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> True, but in this situation they have the same effect which I wanted to highlight, i.e. loss of control on the part of the owner/user.

Analogies are a bit awkward. With cars, DRM would equal to each car manufacturer having their own road barred to other car manufacturers. If the welded-shut-bonnet bothers you just switch cars. This is what I meant with open data - it's what one does with the product that matters, and can one practically choose another.

As to the "evilness" of the situation, I cannot think I could work professionally in software as a field - which I love - if there were no established large companies with closed source products. If my analysis is flawed I would value pointers why.

As my employer is a closed source software vendor, to me the economics situation looks as follows: vendor provides software, end user uses it to add value to their work. End user reports bugs, vendor fixes the bugs. There is an efficient responsibility interface to the whole thing. And the area is well competed in, if vendor a screws up customers will move to vendor b, c, or d...

With an established product there is an established revenue stream which enables stable income for all employees.

The way I choose to work on my profession, I will take stable revenue stream with specific work hours over some 24/7 freelancer role to fix bugs here and there. This simply would not be compatible with a family, with small kids I'm barely able to cope with the stresses at home and work as they are. If I had to worry after the next mortgage payment I would probably go nuts, and that is no exaggeration.

Open source simply does not work that well as a revenue model in general. It works as an enabler for all sorts of practical interactions, and is absolutely essential, but people need to eat and feed their families. Open source provides value, but few people are able to capture that value. That's why there are non-profits to organize critical work in this area.

If the product of my company was open sourced, several enterprising individuals would simply copy the product, relabel it, and sell it. Thus eating to the market share, thus probably leaving me to find another job. Thus, to me, closed source software provides housing, food and security to me and my family.
I'm not so sure, the quotes I got to redo the head was about the same as about one week of pay for me. Remember this was when I was just out of college, employed for less than a year. Today I would pay someone to fix it for me.

So yes I lost about a weeks pay due to unforseen circumstances, but probably the shop would have suffered the same troubles, raising the cost, and I got to learn quite a lot about enjins etc.
My understanding is that it is acoustic modeling that was drastically improved using deep learning. That is, while speech recognition improved, acoustic modeling improved more. So, strictly speaking, technology is now better at ignoring noise, rather than better at understanding speech. Of course, to users, there is no difference.
The 1eV per atom is really a rule of thumb, but easy to understand: At that value you are getting dangerously close to the ionization energy 13.6 eV for hydrogen, 5.4 eV for lithium), so you can no longer have a chemical battery. Note also that this is average eV for all atoms in the battery, so those actually providing electricity will be carrying atound 1.5 - 2 eV.

See e.g. here:
http://www.ohio.edu/people/piccard/radnotes/radioactive.html
Lua was made with embedding in mind. You can start a VM with an empty global environment (no standard libraries etc..) but there is not a big benefit in jumping from js to lua because they are so similar.
That was 13 years ago. Seems like the economics have changed in favor of the internet by now.
Or perhaps it will be remembered as wasteful during the next bust.
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I've found 3 compiler bugs during my 15 years as professional developer.

One was a optimizer bug sprintf in a for loop reset the ecx register so the loop became infinite and the last two where valid code that crashed the compiler (how do I know that, because the crashes dissappeared with small modifications of the code, like newlines). But yeah they are pretty rare.
Hey , when will we get them in market ????
I never claimed that you needed only privilege to gain skill, or that you didn't need sweat to gain skill. What I said was that even those who work hard were able to do so (able to work hard) because of some privilege that they had.
While I can agree about over-hyping things, I've seen a lot of really, really ancient crap finally getting much-needed upgrades due to some of the hype, like Debian Lenny, which hasn't had security updates for 3 years now.

Marketing vulnerabilities doesn't really sit well with me, but at least there's something of a silver lining. More people are actually paying attention to security and at work I've been helping clue people into better security practices. The status quo is pretty sad.

Though I grant I've seen some nonsense, too, likely generated by some sort of hype. For reasons I cannot explain, a lot of people suddenly want to do mutual auth against any old public CA-issued cert. It's not as if anyone can run s_client, find all the trusted issuers listed in the ServerHello (and possibly other random certs, because some people put the whole chain in there), and pay the CA a few bucks for a cert to auth with.
So how much of a factor is this during the purchase process? If someone entered the market and sold simple reliable tools as a price that could sustain their business without resorting to DRM'd circuits to apparently fleece you on the repair costs later... would you select the DRM-free good over the locked down John Deere?

Because I think if the answer is yes then the market will correct this soon enough and we can all start shorting DE. If for some reason you're happy to keep buying Deere, then perhaps this isn't quite the problem it's made out to be.

