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>DRM itself is not good or bad. As everything else, it can be abused

We're going to have to disagree on this. DRM, any DRM, no matter how benign, places the computer in an adversarial role against its user and owner. There is no circumstance in which this is a healthy relationship, and there is further no circumstance in which DRM is added to something that DRM couldn't be removed entirely and therefore enhance the value of whatever it's attached to.

This is one of the things I fully agree with RMS on. DRMing something means it's broken by design.
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I wish credit card free Amazon AWS subscription was part of the pack. Life's difficult without a credit card.
Tim Berners Lee speaks out on data ownership
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Identity theft, and placing minors in danger.

That's illegal, right?

Right?
Now I want to know what you said the first time around.
Dear jonifico, it was really just a lot of effort into content marketing, seo, sem as well as customer support. We developed the platform while operating and only closed the upcoming bottlenecks. So yes, very doable ;)
Ouch, yeah. Thanks for posting it.
Is wanting to leave the EU xenophobic? The EU is currently failing. Or wanting immigrants to be have sufficient points and be able to support themselves? This is standard for many countries.
We use Slack and I always thought this was an odd behavior. We're a part of a major university so our domain is quite large and we can see dozens of other departments and projects using Slack just by putting in our email.
> I struggled to find a significant ES6 codebase to test against. If you know of one please let me know!

One was just posted yesterday and made it to the front page:

http://virtjs.com/

"Modern - Virtjs has been made with the full power of ES6, the next iteration of the Javascript programming language. It gives us a pretty simple source code. We're one of the very first libraries to jump aboard!"
Profit at Goldman Less Easy to Find in Era of Regulations
I Spent All Summer Running A/B Tests, and Now I Question the Whole Idea
I think my best memories from lurking on the Extropians mailing list Back In The Day were hearing about the "Terrorism Futures Market" months before it went public. All the objections that would later be made came up on the list and Robin Hanson did a pretty good job of answering them. Too bad it didn't take longer for the media to discover it.
I doubt it. It requires molecules that can selectively bind with fluorescent markers. I don't think you're going to get any interesting bindings just from doped silicon.
Yet, a 1000 years from now, nobody except maybe historians will know who Peter Thiel was. Except for Crassus there havent been many business men that survived the oblivion of time.

Eistein will certainly join the ranks of scientific giants.
Most commenters here find these demos very underwhelming and I must agree with them. Well known open source NLP packages like Stanford NLP or NLTK do much better on these (very academic) tasks.

I think the problem is that Watson's demos have been trained for very specific and narrow domains (like "cloud services" in the case of Resonance). What we really want to know is how easy (or difficult) it is to train Watson for our own domain.

If Watson has to make assumptions on my domain, then it will be really hard to build something useful with it.
One of the prize winners, Eric Betzig, is the first Nobelist at the relatively new Janelia Research Center (http://janelia.org). He has an interesting backstory, having taken a decade long detour from science.

Betzig says, "there was this big gap on my résumé. So I knew I had to come up with some intellectual capital to get people to listen to me again."

http://www.hhmi.org/news/eric-betzig-wins-2014-nobel-prize-c...

An interesting video:
http://www.ibiology.org/ibiomagazine/issue-2/eric-betzig-and...

Here's the original paper describing PALM:
http://janelia.org/sites/default/files/biblio/field_related_...
the map is really hard to use without the mouse wheel to zoom... and the mouse scrolls the page
Hm, maybe it was bugginess on Google's end causing that particular headache for me then
"Never Pay Full-Price For An Ebook Again!"

Luzme is my site, I'd be happy to answer any questions you may have about it.

In short, we check ebook prices in 7 countries. Price too high? add it to your watch list and we'll send you an email when we see a price drop. All the major ebook stores, and all the major English-speaking countries (and a couple of non-English!)
What I don't like about New Relic is their pricing model. I don't like to be paying for each appserver connected.

We are constantly adding and removing servers based on our traffic, and with something like New Relic we need to renegotiate or change contract if we suddenly needs a lot of servers. Pay by metric, pay by request etc. is fairer in my eyes. If I have 10 servers connnected and send 1 request-per-minute I still pay for having 10 servers connected.

If they process 1 request from me it shouldn't matter whether or not I have 1 or 10 servers connected, I should only pay for what they process.

The reason I am not using NewRelic personally is that my infrastructure is 5 linodes, which I pay $20 for each server. And with NewRelic Pro I have to pay $149 per host. I have seen people doing tricks like only enabling NewRelic for certain hosts just to get around their pricing model.

