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> Even if you can't eliminate something, making it prohibitively difficult has an impact.

Technically adept pirates are actually encouraged by the mere presence of DRM, since they see breaking it as a sport. That happens fairly quickly, and the rest of the pirates never deal with it again.

So, there is an impact, just not the one you'd probably expect. Firstly, pirates are encouraged to pirate the material even if they don't care about the contents. I.e. DRM boosts piracy. Secondly, legitimate users are punished with this DRM degrading the quality of the product for them (while pirates enjoy the full quality, DRM-free pirated version). DRM is abysmally dumb from any common sense perspective of doing business.

> Even if you CAN get a free version if you try hard enough, the level of trying required will cause more and more people to find it worth the purchase.

Hard part of breaking it can be done by one pirate. The rest will use the DRM stripped version, nothing hard in it anymore.

I linked a few articles above where the point of DRM actually encouraging piracy is discussed. If you missed that, go through them:

* http://brutalgamer.com/2012/03/09/cd-project-red-drm-no-long...

* http://www.lexi-alexander.com/blog/2014/6/1/will-the-real-pi...

Another impact of DRM is certain amount of users who would simply avoid that product because they don't want to deal with any DRM to begin with.
I wouldn't say that the smartphone industry is converging on some single ideal form factor or feature set. I think everything is just changing because people want things that are new and different. For the last 2 years, phone screens have obviously been getting larger, and it looks like even Apple is caving in on that. But I wouldn't be surprised if, in the next two years, there's a new trend of making phones amazingly small again. First it's "look how much bigger our screens are than last year's phones!" and then it's "look how much more compact our phones are than last year's phones!"
Mozilla Firefox used to have a setting under options/preferences to disable loading images and loading javascript. People complained and said this should be removed as not enough people use it and that people who use it can create/use an add-on to do the same.

It is not easy to find a right balance between providing adequate functionality while avoiding information overload. The web is still evolving. We are learning and we will do better (overall) as time goes by. :)
Do you have a source on the Facebook statement? I would be interested in hearing how they create the variants.
Offer a longer term contract then. The guy in the video was at his last job for 15 years. I'm sure he'd be OK with that assuming the benefits were good enough.
An Account of Objectification
UK makes ODF its official documents format standard
It's actually much cheaper and easier to sink some anchors and winch the barge down a bit than to try and do active compensation. It's one thing to compensate a crane or a winch, it's another to compensate an entire vehicle. The anchor thing is one way that they handle off-shore drilling rigs.

Another is to use a semi-submersible rig. What that means is that you fill the bottom half or 2/3 of the vessel with water making it much heavier. That changes the way it rides in the waves and can dampen the effects that a wave has substantially.
Hi guys, I'm the cofounder/ceo of DITTO. Glad you guys like it! Put it on here to get to get some feedback so please let me know if you have any other comments/suggestions. FYI: We tested everything from dollars to cards for the scale and cards tested much higher and people usually have them handy. Also we did test not forcing an account but the emails we get are valuable enough to lose some people. Thanks again for the helpful feedback!
>> finding (and keeping) a profitable niche is hard

...which is why evolution will have to regain control.

Governments are antinatural in their obsession with increasing the number of citizens - not healthy, prodctive, citizens, but SSNs.

Initially, living was for the fittest, not for everyone.

As someone extremely average, I will be among the first to go extinct. And I see no problem with this, as my disappearance will free up space and resources for those who are better.
That may be good advice for people who are considering whether or not to publish something. That's not a good attitude for a social networking service to take, nor should it let Twitter off the hook for being clear about the limitations of their platform.
transit is cross-language and faster
Their funding isn't your problem.

Either they can meet your compensation requirements, or they can't and you go elsewhere, or you find a compromise if you both want it to work.

If you're a decent engineer who can get things done and out the door to some reasonable professional standard, there are a LOT of elsewheres.
I don't think that there is a good place to do that, unfortunately.

