learned in school". This is applicable to spinning balls.
I think the point though is that equality for same-sex couples and a cultural expectation to retire with the children are not really compatible. If you have the latter, then the parents have more power over the spousal choices of the children but "accidental" pregnancy is almost always across cultures a good veto override. Since this is only available to opposite-sex couples, this gives parents very strong ways of discriminating against children in same-sex relationships.

So my point is that the traditional family in the sense of three or more generations living under one root, sharing meals, and there being reciprocal care duties between parents and children cannot allow the equality folks are talking about. Destroying that (and establishing the American-style family and retirement as the norm) is a prerequisite to any meaningful equality and that's the source of my objection.
I would rather have a seamless experience in the browser than having to switch to native apps all the time.

The web is a proprietary app controlled by the w3c, who are mainly Microsoft, Google and Apple.

You can believe it's an open platform, but if that's the case it should be easy for you to block DRM ;) Good luck
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I'm wondering if no one says no in the face of this persistence on the simple basis of saying "you're annoying". If someone was to call me every hour I don't think I'd really even care what it is that they're offering me. Maybe I'm wrong about this, but I would think that there are only a few people who will actually then offer you insights into why they don't want your product.
It's a contentious issue amoung ignorant biggots - imagine if it was about the sphericality of the Earth or evolution.
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The instructions in the docs cover how to migrate an existing Django project. What's more interesting to me is whether it'll be possible to have a reusable app with migrations that is Django 1.7 and Django 1.6-1.4 compatible. Sounds like not.
After being a Basecamp customer basically since Launch, I've begun trying Asana - http://www.asana.com
I remember a sales book once. Cannot remember the title. But it had an interesting diagram.

Most people think:
Failure --> Success

It is actually:
Failure --> Failure --> Failure --> Success

I think most guys (and possibly girls) eventually learn (sometimes through painful experience) that getting a quick rejection is better than being friend-zoned. Fail faster! Talk to that interesting person who intrigue you!
If you are being sarcastic, I am missing it. If in the end of the day both can buy the same thing, why should I care how big or how small the numbers are?
What usually happens is that a policy will have some ridiculously extreme measures added to it, which no sane person would ever agree to. Then, in the name of "compromise", those extreme measures will be taken out and the policy ends up passing in its original form. As an added bonus, those who oppose the policy's original measures are "paranoid" and "unwilling to compromise".

Some examples which spring to mind are the Snoopers' Charter and Digital Economy Act.
So it's because it looks better? You could always say "here, have 500 Satoshis".

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Satoshi
The never ending language learner (NELL) is able to build ontologies largely unsupervised with 87% accuracy from a base set of seed facts and access to the internet, indefinitely. [1]

Whilst it is unable to assign one symbol with multiple nouns, I think these are more engineering issues than anything. The overall architecture of NELL can be made smarter with horizontally scalable knowledge inference additions.

I think articles like this are going to be out of date fairly soon (if not already out of date privately).

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Never-Ending_Language_Learning
What's the point of "supposedly zero-knowledge encryption" if you can't even be sure it's there?

If you care about your data security, you'd better consider there is no encryption in such cases. If you don't care - why ask for encryption at all?
Something similar happened to me recently with an iPad game. I got a popup that asked if I was enjoying the game, and clicking yes took me to the app store review page. I am guessing that if I clicked no, it would not have.

I really wish I could remember what game did that.
>The proper way to make it right is to apply monetary penalties (eg. fines).

What's the reasoning behind that? In-kind punishment? If somebody runs over a family with a car, should their family be run over by a car? If someone rapes, should they be punished with rape?

I get it if the law is supposed to be a game.
> I bet they wont to the same with the World Cup and the United Arab Emirates ,too much oil there, hypocrites.

Russia is the largest producer of oil in the world, smart guy. I don't imagine oil has a stranglehold on Google anyways. Maybe you have your angry phrases mixed up?

For the rest: http://www.google.com/diversity/legalise-love.html
Could you provide a link for this statement?