I really like New Relic, and its very pleasant to use their service, they give good insight about your application, I just wish I could afford their service.
Can't agree enough. I serve on my condo board and we have had nothing but problems from Airbnb rentals. Aside from going against city laws, our by-laws / rules explicitly forbid it. Because of a lack of care, we're left to trolling listings in the area looking for pictures that match the finishes in our building in order to track down an ad if we have a sense that someone is renting it out.
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A lot of the people I remember from the mailing list have gone on to do interesting things. Hanson is still getting people to try predictions markets, Yudkowsky has been pretty successful with MIRI (and his agitprop), Bostrom's book made the New York Times bestseller list, Broderick is up to 50 published books, etc.
I could see landlords being lax because they might not be present or live in the building and have no sense of what is going on. In my building in NYC, renting your condo via Airbnb, VRBO, whatever is a $1,000/day fine.
Well, the Constitution says everyone has the right to say anything they want. That's what "free speech" means, and that includes things that someone thinks are "obscene".

Not that the government gives a fuck, but still, just to be clear about what we're discussing here. But yeah, "obscenities laws" are most certainly unconstitutional.
I suspect this opinion is neither popular nor politically correct, but I tend to agree.
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> People don't want to rent software. Look at the (un)popularity of Adobe CC etc. to show that.

Something I stole from the Internet a while ago:

"What is it with these customer-oriented
companies that forget where their money
is coming from?"

Look up the words "Monopoly" and "Oligopoly"

Short answer is, they don't *have* to care.
You want them more than they need you.

To further the point, Adobe stock hit an "all time high" earlier this year, on better than expected revenue and earnings.[1]

YOU might not like Adobe CC, but they're making plenty of money renting it to you.

[1] http://247wallst.com/technology-3/2014/06/17/adobe-earnings-...
Moral Panics of 1878: NY Times Warns People About Aerophone
This makes it sound like you are really only thinking about specific partners at the moment then? So it's not yet for the masses?

Like - I'm not really going to be using this in my next Android / IPhone app any time soon.
full transcript! http://tech.genius.com/Peter-thiel-lecture-5-business-strate...
Your story is similar to mine. I am a current PhD student (finishing this semester) and founder of a new startup, The Winnower (thewinnower.com), that aims to centralize academic blogs and make scientific publishing more transparent.
>I'd say if you want to list your home on airbnb and turn it into a commercial property, you probably should have to accept that the govt will enforce proper safety, environmental, and structural regulations like it would for a hotel room, without the same privacy issues we'd extend to someone's home.

I don't know about California, but in Massachusetts short term rental activity is explicitly residential, and not commercial, per existing case law. That may be why they didn't do what you suggest.
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It should be 'developer', not 'developers'. It was my personal project, you could say me lazy.

That's exactly why I'm founding a team, trying to do it better.
FBI Pays Visit to Researcher Who Revealed Yahoo Hack
Wow, wasn't expecting all the HN discount graphics on the site. I guess you either (1) are really fast at updating your UI and pricing, or were (2) really counting on this getting upvoted into the HN main page.
There are a few possibilities for grid-scale storage.

Lightsail energy are planning compressed air storage at grid-scale and say they can get 750kWh of storage into a shipping container format, or much more underground by using caverns emptied by the oil and gas industry http://www.lightsail.com/

There is also Gravity-power who are planning underground mass storage in the 160MWh range http://www.gravitypower.net/

And Isentropic, who are using hot gravel storage to build a 6MWh plant in the UK Midlands http://www.isentropic.co.uk/

Also, there are developments in chemical storage like the Ryden battery, which could bring battery costs low enough to just put storage where the power is being used - http://powerjapanplus.com/
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"We've talked about adding a lint so the compiler can optionally warn and allow you to fix it if this performance cost is a concern to you. (It's a very minor cost—one test and branch on a stack byte, and again only if the object is conditionally moved.)"

Might I just make a meta comment that while that may not be a huge use case, the ability to assert that some particular optimization is firing and get warnings if I've done something to break it is something I've wanted out of a language for a long time. I know it's easier said than done, but I'd love it.
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Latest Internet voting reports show failures across the board
Hong Kong, as the most recent example, has once again shown us that whenever "the voters" demand something, the government's response is tear-gas and batons.

But hey, governments are "by the people" and "for the people" of course, and to think otherwise would be tantamount to.. actually seeing what's happening!
I'm also deeply skeptical of the pre-canned response that people should always profile - in the spirit that it's hopeless to optimize without a profiler.

In my experience, profilers are really low-level tools that often highlight the wrong problems, aren't very good at telling you where the optimization opportunities are, and tend to encourage microoptimization.