You could file a bug, but it'll be pretty much lost among the thousands upon thousands of other ones that already exist and haven't been dealt with.

You could comment here or in some other discussion forum, but those in the Firefox community will probably just vote you down, and continue to pretend that there isn't a problem.

You could write an article, but again, that probably won't help much, unfortunately.

The best thing to do may be to find an alternative browser, or use older browsers that aren't broken in this manner.

I just don't think that those working on Firefox these days truly care to listen to what the remaining Firefox users have to say. Time and time again lots of users have loudly expressed extreme displeasure with monumental mistakes like Australis and the removal of useful functionality, only to be totally ignored by the Firefox developers. I don't see why this situation should be any different.
They don't "off-shore" their money in the sense of an active move out of the U.S. They earn money abroad and leave it abroad rather than pay tax to repatriate it to the US.
This is pure blogspam, just a link to an article on another blog. Original article:

http://blog.pickcrew.com/squash-burnout-boost-productivity/
This attitude baffles me. He's quoting lyrics. Lyrics are lyrics, and the ones he quoted in particular have no racial overtones. And even if they did, who cares?

Lots of songs have the words "cunt" and "motherfucker", but quoting those lyrics does not mean you are intending to insult a woman or accuse someone of having an Oedipus complex.
Apple [AAPL] reports OK Q3 numbers, stock off in after-hours
Can someone explain the first example?

A name with an arc through the name. What's the design purpose? Because most of them look a bit like the name has been crossed out.

I could understand it if the arcs were behind the name - that would mean the name is kind of hovering over a sphere. But lots of the examples show the name behind that arc.

EDIT: one of the later categories is "Use of the font 'satisfaction'". I looked and thought that some of the names were using a different font, because I was sure that Altus was Atlus (even though Atlus isn't a word). So I guess that design really fails? (I misread some others - "street bitch"; "sleet your bed". I don't have any reading problem that I'm aware of. I am a bit tired. But how would someone guard against that kind of problem with their logo?)

Complaining about use of spheres seems a tad harsh - there aren't many solids and spheres are less distracting than most others.
Google Considers Buying Spotify But Finds the Price Too High
Maybe use an old oil rig? Its legs would bolted to the seabed, which I would assume is sturdy enough.
Dear Network Admins, Stop Blocking Non-HTTP/HTTPS
Microsoft's approach to tablets is the best one.

I want a laptop with a detachable touch screen, not a consumer device.

Plus it is the only one that allows to target itself for software development, without any constraints or relying in a server stuck somewhere.
It isn't because of socialism. It's an accident of the tax code. Medical coverage is tax-deductible for businesses (as an expense) but not for individuals. This loophole in the tax code was not closed by the recent healthcare reforms, which is a big shame.
At least in America, land out in the middle of nowhere is extremely cheap. The problem is that people don't want to live there.
Because HN is just linking to the file and the file is not uploaded on this site (in contrast to like attaching it to an email to redistribute), probably not.
Neat project. However, I wish you'd require something other than my driver's license. It makes me uncomfortable to give over an image of something that contains a lot of important personal information on it.
I agree that actual "signal" can still be learned over time, but if we chose additional random wait time from a distribution unknown to attacker (or even better, randomly select the distribution itself, and shuffle often), we can reduce the efficiency of attack dramatically.

But another possible way is to add a deterministic amount of additional wait time (instead of random), i.e., "lie" about computation time of all inputs consistently. If designed properly, this won't leak any signal (assuming the strategy on how to "lie" is chosen randomly itself and shuffled often, so attacker doesn't learn it).

Strategy of waiting for maximum time across all possible requests (as mentioned in your post) is sort of a special case of this, where one (deterministically) add a wait time of W - C (where W = Worst case time across all inputs, and C = actual time taken for this input). But we can use a less aggressive approach to hide the actual computation time as well.
> Tim Cook mentioned that in emerging markets iPads grow much faster and that's likely because it is their main computer.