I found only statements about transport layer security, not about storage.

Maybe it meant not "encrypted" but "protected"?
LOVE Crashplan, but you're absolutely right about their client being resource-intensive. It's my number one complaint about their service.
yes there are far more than just financial issues for a GC to deal with labor law is just one area that is in no way in the remit of the CFO - who basically is just a bean counter.
One of the things to also consider is where you live and if you're effected by Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), which is a form of depression. It sounds like there's more going on than just your job, and you have to consider if your feeling about things have changed during the Winter.

It may be worth the effort of focusing on ways to improve your mood by exercising and spending time with friends to get you to a better state. That will let you think more clearly, have more energy for side projects, and seek out new employment or go out on your own.

There's usually a lot more going on with our mood than we initially think.
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only if it is coded badly
Front-end developer here. Yes, that is what I do. We have some really talented developers who design some awesome images of what the websites should like. (Hopefully as a photoshop file. Or at least, something that let me get exact measures and layers.)

If it's a small project, made to be beautiful, they will do the whole design of all the pages. If it's a huge Agile project, they would instead give me a style guide.

Then, I quickly turn everything into reusable HTML blocks and do the CSS (using LESS). If needed, I'll make custom jQuery (or pure Javascript, but that never happens, really) modules for the template. It's very quick. A full page templates takes me about 1 to 2 hours, if it's very, very complex I may take up to 4 hours.

While I'm working on those, the back-end guys are working of making the CMS work correctly. Sometimes, I give them the templates before they program the page, but most of the time I end up attacking the page after them. I then simply use the building blocks they gave me (and turn all the divs they made into the right HTML5 tags).

We use a lot of different CMS and some of the websites have custom backend (no CMS). We develop in both PHP and .Net.

I know PHP, and I'm comfortable developing Drupal websites. However, I don't get a lot of fun making the backend. The only time I would do it if we are working on a one pager or something like that, since it's faster if I do both back and front for project that are not complex.

I prefer working on the front-end. And I do mean front-end development. Not simply mindlessly slicing a PSD into an HTML page or adding content from a Word document.
[1] Blockchain CEO Nicholas Cary:"Bitcoin’s use for international payments from family members sending money home to support entire communities in the developing world and for charity fundraising and fund distribution will be severely affected by this decision"

... I don't think an immigrant worker using a $600+ smart phone to send home money via Bitcoin is a very common use case. Pushing such a message makes Cary and Blockchain come off as deceptive or naive or both.

[1] http://www.equities.com/editors-desk/currencies-forex/why-ap...
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what if sales have peaked not because don't buy new tablets but rather because people don't replace them that often ?
Here's 5400 Satoshi, actually. There's a dust limit to prevent micro cent spamming.
OK. It causes massive damage to a woman's reproductive organs. Not sure how else it should be demonstrated. They'll probably disagree, but now it is they who are wrong, not me.
Instead, they're helping people doing mobifotosocialgames.

It's a good business selling pickaxes during the gold rush.
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It's both a bot and an individual. A lot of his comments are mostly generated by markov chains run over the Bible and other text files.
Which will mean that you can request your unborn baby will definitely be gay. His head is still going to explode.
Those prices are crazy and are not sustainable.
I don't think they're going to disappear, but customers should expect prices to rise in the future ...
The nazi lesson is more important in the face of processes which happens today, on our eyes in Poland, in Baltic states and Ukrane (do you know that Nazi penetrate the official power in Ukrane, what would western countires do if somebody seized the official buildings or even attacked a policeman?).

Today, Polish nazi do destroy the monument of the soviet solders, who liberated them,
http://ru-facts.com/news/view/31587.html

They do it on the formerly Deutsch land, that was generously gifted to the polish people by "the bloody dictator, Stailn", after Polish nationalists have siezed the western part of Soviet Union in 1920 and collaborated with Hitler to start WWII attacking the Checkoslovakia USSR allies in 1938.