It's not that profilers are bad, it's that I get the feeling the people parroting this advice have no idea what they're talking about, and somehow believe that a profiler is "the solution", when profilers are neither necessary nor (most problematically) sufficient to fix most performance problems.
Not to mention, if you go by what other prosecutors have argued in past hacking cases, violating a terms of use constitutes felony computer fraud.
There's another huge problem, Facebook currently gives you legitimacy -- people will believe it's you. However, does little to nothing in terms of verifying your identity.

I think the DEA could have faked it, even if there were strict measures.

But think of what average people are doing right now using similar techniques... The public is blind to this but the technology (GPG) exists to authenticate people's identities.
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For example, NYC has "fixed" the law to be very clear.

"What the Law Says -- Contrary to what many may think, New York laws about short term rentals are pretty clear, thanks to a new law went into affect in 2011. "Under the New York State multiple dwelling law, a residential multiple dwelling can only be used for what is termed 'permanent resident purposes,'" explains attorney Robert Braverman. "What that means under the statute is that it has to be occupied by the same person or family for 30 or more consecutive days." So anything less than 30 days, no matter how you swing it, is violating the law, unless of course, the place is zoned to be a hotel or hostel."[0]

[0]: http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2013/03/25/an_introduction_to_...
>Sometimes HN chars a bagel. It's a toaster not a microwave oven.

This is one of the strangest analogies I've ever heard.
This is fucked up, right here.
No idea, but that is a good point. I think that the internet has dramatically changed the nature of short term rentals. I don't think that regulations have become irrelevant - in some ways they are more relevant than ever - but they do need to adapt.

Prior to the internet, it was difficult enough to get word out and so forth about a spare room that short term rentals could be regulated largely as an afterthought. Now, they're a multi-billion dollar industry.

There may be a middle ground we need to find, something between "government out of my private home" and surprise inspections of a hotel. But things like unpermitted wiring, lead paint, uninspected furnaces, the absence of carbon monoxide alarms… while these things are actually illegal in residential units, I think the game really does change when you start to expose potentially hundreds of people to this over the course of a year through commercial use of a property.
Almost all the LEDs in my house are ~2700K, about the same an incandescent lights.

Regarding circadian rhythm, light from near-sleep-time television watching is much more of a concern, but that's been a problem for at least 30 years.
UrSSH – perl wrapper over OpenSSH for “taking everything you need with you”
Marginal utility to whom? The author? His university? Society? It seems to me in almost every case (except possibly the first) that everyone would be better served hiring someone to take care of the incidental work that consumes the first 60 hours (or as much as possible) and letting the professor work on his research.

The fact that this isn't so points to a couple of possibilities.

1. Only the professor gets much utility out of his research--the organization which employs him would prefer him to spend his time on managing phd students and teaching.

2. Universities are organized to optimize for organizational utility and not for each professor's maximal utility.

Incidentally, this story reminds me of many developers who are promoted to be managers and then are removed from what they loved about their profession in the first place. Similar to the author, such managers often have side projects at home to keep coding.

Unfortunately, the professor doesn't have the option of 'dropping out' of management like the developer-turned-manager does.
Wow, cant believe you actually posted that here.
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I would like to rant a bit if you don't mind.

There is no political Left in Europe. Podemos is not a leftist party, since no leftist party or democratic conservative party would ever get paid by the State and be part of it (like the Nazi party). It's a contradiction in terms and something that simply cannot be.

Most of the people don't know the distinction between formal democracy and real(social) democracy and this causes great confusion.

Formal democracy is not about the content of laws (eg: laws to protect Human Rights), but about the rules that define the democratic game, rules that ensure that the People is in charge at all times (constitutional liberty). Real democracy is about the content and this explains why it is prone to have an ideological battle.

The most important requirements are:

1.- Representativeness: not possible in Spain, Italy, Germany, Greece, Portugal among others, since they use the proportional list system.

2.- Separation of powers: not happening in Spain. The most voted political party in the legislative elections forms government.

3.- Imperative mandate: Sieyes abolished it during the French Revolution and it still to be restored in all Europe.
The elected candidates in the legislative elections should remain loyal to their promises.

4.- Different elections: for executive and legislative (like in France)

Podemos doesn't care about any of these things as far as I concern.