Where do they get the money from?
That is followed immediately by:

> (1) for the purposes of allowing Google and the Judges to evaluate and test the Device for purposes of the Contest, and
(2) in connection with advertising and promotion via communication to the public or other groups, including,
but not limited to, the right to make screenshots, animations and device clips available for promotional
purposes

In other words they only get rights related to this contest, they cannot do anything beyond the contest with your IP.
The glibc s390 ABI break
Tried Shelfflip, minutes later received this email from Amazon:

"Your Amazon.com password has been changed"

This is an important message from Amazon.com.

As a precaution, we've reset your Amazon.com password because you may have been subject to a "phishing" scam.

Here's how phishing works:

A scam artist sends an e-mail, which is designed to look like it came from a reputable company such as a bank, financial institution, or retailer like Amazon.com, but is in fact a forgery. These e-mails direct you to a website that looks remarkably similar to the reputable company's website, where you are asked to provide account information such as your e-mail address and password. Since that web site is actually controlled by the phisher, they get the information you entered.

Go to amazon.com/phish to read more about ways to protect yourself from phishing.

To regain access to your Amazon customer account:

1. Go to Amazon.com and click the "Your Account" link at the top of our website.

2. Click the link that says "Forgot your password?"

3. Follow the instructions to set a new password for your account.

Please choose a new password and do not use the same password you used with us previously.

Thank you for your interest in Amazon.com.
There is a broad consensus among liberal and conservative economists that a corporate tax rate above zero is a dumb idea.

It is irksome that some large corporations pay basically zero and others don't, but the ideal solution isn't to make 'em all pay.

See e.g. http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/07/19/157047211/six-poli...
I've used Youtube since it came out in 2007 and never seen this. It could be that either someone has your password, or you're visiting some site whose malicious Javascript is cross-site-diddling into your Youtube session. (However, search as I may, I can't find anything that would validate this latter hypothesis by hinting at the existence of such a malware.)

In this thread:

https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/youtube/YRoOv...

a user persistently claimed that YT was subscribing him to channels just due to him viewing a sufficient number of random videos. At the end (scroll down) it turned out not to be the case: all the channels he was being subscribed to belonged to users that he thought he unsubbed, but just didn't unsub properly. The user accepted the answer about unsubscribing correctly.
It’s worth mentioning that a company owner who saves up money in their company (and thus pays only the corporate tax rate) will have to pay capital gains tax if they later withdraw money from the company.

IMHO a company should generally not save up large amounts of money unless there is a purpose, for example building up a reserve for worse times, acquisitions, or for a small business, saving up for pension.

In Apple’s case, the shareholders are the owners, and they are paying capital gains tax on the dividends.

I don’t necessarily think the tax laws are good or fair, but comparing your income tax rate with Apple’s effective corporate tax rate is comparing oranges and bananas.
Derek Smart! Never forget!
The gist is a startup that makes money by running services or market protocols on top, and whose work is open source (e.g. IPFS is MIT licensed). I'm a firm believer in open source and want to build a company that can be independent of other companies, that as long as it's able to create value for its users, it can continue to evolve the internet. I should spend some time describing my vision for this because it's really hard to describe the full thing + get right. I should probably write, or maybe record a video?
I can imagine a scenario where an iPad would dock with a typical monitor and keyboard setup and be powerful enough to handle most "heavier" computing tasks for people

So then the question is - why have a separate OS for tablets as compared to laptops? The current reason is not so much to do with the UI but more to do with management of limited resources. OS's like iOS and Android are very aggressive about preserving memory and processor cycles as a way of squeezing extra life out of batteries.

On phones that different-OS resource advantage will probably continue. But on tablets, its less clear. As the intel chips get better at low power, a tablet running a 'full fat' operating system becomes more feasible.

This is what the Surface Pro 3 shows, whatever you think of it as a device: You _can_ run a full OS on a powerful processor in a fairly thin, fairly light tablet. Not the thinnest, and not the lightest, but still it raises the question: Why do tablets need a different OS?

