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It's true, he has a choice.

That said, I see pirating in this context as civil disobedience. It's not a new concept, and is used all the time to convey that the status quo is unacceptable to society at large.

There is the "choice" to accept things as they are, whether or not you believe them to be good and proper. Or you can break the law on purpose, with purpose, with intent to disobey laws and rules that you see as counter to the greater good.

Remember, this is copyright law we're talking about. Pirating is not thievery, and I personally see pirating in places where content is unavailable to be in the same wheel house as pirating as a voice against the absurdity of insanely extended copyright laws.

For instance, see The Grey Album.
I totally agree with you that this is far from perfect. It's just in one market, and could be more convenient even there. But, the impressive thing is they scrambled to do this in just a few days - it's amazing anything has been launched at all!

I suspect they really wanted as much of a launch as possible by Christmas, for symbolic reasons. (I think that was the original intended release date?). Kudos to them for managing to achieve a fairly significant launch.
Except that it is on YouTube.
Programming is popular now, so I guess it follows that the pop-gobbling consumerists that ingest propaganda hourly would start overrunning the hacker types. How I miss the pre-2003 slashdot type commentators and hackers in general.
I brought a friend to watch The Hobbit in HFR. He very much a care less and very non technical person. After the show he asked me why the movie not look like a movie but TV video. He said the mountains looked plain, not as grand like in LOTR.
This is a longer version and has better quality: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_c96LBI4enk
I have no interest in pianos. How interesting could this possibly be?

WOW! This is something that would bring a smile to... hmm, I would guess, damn near everyone.
As a paid product. You need to buy it.

edit: but I realize you do make a fair point, just being on YouTube means that it removes some of the technical difficulties in launching in multiple countries. It still leaves a lot of others, though.
would you say that you are representative of the type of person i would tend to encounter in your ruby open source community?
"The Interview" is this generation's "Spies Like Us."
http://laptopsdirect.co.uk used to be good for refurbished laptops.

The piece of junk comment was admittedly flippant, but I genuinely believe that value != cheap. I've had my share of laptops in the price range you mention; all have lasted approximately 2 years, give or take...
note - this is from February. those chips are in lots of places right now.
We should able to bring discussions like this without having to apologize that it may seem Marxist. Marxism was wrong, it gave birth to some of the most awful oppressive regimes in the XX century. But we should be able to have discussions about equality, and the relationship capital and labor with out fear of it seeming Marxism.
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If you're asking 'is this a good interview question', I'd suggest no.

A few reasons.
1) I've only done a few code sample interviews, and some I've really enjoyed. But I had two which were open ended like this and just said "design a system that does x". Well, how far do I go in that design? If I spend two hours doing something fairly simple, and somebody else takes a day and ends up with the same and a third person takes a day and ends up with less than I did. As an employee, would you be able to tell who spent what amount of time? Would I loose out because I don't have as much time to spend as person X?

2) 'similar to Wikipedia on Android'. Great, I don't have an android device. Maybe I can find a video of it online, but will I get the nuance of the interface you're asking me to design

3) A simple application to browse titles, might be too simple, I could just create a list that grabs some json from a server and displays it. Is that really all you need to judge a front-end dev?

You want to test their javascript and css, so give them a moderate interface design, tell them to implement feature X, have that feature include something like a filter function with animation. Something that lets them show you in about 10 minutes, that they know their craft.

One suggestion on a previous HN post that I tried for fun, and it worked well was to make a simple timer that you could change the direction of the clock output from count down to count up. Took about 20 minutes.
Sure it appeals to me, but what's the point of this submission? A thought exercise or are you assessing interest?
Fantastic work, really enjoyed the article.
> Marriott has said it had an obligation to protect guests from “rogue wireless hotspots” that could lead to hacking.

Oh please. It's too easy these days to hide behind security and user protection as a motive. FUD mongering.
Awesome! Although I am not currently in the US, I am able to watch the movie. Perhaps maybe because my account was previously established in the US.
Those are not mistakes, they [the leaders] benefit directly from that.
Could be related to this? https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=378527 I got burnt by this once.
The GalagoPro is better when you don't actually have to use it as a laptop, then you don't have to deal with the limitations of the hardware.

The 13" Macbook Air is the best laptop on the market, IMO. Those 13" Retina's look great, but the killer feature on a laptop is battery life. I can take or leave graphics, memory, and power, but if the battery life sucks, then it's basically tethered to a power brick.

Funny thing is battery life isn't that big of a deal on a smartphone. I have a Nexus 5 and I don't mind that I have to charge it every day. I have a wireless charger that I put it down on, no big deal. But I don't want to have to do that with a laptop. Strange why I feel that way.