My theory would be that to the extent that DRM adds cost without benefits, non-DRM products gain a competitive advantage, can charge higher prices, and can out-compete. Note this doesn't work if they are monopolies or cartels...
I can't even imagine a healthcare company acceding to a proactive pentest. Even if it was compared to a vaccination or a routine health check, they still wouldn't do it. The gaping holes in security that would be uncovered. Unreal. No way in hipaa hell. lolwut, find problems that exist in our current system? Our system is fine. It's not broken, so don't break it.
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Unless a recent Photoshop Lightroom version allows you to manage the photos outside of its library-database, it isn't. At least version 1 & 2 copied all files to an SQL database/hidden directory in the users folder.

Windows (Live) Photogallery is much better in this regard, as it indexes the files but keep the files were the are stored. Also all metadata changes are stored back to the file itself. The same goes for Windows Explorer and OSX Finder+Spotlight.
Ceylon does this when compiling to JS because it has to support reified generics both on the jvm and in the browser. I don't like the size of the model though. It's huge.
> Are you using version 3 or 4? In version 3 this definitely didn't work, as stated in the changelog for version 4 ( http://scala-ide.org/docs/changelog.html, look for M3 "Show variable values in hovers when in suspended debug mode"

Oh, I didn't realize you meant hovers; I never use that (even in Java), I always use the pane with the variables in.

> In my experience, autocomplete sometimes stops working completely.

I sometimes get the "autocompletions took longer than 2 seconds to complete" warning, but after I dismiss it they are there.
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My keyboard seems to disregard about 25% of all my p, k, and l key presses. The above should have been part. I'd throw the keyboard out but I love the layout of it. If anyone knows of a Microsoft natural Internet keyboard layout with mechanical switches I'd buy a few immediately. There's got to be a bespoke keyboard business out there somewhere with all the 3d printers nowadays.
I think such comments are fine in this thread. This is an unusual case, and such things don't come up all that often.

If it started to get predictable it would be a different story.
"Ubuntu is a total loss center for Canonical"

Typical beancounter mentality.

Probably comes with a suggestion of closing this division and going with something else

OF COURSE this department loses money. But it is a net gain for the company, and in fact without it the rest wouldn't exist.
Sort of. Faye and Pushpin are both publish-subscribe servers. The difference is that Faye speaks the Bayeux protocol with clients, whereas Pushpin is client-protocol-agnostic.

Use Faye for simple JSON messaging to applications. Use Pushpin for developing APIs.
Ask HN: Could you 3d print 1950's car?
If you could scan all the parts to a 1950's American car model, say in Cuba, would it be possible to 3d print a full-size functional car using the steel sintering printers?

If not, how much extra work would you estimate to adapt the design to make it 3d printable?

I am especially interested in a fully functional car, not just a display piece, but one that you can drive for decades.

And, of course the corollary is: Could 3d sintering of new parts help keep Cuba's stock of 1950's automobiles running for another 50 years?
Does it support alternative cloud solutions or common protocols like WebDAV, SCP/SFTP? Otherwise, it's all or nothing like with iOS8.
Obviously the Equatorian government and Assange don't feel that if he were to submit, he would get a fair trial.

I think the argument that they are making -- not that I agree -- is that the UK and Sweden are bad governments, just like when governments protect Chinese journalists and such.
This looks great, even on mobile!
Would you mind sharing the shop software you use?
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It's a command-line / programmatic interface for deploying FirefoxOS apps to your test environment. Before the easiest way to deploy an app was clicking a button in a piece of software called WebIDE, but now you can do that from the command-line, inside your test-case script or where ever you want it.
it's hard to say without knowing a lot more. who are you? how would you describe yourself? who are you trying to talk with? are they coworkers? are they people with similar backgrounds? how do you engage people? how sure are you people are interested in talking about what you want to talk about? how much do you care about other people? how much do you care about what other people have to say? do you think you're showing people you care (assuming you do)?

...
It's already out in Java 8 but the parser can choke on large js files. I tried loading some Ceylon code compiled to js into the webview but it froze. I think it will have the same problem with Scala.js
> Now git branch -d supports a --force/-f option, which can be used to delete a branch even if it hasn't been merged yet.

How is that different from `git branch -D`?
Was waiting 42 here.
Ask HN: How do I get ownership in US based company as a foreigner?
Hi all,

I am working with a company in US. I am working remote and am based in South Asia. Owner of the company in US is willing to give us ownership in his company. He plans to sell his company in few years time, given it does well. I want to educate myself more on that topic.

He proposed a model, saying that, if I deduct 20% of my salary they will book it as deferred payments and when company sells they will give me some percentage.

I really want to know more about this i.e. if I have other better options so I will appreciate all help. What options do I have as as foreigner?