Microsoft are tackling that question now, I think Apple will ultimately need to tackle it as well.
Work I presume.
It's very strange, and a little disheartening. Noctis is the best!

http://anynowhere.com/bb/layout/html/doors/local/frameset_no...
The blue and black don't look very close to me, and they're pretty color-blind safe. Odd.
Not even Spore.
I seem to remember his comments on some Lisp list on usenet or something, but I might be wrong, in which case I'm sorry and didn't mean to discredit the article's author in any way (I think that Pascal Costanza is a nice and smart fellow, and always had a positive impression of his posts, and Lisp communities used to be terrible places).
BABCOCK UNIVERSITY DISOWNS MURDERED STUDENT
Constraints gave us Facebook instead of Myspace. Constraints gave us Twitter. Constraints gave us Snapchat.

Social networks have thrived on obvious constraints. When looking for a startup idea, sometimes I try to reimagine a popular tool or service with additional constraints.
Thanks for this. I got accepted into Gun.io, looks pretty neat! The clients there have some good budgets. Looks like it's time for me to start getting paid properly for my freelance work vs. what you get on the tragedy that is Freelancer.com
Huge red flags:

Have great ideas: indecisive and flaky

Chance to be CTO: Yeah right. Become CTO now

2%....too risky and tiny payoff.

Here's what I would do:

149k/year

21 - 32% equity, with linear vesting over 4 years. 6 months and vesting starts until 3.5 years later

28k signing bonus

Don't be a sucker. They will both your worse nightmare.( two dads!)

There's no product, there's no revenue, no prototype. Sounds ridiculous.

They have a pitch deck. However ideas are cheap and some investors are dumb.

Make sure any shares are voting shares and look for the termination clauses and trigger events.

Don't sign any agreement without a lawyer explaining things to you.

Good luck
My god, the Loading times would be unbearable.
This comment is not necessarily related to Transit, but any serialization specification -- in XML, we had XSLT which could transform any well-defined input to an XML output and vice versa.

What's the equivalent for JSON/Transit etc? When parsing and validating the correctness of an input, what is the standard protocol for propagating error messages laced with contextual domain information?

The two solutions I've found was:
- use XSLT
- use a domain specific language
One thing I could understand that why she's being hated is, it is not the first time she post feminism stuff with strong opinion on website, and then refuse anyone to comment it. She just acts like those garbage class politician that trying to brainwash you while preventing ppl from discussing the sensitive opinion. I wouldn't say it's owned, but I know why some ppl will not like her.
Packt Publishing modus operandi
Apple gets patent on Smartwatch. USPTO fails again
The major problem is that there are no outward physical signs of outstanding competence in your niche of economic s
specialization

Expensive tailored suit, fist-bitingly expensive wristwatch, huge house in an expensive area, very new luxury car... I could go on and on.
At first I thought this was a prank to see if I would easily give up my amazon credentials. Fool me once...actually not this time.
You can't always have URL redirect for your host records (see for instance DigitalOcean's DNS service). Also, as you unintentionally pointed out, you need a server to do the redirection, which can be a waste of resources for some use cases (see below).

You'd use this service if you were using things like Heroku, which are relying on CNAME records to avoid distributing all the traffic on one IP address that could have the machine it points to shut down at any moment - that's the principle of the cloud.
That's pretty funny. Though what I think they're saying is that the total size of the result-space for their planet generating algorithm is, whatever, hundreds of quadrillions or quintillions or whatever it is that makes that work out, but that a given instance of the universe comprises tens of millions of planets.
I don't think that was her decision. Comments were open for a long time, and I think the Polygon staff closed them.

Consider: perhaps they were closed for the very reason that she wrote this piece.
I remember the 'old school' and there were plenty of poor quality games; its just that very few of these have survived 20 years or more to be shopped around as examples of the past.
> So that's my problem with Clojure, nothing to do with "functional way", right?

