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Chrome Widevine DRM can no longer be disabled
UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/57.0.2987.13 Safari/537.36 Steps to reproduce the problem: Since this month, chrome://plugins is gone...
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Godot Game Engine – Tutorial Series
Welcome to the Godot Tutorial SeriesWelcome to the GameFromScratch.com Godot tutorial series. The Godot Engine is an open source, C++ based game engine for making 2D and 3D games for most mobile and...
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Houdini was an inventor, but didn't want anybody to know
It was January 27, 1908, at the Columbia Theater in St. Louis and Harry Houdini was about to debut his first theatrical performance. The great master of illusion stepped inside of an over-size milk...
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SpaceX is livestreaming a hyperloop pod competition
SpaceX is livestreaming a competition between hyperloop pods from outside their headquarters in Hawthorne, California, and at least one Los Angeles newspaper is also covering the event live on...
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Elect more leaders who come from STEM backgrounds
We are members of the STEM Community, grassroots supporters and political activists committed to bring innovation to Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Education, aggressively...
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Taxi Medallion Prices Are Plummeting, Endangering Loans
Ride-sharing apps are distressing traditional cab companies (and their debt).by and January 30, 2017, 12:14 PM ESTThere's a good reason your cab driver is so cranky: His livelihood might be teetering...
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One Percent Stake
I wrote this blog post earlier. It's similar. I feel like I just need a whole series criticizing awful corporations.We need to call a spade a spade.What he said translates to: "I have the privilege and...
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Getting out of the cloud…
So this happened (Warning: 1st clickthrough opens newsletter subscription window, 2nd clickthrough works, if you accept cookies):Agencies shall, to the extent consistent with applicable law, ensure...
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Mother 'told to prove lactation' at Frankfurt airport
Image copyrightGayathiri BoseImage caption Ms Bose is a Singaporean mother of twoA woman has filed a complaint with German police alleging she was told to squeeze her breast at airport security to...
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Ask HN: Ever faced difficulties pivoting your job or career later in your life?
Tldr; I'm an architect (in a niche industry) trying to get a job in another industry but find myself constantly rejected for either having not enough experience for a similar architect/lead role or...
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IBM Punched Card Typography
Punched Card Typography ExplainedCard punches of various types, models and makes featured an option to print the characters encoded by the holes punched in any of the columns in human readable form...
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Ask HN: How to get money for running a non-profit project?
Would probably need more information about what your project is exactly and what your actual non profit status is, as it will change how easy it is to get various sources of income and your...
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Android Nougat 7.1.2 Beta is out now for Pixel and Nexus 5X
Posted by Dave Burke, VP of Engineering The next maintenance release for Android Nougat -- 7.1.2 -- is just around the corner! To get the recipe just right, starting today, we're rolling out a public...
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Time-Travel Debugging for JavaScript/Node.js
Time-traveling in the execution history of a program during debugging enables a developer to precisely track and understand the sequence of statements and program values leading to an error. To provide...
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Researchers use music and LSD to understand how we attribute meaning
With the help of the psychedelic drug LSD, researchers now have an understanding of how our brains attribute meaning to things in our lives, like music or particular experiences. The findings are...
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What's new in Docker 1.13: prune, secrets, checkpoints and more
Docker-engine 1.13 is officially out. Let’s see what’s new.Prune all the things!Before we begin, let us first express our gratitude to Spotify with a moment of silence, as we bid farewell to docker-gc....
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Robot Baristas Serve Up the Future of Coffee at Cafe X
At San Francisco’s new Cafe X, the barista doesn’t make small talk or sport a hip mustache. But its industrial-strength claw sure knows espresso drinks.Cafe X is a new breed of coffee shop pushing the...
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Front-End Developer Handbook 2017
Written by Cody Lindley sponsored by — Frontend MastersThis is a guide that anyone could use to learn about the practice of front-end development. It broadly outlines and discusses the practice of...
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Open Sourcing Google Earth Enterprise
Posted by Avnish Bhatnagar, Senior Technical Solutions Engineer, Google CloudWe are excited to announce that we are open-sourcing Google Earth Enterprise (GEE), the enterprise product that allows...
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Don't setenv in multi-threaded code on glibc
Remember in 2014, when Iwrote about getting stuck if you called basically anything between fork and exec if you have threads active? The general idea was that thread #1 calls [un]setenv, grabs a lock,...
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