Skip the low-end Chromebook. I tried it, the fact that the battery still drains when it's in sleep mode makes it a non-starter. I don't want to be plugging it up every time I use it. Linux just hasn't been tuned well-enough to make it a decent laptop OS.
I'm highly conflicted on copyright law. I believe if they've made a movie they have the right to distribute it in whatever countries they want, whenever they want. They've put this together pretty damn quick too, I think they deserve a break. In fact they're hoping to expand the available countries to at least Canada in a day or two [1]. They probably already have distribution deals in place around the world (let's not forget the movie was only getting a US cinema release tomorrow originally) and those are probably limiting the VOD options.

As for copyright in general - extended copyright laws are nuts. I personally think it's fair for someone to have copyright until they die (no passing it on to relatives etc.). Also, it's a unpopular opinion here, but I consider piracy theft. And I'm not saying that to be morally superior - I've pirated lots of stuff but I consider it theft and wrong.

[1] https://twitter.com/Sethrogen/status/547826019390865408
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I agree that it's unlikely the hack itself was a PR stunt, but you have to admit the subsequent handling of the hack was a PR stunt in which even the US Government seemed to be in on.
Maybe if you're some silly person that believes in free will it is.
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What actually matters is not the key space when it is so vast. Without these requirements: number, special char etc, the passwords used in practice would often just be dictionary words, and a dictionary is a much smaller key space.

Maybe the best countermeasure would be to match users passwords against a dictionary,
But only in the US
I wonder how is that related to the dithering algorithms in music production -- that add noise when downsampling an audio track.
Interesting. I guess YT and Google Play don't geolocate the IP each time. Every other video streaming provider I've checked denied me on my recent trip to Europe.
You're right.

However, I find projects like this relevant as a way to enable sites that do utilize Flash, fallback gracefully to devices that do not have Flash support, even if it's at the cost of performance.
Speaking of "frameless" rendering, I noticed during Carmack's Oculus keynote (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gn8m5d74fk8#t=764), he talks about trying to persuade Samsung to integrate programmable interlacing into their displays in order to give dynamic per-frame control over which lines are being scanned.

This would give you the same "adaptive per-pixel updating" seen in your link, though primarily to tackle the problems with HMDs (low-persistence at high frame-rates).
To me it's about as "bold" as those flash games in 2002 where you could kick Bin Laden in the butt over and over again.
Thank you for your explanations. Actually, I understand the difference between copyright and patent very well thank you, and i also understand what public domain means. Unfortunately a number of people have misunderstood me to think that i asserted that copyrights protect algorithms.
> Intel is a joke in terms of GPUs, and absent in terms of desktop GPUs.

That's not really a useful thing to say. Intel GPUs started out as useful only for office and programming work (still an overwhelming majority of use cases). Now it's good enough for pretty much anything that's not among the most performance demanding.

If you need a workstation with that extra performance, you probably have an application which only supports a particular configuration anyway (Nvidia on Red Hat for example, for a popular CAD/CAM tool), if which case the question isn't really relevant anyhow.

What remains are primarily consumer gaming, for which you should better stick to Windows which by far the dominating platform for it. I'm told Steam makes a difference here, so perhaps that's worth checking out, but I'm not in the industry so I have no idea about that.

> What you call a "supported configuration", I call "you're lucky... For now". Wait until your next distro or hardware upgrade.

You might be tempted to think that's so, but that's the whole idea why Linux is such a work horse on well supported hardware.

For another popular operating system, you pretty much have no guarantees that whatever drivers you require for third party support will be available in the future.

Since the well supported drivers on Linux by definition is open source, you are guaranteed (either explicitly by your support provider, or implicitly by the way development works) that it will be supported for the forseeable future. That's why I can use a ten year old printer on Linux, for example, which lost its Windows support two generations ago. Or a ten port serial board, which is probably just as old.
If that pic was by you, did you rent or buy it?
>Wintel boxes through the 1990s and 2000s coped with a much more diverse range of hardware and related drivers than the Mac ecosystem has ever had, and while certainly there was the occasional glitch, the track record was dramatically better for a very long time than what we see today.

Perhaps rose colored glasses? I've used those Wintel systems and dealing with new and unexpected issues, with drivers, software, peripherals etc, was a day to day occurence.

It still is now, judging from Wintel friends I have, including my parents and siblings. It's just that in Wintel world there so many vendors and combinations of components, that no PC system has a multi-million units production run that a Mac has. Even for a company that pushes lots of units, like Dell, they offer 40+ different configurations at any point in time...
So, I cannot run Flash on my system. It breaks nine out of ten times, gazillion reloads might lead to a single successful video playback and .. I better not touch any controls (skip ads, jump acc. to the 'first third is useless on YouTube' rule or anything).