In my modest view there is no possible reform, the problem is not the people in charge (Podemos guys seem honest), but the actual political system that doesn't fulfill any of the requirements. We haven't conquered our Liberty yet.
Would love your opinion on The Winnower (thewinnower.com), a new science publishing platform I launched this year (I am also cancer researcher at Virgina Tech). We'd be happy to publish any of your blogs or writings on your experiences with Indysci.
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The titled really did say it all. I'm going to read this for sure.
Be fair - the crowds didn't go into the streets to vote.
I think the bigger problem is that it would allow competitors or just people who are assholes to file unfounded complaints. I don't think much good would come of such a system.
great job!

How much did joining the accelerator program actually help you in reaching that goal?
I'd like to believe that. It would certainly be nice if it were true.

Unfortunately it's not. Weev went to jail for reasons that had nothing to do with the bad things he did. And I think this is worth pointing out, because unjust laws are not selective like karma; if we tolerate them when they target assholes, it's not long before they start targeting innocent people.
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And it's worth mentioning that even if the tenant is present, condo/co-op boards are free to ban the practice and I would be shocked if most don't -- we do. There are practically no single residential dwellings in NYC -- anything in a multiple dwelling building is subject to the rules put forth by the condo/co-op board.
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Wouldn't it be more like finding a bug that allows you to transfer more money than the actual amount that gets withdrawn from your bank balance?

E.g. put in a transfer order for $10. Use bug to actually transfer $2000, but your balance is only credited for the $10.
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Well considering other people posted a tweet about someone trying to report it as a vuln on August 13th and getting told it's a feature, I'd say he's not exactly generalizing in this specific instance.
Okay now I can't tell if you're serious due to the last two fucking sentences.
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It's endemic of our anemic conceptualization of privacy that the DEA conflates "privacy" with the construction of a false identity.

I may give up my privacy, and let everyone have all my nude photos of me, but that doesn't mean others can create fake profiles of me online - with or without the nude photos.

We need a better, more structured definition of "privacy" and "identity," especially in the online sphere. If we don't define it, federal agencies are simply going to define it and normalize it for us.
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Agree. Our friend of mine makes 35k at UCLA!
Article says not talking semantics, but in examples, other than changing the names, nothing changed. Didn't read it all but not following after first 5 pages so gave up.
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I wish I knew what to say to her. She's right

A strong sense of neutral decision rules could help.

The other thing that she needs to think about is how to seed that page/product/content. SEO isn't enough.
That's not even a well designed toaster, though.
Some nice tips in here. I had no idea multiple cursors were supported. I now live in the future!

Would be good to know the cross-platform support for these features without testing them though. No "cmd" key in Linux :( (though, the ctrl key works as expected)
I know they talk a lot about fraud here but I wonder if the brand issues are just as important.
I do plan to write more on validations. I just have some ideas I'd like to battle test first :)

Thanks for your comment.
Try to keep your responses succinct. I like how Garry Tan put it in this blog post (http://blog.garrytan.com/super-last-minute-advice-for-s): Answers should be "crisp and articulate, and to the point. One way to do this is to write every last idea down -- write copiously. Then edit. Edit mercilessly until there is not a single word you could remove without losing significant meaning."
Well that's a big thing, I think. Back in the 80's, your computer came with BASIC, ran on BASIC, and you could do things that were considered cool with just a few days of learning BASIC. You could actually do something real with BASIC. And even when I was in high school, a few days of learning Visual Basic and you had a pretty neat application to use. I don't think schools teach that anymore because it's not considered a good or pragmatic language to learn.

So now we have all this computing power and these powerful and easy to use languages and a broad distribution network and thousands of developers and teachers and applications to learn from and programming has only gotten harder. Think about that one. We've stepped back from BASIC to make programming harder. Because we expect more from our programs now, but we haven't put any effort into making it easier to do even the most simple thing.

I'm still drawing interfaces with tens of lines of code. In Visual Basic, I just drew them on the screen. In Java, I'm fighting to get things aligned or sized right or in the right order, to the point where in my Java class I took there was two weeks dedicated to getting to grips with Swing. So we abstract the hard stuff away... with more code. And though we abstract it away to make it easier, we still look down on language like Visual Basic, because real programmers don't draw their interfaces with a mouse, they do it in code with vim or emacs.

Just look at the mindset of one of the other people who responded to me. "We want to make it harder so amateurs can't do it". Fuck that shit. We have the power to make it easier but we don't.
(That's mine! o/)
The second item, Command + Click on CSS, isn't showing your example image: http://devtoolstips.com/image/99439992616

This is on both Safari and Chrome on OS X.
In this case, it is an internal project so it never would have touched legal.
Thanks for your feedback, I will do that.
To be fair, case law isn't precisely explicit, and passing a law would make short-term rentals explicitly commercial or residential.