Thanks for all help in advance.
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They must be feeling stupid now that SSDs are becoming commonplace. :)
There are always cases like this in every profession. Some dam in Italy which collapsed for a similar reason, incompetent doctors, Enron, etc.

But when you go see your doctor, you do not rely on the fact that he is one of the best doctors in the US. You have no way to tell. You rely on the fact that even an average doctor is good enough to not miss something important.

Well the problem with IT security as it is now, is that we see major breaches almost every week. Some were difficult to avoid but in many case it is just because of bad security design, and in some case people developers ignoring completely security.

And I am sure Sony's management didn't box the developers in storing passwords in clear text.
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Maybe something of this sort? http://dheera.net/projects/blur Just get the font and do comparison on what fits, if there's too many results, you could use a dictionary.
Most people suck. I suck, you suck, we all suck. Modern western society does not improve matters, where many of us are uprooted from more local, traditional societies where there are strong community traditions that provide easy social defaults and a fairly limited, consistent group of other people to interact with.

Most social groupings are formed out of blood or forced closeness - small towns, religious groups, schools, the workplace, housemates, etc. These are people you spend a large percentage of your time with, and they tend to be non-transient factors in your life - i.e. continued social interaction with them is likely over a non-trivial timespan. You can count on these people being around in the future, so the investment of effort in cultivating relationships with them has a high expected payoff.

Compare this with the modern, post-collegiate experience for most 20-somethings. Seeking gainful employment often means leaving behind the familiar contexts one was born and raised in, abandoning familiar social nets, to move to more economically dynamic areas, with larger and more diverse populations. Turnover in employers and fellow employees is vastly higher than it was a generation ago. Tied with this, long-term home ownership is less of a realistic proposition, so the community of locality that comes with living with and getting to know one's neighbors is diminished. Other people are more transient and disposable in this world, and the general uncertainty makes it more difficult to focus the effort on building relationships, particularly when you are trying so hard just to get by, day to day, week to week.

I don't really have a solution, but this seems to me to be the problem.
Crowdfunding / pre-orders is definitely part of the expected business process for HW startups to launch these days.

As the first pre-order platform, Celery has powered successes like Pebble and Boosted Boards and helped them get to the next stage of their business.

The transformation over the past few years has been unreal and today is such an exciting time to be a HW startup. We personally can't wait to see what kinds of HW companies emerge next.
Isn't the consensus about string theory that it replaces standard model because it is fine-tuned to the knowledge we already have? I mean if you take whatever information, you can create infinitely many theories and equations on how to get the numbers within that particular set of data. But only some of these theories will predict numbers not in the data set yet. This seems to be the case with string theory. It kind of describes standard model in an alternative way, and the equations often hold up, but I don't remember case where it predicted anything correctly. Instead, every time new information is found, string theory itself is changed to match new data.
>That would be node-gecko (if it existed), wouldn't it?

Only if it followed exactly the same naming logic down to a t.

But it didn't have to, node-firefox would also be a perfectly apt name for something like node-webkit based on gecko too -- and not suitable at all for what it actually is now.
What are you guys doing for physical verification, static timing analysis, stuff like that? As far as I know those tools still cost big bucks.
Hopefully a sign of things to come. Way prefer to give my cash to someone that dilligently works away out of the public eye, but also gets some reward when its recognized. My cynical side says someone will pop out soon and say its compromised and he's had an NSL, but that part of me is killing me so I choose to hope not.
I switched from mostly Symfony2 to mostly Laravel and like it.

I doubt there are a lot of people switching from WP though, since WP and Laravel solve two different types of problems.
That's not true at all. Lightroom can add photos at their current location, or import them to a location of your choice. There's no "hidden directory".

Lightroom supports sidecar (xml) changes, or syncing metadata to the files. Your choice.
Minor typo: it currently says: "Hammurabi: Thank again." on invalid inputs instead of "Hammurabi: Think again."
that sounds so fun. I would love to take a class (or classes) like that :)
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You are viewing into these constants as numbers in memory in programming language. In physics, a constant actually means a law that describes unchanging way of how things interact. Think of these constants not as of simple numbers (1, 0, -1, etc.), but as of constant ways things interact (1 always attract -1, etc).
As a person who has his status updates default to public on purpose, I agree. And yes, it's hard to talk about social networks because there's a very vocal group here insisting that using Facebook = being dumb and/or making selfies and/or being terribly security-unconsciosus. Facebook ecosystem has its problem, but it's also an excellent communication tool.
This is so infuriating. Good luck trying to do anything sensible like freezing your credit. Each credit bureau competes with the next for making the process as painful as possible. 500 errors, timeouts, invalid challenge questions, ambiguous or just broken password requirements. They don't give a fuck - you're not the customer. The customer is the debt industry that pays them for your info. Oh and they each charge $10 to freeze your credit but hey you can mail them a copy of a police report and they might waive it. I gots to shell out $30 because anthem fucked up assuming I can even get their broken ass web applications to take my money.
Aluminium was a useless novelty because we were unable to manufacture lots of it back then. Something to do with electrolysis requiring lots of electricity, I believe, and there weren't a huge number of electric powerplants operating in 1880.
When things are real it doesn't matter what books were read, because you can show you are right with concrete real life proofs.
I agree with you except where you imply that the Federal government weighing in on cable doesn't make sense.
I've created a .org file that I keep with useful commands / code that I reference pretty often. I keep it in my Dropbox folder so I can access and update it from any of the computers I work on. Seems to do the job.
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> Canonical is shifting focus to other markets they view as potentially profitable.