I run Shumway from git and it works less reliably than flash so far. I love the idea, but every thing I care about is black/doesn't work unless I right-click and hit 'Fallback to Flash', which works as reliably as I stated in the opening.

The case I'm trying to make is
1) it is desperately needed
2) it is far from usable in general, based on mu personal experience

I keep it, follow git and try it more or less every day. I hope to remove the crazy Adobe plugin one day.
> You can read the Mincome reports yourself.

I have. And the Namibian ones. And the Indian ones. None of them saw a significant dropoff in labour.

> For example, resource rich locations that produce wealth at multiples of the labor input. You can study the economics of these places yourself and look at the outcomes. But they basically sum to: people stop working, people collect their money, labor supply needs to be imported from outside the local economy

Like Norway, you mean?

> If you want evidence, I suggest you open a high-school level history book and start on page 1.

How will a history book help me if "BI and UBI has never been tried anywhere in a fully form"?

> And they need to present the outcome of this experiment as a real economic model that accurately predicts labor participation and real-world situations.

These were "real-world" situations. They actually occurred in the real world. That's generally considered more "real-world" than economic models are.

I think I'll stop here. I'm starting to get too amused with this conversation.

Have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
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Oh but the analogy is applicable, since herring "falls" of the magnitude provided by the lobster farmers are quite rare in nature. Its not often that you get an abundance of packed herring as provided in your modern lobster basket, and more to the point provided in a manner which prevents other predators - fish and other basket-navigation incapable species - from joining the feast.

So I think you should take back your glib criticism. Indeed, the conditions induced by your average lobster farmer are rare in the natural world, indeed. It is an important distinction.
T440p here. I can right click at the top or the bottom of the touchpad, so I'm not sure what you mean.
Some video encoders already incorporate perceptual optimizations (eg, x264's psy-rd and psy-trellis) that "look" better but lead to objectively worse results with traditional image quality metrics.

Audio codecs, however, have been using psychoacoustic models for decades. Frequencies outside the human hearing range are clipped, masked noises are discarded, voice codecs emphasize the range of human speech, etc.
Is slur really a good name for this type of thing? I generally want my information to be clearly spoken, not slurred speech.
Can anyone chime in?
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There's an old saying in PR: don't let your main distribution channel refuse to carry your product. Also, don't let anyone threaten your potential customers with death or terrorist attack!

There's a possibility that showing The Interview on YouTube and other sites will result in online streaming becoming a huge runaway revenue success. But that's a huge gamble to make, especially when the movie is scoring just a 54% on Rotten Tomatoes.

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_interview_2014/
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Don't expect the majority of Hacker News posters to understand anything regarding Marxism.
Oh yeah, totally. I also want a good open source Flash player so that some day, when Adobe finally pulls the plug, all of the stupid .swfs I've saved over the years will remain viewable. I'm just saying that it hasn't been a pressing issue for the "year of the Linux desktop" crowd for a while now.
Cool, but why reinvent the wheel rather than use Brackets Shell, Node Webkit, CEF or QtWebKit?
From his comments, I suspect that nickik may not be a native speaker, so I would not read too much into what you and me would assume as rudeness.
>> Sub the plastic for aluminum and it shouldn't add more than $100 to the ticket price.

You'll be surprised! I'd suggest closer to $200.

>> Make the keyboard good for another $50

Agreed.

>> ...throw in a 512GB SSD and call it a day at $700 with a Haswell dual core.

Can't argue with the storage, but the CPU is still not an i5/7 and the graphics card isn't Intel Iris/nVidia class. Add those in and we're beginning to hit Macbook price territory. Throw in a decent trackpad and a hi-res screen, and were there. Actually, it'd give us one of these; https://play.google.com/store/devices/details?id=chromebook_... which cost £200 more than a MacBook Air and £50 more than the base model MacBook Pro Retina. Alright, the Pixel has a better screen with touch, but the Air has better graphics and more storage and the Pro blows the both out of the water in performance terms, so on balance I'd argue that the MacBook Pro is better value than both the Air and the Pixel.
We have the same tradition in Denmark. We exchange presents on December 24th in the evening and during that morning and day the tv is filled with the same cartoons every year. We also have "Disneys Store Juleshow" (Disneys grand Christmas show) with lots of old short cartoons (Donald and his nephews in the snowball fight) and some new clips from Disneys movies. (Cinderellas dress creation, lady and the tramp spaghetti scene, snow white and the party in the hut, and this year; let it go from frozen). That's usually the thing that gets me in the Christmas mood on the 24th :)
Desolation of Smaug has this issue as well. The only time the film felt truly deep and expansive to me was when Bilbo first stepped into Erebor and you got to see how massive the pile of gold was as it panned through the main chamber. Then it got closed up and tight again shortly thereafter. The few wider shots that followed reeked of bad CGI compositing (especially when Bilbo falls off the platform with the lever when Smaug knocks it down)

I chalked it up to the cinematography just not meshing well with the way the film was shot.
"Taking a look at these addresses we find that all but one of them are public proxies."