The burgeose-democratic Poland does not deserve being an independent country. Independent, it turns immediately into a nazi regime. Nazi hate Russians, hate communism. The modern Poland is a nazi country, as usually (american, capitalist puppet. Capitalists do raise the nazi to defend the capitalism from communists, not only in Poland but everywhere in the Europe and the Latin America also).
This would explain why the website looked good and the app looked like ass
Don't say "for PC and Mac" when what you mean is "for Windows and OS X".
Moreover, being homosexual was never illegal in the first place; it was sodomy laws that made gay sex (and, in many cases, any non-vaginal sex by anyone) a crime.

These laws were used as tools to specifically target gay people, but I make the distinction because gay speech, the issue in Russia right now, has always been protected by the first amendment.
All the article really needed to say was "but then Apple fans would try an Android phone, realise the software is better (and likely start experimenting with having root access to their own hardware, which apple certainly dislike), then get an Android phone comparably specced to and cheaper than the iphone 6 instead of one come upgrade time".
Do you think consciousness in animals "happens" by itself?
>People like the precious looks of stylings and manufacturing that we do in our product compared to the other Android offerings.

Is he essentially saying, people who admire the iPhone hardware, do not really admire iOS? Or Am I missing something. Taking into account the premise of Steve, Apple should make Windows Laptops too?
"Boot Camp" for iOS would be really cool, though the nature of mobile devices means it wouldn't work well unless someone went to the effort of porting all the drivers needed.
My bad - that's a typo. I meant int16_t, the same as in the sample code.
> And not just disruptive, but disruptive in a bad way, so bad that it's better (according to some reasonable criteria) to continue with the status quo, at least for the time being. Hence, it's problematic to pressure those societies to change.

Yes. That's a fair characterization.

> That seems pretty harsh. Minority rights issues very often involve major social disruptions, and social disruption is often "bad" in its immediate effects -- social violence, strife -- and often has long term effects -- difficult economic shifts and reorganisation as in your description.

Minority rights issues are usually borne by groups across generations. The question at issue here is not but rather is borne by individuals or, at the the largest scale, couples.

In other words, if you deprive the Native Americans of land and capital, in 20 generations they will still be in poverty. Trust that wage labor will lift former slaves out of poverty and a hundred and fifty years later, blacks will be under far more crushing poverty than whites. Almost all of the minority rights issues in the US have been of this kind.

And I would add, particularly regarding racial minorities, our treatment of the issues as individual rights issues instead of problems to be solved by communities and families has been a tremendous part of the problem. Too bad Sherman didn't get his way with his 40 acres and a mule plan.

> But where do you draw the line? The same argument would apply -- and, I'm sure, was made -- referring to a society reliant on slave labor.

I guess we should stop looking back at Greece and Rome as great civilizations then, right? ;-)

Honestly your question is particularly loaded because although slavery has meant many different things in different places, our national experience was with a particularly bad kind. I don't know that merely calling something slavery would be enough. I don't condemn the Greek or Roman slavery systems even though I do condemn the tarns-continental slave trade bringing Africans to the New World.

I think you have to ask how slavery fits into society, what structural protections there are for slaves, what incentives there are for freeing slaves, and how the descendants of freed slaves are treated. In societies where slavery is a revolving door and descendants of freed slaves are citizens, I might not condemn that. In a case like the US where descendants were not eligible for citizenship and where slavery was an inter-group, phenomenon with no protections structural or otherwise, yeah I would condemn that, but part of what made that so offensive was the intergroup aspects. American slavery could not have survived in its form if slavery was used as a way to pay off one's own debts for example (as it was in Rome).
People are dismissing this too easily. Looks matter, a lot. Tipping is an emotional connection - it's not a logical transaction. The tipper is making a contribution to something he likes. Giving 0.000000005 BTC gives the tipper and tippee an emotional message that his work isn't worth much. 100 DOGE makes it seem less petty. It's like giving a chocolate bar as a gift instead of $2 - you will get far more favorable reactions to the chocolate bar than a 'useless' $2.