Sure. For a solution to your particular problem, maybe ClojureScript will bring some improvement for CLI use, since Nodejs tends to start faster than a whole JVM.
Thomas Friedman Loves Airbnb for All the Wrong Reasons
Ether sale started
The Glomar Explorer, which was custom built by the CIA to raise a sunk russian nuclear submarine (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USNS_Glomar_Explorer_(T-AG-193...),used heave compensation for the entire crane/rig that lifted the submarine from the sea floor.
We set out to solve a problem first, where the solution includes open source software run as a service. Most people don't want to run software services. They just want to use them. In our case the software is important, but without attached services (training, consulting, support, program management etc) it wouldn't work.

Now, I don't claim it is easy, or suitable for everyone, but it is possible. Come visit one day and I'll show how we do it for free. It is open after all. ;)
Could also be that hundreds of rockets are landing in their cities, causing citizens to routinely seek out bomb shelters with about 10 seconds notice. That tends to make people report for military service enthusiastically and take great personal offense at people who they see as cheerleading for the other side.

There's a lot to be said for both sides of this conflict, but portraying it as Israel just up and decided to bomb a bunch of innocent people for no reason sounds more like propaganda for the Palestinians' side than a fair look at the issues.
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The original idea will inevitably morph into a completely different thing.

Edit:

If you must give something ( because it strikes your fancy) , then ensure they are non-voting shares and that he cannot prevent any ( and I mean any) amendments to the by-laws, shareholders agreement or the articles of incorporation. ( to the full extent of your laws)
...and FF finally caught up with IE and Chrome habit of reporting every single URL you visit/download to check for malware.

Since there is no free-lunch, i'm pretty sure the people running those services are mining that data for advertising or something. I know google is with chrome. Malware protection and translator services phoning home on every page, and pre-fetch adding the links you haven't clicked yet to that list...
What's convincing you to choose Samsung Note Pro instead of an iPad?

Personally, I'm looking at Microsoft Surface Pro 2 instead of any tablet, because it's not just a tablet, but an x86 PC that can run Ubuntu (yes, 2, not 3, because larger size and loss of Wacom digitizer while retaining the same hardware don't look like improvements to me). I even think Apple will present an "iPad Pro" along these lines, this year, with a killer feature of being able to run OS X apps. I don't live in Apple-land and I don't want that, but it should be popular.
Logos seem more important in the physical realm than the digital one. Great for advertizing on Bilbords, shirts, TV etc but meaningless when the goal is to click the link not remember the company.
In my scenario I imagine the iPad customer as primarily getting their computing done on the tablet but having the option to use a larger screen for certain edge cases (mostly to illustrate the increase in capability over time). I don't think tablets will completely subsume PCs and that PCs will have a role to play for people who actually need it. Having a separate OS designed for that interaction model will net an overall better experience without having to make compromises in some way.
Battlecruiser 3000AD!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlecruiser_3000AD
I can confirm. That query took about 2 seconds. More discussion here: http://www.datatau.com/item?id=3608
can you compare these to the Russian unmanned supply runs to the ISS?
DITTO engineer here. No need to use your driver's license. Any standard-size card should work.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_7810#ID-1
Ya, I dig alot of that demo scene stuff too. I sniff a natural beauty there somewhere. A natural beauty, a smart shape game, or something. It's what I'm trying to get at with my own work (http://fleen.org). Sorta got a handle. Frankly done with the whole subject presently.
NOT what you downloaded.

but every page. as that service is run for every url. at least it was on aurora.

also, expect network pre-fetch links soon since google also likes that. so they can know what you visited even if you don't click it.
I'm excited because this means two things for me and my QOL:

1. Faster editor.

2. Some of the missing features from go-plus will now be merged to the master branch of the package since it depended on React being default in the editor. Really excited. :) https://atom.io/packages/go-plus