I think this is a very key point for another reason. If this was perpetrated by North Korea, why would they use an anonymizing proxy in the first place? What would be the point? Have we ever known North Korea to not crave media attention? If they were behind the attack wouldn't they want the world to know? If it was North Korea then why are they suddenly trying to stay out of a spotlight they've never avoided before? Retribution? Doubtful.
I honestly don't think it was ever as bad in those days as what we're seeing now, though, with the possible exception of high-end games where poor quality graphics drivers were notorious for causing crashes for a while (and still are, to some extent).

The only other big drop in compatibility that I can remember from recent years was when MS effectively moved to a different model for handling device drivers with Windows 7, which broke backward compatibility with some older devices whose vendors didn't always issue new Windows 7 drivers to replace the broken ones.

Still, considering that this was the first such change for many years and it's hardly reasonable to expect an OS developer to support the drivers for every hardware peripheral ever used on that OS, I don't think that's a bad track record.
The article makes many assertions of connections, without really backing up those assertions.
I'm talking about buffering and such, "1 mile" isn't a sensible measure in latlong. I didn't carefully analyze the code, so maybe I'm just missing something.
Weird, I missed this part. Vaguely reminds me of E. Sutherland fully lazy streamed computer graphics generation since they had no framebuffer at the time.
My tradition is watching "The Muppet Christmas Carol" every Christmas
Buttons at the top of the trackpad were normally used with the trackpoint. They're underneath that.

It's kind of weird to see developers not loving the trackpoint and those three buttons because it's exactly where you want them and really freaking useful when yu get used to it.

The only other pointing device that I like was the Microsoft IntelliMouse (which they don't appear to make anymore).
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Because most people don't think that deeply about these things. And while money can be easily quantified, its not the case with time. I think pg has an essay on this.
Might as well leave the front door open.

http://mailman.nginx.org/pipermail/nginx-announce/2013/00012...
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"strings is mainly useful for determining the contents of non-text files."
It appears the people against nuclear power use a lot of "ifs" and "whens", nuclear is here now its cheap and its very clean.
how do expats like us watch it? i tried https://www.proxfree.com/ and no dice. thanks
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>> Linux just hasn't been tuned well-enough to make it a decent laptop OS.

Exactly this! Take the time to tune and integrate the OS to the specific hardware, which would probably mean making a custom Linux, but isn't that the joy of OSS? I know that it's frowned upon to mention aesthetics, but they do matter. Marry that with build quality and you'd have the right ingredients for success. Price point is what it is.
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I recently heard of someone using the GitHub API to only allow certain GitHub accounts to have access to a bastion server. Given the target audience, if your company uses GitHub (or perhaps even the internally hosted GitHub Enterprise), that might be a much easier sell than modifying LDAP.

The GitHub API to list a user's keys doesn't require OAuth or any kind of hoop-jumping: https://api.github.com/users/mdaniel/keys
So, in our preliminary analysis we found out bunch of things:

1. Some charting libraries do not discard a infinitely growing time series data. For example, if you are only displaying 20 data points in graph, holding older data points do not make sense. Obviously this had nothing to do limitation of webkit platform but library under question being sloppy.

2. In few cases, we noticed all those charting tool tips and popovers in case of time series data cause bunch of leaks. Disabling tooltips etc helped reducing memory growth, but did not completely eliminate it.

3. There are indeed some browser bugs, it could be what `/u/wbkang ` is saying or something else. I didn't spend lot of time investigating. Here is a sample app I put together that reproduces the leak in Chrome - https://github.com/gnufied/tryc3 you got to let it run for awhile though (like > 20 mins) .
Education is not an example of the free market at work; it seems that the constantly increasing spending, and level (at best) results are a clear failure of government.
All types of prison systems have that incentive. Just because government prisons are non-profit entities doesn't mean the people running them don't make out like bandits. I've read that the California prison guard union is politically very powerful.

Private police, though ... in an era where early death is relatively uncommon vs. omnipresent, what's their incentive to take risks beyond what they're paid for? That what can be problematic, there's many reasons self-help is outlawed, but in the examples you give there's no immediately obvious problem.