Is it about profits, or - I'm going to be kind of cynical here - chasing taillights? The way they seem to bounce around from one thing to another (mobile phones! embedded!) makes it feel like the latter.
You might find reddit live interesting, it does a pretty good job of this imo. For example, https://www.reddit.com/live/u9z0oa5c4jud/ and http://www.reddit.com/live/u7qtz12ybb74

Together with being crowd sourced it's a really fresh take on breaking news.
Ask HN: Any recommended online trademark agent?
I've noticed from time-to-time the topic of trademarks being discussed.

Just curious if anyone has any good experiences with online trademark agents and any recommendations?
My suggestion has always been playing games. I learned English purely from playing Runescape. Pick a (multiplayer) game like World of Warcraft or Minecraft and find an English-speaking group to play with.
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Can I ask for feedback on our rough draft website?
Hi,

I am not sure if this is allowed...or if it needs to be posted elsewhere...

In short, we have just finished a rough draft of our website which is our MVP version 1.0.

We are looking for feedback from people who visit this forum...on the website...the service offering...price...anything that you think might be valuable to us...

The url is: www.ledgerforce.com.au

Ledger Force is an online bookkeeping service for small Australian businesses.

Please don't hold back on your feedback...crucify the site and the business idea if you feel the need!

Kind Regards,

Gary Leech
Ledger Force Pty Ltd
www.ledgerforce.com.au
"But under modern copyright laws, that kind of “repairing” is legally questionable."

Questionable? If it becomes politically unpopular enough, they will certainly jail people for it. It's explicitly illegal but those laws are not evenly enforced. They seem to acknowledge the DMCA but then fall back to the "questionable" position saying it's "entirely possible" the farmer becomes a criminal. This is video game console modding, they are even using pirated proprietary software.

INAL, am I misunderstanding the state of things? Is there some reason, besides the political weakness created by going after farmers, that this is "questionable"?
Oracle already released new SPARC processors that are optimized for the Oracle DB and Java: https://blogs.oracle.com/rajadurai/entry/sparc_m7_chip_32_co...
Minnesota stops accepting TurboTax returns due to potential fraud
Another place you can talk about small, bootstrapped businesses is http://discuss.bootstrapped.fm/

I don't have much to say about your site because I'm not 1) a design guy 2) in the market for bookkeeping or 3) Australian :-)
Trying not to offensive. Two years ago I would find this useful. But I'm so glad I learned Node.js where this can be accomplished with high level sockjs module and nginx in less then five minutes.

https://github.com/sockjs
It's not that difficult to do, depending on the type of company: C corporations and LLC's can have foreign owners. I recall there being some restrictions with S corporations.

Make sure it's all done properly, in writing.
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afaik impala doesn't have multicore joins while almost any other serious db has. so if it uses 1 core out of 10, 20 to do the join then it might be 10x, 20x slower than the best
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aaand the server is down
'Desperation is a stinky cologne' - people pick up on your need for companionship, assume there must be some reason you don't have any, and so it ends up as a self-fulfilling prophecy. there's a good chance that nobody you know could articulate this and are just picking up on your anxiety subconsciously.

So, what you need is self-sufficiency. Once you get more comfortable being in your own company and doing stuff on your own then people will get more interested in you. Pick up some intellectual interest or activity outside of your work and preferably not related to it. Consider getting a dog - seriously It's surprisingly emotionally rewarding plus you get automatic entry to this whole secret society of dog owners and an automatic icebreaker/topic of positive small talk. I wasn't into dogs at all until I rescued one, but it turned out to be a big positive and well worth the required lifestyle adjustments. Also, women will size a guy up by how he relates to his dog. If your dog is chill and happy, then people will come over to tell you how cute it is, and this will reflect onto you.